Danilo Gasques, Ph.D.

I've spent a decade on one question: how do you close the gap between what an expert knows and what a novice can do?

At UC San Diego, I built ARTEMIS, a mixed-reality system that let remote surgeons guide novices through procedures they'd never performed — deployed at Naval Medical Center San Diego on cadavers. My PhD research argued that the right contextual cues make even imperfect guidance useful — you don't need perfect hardware, you need the right design. At Medivis, I led situated ultrasound and took prostate navigation from inception to FDA submission.

Last year, I joined South Park Commons as a Founder Fellow (F25) and co-founded AppliedMind, building AI that lets anyone teach physical skills — and anyone else learn them. It's winding down now, and I'm heads-down on what's next.

Read more about my Thoughts, or browse some of my select Works.