I am a tenure track assistant professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and principal investigator of FuTURE Lab. I am interested in the design and control of continuum robots for diagnosis and treatment deep in the anatomy. I was a postdoctoral research fellow in Boston Children’s Hospital. I received my B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and M.S. in Robotics and Automation from the University of Pisa, Italy, M. Res. in Medical Robotics and Image Guided Intervention from Imperial College of London, UK, and Ph.D. in medical robotics from the University of Leeds, UK.