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Leia Stirling

Leia Stirling

Professor, Robotics and Industrial Operations and Engineering

Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies, Robotics

Email leias@umich.edu

Research Interests Biomechanics, decision support systems, human factors, human-autonomy/robot interaction, human motion, multimodal displays, work measurement, wearable technology.

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Michigan Robotics at IROS 2023 in Detroit

September 7, 2023

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Robotics faculty and student awarded MLK Spirit Awards

January 17, 2023

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July 28, 2022

Honors and awards

2026
Department Faculty Award — U-M Department of Industrial Operations and Engineering
2024
NASA Human Research Program Student Poster Award — NASA
2023
HFES Occupational Ergonomics Technical Group Best Experimental Paper — HFES
2023
IEEE Senior Member — IEEE
2023
University of Michigan North Campus Deans' Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Award — University of Michigan
2022
Claudia Joan Alexander Trailblazer Award Nominee — U-M Women in Science and Engineering
2021
University of Michigan Industrial and Operations Engineering Wilson Faculty Fellowship — University of Michigan
2021
AIAA Associate Fellow — AIAA
2020
University of Illinois Outstanding Recent Alumnus Award — University of Illinois
2020
IEEE Aerospace Track 8 (Spacecraft, Launch Vehicle Sys. & Technologies) Best Paper — IEEE
2018
ONR Young Investigator Award — ONR
2018
1938E Award — U-M College of Engineering
2017
Prize Paper Award — IFAC Journal on Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems
2016
Early Career Faculty Award — NASA
2016
Director’s Fellowship — DARPA
2016
CAREER Award — NSF
2014
Young Faculty Award — DARPA
2012
Outstanding Reviewer of 2011 — IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
2009
Best Paper Honorable Mention Award — IEEE Computer Society
2008
Best Student Paper Award — IEEE Control Systems Society