Rachael Burns (née Bevill) joined the Haptic Intelligence Department in 2017 as a Whitaker International Fellow. Now as a Ph.D student, she continues to develop her current project, a Haptic Empathetic Robot Animal. She has research experience in human-robot interaction, neurodevelopmental disorders, and tissue engineering.
Rachael received her BSc and MSc degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the George Washington University in 2015 and 2017, respectively. Coming from a unique engineering education in the USA's capital city, her research is further shaped by an interest in medical device accessibility and regulatory law.
Rachael conducted her graduate research with Dr. Chung Hyuk Park in the Assistive Robotics and Telemedicine (ART-Med) Lab at GW. As an undergraduate, she studied 3D-bioprinting with Dr. Lijie Grace Zhang in the GW Bioengineering Laboratory for Nanomedicine and Tissue Engineering.
Rachael Bevill Burns presenting her work from @MPI_IS at the Whitaker Enrichment Seminar! pic.twitter.com/RiHGof6Iq7
— Kristen Kozielski (@KristenLKoz) April 12, 2018
"RO-MAN 2016: Robots as furniture builders and caretakers" (link). August, 2016. (in German)
The Pelton Competition for Outstanding Senior Project: Rachael's team received 3rd place out of the senior student body for their work. An article from the 2016 Edition of GW Synergy (link) describes the competition in greater detail (article can be found on magazine page 17).
A program produced in March 2017 by the Arirang TV documentary series, Arirang Special. This episode highlights the work being done by researchers across the globe to improve quality of life using robotics and assistive technology. Rachael and her colleagues at the ART-Med lab are featured beginning 6:52 minutes in.
A fifteen minute business-pitch from Rachael and her teammates explaining their undergraduate capstone project. The group's presentation begins at 13:15. Rachael's team received 3rd place out of the entire engineering senior class for their work on an improved communication device for special needs users.
Congressman Frank Guinta of New Hampshire commends Rachael for her leadership and biomedical engineering focus during a U.S. House general session. As the 2015 New Hampshire Cherry Blossom Princess, Rachael served as a goodwill ambassador in Washington DC, meeting with international ambassadors and elected officials. Studying engineering in DC inspired Rachael to pursue research with both disability advocacy and regulatory law in mind.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex condition that impacts many systems in the body, from neurological aspects to physical comorbidities. Children with autism often endu...
Burns, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J.
Workshop paper (4 pages) presented at the RSS Workshop on Robot-Mediated Autism Intervention: Hardware, Software and Curriculum, Pittsburgh, USA, June 2018 (misc)
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Burns, R., Jeon, M., Park, C. H.
Applied Sciences, 8(2):241, Febuary 2018, Special Issue "Social Robotics" (article)
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Javed, H., Burns, R., Jeon, M., Howard, A., Park, C. H.
In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2017, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, September 2017 (inproceedings)
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Burns, R., Javed, H., Jeon, M., Howard, A., Park, C. H.
In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2017, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, September 2017 (inproceedings)
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(Recipient of Innovation & Entrepreneurship Prize)
Burns, R., Alborz, M., Chalup, Z., Downen, S., Genuino, K., Nayback, C., Nesbitt, N., Park, C. H.
In 2017 GW Research Days, Department of Biomedical Engineering Posters and Presentations, April 2017 (inproceedings)
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(First place tie in category, "Biomedical Engineering, Graduate Research")
Burns, R., Cowin, S.
In 2017 GW Research Days, Department of Biomedical Engineering Posters and Presentations, April 2017 (inproceedings)
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Burns, R., Nizambad, S., Park, C. H., Jeon, M., Howard, A.
Workshop paper (5 pages) at the RO-MAN Workshop on Behavior Adaptation, Interaction and Learning for Assistive Robotics, August 2016 (misc)
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Burns, R., Nizambad, S., Park, C. H., Jeon, M., Howard, A.
Proceedings of the ASEE Spring 2016 Middle Atlantic Section Conference, April 2016 (conference)
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Burns, R., Azzi, P., Spadafora, M., Park, C. H., Jeon, M., Kim, H. J., Lee, J., Raihan, K., Howard, A.
Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI), pages: 571-571, March 2016 (conference)
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Burns, R., Park, C. H., Kim, H. J., Lee, J., Rennie, A., Jeon, M., Howard, A.
In Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI), pages: 421-422, March 2016 (inproceedings)
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