Team

Our team at Surreality Lab comprises visionary minds passionately dedicated to pioneering the convergence of medical expertise and technological innovation, driving the future of healthcare forward with expertise, collaboration, and boundless creativity.

Leadership

Edward Andrews

Executive Co-Director, Founding Member

Rishi Basdeo

Research and Innovation Fellow, Robotics, NSF Fellow

Shovan Bhatia

Research and Innovation Fellow

Jacob Biehl

Executive Co-Director, Founding Member

Stephen Canton

Principal Clinical Director, Spatial Computing, Founding Member

David Fernandes-Cabral

Principal Clinical Director, Education

Griffin Hurt

Research and Innovation Fellow, Computer Science, NSF Fellow

Michael Kann

Research and Innovation Fellow

Talha Khan

Research and Innovation Fellow, HCI, Founding Member

Andrew Legarreta

Principal Director, AI

Joseph Maroon

Founding Member, Chief Clinical Advisor

David McCarthy

Principal Director, AI

Regan Shanahan

Research and Innovation Fellow

Research Team

Sam Adida

Senior Research Lead

Brandon Aguilar

Research Lead

Gabriela Alba

Research Lead

Harrison Alexander

Engineering Lead

Joe Altvater

Engineering Lead

Lucy Cheng

Senior Research Lead

Yujin Choi

Research Lead

Jhair Colan

Research Lead

Ethan Crosby

Engineering Lead

Sohail Daulat

Research Lead

Paul Doherty

Engineering Lead

Nicky Don

Research Lead

Brock Gjesdal

Senior Research Lead

Adway Gopakumar

Research Lead

Jeffery Head

Senior Clinical Lead, Spatial Computing

Isuru Herath

Senior Research Lead

Aaron Huynh

Engineering Lead

Jacquelyn Jardini

Research Lead

Mohamed Jawad-Makki

Research Lead

Aditi Junagade

Research Lead

Minhal Khan

Engineering Lead

Sruthi Malineni

Research Lead

Arka Mallela

Senior Clinical Lead, Spatial Computing

Jayne Miner

Research Lead

Adam Monek

Research Lead

Brayden Nguyen

Engineering Lead

Seán O'Rourke

User Experience Lead

Seongmin Oh

Engineering Lead

Sumaarg Pandya

Research Lead

Sohan Rao

Research Lead

Florian Reihl

Engineering Lead

Akshay Sankar

Engineering Lead

Sydney Scanlon

Research Lead

Matt Smith

Engineering Lead

Fritz Steuer

Senior Research Lead

Anthony Tang

Senior Research Lead

Amogh Vellore

Research Lead

Abigail Zimmerman

Engineering Lead

Collaborators

Matthew Anderson

Web Developer

Francesco Egro

Deputy Chief of Plastic Surgery at UPMC Mercy

John Fowler

Deputy Chief of Orthopedics, Mercy Hospital

Paul Gardner

Neurosurgical Co-Director, Center for Cranial Base Surgery

Peter Gerszten

Director, Percutaneous Spine Service

Jesse Goldstein

Chief, Division of Pediatric Plastic Surgery

MaCalus Hogan

Chair, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Michael Lang

Director of Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery

Vincent Miele

Chief, Neurosurgery, UPMC Mercy

Kenji Shimada

Director, CERLAB, Carnegie Mellon University

Mario Solari

Director, Microvascular Reconstruction Research Laboratory

Ahmad Tafti

Director, Pitt HexAI Lab

Georgios Zenonos

Neurosurgical Co-Director, Center for Cranial Base Surgery

Partnerships

HaptX

Medivis

Alumni

Ray Funahashi

Founding Member

Nicolás Kass

Senior Research Lead, Former Fellow 2023-2024

Max Lohss

Founding Member

Nikhil Sharma

Senior Clinical Lead, Spatial Computing, Former Fellow 2023-2024

Toby Zhu

Founding Member

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