Sheila Russo
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering (ENG)
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering (ENG)
- Education
- Ph.D., Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy
- Office
- 730 Commonwealth Ave., EMA 219
- russos@bu.edu
- Phone
- 617-353-9572
Sheila Russo is an Assistant Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering and the division of Materials Science and Engineering at Boston University. She is founder and director of the BU Material Robotics Laboratory. She received her PhD from Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy. She completed her postdoctoral training at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 2017.
Her research interests include surgical robotics, soft robotics, origami-inspired mechanisms, sensing and actuation, and meso- and micro-scale manufacturing.
Professor Russo has extensive experience in design, mechanics, materials, and manufacturing of miniaturized smart flexible robots for minimally invasive surgery. Her background is at the intersection of biomedical robotics, soft robotics, advanced manufacturing, and advanced materials technologies. Her research focuses on design, development, and fabrication of biocompatible, smart, soft, and miniaturized surgical robots that could help restore sensor feedback and distal dexterity in minimally invasive procedures. She is interested in developing robotic technologies to improve human health, tackling current limitations in medicine as well as enabling novel therapies not possible to perform today.
- Fields
- Hariri Faculty Affiliate