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Dr. Richard Ribón Fletcher
Research Scientist | Innovator | Faculty Member Contact Information
Email: fletcher@media.mit.edu
Phone: +1-617-694-1428
Website:
http://www.media.mit.edu/~fletcher/
Laboratory:
http://www.mobiletechnologylab.org/portfolio
Academic Qualifications
Reserach Areas
Education
Awards & Achievements
Selected Grants
Entrepreneurship
Teaching & Mentoring
Notable Publications
Academic Qualifications
Research Scientist, MIT (2008–Present)
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School (2011–Present)
Research Scientist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Psychiatry (2022–Present)
Instructor, Harvard Medical School (2011–2013, 2022–Present)
Reserach Areas
Wearable Devices & Internet of Things
Non-Contact Sensing: Thermal, Electromagnetic, Optical, Acoustic
AI & Machine Learning in Behavioural and Public Health
Precision Medicine & Diagnostics
Education
Ph.D., Information Technology, MIT (2002)
M.S., Information Technology, MIT (1996)
B.S., Electrical Engineering & Physics, MIT (1988)
Awards & Achievements
21 U.S. Patents
Raised over $10M in grant funding (Gates Foundation, NIH, USAID, etc.)
H-index: 33, i10-index: 68
MIT Schnitzer Prize in the Arts (1999)
Selected Grants
"mHealth Tool for Post-Cesarean Follow-Up in Rwanda" – NIH (2021)
"Mobile Screening Tools for Pulmonary Disease" – NIH (2016)
"Low-Cost Mobile Platform for Diabetes Screening" – TATA Trust (2018)
Entrepreneurship
Founder, TagSense, Inc. (2000–2011):
Developed over 20 RFID products.
Co-Founder, FreshTemp (2011–2015):
IoT-based monitoring solutions; acquired by Digi International.
Co-Founder, United Villages (2004–2012):
Pioneered rural telemedicine solutions in developing countries.
Teaching & Mentoring
Instructor, MIT: Courses on Technologies for Mental Health, Mobile Design, ICT for Development.
Supervised 25+ graduate theses and 250+ undergraduate researchers at MIT.
Notable Publications
Fletcher, R. R., et al. "The Use of Mobile Thermal Imaging for Surgical Site Infection," IEEE EMBC (2021).
Fletcher, R. R., et al. "Machine Learning in Global Health," Frontiers in AI (2020).
Fletcher, R. R., et al. "Wearable Sensors for Behaviour Monitoring," Society for Behaviour Medicine (2016).
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