Associate Professor

Location

G634

Additional title(s)

• NIOSH COHSE-OSE Director
• IOE Department DEI Committee Chair
• College of Engineering IOE DEI Department Lead

Primary Website

https://stirling.engin.umich.edu/

Personal Pronouns

she/her

Related Links

• Robotics Institute
• Center for Ergonomics (C4E)
• Center for Occupational Health and Safety Engineering (COHSE)

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 2008;
• B.S. and M.S., Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 2003 and 2005;
• Postdoctoral Fellow Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 2009

Research Interests

• Biomechanics
• Decision Support Systems
• Human Factors
• Human-autonomy/robot interaction
• Human Motion
• Multimodal Displays
• Work Measurement
• Wearable Technology

Biography

Leia Stirling is an Associate Professor in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, a Core Faculty in the Center for Ergonomics, a Core Faculty in the Robotics Institute, and the University of Michigan Center for Occupational Health and Safety Engineering (COHSE) Director of Occupational Safety Engineering and Ergonomics. Her research quantifies human performance and human-machine fluency to assess performance augmentation, advance exoskeleton control algorithms, mitigate injury risk, and provide relevant feedback to subject matter experts across domains, including space, clinical, military, and industrial applications. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the U.S. Army.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

• AIAA Associate Fellow (2021)
• 2019-2020 AAAS Leshner Leadership Public Engagement Fellow

AWARDS

• National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2015)