Invited Symposia
Years
2022
Raja SC, You WS, Casebier J, Hentz VR, Balasubramanian R, Valero-Cuevas FJ.A network of passive implantable mechanisms improves hand grip strength after tendon transfer surgery.
2022 World Congress of Biomechanics/Hand and Wrist Biomechanics Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2022.
2020
Valero-Cuevas FJ.The Sensory-Motor Gestalt.
DARPA L2M Biology Working Group, September 1, 2020.
2018
Valero-Cuevas FJ.Neuromorphic systems for robot in-the-loop machine learning.
Human/Robot in-the-loop Machine Learning. IROS 2018 Workshop, Madrid, Spain. October 1, 2018.
Chakravarthi Raja S, You WS, Jalaleddini K, Wenzke L, Lightdale-Miric NR, Hentz VR, Balasubramaniam R, Valero-Cuevas FJ .
Novel passive implanted differential mechanism improves grasp function after tendon transfer surgery.
TETRAHAND 2018 Congress in Nottwil, Switzerland. August 29, 2018.
Valero-Cuevas FJ .
Putting synergies in perspective. Feasibility Theory: An Integrative Approach to Neuromuscular Control“ at Modularity and Compositionality in Motor Control: Issues And Perspectives.
A Workshop to Acknowledge the Career of Emilio Bizzi, Hilton Buffalo Thunder, Santa Fe, NM. May 5, 2018.
2016
Valero-Cuevas FJ.A computational approach to the neuromechanical structure of feasible activations for complex tasks.
Fifth Annual Winter Workshop on Neuromechanics and Dynamics of Locomotion Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 21 – 22, 2016.
2015
Valero-Cuevas FJ.Neuromorphic meets Neuromechanics.
The 2015 International Conference on Brain Informatics and Health Informatics for Human Brain, Behavior and Health. London, United Kingdom, August 30, 2015.
2014
Valero-Cuevas FJ.Neuromechanics: how brain-body coevolution shaped the nervous system.
3rd DEMOVE Symposium on Translational Engineering for Neurorehabilitation, Department of Neurorehabilitation Engineering, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, October 24, 2014.
Valero-Cuevas FJ.
Reversing bio-inspired engineering: Applying engineering principles to understand neuroscience.
2014 Society for Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) National Conference “Creativity, Vision, & Drive: Toward Full Representation in STEM,” Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, October 17, 2014.
Valero-Cuevas FJ.
Finger dexterity: Manipulating objects at the edge of instability.
International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology: Education and Research (BEER). The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA, October 11, 2014.
Valero-Cuevas FJ.
Is subject-specific modeling necessary? Probabilistic approaches can classify populations of models by functional features.
ASB Symposium on Subject- and patient-specific musculoskeletal modeling, 7th World Congress of Biomechanics, Boston, MA, July 9, 2014.
Valero-Cuevas FJ.
If information is everywhere already, Why should people come to class?
Special session on Innovations in Biomechanics Teaching, 7th World Congress of Biomechanics, Boston, MA, July 9, 2014.
2013
Fassola I*, Lawrence EL*, Dayanidhi S, Ko N, Leclercq C, Valero-Cuevas FJ.Is osteoarthritis of the thumb a strictly orthopedic condition?
Proceedings of the 1st International Thumb Osteoarthrits Workshop, Newport, RI, October 25-26, 2013. *denotes equal contribution
2010
Kutch JJ and Valero-Cuevas FJ.Computational Hypothesis Testing for Neuromuscular Systems.
32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 31-September 4 2010.
Kutch JJ, Kurse MU, Hentz VR, Lightdale N, Fassola I, Valero-Cuevas FJ.
Biomechanical and experimental confounds to the detection of neurally-generated muscle synergies.
The Annual Meeting for the American Society of Biomechanics, August 18-21, 2010, Providence, Rhode Island.
2009
Kutch JJ, Kurse MU, Ho?mann H, Hentz VR, Leclercq C, Fassola I, Valero-Cuevas FJ.Simple finger movements require complex coordination of excursions and forces across all muscles.
The Annual Meeting for the American Society of Biomechanics, State College, Pennsylvania. August 26-29, 2009.
Valero-Cuevas FJ.
Manipulating the edge of stability: The thumb-finger spring compression paradigm.
Workshop on Noise, Time Delay and Balance Control, Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery, Banff, Alberta, Canada. November 8-13th, 2009.
Kurse M, Lipson H, and Valero-Cuevas FJ.
A fast simulator to model complex tendon-bone interactions: Application to the tendinous networks controlling the fingers.
Modeling Analyses of Human Movement Session, Thursday, June 18. ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, Lake Tahoe, CA. June 17-21, 2009.
Valero-Cuevas FJ.
The neuromuscular system does ordinary manipulation tasks the ‘hard’ way: Lessons for robotic manipulators?
RSS 2009 Workshop on Understanding the Human Hand for Advancing Robotic Manipulation. Robotic Science and Systems Conference, Seattle, WA. June 28, 2009.
Valero-Cuevas FJ.
The evolutionary quest for limb versatility lies at the core of many motor control riddles.
In Panel Session 5: The distributed control of movement: interactions between neural and musculoskeletal systems in the control of movement. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement, Waikaloa, HI. April 30th, 2009.
Valero-Cuevas FJ.
Reverse-engineering the human brain's ability to control the hand.
National Science Foundation Conference on Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI), Cognitive Optimization and Prediction: From Neural Systems to Neurotechnology (COPN) Program, March 5th, Washington, DC. 2009.
Vollmer B, Holmström L, Forsman, L, Krumlinde-Sundholm L, Valero-Cuevas FJ, Forssberg H, Ullén F.
A new Principle for the Assessment of Dexterity in Children and Adolescents.
Genial, Belgium, February 6th, 2009.
2008
Valero-Cuevas FJ.Why Haven’t We Made Better Artificial Hands?
5th American Physical Society (APS) Workshop on Opportunities in Biological Physics, New Orleans, Louisiana. March 9th, 2008.
Valero-Cuevas FJ.
How tactile information is used to stabilize grasp in humans with and without neurological and biomechanical deficits.
Workshop No. 59: Give Haptics A Hand. 41st Annual Winter Conference on Brain Research. January 26–February 1, 2008. Snowbird, Utah. Page 75.
Valero-Cuevas FJ.
Neuro-anatomical basis for dexterous manipulation in children.
NICHD Taskforce on childhood motor disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Maryland. June 7-9, 2008.
Valero-Cuevas FJ.
Neuromechanical foundations of sensorimotor function.
Mathematical Biosciences Institute Workshop 4 on Neuromechanics of Locomotion, The Ohio State University. Cleveland, Ohio. March 31-April 4, 2008.
Valero-Cuevas FJ.
Use of tactile information to stabilize grasp in humans with and without neurological and biomechanical deficits.
In “Give Haptics a Hand” Symposium. 41st Annual Winter Conference on Brain Research, Jan. 30, 2008.
Valero-Cuevas FJ.
Towards understanding dexterous manipulation in humans.
Mathematical Biosciences Institute Workshop 3 Muscle, Limb, Brain Workshop, The Ohio State University. Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 14-18, 2008.
2005
Backus S, Venkadesan M, Mandl LA, Valero-Cuevas FJ.Development of a clinically useful measure of dynamic pinch.
NICHD Outcomes Measurement Meeting, National Institutes of Health. Rockville, Maryland. December 9, 2005.
Valero-Cuevas FJ, Lipson H, Santos VJ and Anand V.
Shifting to population-based models and inferring model structure from data are two directions that will enhance the clinical usefulness of modeling.
XXth Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics and 29th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, Cleveland, OH, ISB Technical Group: Simulation Symposium, August 1, 2005.
Valero-Cuevas FJ.
Identifying the functional mechanism by which biological hands meet the necessary and sufficient physical requirements for dexterous manipulation.
Workshop on Humanoid Manipulation, in Robotics: Science and Systems Conference 2005. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. June 11, 2005.
2003
Venkadesan M, Valero-Cuevas FJ, Guckenheimer JM.The boundary of instability as a powerful experimental paradigm for understanding complex dynamical sensorimotor behavior: Dexterous manipulation as an example.
In Advances in Computational Motor Control II. Symposium at the 33th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA, 2003.