Biography

Randy E Ellis was a Professor at Queen's University at Kingston. His primary Queen's appointment was in the School of Computing; other appointments were as a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, in the Department of Surgery, and in the Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences. Dr. Ellis' training and early-career research was in robotics, especially in haptic sensing and haptic interfaces for teleoperated robots. His main research was in computer-assisted surgery, particularly in orthopedic surgery. His most recent research was in the use of data analytics and machine learning for mass spectrometry and related techniques in analytical chemistry. He had appointments as a Visiting Professor or Visiting Scientist in Bologna, Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins, Kyushu, Osaka, St. Francis Xavier, and the Technical University of Munich. He was a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Munich. He was a Fellow of the American Society for Mechanical Engineering (ASME) and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Ellis teaching focused mainly in the theoretical and mathematical foundations for artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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