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2025

​2024

  • November 2024: Paper published! Crucial hurdles to achieving human-robot harmony, an opinion piece in Science Robotics. Co-authors: Taylor Higgins, Meghan E. Huber, Marcia K. O'Malley.

  • August 2025: The Ghonasgi lab at Rice University received a brand new Harmony Exoskeleton!

  • July 2024: Announcing the Ghonasgi lab at Rice University, starting Fall 2025! Dr. Ghonasgi will be joining Rice as an Assistant Professor in July 2025.

  • ​May 2024: Abstract accepted for poster presentation at the American Society of Biomechanics 2024 meeting in Wisconsin, Madison. Looking forward to a cheese curd crawl!

  • March 21, 2024: BioRob 2024 workshop accepted! Come join us for our half-day workshop on "Building Responsive Body-Machine Interfaces with Biosignals and Robotic Exoskeletons". Congratulations to all the organizers: Ava Chen, Lauren Winterbottom, Aaron Young, and Matei Ciocarlie.

​2023

​2022

  • Oct. 22 - 27, 2022: Attended a most memorable IROS 2022 in Kyoto, presenting my research in the Computational advances in HRI session 2, and some video games I developed at the Ergonomics for HRI workshop. 

  • Oct. 6 - 7, 2022: Had an excellent experience attending the Rising Stars in ME 2022 workshop at Stanford. Read about it here.

  • September 2022: Accepted to the Rising Stars in ME 2022 workshop to be held at Stanford university in October 2022.

  • August - Nov. 2022: Part-time Student Researcher position at Meta Reality Labs (previously Oculus).

  • July 2022: Paper titled "Quantifying Changes in Kinematic Behavior of A Human-Exoskeleton Interactive System" accepted for presentation at IROS 2022.

  • May - August 2022: Summer position at Meta Reality Labs (previously Oculus) as a Research Scientist Intern working on haptic rendering for virtual reality.

  • May 16, 2022: Defended dissertation proposal and qualified to be a Ph.D. candidate in the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Texas at Austin.

  • April 15, 2022: My best friend and I got married in India!

  • February 2022: Awarded the University Graduate Continuing Fellowship by the Graduate School at the University of Texas at Austin for the 2022 - 2023 academic year.

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