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Director, Ergonomics and Safety Program, Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
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Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Professional Service
- Robotics and Automation Society.
Workshop on the state of the art of Robotics Leg prosthesis for the 2023 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
10/05/2023 - 10/05/2023
- Robotics and Automation Society.
Role: Organizer.
Workshop on the state of the art of Robotics Leg prosthesis for the 2020 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
10/19/2020 - 10/19/2020
- Robotics and Automation Letters.
Associate Editor.
09/01/2018 - 12/31/2022
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automatioin.
Role: co-chair.
Prosthetics and Exoskeletons (Regular Session).
06/01/2017 - 06/01/2017
- IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BIOROB).
Associate Editor.
01/2016 - present
- IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR).
Associate Editor.
02/2015 - present
Honors & Awards
- University of Utah Presidential Scholar .
University of Utah,
12/12/2023
- The Utah Bionic Leg made the TIME's 2023 Best Invention List.
TIME Magazine,
10/24/2023
- Minh Tran, a Ph.D. student in my lab won the 2022 ASME Student Mechanism and Robot Design Competition (SMRDC). The SMRDC takes place as part of the ASME 2022 International Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC), which focuses on emergent technologies that impact the critical engineering issues of product design, development, and manufacturing.
ASME,
08/17/2022
- CAREER Award.
National Science Foundation,
02/01/2021
Internal Service
- Wearables Faculty Search.
08/15/2022 - 12/31/2023.
Department service.
- Faculty Search.
12/01/2020 - 06/30/2021.
Department service.
- Safety Committee .
member,
08/15/2019 - 08/15/2022.
Department service.
- Machine Shop Committee .
member,
08/15/2019 - 08/15/2021.
Department service.
- Industrial Outreach Committee .
Member,
09/01/2018 - 08/30/2021.
Department service.
- Biomedical Engineering Faculty Search.
09/01/2018 - 03/25/2019.
Department service.
- Advisory Board, Ergonomics and Safety Program.
Member,
08/01/2018 - 09/01/2022.
Department service.
- Robotics Faculty Search Committee.
Member,
10/2017 - 03/2018.
Department service.
- Seminar Committee.
Member,
01/01/2017 - 06/20/2018.
Department service.
Community Partnership
- Sky's the Limb-it Amputee Support Group .
03/01/2018 - present
Outreach
- Utah's College of Engineering Day 2017.
11/18/2017 - 11/18/2017
In the Media
