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Tamara Bonaci,\u00a0PhD in Electrical Engineering<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\tThe BioRobotics lab\u00a0is pleased to announce the graduation of four of our student researchers this spring! Three PhD students and one Bachelor’s degree were awarded to BRL students. Congratulations are in order for Dr. Tamara Bonaci, Dr. Levi Cheng, Dr. Iris Jiang, and Sharon Newman! For a brief description of each of the graduate’s work and future plans, please\u00a0read on<\/p>\n
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Tamara Bonaci,\u00a0PhD in Electrical Engineering<\/h4>\nTamara has spent her time at UW EE researching security and privacy issues of cyberphysical systems. Specifically, her dissertation\u00a0focused on the security and privacy problems posed by\u00a0brain computer interfaces<\/a> and teleoperated robotic systems<\/a>. During her time at UW she was advised by Howard Chizeck, and she will be staying with the BioRobotics lab for the summer while she finalizes her theoretical work with these two cyberphysical systems. Congratulations Tamara!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Levi was advised by Blake Hannaford while he researched methods for identifying and preventing tissue damage from robotic surgery devices<\/a>. His work included simulation of different mechanical grippers as well as analysis of tissue necrosis due to gripping force. Congratulations Levi!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Iris, who was also advised by Blake Hannaford, researched how healthy subjects responded to various feedback methods in order to design higher-performance state feedback for lower-limb prosthetic users. The project was aimed at reducing falls in lower-limb amputees by\u00a0warning a user of a trip or unstable surface in a short enough time such that the patient could react to correct before falling. Iris\u00a0was interested in extending this work to patients who had undergone\u00a0Targeted Muscle Reinnervation (TMR) surgery<\/a>. Congratulations Iris!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sharon worked with Iris to tackle the difficult and time-consuming problem of mapping sensations after a TMR surgery<\/a>. She and Iris developed an approach to automating the mapping procedure using the Raven Surgical Robot,\u00a0a Kinect depth-sensor, and a computer application for mapping patient responses.\u00a0For one year starting in September 2015, Sharon will be funded by Fulbright and Whitaker fellowships to conduct research and attend classes in the BrainLinks-BrainTools department at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Congratulations Sharon! The BioRobotics lab\u00a0is pleased to announce the graduation of four of our student researchers this spring! Three PhD students and one Bachelor’s degree were awarded to BRL students. Congratulations are in order for Dr. Tamara Bonaci, Dr. Levi Cheng, Dr. Iris Jiang, and Sharon Newman! For a brief description of each of the graduate’s work … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Levi Cheng, PhD in Mechanical Engineering<\/h4>\n
Iris Jiang, PhD in Bioengineering<\/h4>\n
Sharon Newman, B.S. in Bioengineering<\/h4>\n
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