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Recent News
Recent News
Ahmad Raza Usmani (center) with HFES Student Affairs Committee Chair Dr. Tony McDonald (right) and me at 2025 HFES Annual Meeting
One of my Ph.D. students, Ahmad Raza Usmani, has received the Student Member with Honors Award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) at their 2025 Annual Meeting in Chicago. This designation honors students who have made outstanding contributions to the discipline.
Please visit the HFES student award page to find Ahmad's name among the Most Recent Award Recipients.
Congratulations, Ahmad! (October 2025)
A new article Evaluating back-support exoskeletons in simulated construction-relevant tasks: Effects on task completion time and aspects of usability was published in Applied Ergonomics (October 2025).
(from left) Mohammad Sadra Rajabi, Feyisayo Akinwande, and Ahmad Raza Usmani
Three of my Ph.D. students earned top honors in the graduate poster competition at the 2025 American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) Region VI Conference:
1st place winner: Ahmad Raza Usmani
"Effects of Lift Assists on Physical Demands and User Perceptions in Automotive Assembly Tasks"
2nd place winner: Mohammad Sadra Rajabi
"Classifying Manual Material Handling Tasks Using Vision Language Models"
Consolation prize: Feyisayo Akinwande
"Effects of Two Passive Back-Support Exoskeletons on Physical Demands and User Perceptions in Simulated Manual Mining Tasks"
Congrats to Ahmad, Sadra, and Feyi on this achievement! (September 2025)
A new article Optimizing passive exoskeleton torque for dynamic overhead work: Phase-specific analysis on muscle activity and perceived exertion was published in Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology (September 2025).
A new article User Experiences and Adoption Factors for a Back-Support Exosuit in Automotive Logistics: Results from Field Testing up to 18 Months was published in IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors (August 2025).
I have been appointed to the John Grado Professorship, which was approved by the VT Board of Visitors in March 2025.
(announced in Virginia Tech News on June 10, 2025)
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