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We would like to provide some helpful information for prospective students interested in research at the BioRobotics Lab.  Due to a high volume of interest in our lab, it may not be possible to get an individual response from one of our principal investigators or current graduate students.  Please read the appropriate page below FIRST, before sending an e-mail, and try to be as specific as possible with the name of the project you re interested in working on.  Thanks!Undergraduate StudentsGraduate StudentsPhD student Ben Ferleger and undergraduate researcher Sarah Cooper will be at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago this year presenting a poster on some of our recent work using the Activa PC+S. The research project being presented is an investigation into the rebound effect whereby essential tremor patients with a deep brain stimulator can have worse-than-normal symptoms immediately following the removal of electrical stimulation. Due to the fact that in future closed-loop DBS systems may automatically turn on and off stimulation in response to sensed neural biomarkers, the fact that symptoms get worse temporarily with the removal of stimulation needs to inform future algorithm design to ensure effective control of symptoms.The University of Washington s Center for Neurotechnology (CNT) interviewed Jeff to profile his work. It s been posted here: CNT ProfileA poster detailing a collaborative project lead by Dr. Phil Starr of UCSF will present the first in-human results of the Summit System at the 18th Biennial Meeting of the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFN). Full poster details hereBenjamin Chasnov was appointed to the Computational Neuroscience Training Program in Sep. 2018Liam Han defended his Masters thesis in Mechanical Engineering in June 2018. Liam s dissertation was titled Automating perturbation experiments for a hopping robot using a cable-driven impedance haptic system . He is now working at Amyris as an automation engineer in Emeryville, CA.Tianqi Li defended his Masters thesis in Mechanical Engineering in June 2018. Tianqi s dissertation was titled Experimental realization of deadbeat control on a hybrid model of legged locomotion . He has started his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A M in Fall 2018.Alyssa Giedd and Clara Orndorff received the UWIN undergraduate fellowship in May 2018Alyssa Giedd also received a CSNE UW Undergraduate Fellowship in May 2018Momona Yamagami will be publishing a conference paper in Cyber-physical-human systems in Dec 2018 (Please click link for the abstract)Momona Yamagami received a WRF Innovation Graduate Fellowship in Neuroengineering in Aug 2017 2017 Rudolf E. Kalman Best Paper Award We are proud to announce that a paper co-authored by Prof. Howard Chizeck received the 2017 Rudolf E. Kalman Best Paper Award presented by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers this year. The paper titled Electromechanical Modeling and Adaptive Feedforward Control of a Self-Sensing Scanning Fiber Endoscope can be publicly accessed here. You can also find a news article about the award on the EE website.EE Research Day Poster (1st Prize) Andrew Haddock won a $5000 prize during the Electrical Engineering Research Day Poster session. Over the weekend, Ph.D. students Katherine Pratt and Timothy Brown attended Awesome Con, Washington DC s Comic Con. They were panelists for a session titled THE HUMAN-TECHNOLOGY FRONTIER: TO ENHANCEMENT AND BEYOND? at Future Con, a science and technology celebration inside Awesome Con to discuss the intersection of science, engineering and science fiction. They were joined by Dr. Dan Cosley and moderator Dr. Suveen Mathaudhu for a discussion about the cutting-edge research in engineering, computer science, materials, biology, and the social and ethical implications of our increasingly technologically advanced lives. A huge shoutout to the National Science Foundation for making this event possible!Check out some of the pictures from Future Con, courtesy of Kevin Pratt.Panelists (L to R): Dr. Suveen Mathaudhu, Tim Brown, Katherine Pratt, Dr. Dan CosleyStar Talk Live (L to R): Scott Adsit, Katherine Pratt (Woohoo!)  and Colonel Chris Hadfield    Katherine and Tim sharing their wealth of knowledge with Future Con attendees! The BioRobotics Lab had a total of 10 students graduating with their degrees during the Spring of 2017. Nava Aghdasi, Danying Hu, Kevin Huang and Mohammad Haghighipanah graduated with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Brady Houston with a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Muneaki Miyasaka with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, and Jacob Baldassini, Niveditha Kalavakonda, Kyle Lindgren and Yana Sosnovskaya with an M.S in Electrical Engineering. Congratulations to all our graduates on successfully defending their thesis and graduating with their respective degrees!                                        Some of our graduates with Prof. Blake Hannaford (Picture Courtesy: Pegah Hassanzadeh) CSNE just published an article about work in Neural Engineering done at the BioRobotics Lab. It introduces the importance of having conversations about Neuroethics and the role of our Philosophy Ph.D. student and CSNE member Tim Brown at the lab. Check out the article here.An article co-authored by Ph.D. student Katherine Pratt on work done in neuroethics and neural security was published on The Conversation. You can read the article at this link.Maggie Thompson is headed to two internships, with Draper Labs this summer and then Northrup Grumman in the fallTim Brown received a predoctoral fellowship through Humanities Without Borders (learn more here and here)Katherine Pratt is going to be an intern with the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project at the ACLU s office in Seattle, WAKyle Lindgren is going to be an intern with the Army Research Laboratory this summer

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