Biomedical Engineering & Robotics Expert Witness

Expert Qualifications

This expert joined the Departments of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering at a major TX University in June 2013 as an Assistant Professor. Prior to joining that university, he was a Research Scientist at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University. This expert investigates the control mechanisms of human locomotion for the development of high-performance wearable control systems (e.g., robotic prostheses and orthoses) to enable mobility in persons with disabilities. He is a recipient of the NIH Director's New Innovator Award and the Career Award at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. His work has been recognized with the Best Student Paper Award of the American Control Conference and the IEEE Conference on Decision & Control, the Best Technical Paper Award of the 2011 CLAWAR Conference, and the O. Hugo Schuck Award from multiple control conferences and councils, respectively. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society and the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society.