Inseung was selected as a 2025 MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific!

September 22, 2025

Inseung has been named to this year's MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific (TR35) and was invited to Shanghai to receive the award. At the TR35 Summit, he had the opportunity to share the MetaMobility Lab's vision for advancing  wearable robotics and AI-driven control frameworks to enhance human mobility.

PhD students passed the qualifying exam

September 12, 2025

Our lab's first PhD student cohort, Maria, Changseob, and Jimin, successfully passed their PhD qualifying exam! They are now officially a PhD candidate!

2025 American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting

August 13 ~ 16, 2025

Several lab members attended the 2025 American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh. Changseob, Jimin, Maria, Vaidehi, and Adrian participated by giving a poster presentation. Our lab also gave a formal lab tour to the ASB attendees.

Two new PhD students join the lab!

August 1, 2025

Ilseung Park and Nate Shoemaker-Trejo joined our lab as the second cohort of PhD students! Nate was already our lab member and will continue to work on hip exoskeleton design and control. Ilseung comes with biomechanics and model simulation experience and will work towards RL-based control policy sim2real transfer. Welcome!

Rehabweek conference

May 12 ~ 16, 2025

Inseung, Changseob, Jimin, and Maria attended the 2025 RehabWeek conference in Chicago, representing our lab at the ICORR consortium. This was our first official conference appearance as a lab.

Jimin presented his poster titled “Optimizing Locomotor Task Sets for Training a Biological Joint Moment Estimator.”

Changseob presented his poster titled “Personalization of Wearable Sensor-Based Joint Kinematic Estimation Using Computer Vision for Hip Exoskeleton Applications.”

Maria gave a podium talk titled “Ground Perturbation Detection via Lower-Limb Kinematic States During Locomotion.”

We also had the opportunity to tour the renowned Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and learn about the latest clinical research in wearable robotics!

2025 MechE PhD Graduate Symposium

March 28, 2025

PhD students Changseob, Jimin, and Maria gave their first formal presentations on their ongoing research at the 2025 CMU Mechanical Engineering PhD Research Symposium.

MetaMobility Lab's first grant awarded!

January 30, 2025

We won our lab's first grant from the NIH NIBIB! This award was the R21 Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators in collaboration with Dr. Owen Beck from UT Austin. The project is on the "AI-driven hip exoskeleton control framework that rapidly generalizes to a broad range of users and real-world locomotor tasks."

Dr. Michael Goldfarb Lab Visit

December 6, 2024

We hosted Dr. Michael Goldfarb from Vanderbilt University to give a departmental seminar. During his visit, we provided a tour of the MetaMobility lab where graduate students gave brief presentations on their ongoing research projects.

The first PhD students join the lab!

August 19, 2024

Changseob, Maria, and Jimin are the first PhD students of the MetaMobility Lab! As a founding cohort, they have officially begun their doctoral journey in Mechanical Engineering at CMU. Welcome aboard!

Changseob won the Kwanjeong Award!

July 11, 2024

Changseob won the Kwanjeong Education Foundation Award for his PhD studies! This is a very prestigious fellowship in Korea and will support this stipend during his time at CMU! Congratulations Changseob! 

MetaMobility Lab is officially Open!

January 1, 2024

Our lab is officially open at CMU Mechanical Engineering Department! We will work on developing the next generation wearable robotic system to help people with mobility impairment!