2. Me BA Biology, Kenyon College Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Strong interest in medical robotics and bio-inspired motion. Worked in the haptics lab (science of touch) TA/Grader Mechanical Engineering Junior Lab and Engineering Entrepreneurship. Graduated this past December 4 conference papers and 3 conference demonstrations 2 Patents pending Continuing work in haptics and a robotics startup

4. Control of a High Fidelity Ungrounded Torque Feedback Device: The iTorqU 2.1 Kyle N. Winfree, Joseph M. Romano, Jamie Gewirtz, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Mechanical Systems Laboratory University of Delaware, USA Haptics Group, GRASP Laboratory University of Pennsylvania, USA. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010) Anchorage, Alaska, May 3 - 8, 2010 A High Fidelity Ungrounded Torque Feedback Device: The iTorqU 2.0 Kyle N. Winfree Jamie Gewirtz Thomas Mather Jonathan Fiene Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Haptics Group, GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, USA World Haptics 2009: Third Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium On Haptic Interfaces For Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems. March 18 th –20 th 2009. iTorqU: An ungrounded haptic feedback device

5. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Jamie Gewirtz, William McMahan, Dorsey Standish, Paul Martin, Jonathan Bohren, Pierre J. Mendoza, and David I. Lee. VerroTouch: High-frequency acceleration feedback for telerobotic surgery. Accepted for oral presentation at EuroHaptics, 2010. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Jamie Gewirtz, William McMahan, Dorsey Standish, Paul Martin, Jonathan Bohren, Pierre J. Mendoza, and David I. Lee. VerroTouch: High- frequency acceleration feedback for telerobotic surgery. Hands-on demonstration to be presented at EuroHaptics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 2010. Dorsey Standish, Jamie Gewirtz, William McMahan, Paul Martin, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker. High-frequency tactile feedback for the da Vinci surgical system. Hands-on demonstration presented at IEEE Haptics Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2010. Dorsey Standish, Jamie Gewirtz, William McMahan, Paul Martin, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker. High-frequency tactile feedback for the da Vinci surgical system. Hands- on demonstration presented at the Stanford Medical Innovation Conference on Medical Robotics, April 2010. K. J. Kuchenbecker, D. Standish, W. McMahan, and J. Gewirtz. Tactile augmentation for robotic systems. Provisional United States patent application #61/302,681, led February 9, 2010.

6. Tangent Robotics SphereGear Hemispherical Mechanical transmission

8. Why choose the Penn Robotics M.S.E. Degree? Support Resources Diversity Opportunities