• Additional Titles:John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
    Core Faculty, Wyss Institute at Harvard University
  • Education:BAI, BA in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Trinity College, 2003
    MS, Mechanical Engineering, MIT, 2006
    PhD in Mechanical Engineering, MIT, 2010
  • Website or Lab: Harvard Biodesign Lab

Research Interests

  • Applied Physics (Materials Science; Solid Mechanics)
  • Bioengineering  (Bioinspired Robotics and Computing; Biomechanics and Motor Control
  • Electrical Engineering (Robotics and Control)
  • Materials and Mechanical Engineering (Materials Science; Robotics and Control; Solid Mechanics)
  • Science, Technology, Innovation & Public Policy (Science and Engineering Education)

Background

Walsh is the is the founder of the Harvard Biodesign Lab, which brings together researchers from the engineering, industrial design, apparel, clinical and business communities to develop new disruptive robotic technologies for augmenting and restoring human performance. This research includes new approaches to the design, manufacture and control of wearable robotic devices and characterizing their performance through biomechanical and physiological studies so as to further the scientific understanding of how humans interact with such machines.

Example application areas include, enhancing the mobility of healthy individuals, restoring the mobility of patients with gait deficits and assisting those with upper extremity weakness to perform activities of daily living. His group is also working on applying emerging meso-scale manufacturing approaches to the design of smart medical tools for the minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Publications

Lists of published works: Google Scholar 

Departments
Physical Therapy
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