NEWS
Congrats to Courtney Smith on many milestones!
Huge congratulations to Courtney Smith on completing her year at a Petit Scholar, her BS in Biomedical Engineering, and three incredible years of research with us in the PoWeR Lab (+ EPIC Lab)! Courtney focused her last year on deep…
Now introducing Dr. Gosyne!
Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Jonathan Gosyne! Jonathan successfully defending his PhD on “Merging Terradynamics and musculotendon Neuromechanics: Towards wearable robots for augmented human locomotion on non-uniform surfaces”.
Dr. Laksh has entered the building!
Congratulations to Dr. Laksh Kumar Punith, who successfully defended his dissertation and completed his PhD in Robotics. His dissertation is titled “Neuromechanics And Augmentation Of Muscle-Tendon Actuators In Unsteady Cyclic Tasks”.
Dr. Kristen Jakubowski wins ASEE Postdoctoral Fellowship!
Huge congratulations to Dr. Kristen Jakubowski on being awarded the ASEE Postdoctoral Fellowship! Kristen is joining our lab as a postdoctoral fellow next month and will be co-advised by Dr. Lena Ting. Read more about her work here.
PoWeR Lab Alum Pawel Golyski Featured in Georgia Tech Research News
Dr. Pawel Golyski, a recently graduated Ph.D. student of the PoWeR Lab, has been featured in Georgia Tech news for his work investigating the connection between mechanical energy and stability during walking, in addition to his ASB Pre-Doctoral Award. Check…
New Paper – Shorter fascicle lengths increase metabolic cost of locomotion
Congratulations to Owen Beck and his co-authors, Lindsey Trejo, Jordyn Schroeder, Jason Franz, and Gregory Sawicki, on their new paper published in the Journal of Applied Physiology. They investigated whether different fascicle lengths would change the metabolic cost of a…
New Ph.D. Alert! Congratulations to Pawel Golyski!
Congratulations to (Dr!) Pawel Golyski for delivering his Ph.D. Defense yesterday and earning his Ph.D. in BioEngineering! He is now moving on to be a research scientist at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland!
New Paper – Emulator based optimization of a semi-active hip exoskeleton
Congratulations to Ben Shafer, a PhD candidate in PoWeR and EPIC labs, for his new paper investigating how to tune a semi-active hip exoskeleton to best improve metabolic cost across walking speeds. This work highlights the potential benefits of personalized…
Postdoc Dr. Owen Beck is heading to UT-Austin
Congratulations to our postdoc Dr. Owen Beck, who just accepted an Assistant Professor position at the University of Texas-Austin. Owen will be joining the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education and starting up his research lab in January 2023.
New Paper – Which lower limb joints compensate for destabilizing energy during walking?
Congratulations to PoWeR Lab PhD student Pawel Golyski for being first author of recently published work in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. This work used a split-belt treadmill to impose energetic demands on the legs during walking and…