About

> Education

• Harvard University
  • Biorobotics Laboratory
  • Postdoctoral Fellow in Mechanical Engineering
  • Advisor: Rob Howe
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence Lab
  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Neuroscience, 1998.
  • Thesis: “Models of Generalization in Motor Control”
  • Advisors: Rodney Brooks and Emilio Bizzi
• Massachusetts Institute of Techology
  • Artificial Intelligence Lab
  • S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. 1995.
  • Thesis: “Embodiment and Manipulation Learning Process for a Humanoid Hand”
  • Advisor: Rodney Brooks
• University of California, Berkeley
  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1993.

> Research and Teaching Interests

Neurobotics, Neural Engineering, Physical Human-Robot Interaction (pHRI), Rehabilitation and medical robotics, brain-machine interface, human augmentation, robotic control and learning, human neural control of movement.

> Recent Awards

• • 2010  2010 Emerging Inventor of the Year, UW Medicine
  • 2010  Top 10 Women To Watch in 2010 by Barbie
  • 2009  Torode Family Endowed Career Development Professorship
  • 2008  "Power 25"; Seattle Magazine
  • 2007  MacArthur Fellowship
  • 2007  “Brilliant 10“ Popular Magazine
  • 2005  IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Academic Career Award
  • 2004  Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
  • 2004  Anna Loomis McCandless Career Faculty Chair
  • 2003  NSF CAREER Award

> About Yoky

Along with her commitment to education and her ongoing work, Yoky enjoys working with middle and high school students and teachers. She also has passion toward changing the world through start-up companies. She has four young children and a dog, and she loves to play tennis, golf, run, snowboard, hike, and travel, if time allows.