
Cara Nunez
Ph.D. Student in Bioengineering, admitted Autumn 2016
Honors & Awards
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Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation (2018-2023)
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One-Year Graduate Research Grant, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) - German Academic Exchange Service (2019-2020)
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Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, Stanford University (Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning) (2019)
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Research Award Semi-Finalist, Fulbright U.S. Student Program (2019)
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Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study Finalist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2018)
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Predoctoral Fellowship Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation (2018)
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Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Doctoral Fellowship, Stanford University (Vice Provost for Graduate Education) (2016-2018)
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Bioengineering Departmental Award, Stanford University Bioengineering Department (2016-2018)
Education & Certifications
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Master of Science, Stanford University, Mechanical Engineering (2018)
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Bachelor of Science, University of Rhode Island, Biomedical Engineering (2016)
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Bachelor of Arts, University of Rhode Island, Spanish (2016)
Stanford Advisors
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Allison Okamura, Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
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Kwabena Boahen, Doctoral (Program)
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Christina Smolke, Doctoral (Program)
Patents
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Heather Culbertson, Allison M. Okamura, Cara M. Nunez, Sophia R. Williams. "United States Patent pending under application #62/644330 Improved Haptic Devices to Create the Sensation of Continuous Lateral Motion", Mar 16, 2018
All Publications
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Design and Analysis of Pneumatic 2-DoF Soft Haptic Devices for Shear Display
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
2019; 4 (2): 1365–71
View details for DOI 10.1109/LRA.2019.2895890
View details for Web of Science ID 000459538100025
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A Social Haptic Device to Create Continuous Lateral Motion using Sequential Normal Indentation
IEEE. 2018: 32–39
View details for Web of Science ID 000434958700006