I am an assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame.  I  design mechanical structures that endow robots with locomotive capabilities that were previously not possible.  Generally, I do computational mechanical design and I’m interested in devices we can invent through algorithms but not with our intuition.  My design work has been applied not only to robot locomotion (legs, wings, suspensions), but to human movement enhancement (exoskeletons, orthoses, prosthetics)  and manufacturing equipment (high-speed machinery, grippers).