Dr Heba Lakany

Dr Heba Lakany has a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in artificial intelligence and is a senior member of the IEEE.

She joined the University of Liverpool in October 2019 as a Reader in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics.

Previously, she worked as an academic and a researcher at the Universities of Edinburgh, Essex and Strathclyde.

Her research interests focus on human movement and development of technologies for assistance, augmentation and rehabilitation of human movement. For this she collaborates nationally and internationally with clinicians and industry.

Dr Lakany has an extensive publication record in developing artificial intelligent and machine learning methods and technologies in medicine and engineering.

She has successfully attracted funding from EPSRC, MRC, Dunhill Medical Trust, Innovate UK and other funding bodies and is currently working on a project funded by Stoke Mandeville Spinal Research to assess upper limb robotic exoskeleton for rehabilitation of spinal cord injured survivors.