Sheila Russo

Sheila Russo is a CISE faculty affiliate and an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering at Boston University. She is the founder and director of the Material Robotics Laboratory at Boston University, Department of Mechanical Engineering. She is also the co-founder and co-director of the Soft Materials Processing Core (SMPC) Lab.  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.

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.

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