Ambike awarded Presidential Fellowship

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Satyajit Ambike, graduate student in Mechanical Engineering, was recently awarded a 2010 Presidential Fellowship, the most prestigious award given by the graduate school.

Presidential Fellowships recognize the outstanding scholarly accomplishments and potential of graduate students entering the final phase of their dissertation research or terminal degree project. These fellowships provide financial support so that the fellow may devote one year of full-time study to the completion of the dissertation or degree project unimpeded by other duties. Recipients of this award embody the highest standards of scholarship in Ohio State graduate programs.

Satyajit completed his undergraduate degree from the University of Pune in Pune, India in 1999, and has been working as a doctoral student for Jim Schmiedeler in the area of human motor control and robot kinematics since 2005.

He is working on the hypothesis that the central nervous system uses a time-invariant, kinematic representation for composing rehearsed motions such as walking and reaching. The validation of this hypothesis can lead to the development of new rehabilitation techniques and dependable measures for quantifying recovery of stroke patients. Satyajit has developed “speed-ratio control,” which is a technique inspired by the time-invariance hypothesis for human motion that can enhance the path tracking accuracy of commercial robots.

 
Category: Graduate