Our Team

Executive Staff

Rory A Cooper

Director

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Brad Dicianno

Medical Director

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Alicia M. Koontz

Senior Associate Director for Research

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Rosemarie Cooper

Associate Director for Stakeholder Engagement

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Garrett Grindle

Associate Director for Engineering

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Nikitha Deepak

Assistant Director for Clinical and Regulatory Affairs

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Gina McKernan

Assistant Director for Data Science

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Peter Hoegel

Assistant Director for Administration and Operations

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Core Investigators

Jorge Luis Candiotti

Associate Professor

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Brandon Daveler

Core Investigator

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Jonathan Duvall

Associate Professor

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Sivashankar Sivakanthan

Chief of Staff - RAMMP

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Adam Sterczala

Research Assistant Professor

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Mike Urbin

Faculty

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George F Wittenberg

Faculty

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Lynn Worobey

Research Scientist

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Postdoctoral Researchers

Sangmi Park

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Shantanu Satpute

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Staff

Oluwasanmi O Adenaiye

Research Scientist

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Ariana Barsotti

Computer Engineer

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Beth Carmona

Program Support Assistant

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Cheng-Shiu Chung

Lab Manager

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Gavin Davidson

Engineer

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Wei Deng

Research Coordinator

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Owen Flaugh

Engineer

Grad Student

Favorite researcher

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Benjamin Gebrosky

Testing Engineer

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Emily Hearty

Additive Manufacturing Technician

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Cheyenne Hennen

Clinical Coordinator

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Cesar Hernandez

Machine Assistant

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Jake Justeson

Research Assistant

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Joshua Kanode

Shop Staff

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Rutuja Kulkarni

Graduate Student

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Stephen Layton

Computer Engineer

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Shihong Ling

Systems Engineer

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Ted McClain

Research Coordinator

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Matt Mesoros

Data Curator

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Matthew Michela

Communications

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Mark Morgan

Research Assistant

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Robert Powell

Machinist

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Lynn Priestley

Research Assistant

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William James Schoy

Research Participant Advocate

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Chloe Shearer

Statistician

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Victoria Smozski

Grants and Contracts Specialist

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Jessica Steinberg

Research Engineer

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Debbie Szczypinski

Executive Assistant to the Director

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Joseph Ulsh

Product Development Engineer

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Eileen Wang

Systems Engineering Lead

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Vicki Wang

Research Engineer

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All staff

Affiliate Investigators

Nikhil Bajaj

Affiliate Faculty

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Sung Kwon Cho

Affiliate Faculty

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Zackory Erickson

Affiliate Investigator

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Guangyong Li

Affiliate Faculty

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Amr Mahmoud

Affiliate Faculty

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Jason Raad

Affiliate Investigator

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Global Affiliate Investigators

Elianna Ferretti

International Faculty

See also: Global Affiliate Investigator
Jongbae Kim

International Faculty

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Ning Lan

International Faculty

See also: Global Affiliate Investigator
Celia Lopes

International Faculty

See also: Global Affiliate Investigator
Hisaichi Ohnabe

International Faculty

See also: Global Affiliate Investigator
Vicky Tolfrey

International Faculty

See also: Global Affiliate Investigator
Lucas HV van der Woude

International Faculty

See also: Global Affiliate Investigator
Yves C Vanlandewijck

International Faculty

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Jue Wang

International Faculty

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Internal Advisors

Anthony Delitto

Internal Advisor

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Evan Facher

Internal Advisor

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Walid Gellad

Internal Advisor

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Rob A Rutenbar

Internal Advisor

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Sanjeev Schroff

Internal Advisor

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Ali Sonel

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Gwendolyn Sowa

Internal Advisor

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James E Taylor

Internal Advisor

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Advisory Board

David Algood, MS, MBA

Vice President, Sunrise Medical, Inc.

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Brad Duerstock, PhD

Professor, Purdue University, Assistive Technology and Transportation Expert

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Steve Hernandez, MS

Director, Office of Veterans Service, University of Pittsburgh

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James Joseph, MS

President, Mount Lebanon PA Veterans of Foreign Wars

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Al Kovach

Past-President, Paralyzed Veterans of America

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Ashli Molinero, PhD

Director of UPMC Disabilities Resource Center

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Paul F Pasquina, M.D.

Chief of the Department of Rehabilitation at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Director of the Center for Rehabilitation Science Research at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) Bethesda, Maryland

Chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) in the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine at USU

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Mark Rosensteel

President, Keystone Paralyzed Veterans of America

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Urs Schneider, PhD

Head of Medical and Bioproduction Engineering; Fraunhofer Institute for Production Engineering and Automation IPA

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DJ Stemmler

Guest Speaker & Disability Advocate

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Abu Yilla, PhD

Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Arlington, Expert on AT, Adaptive Sport, and Inclusion

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