Brenna Argall is currently an Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Robotics at Northwestern University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR). She also holds a Faculty Research Scientist position within the Sensory Motor Performance Program (SMPP) at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC). Prior to joining Northwestern and RIC, she was a postdoctoral fellow (2009-2011) in the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, under the guidance of Prof. Aude Billard. In the spring of 2009 she completed a Ph.D. in Robotics, with co-advisors Prof. Manuela Veloso and Dr. Brett Browning, in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was affiliated with the CORAL Research Group. She has lived in Doha, Qatar (Spring 2007), while assistant-teaching at Carnegie Mellon's Qatar Campus, and in Brisbane, Australia (Summer 2008), while a research intern within the Autonomous Systems Laboratory at CSIRO. Her M.S. in Robotics (2006), and B.S. in Mathematics (2002), along with minors in Music and Biology, both were granted by Carnegie Mellon. Prior to graduate school, she held a Computational Biology position in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Her research interests lie at the intersection of robotics, machine learning and rehabilitation; in particular, on learning robot motion control from demonstration and then enriching behavior development with human feedback, with a focus on robotic devices that provides physical assistance.

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