Malone Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests:

• Image-guided robotics
• Breast-conserving surgery
• Cancer imaging
• Tissue classification
• Autonomous medical robotics

Laura Connolly is a Malone Postdoctoral Fellow advised by Axel Krieger and Russell H. Taylor, affiliated with the Intelligent Medical Robotic Systems and Equipment Lab and the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR). Her research is largely focused on preventing positive margins in breast-conserving surgery, but she also contributes to general open-source software for medical robotics research.

Connolly is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering at Queen’s University jointly advised by Gabor Fichtinger, Parvin Mousavi, and Russell H. Taylor, scheduled to defend in July 2025. She completed her BASc in electrical engineering at Queen’s in 2020 and began her graduate studies shortly after before being promoted to PhD student in January 2022. During her PhD, she completed two internships at Johns Hopkins, working with Taylor and Simon Leonard in the LCSR and supported by a Mitacs Globalink Research Award and a Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.