Marcia K. O'Malley | |
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Associate Dean for Research and Innovation George R. Brown School of Engineering | |
Assumed office May 1, 2021 | |
Preceded by | Gang Bao |
Personal details | |
Born | January 7,1975 Ohio,United States |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | Purdue University (BS) Vanderbilt University (MS) Vanderbilt University (PhD) |
Marcia Kilchenman O'Malley is an American mechanical engineer,the Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor in Mechanical Engineering and associate dean for research and innovation for the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University. Her research concerns "systems for enhancing the human sensorimotor control system", [1] including work on exoskeletons,neuroprosthetics,haptic technology,and brain–computer interfaces. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
O'Malley is a 1996 graduate of Purdue University,where she majored in mechanical engineering. [6] [3] She went to Vanderbilt University for graduate study,earning a master's degree in 1999 and completing her Ph.D. in 2001. [1] [6]
She has been on the Rice University faculty since 2001, [1] [6] and holds courtesy appointments in electrical and computer engineering and computer science at Rice,and in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Baylor College of Medicine and University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Before being named the Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor,she was Stanley C. Moore Professor of Mechanical Engineering. [7]
O'Malley was named an ASME Fellow in 2014. [8] In 2019 she was named an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to rehabilitation robotics and haptic systems", [7] and in 2022 she was named a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering for her "outstanding contributions to rehabilitation robotics,haptics and robotic surgery". [9]
In 2019,Purdue University gave her their Outstanding Mechanical Engineer Award. [3] In 2020 she was named the ASME Dynamic Systems and Controls Division Nyquist Lecturer. [10]
Masayoshi Tomizuka is a professor in Control Theory in Department of Mechanical Engineering,University of California,Berkeley. He holds the Cheryl and John Neerhout,Jr.,Distinguished Professorship Chair. Tomizuka received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Keio University,Tokyo,Japan in 1968 and 1970,and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in February 1974. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
Homayoon Kazerooni is an Iranian-born American roboticist,mechanical engineering,and professor. He serves as a professor of mechanical engineering,and the director of the Berkeley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory at the University of California,Berkeley. Kazerooni is also the co-founder of Ekso Bionics and SuitX. As a noted authority on robotics,he is frequently profiled and quoted in the media.
Hüseyin Şehitoğlu is a Turkish mechanical engineer who holds the John,Alice,and Sarah Nyquist Endowed Chair at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,United States. Hüseyin Şehitoğlu received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from City University London,in 1979,and a M.S.,and Ph.D. in theoretical and applied mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,in 1981 and 1983,respectively.
Marjolein Christine Hermance van der Meulen is an American engineer who currently serves as James M. and Marsha McCormick Director of Biomedical Engineering and Swanson Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University and is a Senior Scientist in the Research Division of the Hospital for Special Surgery.
Sunil K. Agrawal is an Indian roboticist and professor of Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science with secondary appointment in Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine at Columbia University. Agrawal is the author of more than 500 journals,three books,and has 15 U.S. patents.
Naira Hovakimyan is an Armenian control theorist who holds the W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins professorship of the Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the director of AVIATE Center of flying cars at UIUC,funded through a NASA University Leadership Initiative. She was the inaugural director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory during 2015–2017,associated with the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Karthik Ramani is an Indian born American researcher,mechanical engineer,and entrepreneur. He is the Donald W. Feddersen Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University,with courtesy appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Educational Studies in the College of Education. Previously,from 2001-2008,he was the Director of the Center for Information Sciences in Engineering at Purdue University.
Jayathi Y. Murthy is an Indian-American mechanical engineer who is the current President of Oregon State University. Previously,she was the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California,Los Angeles where she was also a distinguished professor. Her research interests include macroelectronics,computational fluid dynamics,heat transfer,and phase-change materials. Murthy has served on the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the Infosys Prize since 2018.
Janet Katherine Allen is an American biochemist and industrial engineer whose research concerns uncertainty in the engineering design process and its quantification and control through robust design processes,statistical methods,simulation of alternative designs,and the use of the design of experiments to systematically explore alternatives in large design spaces. She is a professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Oklahoma,where she holds the John and Mary Moore Chair of Engineering.
Corina Sandu is a Romanian-American mechanical engineer,the Robert E. Hord Jr. Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech. Her research topics include multibody systems,vehicle dynamics,and terramechanics,the interactions between soil properties and vehicle dynamics.
Ali Galip Ulsoy is an academic at the University of Michigan (UM),Ann Arbor,where he is the C.D. Mote Jr. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and the William Clay Ford Professor Emeritus of Manufacturing.
Judy M. Vance is an American mechanical engineer known for her research on the use of virtual reality and haptic technology in design and manufacturing. She is a professor emerita of mechanical engineering and the former Joseph C. and Elizabeth A. Anderlik Professor of Engineering at Iowa State University.
Allison Mariko Okamura is an American mechanical engineer and roboticist whose research concerns haptic technology,teleoperation,remote surgery,and robot-assisted surgery. She is the Richard W. Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering and a professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University,where she directs the Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine (CHARM) laboratory and maintains a courtesy appointment as professor of computer science.
Hong Z. Tan is a Chinese-American researcher in haptic technology and haptic perception. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University.
Monika Ivantysynova (1955–2018) was an East German-born engineer specializing in fluid power,known for her design of piston pumps and valveless hydraulic actuators and more generally for her leadership in the field of fluid power research. She was Maha Named Professor in Fluid Power Systems for Mechanical Engineering and Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University.
Ya-Jun Pan is a Chinese and Canadian mechanical engineer whose research involves robust and nonlinear control for teleoperation and multi-agent systems. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at Dalhousie University,where she directs the Advanced Control and Mechatronics Laboratory.
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Janet M. Sater is an American mechanical engineer at the Institute for Defense Analyses,where her research has involved advanced composite materials,smart structures,exoskeletons,and biomimetics.
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