Principal Investigator
Postdoctoral Researcher
Doctoral Students
Master’s Students
Undergraduate Students

Ezekiel Kaplan
Mechanical Engineering
kaplan.ez[at]northeastern.edu
since May 2023
Highschool Students

Chinmayi Goyal
Yorktown High School, NY
since Jan 2023
NeuMove is seeking
undergraduates, graduates and postdocs enthusiastic in
neuromechanical simulation, motor control,
leg exoskeletons, rehabilitation robotics,
gait experiments, biomechanics,
deep reinforcement learning, machine learning.
Find potential projects below,
and send your CV to [email protected]
to further discuss.
If you are a Northeastern undergraduate or Master’s student,
join our study groups to learn lab materials.
After mastering them in a semester or two,
you’ll be invited to join the lab
and work on your own or existing projects.
1. Deep reinforcement learning to model human locomotion control
- Keywords: motor control, neuromechanical simulation, deep reinforcement learning, open-source software development, organizing academic competition
- Example tasks
- Develop RL frameworks for training physiologically plausible motor control models
- Develop open-source neuromechanical simulation environments
- Organize academic RL competitions and workshops
- Related links:
- NeurIPS 2022: MyoChallenge, MyoSuite (collaboration with Meta AI and U of Twente)
- NeurIPS 2019: Learn to Move competition, OpenSim-RL
- Paper 1: neuromechanical simulation, deep RL
- Paper 2: physiologically plausible control model, neuromechanical simulation
2. Predictive simulation framework for gait assistive exoskeletons
- Keywords: rehabilitation robotics, biomechanics, leg exoskeleton, gait analysis, predictive neuromechanical simulation
- Example tasks
- Develop customizable predictive neuromechanical simulation frameworks
- Conduct exoskeleton gait experiments to validate simulation predictions
- Develop and optimize exoskeleton controllers in simulation
- Related links:
- NIH R00 project
- Paper 1: exoskeleton experiment, human-in-the-loop optimization
- Paper 2: predictive neuromechanical simulation, elderly gait
3. Virtual neuromuscular control (VNMC) for versatile gait assistive exoskeletons
- Keywords: neuromuscular control, rehabilitation robotics, biomechanics, leg exoskeleton, gait analysis
- Example tasks
- VNMC: Convert human neuromechanical simulations to exoskeleton controllers
- Develop and control leg exoskeletons
- Conduct exoskeleton gait experiments in indoor and outdoor environments
- Related links:
Master’s Student Alumni

Guangping Liu
Mechanical Engineering
liu.guangp[at]northeastern.edu
May 2022 - Sep 2023