
Assistant Professor
Robotics and Controls, Biosystems
ECE M418
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Email: kingra@uw.edu
Research Web Page: Ingraham Lab Website
Biography
Kim Ingraham (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UW. She is affiliated with UW CREATE (Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences) and is a core faculty member of the AMP Lab. She directs the (yet-to-be-named) Ingraham Lab, which is focused on advacing human mobility using assistive robotic devices, such as exoskeletons, prostheses, and powered wheelchairs.
Dr. Ingraham has an interdisciplinary training background, and has earned degrees in Biomedical Engineering (BE 2012, Vanderbilt University) and Mechanical Engineering (MS, PhD 2021, University of Michigan). She was a CREATE postdoctoral fellow in Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Washington. Prior to beginning graduate school, she worked as a Research Engineer at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago).
In her past professional and doctoral research, Dr. Ingraham has developed and evaluated physiologically-inspired control systems for a variety of assistive devices, including powered lower-limb prostheses, robotic exoskeletons, and powered wheelchairs for young children with disabilities.
Recent Publications
A Pfister, S Samejima, CT Moritz, and KA Ingraham (2025). Biomechanical Effects of Varying Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation Amplitude during Walking in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury: A Case Series. In IEEE/RAS-EMBS 19th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR).
KA Ingraham, NL Zaino, C Feddema, ME Hoffman, L Gijbels, A Sinclair, AN Meltzoff, PK Kuhl, HA Feldner, and KM Steele. (2025). Quantifying joystick interactions and movement patterns of toddlers with disabilities using powered mobility with an instrumented Explorer Mini. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 33, 431-440.
KA Ingraham*, M Tucker*, AD Ames, EJ Rouse, and MK Shepherd. (2023). Leveraging user preference in the design and evaluation of lower-limb exoskeletons and prostheses. Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering, 28, 100487.
KA Ingraham, CD Remy, and EJ Rouse. (2022). The role of user preference in the customized control of robotic exoskeletons. Science Robotics, 7, eabj3487.