Dr Heba Lakany

Can you tell us about your role and career pathway?

I joined the University of Liverpool in October 2019 as a Reader in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics. I have a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in artificial intelligence and I am a senior member of the IEEE. Previously, I worked as an academic and a researcher at the Universities of Edinburgh, Essex and Strathclyde.

Do you have an area of expertise / research?

My research interests focus on human movement and development of technologies for assistance, augmentation and rehabilitation of human movement. For this I collaborate nationally and internationally with clinicians and industry. I have an extensive publication record in developing artificial intelligent and machine learning methods and technologies in medicine and engineering.

I have successfully attracted funding from EPSRC, MRC, Dunhill Medical Trust, Innovate UK and other funding bodies and is currently working on a project funded by Stoke Mandeville Spinal Research to assess upper limb robotic exoskeleton for rehabilitation of spinal cord injured survivors.

For more information on Heba, visit her website.