BRENNA D. ARGALL BIO and CIRRICULUM VITAE |
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Brenna Argall is an Associate Professor
of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Mechanical
Engineering and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Northwestern
University. She is founder and director of
the assistive & rehabilitation robotics laboratory (argallab) at the Rehabilitation Institute of
Chicago (RIC, now the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab), the premier
rehabilitation hospital in the United States. The mission of the
argallab is to advance human ability through robotics
autonomy. Argall is a 2016 recipient of
the NSF CAREER award, and was named one of the 40 under 40 by
Crain’s Chicago Business.
Prior to joining Northwestern and RIC, Argall was a postdoctoral fellow (2009-2011) with Prof. Aude Billard in the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Her Ph.D. in Robotics (2009) was co-advised by Prof. Manuela Veloso and Dr. Brett Browning at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was affiliated with the CORAL Research Group. She has lived in Doha, Qatar (2007), while assistant-teaching at Carnegie Mellon's Qatar Campus, and in Brisbane, Australia (2008), while a research intern within the Autonomous Systems Laboratory at CSIRO. Her M.S. in Robotics (2006), and B.S. in Mathematics (2002), along with minors in Music and Biology, also were received from Carnegie Mellon. Prior to graduate school, she held a Computational Biology position in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Short vitae [pdf] Full vitae [pdf] Publications list [pdf] [html] |