Today’s spotlight features a photograph, taken by Bryce Vickmark, of PhD student David Hill.
It’s not every day that graduate students get to test out their research on their advisors. But MIT’s David Hill, a PhD student in media arts and sciences, builds computational models of human locomotion, which are the basis for designing ever-better prosthetics — and his advisor, Hugh Herr, an associate professor of media arts and sciences, is a double amputee.
Hill says living in the world of theoretical models can be somewhat insular, so having a real-life example of someone who can benefit from — and pilot — some of the work he does is part of what helps him stay focused.
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It’s not every day that graduate students get to test out their research on their advisors. But MIT’s David Hill, a PhD student in media arts and sciences, builds computational models of human locomotion, which are the basis for designing ever-better prosthetics — and his advisor, Hugh Herr, an associate professor of media arts and sciences, is a double amputee.
Hill says living in the world of theoretical models can be somewhat insular, so having a real-life example of someone who can benefit from — and pilot — some of the work he does is part of what helps him stay focused.
Read full article.