Alaa Ahmed

University of Colorado Boulder

Movement slowing and rational decision making in healthy aging

• Dr. Alaa Ahmed received a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the American University in Cairo in 1999 and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 2005. She spent one year as an NIH post-doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan Medical School. From 2006-2008, she was a Whitaker International Fellow and post-doctoral researcher in sensorimotor control at the University of Cambridge. In 2008, she joined the University of Colorado Boulder where she is currently a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and programs in Biomedical Engineering and Robotics. Her research program uses a neuroeconomic approach that combines techniques from neuroscience, economics, psychology and engineering to investigate the costs and constraints underlying human sensorimotor decision-making, learning, and control. Dr. Ahmed is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and a DARPA Young Faculty Award.