Dr. Francisco Valero Cuevas

Biography

Francisco Valero-Cuevas attended Swarthmore College from 1984 to 1988, obtaining a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering. He spent a year in the Indian subcontinent as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow and then joined Queen's University in Ontario, where he worked with Dr. Carolyn Small on developing non-invasive methods to estimate the kinematic integrity of the wrist joint for his Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering. In 1991, he joined Stanford University's Doctoral Program in the Design Division of the Mechanical Engineering Department, working with Dr. Felix Zajac to develop a realistic biomechanical model of human digits. His research at the Rehabilitation R&D Center in Palo Alto focused on predicting optimal coordination patterns for finger musculature and static force production. After completing his doctorate in 1997, he became a Research Associate and Lecturer at Stanford's Biomechanical Engineering Division. In 1999, he became an Assistant Professor at Cornell University's Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, achieving tenure in 2005. He joined the University of Southern California in 2007 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and was promoted to Full Professor in 2011. Valero-Cuevas has been recognized with several awards, including the 2013 Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement, and he is a Senior Member of IEEE.

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