Faculty Affiliates

James Ashton-Miller, Ph.D.James Ashton-Miller, MSME

Albert Schultz Collegiate Research Professor & Distinguished Research Scientist

Director, Biomechanics Research Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering

Office: 3443 George G. Brown Laboratory, 2350 Hayward Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone: 734-763-2320
Email: jaam@umich.edu
Website
Research Interests:
  • Biomechanics, including mobility impairments in the elderly
  • Elderly decision-making and risk-taking in physical tasks
  • Trips, slips and falls
  • Birth related injury

Ella Atkins, Ph.D.Ella Atkins, Ph.D.

Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Office: 3056 François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Building, 1320 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone: 734-615-7456
Email: ematkins@umich.edu
Website
Research Interests:
  • Strategic (AI) and tactical (motion-based) planning/scheduling for individual and collaborative air and space systems
  • Fault-tolerant flight management
  • UAV/MAV applications

James Bagian, MD, PEJames Bagian, MD, PE

Member, NAE and NAM
Director, Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety
Professor, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
1075 Beal Avenue, School of Information North
and 2761 IOE, 1205 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone: 734-763-0799
Email: jbagian@umich.edu
Website
Research Interests:
  • Patient safety
  • Healthcare Engineering

Kira Barton, Ph.D.Kira Barton, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
2160 George G. Brown Laboratory, 2350 Hayward Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone: 734-764-7293
Email: bartonkl@umich.edu
Website
Research Interests:
  • Control theory and applications
  • High precision motion control
  • Iterative learning control
  • High-performance nano-scale printing for electrical and biomedical applications

Tulga Ersal, Ph.D.

Associate Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
1020 Walter E. Lay Automotive Laboratory, 1231 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2214
Phone: 734-763-7388
Email: tersal@umich.edu
Website
Research Interests:
  • System dynamics modeling, estimation, and control
  • Human-vehicle interactions, including on-board or teleoperated driving, human-autonomy collaborations, driver monitoring and adaptation, and cognitive modeling of drivers in various modes of driving

Deanna Gates, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Movement Science
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Core Faculty, Robotics Program
401 Washtenaw Avenue, Room 3734
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2214
Phone: 734-647-2698
Email: gatesd@umich.edu
Website
Research Interests:
  • Biomechanics
  • Ergonomics and Rehabilitation
  • Organ and Whole Body Biomechanics

Maani Ghaffari, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

2272 Ford Robotics Building, 2505 Hayward St

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2214
Phone: 734-647-2698
Email: maanigj@umich.edu
Website
Research Interests:
  • Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  • Robot Perception, State Estimation, Mapping, SLAM
  • Autonomous Navigation, Exploration, and Environmental Monitoring
  • Robot Learning

Brent Gillespie, Ph.D.Brent Gillespie, Ph.D.

Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Rehabilitation Robotics Group, Robotics Institute
3450 George G. Brown Laboratory, 2350 Hayward Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone: 734-647-6907
Email: brentg@umich.edu
Website
Research Interests:
  • Haptics
  • Rehabilitation Robotics

Vineet R. Kamat, Ph.D.Vineet R. Kamat, Ph.D.

John L. Tishman CM Faculty Scholar
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Suite 2340 G.G. Brown Building
2350 Hayward Street,
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125
Phone: 734-764-4325
Fax: 734-764-4292
Email: vkamat@umich.edu
Website
Research Interests:
  • Automation and robotics, and its applications in the construction, operation, and maintenance of civil infrastructure systems
  • Real-time visualization and its applications in construction process monitoring and control

Carol C. Menassa, Ph.D.

John L. Tishman CM Faculty Scholar
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Suite 2140 G.G. Brown Building
2350 Hayward Street,
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125
Phone: 734-764-4525
Fax: 734-764-4292
Email: menassa@umich.edu
Website
Research Interests:
  • Agent Based Modeling and Distributed Simulation applications to analysis of building life cycle energy and environmental performance
  • Wearables and Mobile Computing for indoor air quality monitoring and control
  • Robotics and their application in indoor navigation for monitoring and wayfinding and construction applications

 


Elliott J. Rouse, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Director, Neurobionics Lab
Core Faculty, Robotics Institute
2264 Ford Robotics Building
2505 Hayward St Ann Arbor MI 48109
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122
Phone: 734-763-3629
Email: ejrouse@umich.edu
Website
Research Interests:
  • Exoskeletons and prostheses
  • Precision machine design
  • Locomotor biomechanics
  • User preferences and psychophysics

Albert J. Shih, Ph.D.Albert J. Shih, Ph.D.

Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Associate Chair, Integrative Systems and Design
3001E EECS (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science)
2350 Hayward St
Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122
Phone: 734-647-1766
Fax: 734-936-0363
Email: shiha@umich.edu
Website
Research Interests:
  • Design and manufacturing; biomedical device design; biomedical manufacturing
  • Medical innovation; surgical thermal management
  • Machining of advanced engineering materials; micro manufacturing; precision engineering
  • Optical metrology

Kathleen Sienko, Ph.D.

Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
3454 George G. Brown Laboratory, 2350 Hayward Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone: 734-647-8249
Email: sienko@umich.edu
Website
Research Interests:
  • Medical device design, development, and assessment
  • Wearable devices and sensory augmentation devices for balance and mobility applications
  • Global health design
  • Usability testing of medical devices