Veronica J. Santos is currently an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Arizona State University, with a graduate faculty appointment in Bioengineering. Dr. Santos received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering with a music minor from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering with a biometry minor from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 2004 and 2007, respectively. From 2007 to 2008, she was a postdoctoral research associate at the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California where she worked on a team to develop a novel biomimetic tactile sensor for prosthetic hands. From 2000 to 2001, she was a Quality Engineer and Research and Development Engineer at Guidant Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, specializing in life-saving cardiovascular technology. Her research interests include hand biomechanics, neural control of movement, robotics, prosthetics, tactile sensors, stochastic modeling, and clinical applications of biomechanical modeling. She is particularly interested in human-machine systems. Dr. Santos has received the Young Investigator Poster Presentation Award from the International Society of Biomechanics (2005), an Exceptional Teaching Assistant Award from the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University (2005), and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2001).