Elliott Rouse

Elliott Rouse is an Associate Professor in the Robotics and Mechanical Engineering Departments at the University of Michigan (U-M). He directs the Neurobionics Lab, whose vision is to reverse engineer how the nervous system regulates the mechanics of locomotion, and use this information to develop assistive technologies that leverage this perspective. To this end, his group studies the design, control, and evaluation of lower-limb exoskeletons and robotic prostheses. He has launched the careers of four doctoral students, two of which are faculty at Research 1 institutions. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and is a member of the IEEE EMBS Technical Committee on BioRobotics. In addition, he is on the Editorial Boards for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, and Wearable Technologies. Elliott received the BS degree in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University and the PhD degree in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University. Subsequently, he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the MIT Media Lab. Prior to joining U-M, Elliott was faculty in the Schools of Medicine and Engineering at Northwestern University / Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and worked in professional autoracing. In 2019 – 2020, he was a visiting faculty member at (Google) X.