Jeremy Brown

Jeremy D. Brown, the John C. Malone Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, explores the interface between humans and robotics, with a specific focus on medical applications and haptic feedback.

Brown’s research sits at the intersection of engineering, biomechatronics, medicine, perception, and psychophysics, and focuses on the interface between humans and robotics. He develops novel haptic interfaces for upper-limb prostheses, minimally invasive surgical robotics, and rehabilitation robots.

Brown’s team in his Haptics and Medical Robotics (HAMR) lab uses methods from human perception, motor control, neurophysiology, and biomechanics to study the human perception of touch, especially as it relates to applications of human-robot interaction and collaboration. Elements of HAMR’s research could lead to breakthroughs in additional fields, including rehabilitation robotics.

Brown has received several awards, including the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Haptics Early CAREER Award, the NSF CRII Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Penn Postdoctoral Fellowship for Academic Diversity, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. He was also named a scholar to the NIH funded Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Career Development Program (IREK-12).

He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). Brown’s work has appeared in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, and IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. His work has also been featured in several news outlets, including Forbes, the New York Times, WMAR (local ABC news channel), the Orthotics and Prosthetics Edge magazine, and Science News.

Brown is a graduate of the Atlanta University Center’s Dual Degree Engineering Program, earning bachelor’s degrees in applied physics and mechanical engineering from Morehouse College and the University of Michigan, respectively. He received his MSE and PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, where he worked on haptic feedback for upper-extremity prosthetic devices. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins in 2017, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.