Center Staff

Scientific Leads

  • Pei-Chun Kao, P.T., Ph.D.
    Pei-Chun Kao, P.T., Ph.D.
    Associate Professor, Scientific Lead in Robot-Assisted Movement Biomechanics, NERVE Center, UMOVE Center Researcher
    Physical Therapy and Kinesiology

    Gait rehabilitation, biomechanics and neuromuscular control of human walking

  • Yi-Ning Wu, Ph.D.
    Yi-Ning Wu, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor, Scientific Lead in Physiological Measurement, NERVE Center
    Physical Therapy and Kinesiology, NERVE, HEROES, FDC, SCORE

    Technology-based Neurorehabilitation, Home-based Rehabilitation and Monitoring Technology, Human and Human-Robot Performance.

Post Doctoral Research Associates

Affiliated Faculty

  • Reza Azadeh, Ph.D.
    Reza Azadeh, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
    Miner School of Computer & Information Sciences

    Robot Learning, Learning from Demonstration, Imitation Learning, Reinforcement Learning

  • Bryan Buchholz, Ph.D.
    Bryan Buchholz, Ph.D.
    Professor Emeritus
    Biomedical Engineering
  • Maru Cabrera
    Maru Cabrera
    Assistant Professor
    Miner School of Computer & Information Sciences

    Human-Robot Interaction, Assistive Technologies, Accessibility

  • David Claudio, Ph.D., PE, CPIM
    David Claudio, Ph.D., PE, CPIM
    Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering Program Director
    Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Sports Collaborative for Open Research and Education (SCORE)

    Healthcare Engineering, Human Factors, Operations Management, Lean Healthcare, Decision-Making, Predictive Modeling, Engineering Education, and Community-Based Participatory Research.

  • Guy DeMartinis
    Guy DeMartinis
    Director / Principal Investigator
    Submillimeter-Wave Technology Laboratory (STL), Physics and Applied Physics

    Millimeter and terahertz wave systems design and applications.

  • Murat Inalpolat, Ph.D.
    Murat Inalpolat, Ph.D.
    Professor, Associate Chair for Doctoral Studies
    Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

    Structural health monitoring, Diagnostics and Prognostics, Structural dynamics, Vibrations, Acoustics, Signal processing, Nonlinear Dynamics

  • Kshitij Jerath, Ph.D.
    Kshitij Jerath, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
    Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Robotics

    Self-organized dynamics in complex systems, Multi-agent systems, Connected and autonomous vehicles, System reliability and prognostics, Robotic ensembles

  • Julie Keysor, Ph.D., PT
    Julie Keysor, Ph.D., PT
    Chair, Professor
    Physical Therapy and Kinesiology

    Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation Science, Health Behavior and Behavior Change, Adherence, Disability Prevention and Treatment, Work Disability Prevention, Technology (digital health monitoring, virtual reality, and augmented reality).

  • Ramaswamy Nagarajan, Ph.D.
    Ramaswamy Nagarajan, Ph.D.
    Distinguished University Professor, Co-Director of HEROES
    Plastics Engineering, HEROES, Fabric Discovery Center, PERC, Nanomanufacturing Center for Excellence, NERVE, RURI, LoCSST,

    Sustainable approaches to polymers, additives and multifunctional materials, structure-property-utility relationships of plastics and elastomers. Polymers and additives from renewable resources. Thermal & morphological characterization of materials, prototyping and scalable manufacture of flexible electronic products.

  • Richard Nuckols, Ph.D.
    Richard Nuckols, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

    Robotics; Human Movement Biomechanics; Sensing; Mechanics

  • Paul Robinette, Ph.D.
    Paul Robinette, Ph.D.
    Associate Chair for Master of Science Programs, Associate Professor
    Electrical and Computer Engineering, Printed Electronics Research Collaborative (PERC), Raytheon UMass Lowell Research Institute (RURI), Robotics
  • Jiabin Shen, Ph.D.
    Jiabin Shen, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor, Co-Director - Center for Neurodiversity Education, Support and Training (NEST)
    Psychology, Center for Neurodiversity Education, Support and Training (NEST)

    Developmental psychology, childhood Injury prevention, cognitive rehabilitation, technology, intervention, clinical trials, national database analysis, meta-analysis.

  • Kelilah Wolkowicz, Ph.D.
    Kelilah Wolkowicz, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Robotics

    Biomedical Robotics, Connected Healthcare, Biomedical/Rehabilitative/Assistive Device Design and Control, Biosignal Interfaces, Applied Linear/Nonlinear Control and Estimation