People
Robert Sainburg
Director of the Center for Movement Science and Technology; Huck Distinguished Chair in Kinesiology and Neurology; Professor of Kinesiology and of Neurology
The neural mechanisms that underlie control, coordination, and learning of voluntary movements in humans. Functional neuroanatomy of lateralized processes of motor control. Neurorehabilitation and Functional Recovery in stroke patients.
John Challis
Professor of Kinesiology
Biomechanics and the coordination and function of the musculo-skeletal system
Baxi Chong
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Locomotion in biology and robotics; robot-inspired biology to link form and function in extinct species; bio-inspired robotics to diversify robot morphologies for task- and environment-specific adaptation; and scaling laws governing computational and mechanical cost of transport.
Jonathan Dingwell
Professor of Kinesiology
Nicole Etter
Assistant Professor of Health and Human Development
The relationship between tactile sensation and skilled oral behaviors (e.g. speech and swallowing) in healthy young, aging, and clinical populations.
Mahanth Gowda
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Mobile and wearable sensing, Internet of Things (IoT), and applied machine learning, with applications in human motion tracking, sign language recognition, healthcare, and sports
Nicholas Holowka
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Musculoskeletal adaptations that enable human bipedal locomotion, and their consequences for health in modern environments
Xiaogang Hu
Huck Chair in Neurorehabilitation; Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Kinesiology, and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Neural-machine interface, somatosensory feedback, neural control of biological and bionic hands, neuromuscular disorder.
Taewon Kim
Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Kinesiology
The neural mechanisms that underlie motor skill learning and rehabilitation following unilateral impairments such as stroke, amputation, or nerve injury.
Candice Maenza
Project Manager, Neurorehabilitation Research Laboratory; Co-developer of the program in Translational Neuromechanics and Rehabilitation
Jonas Rubenson
Professor of Kinesiology
Integrating experimental and modeling approaches to study gait and skeletal muscle function during locomotion in both health and disease/impairment. In particular, the relationship between in vivo muscle mechanics and metabolic energetics and mechanisms underlying locomotor adaptation and optimization.
Chaleece Sandberg
Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders
Exploring cortical reorganization related to successful therapy for acquired language disorders, and how to enhance therapy outcomes.
