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John McPhee, Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo and the Canada Research Chair in Biomechatronic System Dynamics, gives an invited talk at the pre-conference webinar for the 2nd International Conference on Sports Engineering on improving sports performance using predictive dynamic simulation and machine learning.

Today, the Government of Canada announced the renewal of Professor John McPhee's Canada Research Chair in Biomechatronic System Dynamics for 7 more years. Congratulations! 

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Lower-limb exoskeleton research by Brokoslaw Laschowski and John McPhee was featured in The Record daily newspaper (see below the YouTube video).
    
ExoNet is a lower-body suit that uses computer vision and deep learning artificial intelligence to help users with mobility impairments.

PhD candidate Brokoslaw Laschowski successfully defends his PhD thesis "Energetics and Control of Robotic Leg Prostheses and Exoskeletons" - Congratulations, Dr. Laschowski! 

PhD Candidate Brokoslaw Laschowski gave an invited lecture on computer vision and deep learning for environment-adaptive control of robotic exoskeletons at the 2021 ErgoX Symposium.

John McPhee, Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo and the Canada Research Chair in Biomechatronic System Dynamics, was featured among the top 2% of scientists worldwide in a comprehensive list recently published by Stanford University. Congratulations!

Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Mahdokht Ezati presents her latest research on predictive dynamic simulation and optimal control of child gait at the 45th Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB2021). 

John McPhee, Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo and the Canada Research Chair in Biomechatronic System Dynamics, gives an invited talk at the Waterloo International Workshop on Neural Engineering and Rehabilitation on modelling the dynamics and control of exoskeletons and rehabilitation robots. 

At the 2022 North American Congress on Biomechanics (NACOB), MASc candidate Sydney Bell presented her work on a muscle torque generator model for a two degree-of-freedom shoulder joint [see page 46].
   

PhD candidate Mahdokht Ezati successfully defended her PhD thesis "Predictive Dynamic Simulation of Child Gait Using Direct Collocation Optimal Control" - Congratulations!