University of Michigan
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Elliott J. Rouse, PhD
Dr. Rouse is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Neurobionics Lab. The vision of his group is to discover the fundamental science that underlies human joint dynamics during locomotion and incorporate these discoveries in a new class of wearable robotic technologies. The Lab uses technical tools from mechanical and biomedical engineering applied to the complex challenges of human augmentation, physical medicine, rehabilitation and neuroscience. Dr. Rouse and his research have been featured at TED, on the Discovery Channel, CNN, National Public Radio, Wired Magazine UK, Business Insider, and Odyssey Magazine. Dr. Rouse is a member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, as well as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is a member of the IEEE EMBS Technical Committee on Biorobotics, and is on the Editorial Board of RESNA’s Assistive Technology journal. He is dedicated to effective student mentoring and training, as well as translating his research to the public through entrepreneurship; he holds patents for the design and control of wearable robotic systems. Dr. Rouse received the BS degree in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University in 2007, and the MS and PhD degrees in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University in 2009 and 2012, respectively. Subsequently, he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Postdoctoral Fellow, working with the Biomechatronics Group in the MIT Media Lab. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, Dr. Rouse was faculty in the School’s of Medicine and Engineering at Northwestern University, and a Research Scientist at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly the RIC). More information can be found on his personal website. |
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Alejandro F. Azocar, MS 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. |
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Ung Hee (Jordan) Lee, BS
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. |
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Enis Habib, BS
Enis graduated with a Bachelors in 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. His current research interests include the design and control of prostheses and exoskeletons. As a Research Engineer at the Neurobionics Lab, he improved the designs of the open-source robotic leg (OSL). He then led the dissemination of and presented these updated robotic legs to Carnegie Mellon’s Robotic Institute and Locomotor Control System Lab of the University of Michigan. Before joining the Neurobionics Lab, he interned as a Mechanical Engineer at the Sami Shamoon College of Engineering in Israel to improve the PID controller and design of a ball-bot, a mobile that can be exceptionally agile and be used to help patients in hospitals. More information can be found on his personal website. |
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab / Northwestern University
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Levi Hargrove, PhD
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. |
Dephy Inc
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Luke Mooney, PhD
Luke M. Mooney received the S.B., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2012, 2014 and 2016. He conducted his doctoral research in the Biomechatronics Group at the MIT Media Lab, and his main areas of research interest are wearable robotics and actuator design. Dr. Mooney is currently a co-founder of Dephy, Inc., a robotics design firm based out of Maynard, MA.
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Jean-François DuvalJean-François Duval received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Université de Sherbrooke (Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada) and a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA). He developed his embedded system and power electronics expertise working on humanoid robots and electric vehicles, both in academia and industry. He designed the FlexSEA embedded system as part of his graduate work at the MIT Biomechatronics research group. He is currently a co-founder of Dephy, Inc.
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