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Excited to have trainees presenting some preliminary results from our first human EEG study investigating brain dynamics during effortful walking w/ Christopher Rozell

Join our team! The Shepherd Lab is recruiting one postdoc (flexible start) and one PhD student (Fall 2025). Project areas include mechatronic design for prosthetics and exos, preference-based optimization, data-driven control, and biomechanics. shepherdlab.sites.northeastern.edu/research/

In our new Nature publication, we present a deep learning-based, task-agnostic exoskeleton controller evaluated on over 30 human activities – a major effort towards real-world viability of exoskeletons. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Wearable robots that assist leg movements could transform the lives of people with reduced mobility — but only if the devices can adapt in real time to support a vast range of human activities go.nature.com/48LTvZy

This paper highlights the direction I'll be taking in my new research lab at Rice Engineering and Computing, Rice Neuroengineering Initiative. I'm recruiting graduate students! Details on how to apply are at the link below. Deadline is Dec 15th. keyaghonasgi.com/ghonasgi-lab-a…

I'm loving the migration over to BlueSky if that means we're reviving the online scientific community we had here several years ago! Find me at Jenny Leestma.bsky.social or linked here: bsky.app/profile/jennif…

Check out our focus article on human robot interaction! With Keya Ghonasgi Meghan E. Huber and Taylor Higgins Rice Neuroengineering Initiative Rice University Mechanical Engineering

It’s been great to attend talks at the NSF Workshop on Reinforcement Learning, including a particularly awesome keynote this morning from Andy Barto on the history of RL!

Excited to share our perspective article, published in Pain Medicine Journal , showcasing how interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation, and entrepreneurship can drive holistic solutions for patient care. academic.oup.com/painmedicine/a…

I've seen plenty of great analysis on why this hasty policy change will devastate research hospitals and universities. I'll add that it's especially harmful to cut indirect costs without relaxing the regulatory regime that contributed to administrative bloat in the 1st place. 1/n

Had a fantastic visit UMass Lowell to give the Mechanical Engineering Grad Research Seminar! Loved seeing the incredible robotics and biomechanics research happening there—thanks to everyone for the great discussions and for showing me around!

Our new paper is out! This was a fun collab across labs Georgia Tech ME, led by Dr. Felicia Davenport. Title: EMG-informed estimates of joint contact forces within the lower back and knee joints during a diverse set of industry-relevant manual lifting tasks shorturl.at/tdl3B

Postdoc opportunity to do digital twin research for human and humanoid agile locomotion with myself, Wouter Hoogkamer and Donghyun Kim! See forms.gle/FRFtLNiY7j3zrZ… for more info and to apply by 3/19.

Great start to the week visiting UMass Amherst yesterday to give a talk at the Kines Grad Seminar! Big thanks to Sarah Roelker for hosting and to everyone who took the time to chat—so fun learning about the exciting biomechanics and wearable robotics projects happening there!

Fantastic to hear Dr. Edward Chang from Berkeley discuss their work in restoring speech with neuroprostheses using high-density speech/motor cortical decoding!

Go Jo!!! Thrilled to be working with Jo and the rest of the crew at Harvard Robotics to plan an NBD event this year. Huge thanks to the Disability Biomechanics Outreach program for the support! Looking forward to a fun event next month.

#BREAKING: The Trump administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll international students on Thursday, dramatically escalating the administration’s fight with the University and threatening thousands of current students. thecrimson.com/article/2025/5…

A statement from Sally Kornbluth, President of MIT

“Everything is so uncertain”: The international student community at Harvard University is reeling after the Trump administration revoked the school’s ability to enroll foreign students on campus. trib.al/YOYi8Cs

A great new study from my Georgia Tech labmate, Dr. Pawel Golyski, on the influence of a passive elastic hip exo on stability and mechanical energetics. Check it out: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…