James Patton
Professor of Bioengineering
Biography
James Patton (Photo: Jenny Fontaine/University of Illinois Chicago)
James Patton is a professor of bioengineering at UIC and a senior research scientist at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.
His research interests involve robotic teaching, dynamic balance control, haptics, modeling of the human-machine interface and robot-facilitated recovery from a brain injury.
Areas of Expertise
- Computing
- Engineering
- Automatic feedback control theory
- Dynamics and simulation and related modeling techniques
- Human-machine interfaces
- Mechatronics and haptic development
- Neurorehabilitation through novel interface
- Optimization
- Robotic teaching
- Sensorimotor intelligence
- Bioengineering
- Biotechnology
- Rehabilitation science