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SENSEHand: Adaptive Prosthetic Hand with a Natural Control Interface
An underactuated, variable-stiffness prosthetic hand with sEMG-based control that adapts its grasp the way a human hand does.
Ahlam Sawah is a Biomedical Engineering MSc student and researcher whose work centres on prosthetic robotics and human–machine interfaces, with a focus on variable-stiffness mechanisms and compliant joint design for underactuated prosthetic hands.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, where she graduated with Honors and ranked third in her class. Her undergraduate work included an EOG-controlled artificial eye that translates natural eye movements into real-time actuation, combining biomedical signal processing with embedded systems. She works across MATLAB, LabVIEW, SolidWorks, ANSYS, Rhino 8 with Grasshopper, and SOFA.
Education
- M.Sc., Biomedical Engineering, Istanbul Medipol University, 2025–present
- B.Sc., Biomedical Engineering, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, 2021–2025. Graduated with Honors, ranked third in class
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