Biruk Gebre

Current Research Interests: Mobile ground robots, Additive Manufacturing, Novel transportation methods, Clean energy production, and Wearable rehabilitation robots.

2016 Stevens Employee Recognition Award for Technology at our Core
2013 National Academy of Inventors Inductee
Session Best paper Award, CCCT 2007
Stevens Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Award 2006
2005 Technogenesis® Summer Scholar
Stevens Presidential Scholarship (2002 – 2006)

Gebre, B.A. and Pochiraju, K., Stevens Institute of Technology, 2024. Magnetically coupled ball drive for actuation of spherical surfaces. U.S. Patent 12,051,958

Pochiraju, K.V., Men, H. and Gebre, B.A., Stevens Institute of Technology, 2016. Adaptive mechanism control and scanner positioning for improved three-dimensional laser scanning. U.S. Patent 9,322,646.

Pochiraju, K., Gebre, B. and Men, H., Stevens Institute of Technology, 2013. Method and apparatus for adaptive transmission of sensor data with latency controls. U.S. Patent 8,462,681.

Zhao, Q., Deepak, R., Gebre, B. A., Nolan, K. J., Pochiraju, K., & Zanotto, D. (2024, September). Gaussian Process Regression Models for On-Line Ankle Moment Estimation in Exoskeleton-Assisted Walking. In 2024 10th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob) (pp. 1171-1176). IEEE

Eraky, M. T., Li, A., Rocha, M. H., Teker, A., Gebre, B. A., Nolan, K. J., ... & Zanotto, D. (2024, September). A Novel Personalized Ankle Exoskeleton with Co-Located SEA for Gait Training. In 2024 10th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob) (pp. 1715-1720). IEEE.

Gebre, B. A., Nogueira, R., Patidar, S., Belle-Isle, R., Nolan, K., Pochiraju, K., & Zanotto, D. (2021, November). Efficient digital modeling and fabrication workflow for individualized ankle exoskeletons. In ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (Vol. 85598, p. V005T05A068). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Gebre, B. A., & Pochiraju, K. V., Machine Learning Aided Design and Analysis of a Novel Magnetically Coupled Ball Drive. In IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 1942-1953, Oct. 2019. doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2019.2929956

Gebre, B. A., & Pochiraju, K. (2018) Modeling and Machine Learning Aided Analysis of a Claw-less Magnetically Coupled Ball Drive Design. In ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2018

Gebre, B. A., & Pochiraju, K. (2017). Ball Drive Configurations and Kinematics for Holonomic Ground Mobility. In ASME 2017 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (pp. V014T07A018-V014T07A018). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Gebre, B.A.; Ryter, Z.; Humphreys, S.R.; Ginsberg, S.M.; Farrell, S.P.; Kauffman, A.; Capon, W.; Robbins, W.; Pochiraju, K. (2014). A Multi-ball Drive for Omnidirectional Mobility, Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), IEEE International Conference on , (pp.1-6)

Hao Men, Gebre, B, Pochiraju, K, (2011) Color Point Cloud Registration with 4D ICP Algorithm, Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011 IEEE International Conference on, (pp.1511-1516)

Gebre, B. A., Men, H., & Pochiraju, K. (2009). Remotely Operated and Autonomous Mapping System (ROAMS). Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, IEEE International Conference on, (pp. 173-178)

Guo, L.,Gebre, B.A., & Pochiraju, K. (2009) Parameter Estimation of Acoustic Signals Using Linear Microphone Arrays, Sarnoff Symposium, 2009. SARNOFF '09. IEEE , (pp.1-6)

Gebre, B. A., Guo, L., Patel, N., & Pochiraju, K. (2008). Real-Time Virtual Instruments for Remote Sensor Monitoring Using Low Bandwidth Wireless Networks. Journal of Systemics, Cybernetic and Informatics , 6(3), 7-17

ME-565 - Introduction to Additive Manufacturing
ME-470/5 - Mechanical Engineering Systems Lab
ME-424 - Engineering Design VIII
ME-423 - Engineering Design VII
ME-322 - Engineering Design VI
E-120 - Engineering Graphics