• Isaiah Williams, undergraduate bme researcher working in the Neuro-Robotics Lab, secured a first place in IEEE Wichita Section Student Poster Contest (Jan 2022) and IEEE Region 5 North Area Competition (Mar 2022).
    • He will compete in the IEEE Region 5 Annual Competition, Apr 2022. His project title is Artificial Neural Network to Extract Myoelectric Response for Assistive Soft Robotic Glove.
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) funded REU Supplement on Bio-inspired Exoskeletons and Safety in Human-Exoskeleton Cooperation (Award: $24,000.00). (July 2021)
    • PI: Dr. Yimesker Yihun, Co-PI: Dr. Jaydip Desai and Dr. Nils Hakansson
  • Dr. Jaydip Desai, Primary Investigator of the Neuro-Robotics Lab,  received a Wallace Experience-Based Learning Award at Wichita State University. (May 2021)
  • Jordan Clark secured a second place in the IEEE Region 5 North Area Student Poster Contest. He has participated in the IEEE Region 5 Annual Meeting Student Poster Competition (Apr 10, 2021) where top-three winners from each IEEE Region 5 Area Contests compete in the final competition.(Mar 2021)
    • Presentation Title: Neuro-Virtual Interface System to Understand Human Brain Responses in Simulated Space Condition.
    • This research is funded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Development Grant 80NSSC19M0042.
  • Jordan Clark, undergraduate BME student working in the Neuro-Robotic Lab, secured first place in IEEE Wichita Section Student Poster Contest. (Jan 2021)
    • Poster Title: Neuro-Virtual Interface System to Understand Human Brain Responses in Simulated Space Condition.
    • This research is funded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Development Grant 80NSSC19M0042.
  • Biomedical Engineering Professors (PI: Dr. Nils hakansson, and Co-PIs: Dr. Michael Jorgensen and Dr. Jaydip Desai) received $100,000.00 fund from aerospace industry to test and evaluate passive shoulder exoskeletons for static overhead work. (July 2020)
  • Biomedical Engineering Professors (PI: Dr. Michael Jorgensen, and Co-PIs: Dr. Jaydip Desai and Dr. Nils Hakansson) received $75,100.00 fund from Spirit AeroSystems to test and evaluate passive shoulder exoskeletons for overhead drilling tasks. (Apr 2020)
  • Fadi Gerges, bme graduate student working in the Neuro-Robotics Lab, won second place award in Student Paper Contest at 57th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium. (Apr 2020)
    • Result: https://rmbs.org/2020-contest-results/
    • Paper Title: Fadi Gerges and Jaydip Desai, "Design of a Low Pressure Pneumatically Actuated Soft Robotic Glove for Stroke Rehabilitation" 
  • Biomedical Engineering researchers (PI:Dr. Jaydip Desai,  and Co-PIs : Dr. Michael Jorgensen, and Dr. Nils Hakansson) secured around $30,800.00 fund from Spirit AeroSystems to test the effect of different passive shoulder exoskeletons on shoulder and torso muscle usage for simulated aircraft work tasks. (Jan 2020)
  • Dr. Jaydip Desai secured $51,400.00 industry fund to advance functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) based brain mapping device. (Sep 2019)
  • Spirit AeroSystems is partnering with WSU Biomedical Engineering researchers (Dr. Jaydip Desai (PI), Dr. Nils Hakansson (Co-PI), and Dr. Michael Jorgensen (Co-PI)) to evaluate passive exoskeletons for industrial applications. The award amount is $45,400.00. (Aug 2019)

  • WSU researchers from Mechanical Engineering (Dr. Yimesker Yihun (PI)), and Biomedical Engineering (Dr. Jaydip Desai (Co-PI), and Dr. Nils Hakansson (Co-PI)) disciplines  secured funding from National Science Foundation on “Bio-inspired Exoskeletons and Safety in Human-Exoskeleton Cooperation”. This NSF award is expected to total $299,997. (July 2019)

  • Emmalie Gulledge and Sierra Bonn, undergraduate bme students working on Wheelchair Mounted Exoskeleton received an award to participate in the Shocker I-Corps program from June 11 to July 16, 2019. (May 2019)
    • Dr. Jaydip Desai (Principal Investigator of the Neuro-Robotics Lab) and Ms. Bridget Schabron (Graduate Researcher in the Neuro-Robotics Lab) will serve as academic lead on this project.
  • Dr. Jaydip Desai received a University Research/Creative Projects Award (URCA) on his proposal entitled Neural Decoding and Control of Assistive Robotic Limb for Activities of Daily Living at WSU. The award period is July 2019 - June 2020. (May 2019)
  • Ashley Stroh, undergraduate bme student researcher working in the Neuro-Robotics Lab, received an Undergraduate Engineering Research Stipend Award from College of Engineering to continue her research on Human-Centered Deep Learning Neural Network architecture for Myoelectric Controlled Power Wheelchair during summer 2019. (May 2019)
  • Multidisciplinary research project (PI: Dr. Jaydip Desai, Co-PI: Dr. James Steck, and Co-PI: Dr. Yimesker Yihun) entitled “Development of a Neuro-Virtual Interface System to Evaluate Astronauts’ Cognitive Performance  in Space” has been accepted for funding by the Kansas NASA EPSCoR program. The total funding including the matching fund from WSU ($56,144)  is $183,744. (May 2019)
  • Anne Dowling secured a second place in oral presentation category for Natural Sciences and Engineering track at 19th Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Forum (URCAF) on Apr 19, 2019 at WSU. (Apr 2019)
    • Ms. Dowling presented her research work on "Implementation of Artificial Neural Networks to Classify Human Forearm Muscle Signals for Individual Finger Movement of a Robotic Hand"
  • Fadi Gerges won an Anthony Sancez Jr. Award of Merit (awarded by the GLBC chair as the best student presentation at any level (undergraduate, MS, and PHD) on his research paper titled "A Novel Design of a Single Actuator Differential Mechanism to Control a Prosthetic Hand" at 56th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, Apr 13, 2019 at Milwaukee, WI (Apr 2019)
  • Bridget Schabron received the College of Engineering General Scholarship for Spring 2019 Semester (Dec 2018)
  • Anne Dowling received an Undergraduate Engineering Research Stipend Award from College of Engineering Dean's Office for Summer 2018 (May 2018)
  • Louis Gomez won the undergraduate student paper competition at 2018 IEEE Region 5 Annual Conference on Apr 7, 2018 in Austin, TX (Apr 2018)
    • Louis gave an oral presentation on Artificial Neural Network as a Classifier to Detect Hand Movement from EEG Signals