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Principal Investigator<\/h2>\n Prof. Karl Zelik
\n<\/strong>Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
\nBiomedical Engineering, & Physical Medicine & Rehab
\nChief Scientific Officer, HeroWear<\/a>
\nBoard Member, American Bionics Project<\/a>
\nPrincipal, Zelik Biomech (Consulting)<\/a>
\nkarl.zelik@vanderbilt.edu\n \n

Affiliated Faculty<\/h2>\n \"\"Dr. Gerasimos Bastas, MD, PhD
\n<\/strong>Staff Physician
\nTVHS Veteran Affairs Medical Center
\nKey Expertise: Prosthetics & Amputation-Related Care\n \n \"\"Dr.\u00a0Aaron Yang, MD
\n<\/strong>Associate Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
\nMedical Director, Musculoskeletal Medicine at Concierge Medicine
\nAssociate Program Director, Residency Training Program, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
\nKey Expertise: Non-Operative Management of Back Pain\n \n \"\"Peter Volgyesi, MS<\/strong>
\nResearch Scientist
\nInstitute for Software Integrated Systems
\nKey Expertise: Sensor Fusion & Machine Learning\n \n

Research Staff<\/h2>\n \"\"Katherine Rodzak<\/strong>
\nResearch Engineer and Coordinator
\nM.S. Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University
\nB.S. Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University\n \n

Recent PhD Students<\/h2>\n \"\"Cameron Nurse
\n<\/strong>M.S. Bioengineering, Northeastern University
\nB.S. Biomedical Engineering, Boston University\n \n

\"\"Paul Slaughter
<\/strong>NSF Graduate Research Fellow
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/p>\n \n \"\"Rachel Teater
\n<\/strong>NSF Graduate Research Fellow
\nB.S. Biomedical Engineering,\u00a0The Ohio State University\n \n \"\"Chase Mathews
\n<\/strong>B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University\n \n

MS Students<\/h2>\n

\"\"George Skaff
<\/strong>B.S. Engineering, Harvey Mudd
B.A. Economics, Claremont McKenna College<\/p>\n \n

BS Students<\/h2>\n

\"\"Kaitlyn Hannon
<\/strong>Biomedical Engineering<\/p>\n \n

\"\"Aidan Culp
<\/strong>Biomedical Engineering<\/p>\n \n \"\"Alex Pearle
\n<\/strong>Computer Science\n \n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Principal Investigator Prof. Karl Zelik Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, & Physical Medicine & Rehab Chief Scientific Officer, HeroWear Board Member, American Bionics Project Principal, Zelik Biomech (Consulting) karl.zelik@vanderbilt.edu Affiliated Faculty Dr. Gerasimos Bastas, MD, PhD Staff Physician TVHS Veteran Affairs Medical Center Key Expertise: Prosthetics & Amputation-Related Care Dr.\u00a0Aaron Yang, MD Associate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ACF":{"topper_style":"default","topper_overline":"","topper_title":"","topper_intro":"","default_topper_background_type":"none","footer_style":"standard","recirculation_style":"none","nav_menu":"","nav_menu_secondary":"no","page_style_option":"details","page_theme_option":"light","page_class_name":"","page_jumplinks_option":"no"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zelik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zelik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zelik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zelik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zelik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zelik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3067,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zelik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1514\/revisions\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zelik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zelik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}