Rehabilitation Engineering

Rehabilitation engineering involves developing mechanics and robotics to help restore lost physical and cognitive functions.

Faculty involved in rehabilitation engineering research:

	Eric Barth Research Focus: Dynamic systems and control. Design, modeling and control of mechatronic and fluid power systems, free-piston internal combustion and free-piston Stirling engines, power supply and actuation for autonomous robots, and applied non-linear control. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Rehabilitation Engineering	10
	David Braun Research Focus: Robotics, optimal control, system dynamics, compliant robot actuators, human performance augmentation technology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Rehabilitation Engineering	10
	Kevin Galloway Research Focus: Design of robotic systems from the micro- to the macro-scale, soft robotics, rapid prototyping materials and methods, human-centered design, mechanical design, medical device design, assistive technology. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Rehabilitation Engineering	10
	Michael Goldfarb Research Focus: Design, modeling, and control of electromechanical devices and systems. Design of high-energy-density robotic actuators. Control of fluid-powered actuators and devices. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Rehabilitation Engineering	10
	Jason Mitchell Research Focus: Human augmentation through engineering, wearable sensors, exoskeletons, prosthetics; mechanical simulation and design Intellectual Neighborhoods: Rehabilitation Engineering	10
	Nilanjan Sarkar Research Focus: Robotics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Human-Robot and Human-Computer Interactions, Socially Assistive Intelligent Systems for Healthcare with particular interest in Autism, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Down and Rett Syndrome, Dynamics and Control Intellectual Neighborhoods: Rehabilitation Engineering	10
	Keivan Stassun Research Focus: Data visualization; data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence; small satellites; neurodiversity inspired science and engineering Intellectual Neighborhoods: Rehabilitation Engineering	10
	Thomas Withrow Research Focus: Development, design and testing of surgical robots, improvement of design methods, cyber physical systems, biomechanics, especially the biomechanics of the ACL and injury prevention. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Rehabilitation Engineering	10
	Karl Zelik Research Focus: Biomechanics of legged locomotion, lower-limb prosthetics, assistive technology, dynamic walking principles, neural control, human-device interfaces, mobility, rehabilitation engineering Intellectual Neighborhoods: Rehabilitation Engineering	10