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Humphrey
graduates to tackle artificial intelligence, and control Columbus, Ohio – August 19, 2009 – Laura R. Humphrey finished her Ph.D. program this summer. Later this month, the Pickerington, Ohio, native will don a cap and gown to receive her doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering from OSU. Laura was an outstanding undergraduate in the ECE Dept., and while a graduate student, she held RA and TA positions at OSU and OSC. Her dissertation (1, 2) deals with the general area of human locomotion. Humphrey’s doctoral dissertation describes her computational model of a human with a more sophisticated representation of a foot than was previously available to clinical researchers. This advance, she said, has the capability of aiding in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of motor control disorders, improvement of prostheses, and development of functional electrical stimulation for recovery of lost motor function. Author of a number of papers, Dr. Humphrey will begin a new job in October with the Air Vehicles Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), which is located at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Beavercreek, Ohio. 1. Laura, R. Humphrey ,” Modeling the Role of the Foot, Toes and Vestibular System in Human Balance”, Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 2009, Report DI-09 -310-HH 2. “ Simulated Responses to Support Surface Disturbance in a Humanoid Biped Models Augmented with a Vestibular – Like Apparatus ” ,Laura R. Humphrey, H. Hemami , K. Barin and A. Krishnamurthy, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics – part c: Applications and Reviews, To appear. 3 http://www.osc.edu/press/releases/2009/humphrey.shtml 4 http://columbustech.blogspot.com/2009/08/osu-grad-to-apply-osc-skills-todefense.html . |
