Divya Bhookya recently graduated from the College of Applied Health Sciences majoring in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences with a concentration in Health Behavior Change. Divya’s plans are to attend optometry school in the fall. Currently, she is working on

Olivia Rojas is currently a graduate student that received her undergraduate degree at the University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign. She will be attending the university again for her masters. Olivia has worked with the lab for a

April Pereira is currently a visiting student at the Human Factors & Aging (HFA) Laboratory and currently a Ph.D. student in the Cognitive Psychology program at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Her research spans topics such

Tongxin is currently a visiting student at the Human Factors & Aging Laboratory and a second-year Ph.D. student in Information Design at Tsinghua University. Her research focuses on supporting and facilitating social engagement of older adults through the

Dr. Avinash Gupta is a Specialized Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at UIUC. He is also a faculty affiliate in the Jump Simulation Center, CI-MED. He teaches software and hardware engineering

Camryn Lynn is a first-year graduate student pursuing her Master’s degree in Health Technology. After graduation, she plans to pursue a career in medical device design. 

Camryn’s research interests include home health interventions, designing for chronically ill individuals,

Ryan is currently a PhD student in Community Health. His areas of research interest extend knowledge gleaned from transdisciplinary inquiries investigating intersectional aspects of the social, psychological and spiritual underpinnings of cultural systems of power and their function

Wendy A. Rogers, Ph.D., is Shahid and Ann Carlson Khan Professor of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  Her primary appointment is in the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health.  She has an appointment in

Megan is a recent UIUC grad with a Bachelor’s in I-Health and a minor in Public Health Sciences. She currently works on our Stretch Robot project in collaboration with Hello Robot and the Veteran Needs Assessment Study. Megan

Yao-Lin is currently a PhD student here in our lab and works on the STRETCH Robot Project that focuses on behavioral design for aging people. His research interests are social robotics including robot motion planning, indoor navigation, and