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Biography
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- NIOSH COHSE-OSE Director
- Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies, Robotics
Leia Stirling is an Associate Professor in Industrial and Operations Engineering and Robotics at the University of Michigan, a Core Faculty in the Center for Ergonomics, an Affiliate Faculty in the Space Institute, and the University of Michigan Center for Occupational Health and Safety Engineering (COHSE) Director of Occupational Safety Engineering and Ergonomics. She received her B.S. (2003) and M.S. (2005) in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her Ph.D. (2008) in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. In her interdisciplinary research group, they bring together methods from human factors, biomechanics, and robotics. They strive to understand the physical and cognitive interactions for goal-oriented human task performance and support operational decision making that relies on manual task performance. These goals include reducing musculoskeletal injury risks, supporting telehealth, and improving technology usability.
Education
- Postdoctoral Fellow Boston Children’s Hospital, 2009, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
- M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 2005, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
- B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 2003
Research Interests
- Biomechanics
- Decision Support Systems
- Human Factors
- Human-autonomy/robot interaction
- Human Motion
- Multimodal Displays
- Work Measurement
- Wearable Technology
Professional Society Memberships
- AIAA Associate Fellow
- IEEE Senior member
- HFES Occupational Ergonomics Technical Group Chair
Awards
- University of Michigan Neil Van Eenam Memorial Undergraduate Teaching Award (2025)
- University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School Partnerships for Access, Community, and Excellence (PACE) Fellowship for Graduate Student-Faculty Pairs (2024)
- University of Michigan North Campus Deans’ Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Award (2023)
- University of Michigan Industrial and Operations Engineering Wilson Faculty Fellowship (2021)
- University of Illinois Outstanding Recent Alumnus Award (2020)
- NAE Frontiers of Engineering Symposium Participant (2016)
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2015)