A: I’ve always been fascinated by systems that merge human intuition with engineering precision. The Air Force gave me a front-row seat to that balance — designing, testing, and flying systems that had to perform flawlessly under immense pressure. It was an environment where precision wasn’t optional — it was life or death.

A: When you design avionics or flight control systems, you learn humility before complexity. Every signal, every line of code, every sensor matters. That mindset carried into everything I’ve done since. I realized that in both aviation and medicine, precision is sacred — it’s the foundation of trust.

A: It was actually a natural evolution. The same situational awareness we developed for fighter pilots — understanding complex 3D environments, predicting trajectories, and preventing errors — applies beautifully to the operating room. I wanted to take that discipline of flight and bring it to healing.

A: The Symphony micro-robot is designed to move through the brain with the same grace and control as an F-16 through the sky. It’s flexible, precise, and guided in real time by MRI — our version of a radar or flight control system. Instead of firing missiles, it delivers therapies: heat, light, or drugs — directly into the core of a tumor.

A: It’s about closing the circle. I spent years helping pilots master the skies, and now I’m helping surgeons navigate the most intricate space imaginable — the human brain. It’s still flight, just in a different dimension.

A: Traditional systems are rigid — they follow a straight path. The Symphony robot follows nature’s curves. It can reach multiple targets from a single entry, adapt its trajectory mid-flight, and coordinate energy and agents in one synchronized approach. It’s precision reborn.

A: The hardest challenge is staying humble before the complexity of the human body. We’re building machines that must be as intuitive as a surgeon’s hand and as trustworthy as a pilot’s instrument panel. That requires deep collaboration between engineers, clinicians, and visionaries.

A: In the Air Force, you learn to protect. In medicine, you learn to heal. They’re both acts of service. What connects them is care — care for the mission, for the people, and for the future. That’s what keeps me grounded.

A: It’s the belief that healing isn’t just one instrument — it’s harmony. Imaging, robotics, AI, therapy — all working together through a single entry point. That’s the symphony we’re conducting, one 5mm entry at a time.

A: My dream is to make a meaningful impact in diseases that today are considered losing battles — especially Glioblastoma (GBM), and maybe in the future even pancreatic cancer. These are among the toughest frontiers in medicine, but I believe that with precision robotics, imaging, and AI working in harmony, we can begin to change their trajectories. If we can turn even one of these battles into a story of survival and hope, then every hour spent designing, testing, and dreaming will have been worth it.