Daniel Hashimoto is assistant professor of surgery and computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Penn Computer Assisted Surgery and Outcomes (PCASO) Laboratory. He is also a faculty member in the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory at Penn Engineering and a senior fellow in the Institute for Biomedical Informatics. He was previously founding Associate Director of Research at the Massachusetts General Hospital Surgical Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Laboratory (SAIIL) and a general surgery resident in the Department of Surgery. He completed a fellowship in foregut surgery and comprehensive flexible endoscopy at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. He obtained his B.A. in Biology with a specialization in Neuroscience from Boston University. He earned his MD from the University of Pennsylvania and obtained an M.S. in Translational Research with a focus on technology and surgical education for which the majority of his research was conducted at the Imperial College London. He has conducted research with grant funding from the NIH, the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), and the Natural Orifice Surgery Consortium for Assessment and Research (NOSCAR) among others. He has helped VC and technology firms evaluate surgical applications for VR, AR, and AI technologies and has been recognized as one of MedTechBoston's 40 under 40 Healthcare Innovators. His work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, Annals of Surgery, and other journals. He is co-chair of the SAGES AI Task Force, and member of the American College of Surgeons Health IT and Technology Enhanced Surgical Education Committees . He has held leadership positions in several national organizations, including the Board of Directors of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Board of Governors of SAGES.