Todd Murphey is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the McCormick School of Engineering and of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences in the Feinberg School of Medicine, both at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology. His laboratory is part of the Neuroscience and Robotics Laboratory, and his research interests include robotics, control, computational methods for biomechanical systems, and computational neuroscience. His work has included a collaboration with Disney Imagineering featured at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.