Sam Burden

NSF CAREER Award

2021-03-31T00:00:00-07:00

My NSF CAREER proposal was funded through the Mind, Machine, Motor Nexus (M3X) Program under PM Robert Scheidt!

The project title is “human/machine collaborative learning and control for contact-rich dynamics”. I am thrilled and honored to have this proposal selected for funding. The award holds special significance for me, as it represents the genuine merger of two previously-separate threads of research I started in my PhD and postdoc: modeling and control of contact-rich dynamics, and human sensorimotor learning and control.

New Smellicopter Research Manuscript

2021-02-01T00:00:00-08:00

Joseph publishes new research article with UW collaborators in Biology and Mechanical Engineering.

Last year posed unprecedented challenges for all of us, so I’m relieved to have ended 2020 with some good news.

Back in December, my collaborators and I published our latest research article on the Smellicopter project, which appears in the journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. This research is a continuation of work I did during my master’s degree program, under Dr. Tom Daniel (UW Biology) and Dr. Sawyer Fuller (UW Mechanical Engineering). If you are interested in learning about this project, I encourage you to read this interview with my collaborators that was published in IEEE Spectrum Magazine.

Joey and Maneeshika pass quals

2020-12-02T00:00:00-08:00

Joey Sullivan and Maneeshika Madduri both passed their ECE PhD Qualifying Exams – congratulations, Joey and Maneeshika!

Momona wins Best Paper Award from CNT

2020-11-25T00:00:00-08:00

PhD student Momona Yamagami receives the Fernando Family Fund Best Student Paper Award from the Center for Neurotechnology for her paper on Decoding intent with control theory: Comparing muscle versus manual interface performance, which appeared at the prestigious ACM CHI conference in 2020.

The paper was selected based on its significance and potential impact, its technical content, the originality of the proposed approach and the clarity of solutions presented.

Congratulations, Momona!

Momona receives a fellowship

2020-11-18T00:00:00-08:00

PhD student Momona Yamagami is the 2020-2021 recipient of the Irene Peden Fellowship from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, named in honor of Professor Irene Carswell Peden.

Congratulations, Momona!

Andrew defends his PhD

2020-10-07T00:00:00-07:00

PhD student #2, Andrew Pace, successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Stepping Towards Control of Systems Undergoing Impact for Legged Locomotion”.

Congratulations, Andrew!

ECE Colloquium series – Toward Telelocomotion

2020-10-06T00:00:00-07:00

I am thrilled to be hosting my Department’s Colloquium series this quarter – we have a fantastic lineup!

The talks will be recorded and made available on the UW ECE YouTube channel; the lineup is depicted below.

Welcome Amber

2020-09-30T00:00:00-07:00

Welcome to Amber Chou, who is joining us after completing her master’s degree in Biological Systems Engineering at UC Davis. Amber will be working on sensorimotor fusion and multibehavioral robots.

Maneeshika receives NDSEG fellowship

2020-04-17T00:00:00-07:00

Maneeshika Madduri received the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship awarded by the Department of Defense starting in September 2020.

Congratulations, Maneeshika!

Welcome Maneeshika

2020-01-06T00:00:00-08:00

Welcome to Maneeshika Madduri, who is a new PhD student co-advised with Professor Amy Orsborn.

Maneeshika is interested in studying the neural principles underlying motor learning using brain-machine interfaces and is joining UW after working at a medical devices start-up and Sandia National Labs. Maneeshika finished her undergraduates and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.