[JOB OPP] [Fwd: Research at USC for Swartmore undergraduates?] (fwd)

Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 09:46:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Lisa Meeden 
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Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:24:41 -0500
From: M. Jade Zee 
To: Lisa Meeden 
Subject: [Fwd: Research at USC for Swartmore undergraduates?]

Hi Lisa,

Do you have any computer science students who might be interested in working in 
Francisco Valero-Cuevas' lab this summer? He's the alum I told you about that I 
met at a neuroscience mtg. He updated me on two recently funded new projects in 
his lab. The first one is this:

Determining how the brain controls the hand
The project ?Reverse-engineering the human brain?s ability to control the hand? 
(grant #0836042) will be led by Francisco Valero-Cuevas of the University of 
Southern California, in collaboration with Chang Liu of Northwestern 
University, Yoky Matsuoka of the University of Washington, and Emanuel Todorov 
of the University of California, San Diego.

The main goal of this project is to understand how to achieve dexterous, 
approximately optimal control of a hand by having humans and computers perform 
familiar but challenging tasks of manipulating objects. Researchers will use 
the same algorithms both to model human motor control and to go beyond the 
present state of the art in robotic manipulation. Dexterous robotic hands have 
a wide variety of possible applications in industry, space, and national 
security. Improved understanding of how humans learn to optimize hand 
performance will also have broader benefits, particularly for the disabled.

from this website:
http://www.nsf.gov/eng/efri/fy08awards.jsp

the second one is can be seen here:
http://www.isi.edu/research/rerc/

He is really interested in hearing from potential Swat students soon.

Jade

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M. Jade Zee
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA, 19081
610-328-8296
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	Hello Jade,

I hope all is well with you. I wanted to follow up on the research  
opportunities we talked about with students at Swarthmore. Should we  
follow up on that so that things can be arranged well ahead of time?


We have received funding fro two new large projects since we spoke as  
well ;) These are listed on my signature below.


Thanks,

-Francisco



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Francisco Valero-Cuevas, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy
Associate Professor of Computer Science & Aerospace and Mechanical  
Engineering
The University of Southern California, 3710 McClintock Ave, RTH 404
Los Angeles, California 90089-2905
e-mail: valero@USC.edu
Voice: 213.821.2084
New cell number: 323 428-0415
Fax: 213.821.3897
http://bme.usc.edu/valero/
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NSF EFRI-COPN Program to reverse-engineer hand control
http://www.nsf.gov/eng/efri/fy08awards.jsp
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NIDRR Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
	Dexterous manipulation
http://www.isi.edu/research/rerc/
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NIH Motor Function Speech and Rehabilitation Study Section
http://www.csr.nih.gov/REVIEW/BBBPIRG.HTM#MFSR
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Engineering, Neursocience & Health @ USC
http://bme.usc.edu/valero/seminar.htm







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