New Faculty Member Joining CISCOR

Dr. Taylor Higgins will be joining CISCOR in January 2023 and coming to campus to establish her research group in the fall. Originally from Simpsonville, SC, Dr. Higgins attended Clemson University for her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. In 2022, she graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering advised by Dr. Jim Schmiedeler and Dr. Pat Wensing. Dr. Higgins’ dissertation work specifically aimed to identify human gait speed intentions for lower-limb exoskeletons. After Notre Dame, she took a postdoc position at UT Austin with Dr. Ann Majewicz Fey working on optimal haptic guidance strategies for surgical robotics.  In 2023 Dr. Higgins will start as an assistant professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee where she will continue her work to increase the fluency of a broad spectrum of human/robot interactions.