Our optimal control paper with Max Berniker and Konrad Kording is published online in PLoS One. Megan's paper on risk-senstivity is accepted for publication in Journal of Neurophysiology. See Publications page for more information.
Alaa was interviewed for WIRED magazine's DANGER ROOM about her new DARPA Young Faculty Award: Fight of Flight: Darpa Explores the Neuroscience of Threat Response
The Neuromechanics lab has been awarded 2 3-year NSF grants to study the role of risk in movement control and learning. One of the proposed studies is a collaboration with Dr. Max Berniker at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Alaa a DARPA 2012 Young Faculty Award. The award was featured in the University of Colorado News on June 7, 2012.
ASSETT's A&S Spotlight highlights the Neuromechanics Lab's development of a new program that allows Integrative Physiology students to track and measure their pressure distribution while standing on a Nintendo Wii Balance Board. Read the article here: A&S Spotlight
Our paper, Reduction of Metabolic Cost during Motor Learning of Arm Reaching Dynamics , is featured in local and national media: University of Colorado News Science Daily Boulder's Daily Camera Forbes
