Contact Information: Office: Olsson 101E Phone: 434-924-0533 Email: gregory-gerling@virginia.edu Personal Homepage Degree: Ph.D., The University of Iowa

Dr. Gerling joined the faculty in 2005. Before leaving to further pursue academia, Dr. Gerling was a software engineer with Motorola and had held short-term positions with Rockwell-Collins and NASA Ames Research Center. He is a member of the IEEE Virtual Reality/Computer Society (Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems) and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

Research Interests:

Greg's major research interests include haptics, human factors/ergonomics, quantitative modeling, and human-machine interaction. He is principally interested in applying solid mechanics, control, and statistical models to understand how the skin microstructure and mechanoreceptors create populations of neural responses that drive our tactile perception ability. His unique, systems approach applies to medical and robotic domains and combines strengths from human factors and biomedical engineering. His research seeks to advance neural prosthetics/robotics, to aid people whose sense of touch is deteriorating, and to improve human-robot interfaces.