Brenna D. Argall, PhD

I am an associate professor of rehabilitation robotics at Northwestern University, affiliated with the Departments of Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. I also am a Faculty Research Scientist at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), the nation’s premier rehabilitation hospital.

I am a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), a recipient of the NSF Early Faculty CAREER Award, and was named on of the 40 under 40 by Crain’s Chicago Business.

ASSISTIVE and REHABILITATION ROBOTICS LAB (ARGALLAB)

I am the founder and director of the argallab, which is located at the Shirley Ryan AbiliyLab and affiliated with Northwestern University.

Here is a quick video blurb on what we are about and a longer seminar about our work. Please visit the project and publications pages on this website for further details.

For information about open positions within my research group, visit this link.

TEACHING

CS/ME 469: Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence for Robotics. F23, F21, F19, F16, F14, S13, S12.

CS/ME 301: Introduction to Robotics Laboratory. W23, W22, S21, F17, F16, F15, F14, W14, W13.

I am also affiliated faculty with the Center for Robotics and Biosystems at Northwestern, and a faculty advisor for our Masters of Science in Robotics program.

BIO and CURRICULUM VITAE

Brenna Argall is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Northwestern University. She is founder and director of the assistive & rehabilitation robotics laboratory (argallab) at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), the nation’s premier rehabilitation hospital. The mission of the argallab is to advance human ability by leveraging robotics autonomy.

Argall is an elected fellow the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, and was named one of the 40 under 40 by Crain’s Chicago Business. Her Ph.D. in Robotics (2009) was received from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was a member of the CORAL Research Group. Her B.S. in Mathematics (2002) also was received from Carnegie Mellon, where she minored in Music and Biological Sciences. Prior to joining Northwestern and RIC, she was a postdoctoral fellow (2009-2011) in the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Prior to graduate school she held a Computational Biology position in the Laboratory of Brain & Cognition at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). More recently (2019) she was a visiting Research Fellow at the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering in Geneva, Switzerland.

Full Vitae      [ pdf ]

Publications List    [ pdf ]  [ html ]

PRIOR RESEARCH

For project details and publications from my dissertation at CMU and postdoc at EPFL, please visit the topic links below.

Robot Learning

Retired Research Projects

CONTACT

brenna argall @ northwestern edu   :: +1 847 467 0862

2145 Sheridan Road, Technical Institute Room B224, Evanston, IL 60208-3109