Dr. Richard Ribón Fletcher

• Wearable Devices & Internet of Things
• Non-Contact Sensing: Thermal, Electromagnetic, Optical, Acoustic
• AI & Machine Learning in Behavioural and Public Health
• Precision Medicine & Diagnostics

• Ph.D., Information Technology, MIT (2002)
• M.S., Information Technology, MIT (1996)
• B.S., Electrical Engineering & Physics, MIT (1988)

• 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)

• "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)

• 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.

• Instructor, MIT: Courses on Technologies for Mental Health, Mobile Design, ICT for Development.
• Supervised 25+ graduate theses and 250+ undergraduate researchers at MIT.

1. Fletcher, R. R., et al. "The Use of Mobile Thermal Imaging for Surgical Site Infection," IEEE EMBC (2021).
2. Fletcher, R. R., et al. "Machine Learning in Global Health," Frontiers in AI (2020).
3. Fletcher, R. R., et al. "Wearable Sensors for Behaviour Monitoring," Society for Behaviour Medicine (2016).