Awards
- Best IROS Jubilee Video Award at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robots and Systems, 2012
- King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2011
- Best Paper Award at the Asean Oceanian Congress of Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine, 2010
- Apple Research and Technology Support Award, 2009
- Best Presentation Award at the International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 2009
- First prize in the GSEPS Research Symposium Poster Competition, 2007
- Best Paper Award, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robots and Systems, 2006
- Canada Research Chair, Canada, 2004
- Far East Economic Review Award, Far East Economic Review, 2004
- ATR Prize, ATR International, 2003
- Assoc Professorship offer from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (invited), , 2002
- Research Prize, Japanese Neural Networks Society, 2001
- Advanced Researcher Award, Swiss National Science Foundations, 1998
- Recipient of the JISTEC research grant, JISTEC, Japan, 1998
- STA-fellowship, STA, Japan, 1998
- Fellowship from Fujitsu Ltd, Japan, 1996
- Prospective Researcher Award, Swiss National Science Foundations, 1996
- Best Bachelor of the section, Gymnase du Bugnon, Lausanne, 1984
External Positions
- Visiting Professor, ISIR, Université Pierre et Marie CURIE
Membership of Professional Bodies
- APS, American Physiological Society
- NCM, Society for the Neural Control of Movement
- ICORR, International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics
- IEEE, Society for Neuroscience
Links with Other Academic Bodies
- Technische Universität Delft
- Technische Universität Darmstadt
- University of Twente
- ETH, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
- UCL, University College London
- FBK, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
- TUM, Technische Universität München
- EPFL, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Fondazione Santa Lucia
- Fraunhofer EMFT