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Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
The broad aims of my research are to understand the neural and biomechanical mechanisms contributing to the regulation of multijoint posture and movement in healthy individuals and in those who have had neuromuscular injuries. My background in engineering, rehabilitation, and neuroscience allows me to address these issues from multiple perspectives using quantitative approaches in robotics, computational modeling, signal processing and electrophysiology. Since it was founded, my laboratory has had continuous funding for research in each of these areas, providing a broad background for training students and postdoctoral fellows from backgrounds such as engineering, neuroscience and medicine.
I have a strong record of trainee mentoring. Over the past 11 years, 12 postdoctoral fellows from my laboratory have obtained tenure-track faculty positions in the US and abroad. During the same period I have graduated 10 PhDs, who have moved to positions in academia and industry, demonstrating an ability to excel in both realms.
As a direct result of my research and mentoring accomplishments, I have been provided with numerous leadership opportunities that contribute to my ability to mentor future students. These include: serving as the chair of the graduate program in Biomedical Engineering (2008-2012), selection to participate in a course on Management Skills for Innovative University Leaders administered by the Kellogg School of Management, serving as the director an NIH T32 training program in Pathophysiology and Rehabilitation of Neural Dysfunction since 2009, serving as a co-investigator for an NIH K12 program to support junior faculty in rehabilitation science at institutions across the US, and most recently being selected as the chair of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern.
