Plenary Speakers
Dario Farina
Chair in Neurorehabilitation Engineering
Department of Bioengineering
Imperial College London
Expertise: Motor control and biomedical signal
Neville Hogan
Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Expertise: Controlling physical interaction (between humans, robots and tools), human biomechanics and dexterous control of movement, agile dynamic locomotion in humans and robots.
Randolph Nudo
Professor & Vice Chair of Research; Director, Landon Center on Aging
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
Director, Landon Center on Aging
University of Kansas
Expertise: Rehabilitative training on functional plasticity after stroke, and is a frequent speaker at national and international symposia on stroke, neurology, physical therapy and rehabilitation.
Website: http://www.kumc.edu/landon-center-on-aging/faculty/randolph-j-nudo-phd.html
Invited Speakers
Panagiotis Artemiadis
Assistant Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Arizona State University
Expertise: Physical interaction of humans and robots in the context of every day life tasks including interception and cooperation, Neuromuscular control of remotely operated robot, Identification and modeling of the human arm dynamic characteristics, Neuromuscular control of orthotic devices providing assistance and/or power augmentation, Brain-Machine Interfaces and neural decoding, Adaptive control of hybrid neuro-robotic platforms
Website: http://horc.engineering.asu.edu
Robert Gaunt
Assistant Professor
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Expertise: sensorimotor control and the development of neuroprosthetic devices. He works on developing methods to restore and improve bladder function using electrical stimulation of the spinal cord and peripheral nerves and on interfaces with the spinal cord and brain to monitor natural sensory activity and generate artificial sensations. These technologies will enable advanced neuroprosthetic devices with sensory capabilities.
Website: http://www.rehabmedicine.pitt.edu/people/bios/gaunt_20
Claire Honeycutt
Assistant Professor
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering
Arizona State University
Expertise: Neural control of balance, reaching and grasp
He (Helen) Huang
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director of the Rehabilitation Engineering Center
Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
and North Carolina State University
Expertise: Neural-machine interface; prosthetics and orthotics; control of wearable robotics.
Website: https://www.bme.unc.edu/index.php/component/comprofiler/userprofile/hhuang11
Mark Humayan
Associate Director of Research
USC Eye Institute at the Keck School of Medicine
Professor of Cell and Neurobiology
Expertise: Electrical stimulation of the retina, retinal prosthesis, retinal disease, instrumentation for Vitreoretinal Surgery, ophthalmic instrumentation, micro and nano electronics in medicine, retinal electrical prosthesis, retinal disease, including retinal degeneration, retinal vein occlusion, retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration, nanotechnology, medical bioengineering.
Hyunglae Lee
Assistant Professor
School for Engineering of Transport, Matter and Energy
Arizona State University
Expertise: Physical human-robot interaction, Neuromuscular control of human movement, Robot-aided neurorehabilitation, System identification for physiological systems
Peter S. Lum
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Catholic University of America
Expertise: Interventions to aid rehabilitation after neurological injury. developing robotic devices for rehabilitation of upper extremity function, studying motor learning and performance limitations in amputee populations, and continuing work in telerehabilitation technologies.
Website: http://engineering.cua.edu/faculty/profiles/lum.cfm
Marcia O’Malley
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Rice University
Expertise: Design and control of haptic interfaces and bilateral tele-manipulation systems, human-machine interfaces for human-assisted movement and the modeling of human-robot interactions.
Website: http://mech.rice.edu/omalley/
James Patton
Senior Research Scientist Director, National Center for Rehabilitation Robotics
Sensory Motor Performance Program
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
Expertise: neural control of human movement; Robotics for therapeutic neuro-rehabilitation; automatic control; mechatronics; haptics; human-machine interfaces; robotic teaching; control of balance.
Website: http://www.ric.org/about/people/doctors/detail/james-l-patton-phd/
Marco Santello
School Director and Professor
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering
Arizona State University
Expertise: Neural control of movement, neurophysiology, motor learning, hand biomechanics
Sydney Schaefer
Assistant Professor
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering
Arizona State University
Expertise: Human motor control and learning, neurorehabilition, cognitive aging
Nicolas Schweighofer
Associate Professor
Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy
University of Southern California
Expertise: Computational models of motor learning and neural plasticity in healthy and lesioned brains. Optimization of learning via adaptive practice schedules in healthy and stroke subjects.
Website: http://pt.usc.edu/schweigh/
