Shriners Children’s Internal Grant Initiation Meeting
January 2026
MOVE Center Interim Director Dr. Ayse Tekes met with Dr. Joseph Krzak from Shriners Children’s to discuss a potential internal submission focused on pediatric prosthetic legs and/or ankle-foot orthoses, leveraging the center's reconfigurable compliant joint technologies.
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365 Days of Learning and Service Panel – Empowering Athletes with Disabilities
January 2026
MOVE Center Interim Director Dr. Ayse Tekes had the privilege of moderating 365 Days
of Learning and Service Panel, which featured three outstanding speakers.
One of them was Sarah Kate Sligh, a graduate student at UGA, a national wheelchair
tennis player, and an individual living with cerebral palsy. As a wheelchair user
herself, she brings invaluable lived experience that could meaningfully guide our
wheelchair projects.
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January 2026
The MOVE Center met with the CEO and researchers from Hello Robot, together with Drs.
Coskun Tekes, Chris Voicu, Lingfeng Tao, and Sainan Zhang. The discussions focused
on improving the Stretch 3 robot, and based on the feedback, they are planning follow-up
meetings with individual faculty.
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Meeting with Atlanta Regional Veterans Affairs – Regenerative and Musculoskeletal Health Research Center
January 2026
The MOVE Center met with Drs. Ashley Scales (Veterans Affairs), Hicham Drissi (Emory/VA),
Greg Myer (Emory/VA), Jay Patel (Emory/VA), and Jarred Kaiter (Emory/VA), as well
as 10 KSU faculty members and two PhD students.
The meeting was to introduce MOVE Center research topics and seek opportunities to collaborate and submit grants to the VA to improve the lives of veterans.
The Veterans Affairs recently launched a new center, the Regenerative and Musculoskeletal Health Research Center, which is led by Dr. Hicham Drissi.
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Shriners Children’s State of Science: Focus on AI and Orthopedics Conference
January 2026
The MOVE Center attended Shriners Children’s State of Science: Focus on AI and Orthopedics Conference from January 9-10.
Ayse Tekes and Mark Geil delivered a presentation to introduce the MOVE Center to five scientists from Shriners as well as faculty members from Georgia Tech. Two faculty members, Sainan Zhang and Mark Geil, delivered additional presentations. Two PhD students from Ayse Tekes' lab, one PhD student from Chris Voicu's lab, and Assistant Professor of Computer Science Asahi Tomitaka presented posters.
Vanessa Young, a PhD student in Ayse Tekes' lab, was awarded the second place during
the poster sessions for her presentation, Improving Mobility Outcomes Through Personalized
and Reconfigurable Compliant Joints.
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