I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Ohio State University and the Principal Investigator of the Cyberbotics Lab. I received my Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Aaron Ames. Before joining the Ohio State in 2019, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan with Prof. Jessy Grizzle to develop safety-critical controllers for powered lower-limb exoskeletons that help individuals with paraplegia to walk again without the use of crutches.

My research develops computational and theoretical methods for robot control and motion planning, with a focus on humanoid robots and lower-limb exoskeletons. Our group connects nonlinear control, numerical optimization, and robot learning with simulation and experiments. Explore the lab’s research and publications.