Diego Paez-Granados

Diego is the Head of the Spinal Cord Injury Artificial Intelligence (SCAI) Lab at ETH Zürich and the Swiss Paraplegic Research (SPF) in Nottwil. The lab, established in 2022, focuses on prognosis, sensing and modelling for personalized health care of patients with a spinal cord injury.

Diego received the Japanese MEXT scholarship from 2012 to 2017 to follow his Master's and PhD studies in Bioengineering and Robotics at Tohoku University, Japan. His research focused on physical and cognitive human modelling, control for human-robot interaction, soft-robot design, and control with human-in-the-loop.

He conducted Postdoctoral studies in assistive robotics from 2017 to 2018 at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Then he worked in human sensing and modelling for robot control and safety at the Learning Algorithms and System Lab (LASA) at EPFL, Switzerland from 2019 to 2021.

He is a grantee of the Toyota Mobility Unlimited Challenge (2018 and 2019), and co-founder of the start-up Qolo Inc. Japan, a company innovating personal mobility solutions and rehabilitation equipment for lower-body impairments.
Diego is highly passionate about modelling the human body and achieving a patient digital twin to improve prognosis and build novel technologies to assist healthcare workers and caregivers.

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Research interests:

• Assistive Technology and Mobility Devices
• Human Modeling
• Continuous Sensing and System Integration
• Human-Robot Interaction and Design
• Applied ML in Assistive Robotics
  

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