Dr. Gregory Sawicki

Biography

Gregory Sawicki is a Professor and the Joseph Anderer Faculty Fellow at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, where he also holds a joint appointment in the School of Biological Sciences. He served as the Interim Executive Director of Georgia Tech's Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) in 2025. Sawicki holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University (1999), a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California-Davis (2001), and a Ph.D. in Human Neuromechanics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2007). He was an NIH-funded Post-Doctoral Fellow in Integrative Biology at Brown University from 2007 to 2009. From 2009 to 2017, he was a faculty member in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. His research focuses on combining engineering, physiology, and neuroscience to discover neuromechanical principles that underpin optimal locomotion performance and to develop lower-limb robotic devices that can improve locomotion in both healthy individuals and those with impairments.

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