People

Alejandro received a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University and a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University. As an undergraduate, Alejandro worked in the Land, Air, and Space Robotics (LASR) Lab; Vehicle Systems and Control Lab (VSCL); and the Advanced Mechanical Bipedal Experimental Robotics (AMBER) Lab. In addition to research, Alejandro completed six internships at NASA Johnson Space Center. His current research interests include the design and control of prostheses and exoskeletons, human-machine interaction, and rehabilitation of pathological gait.

Alejandro is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and a GEM Associate Fellow. He is the 2015 recipient of the Sigma Gamma Tau Ammon S. Andes National Award, recognizing him as the top aerospace engineering student in the United States. He also received the 2013 NASA Aeronautics Scholarship. More information can be found on his personal website.

Ung Hee is a Ph.D. student in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. His research interests include control of robots and robot programming, human & robot perception, and developing prosthetics using brain-machine interfaces. Ung Hee received a B.S. degree in Physics from Korea University in 2015. While he was in Korea, he worked in rehabilitation robotics research at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology. Before joining the Neurobionics Lab, he worked in the Automotive Research Center at the University of Michigan from 2016 to 2017 and interned in Fetch Robotics Inc., as a robotics software engineer during Summer 2017.

Mo Miro has graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) in Mechanical Engineering and a concentration in Biomechanics from the University of Michigan. His main area of research interest is prostheses design. As a Research Assistant at the Neurobionics Lab, he improved the design of the open-source leg (OSL). Before joining the Neurobionics Lab, he interned as a Mechanical Engineer at Meritor in Troy, MI to improve the design of the 4200 transfer case series.

Enis Habib has graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) in Mechanical Engineering and a concentration in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. Enis was a member of the College of Engineering Honors Program due to his intellectual curiosity and a clear potential to make a difference as a leader in the medical device field.  He worked on the open-source leg project for 2 years as a Research Engineer, in which he improved the designs of the open-source robotic leg (OSL). He worked with vendors in Hong Kong to manufacture the parts he designed. Finally, he led the dissemination of these updated robotic legs to Carnegie Mellon’s Robotic Institute.  More information can be found on his Linkedin page.

Levi J. Hargrove, PhD, P.Eng, received his MScE and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick (2005, 2008). He is currently the Director of Center for Bionic Medicine at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. A major goal of his research is to develop clinically realizable myoelectric control systems that can be made available to persons with limb loss in the near future. His research addresses all levels of amputation and has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine and multiple patents. Key projects include the development of advanced and adaptive control systems for prosthetic legs, improving control of robotic hand prostheses, and intramuscular EMG signal processing. In 2012, Dr. Hargrove co-founded Coapt LLC, a company which provides the first and only intuitive pattern recognition control systems for bionic arms.