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Our mission: HFI will establish an interdisciplinary research, education, and translation ecosystem to catalyze the intellectual advancement, human resource development, and translational processes to scale ethically-driven human-technology integration.
Our vision is to be the global leader in human-technology integration to amplify human potential for a thriving, just, and integrated world.

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Research

In collaboration with academic and industry partners, we are exploring the vast potential that the application of HFI technology offers across healthcare, education, gaming, military, and other areas of human experience, expanding the limits of where humans can go and what we can accomplish.

Team

We are building and developing a culturally diverse, transdisciplinary community of researchers, thinkers, students, entrepreneurs, and leaders to ensure our work is driven by innovation, grounded in ethics, and centered around humanity.

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Featured News

Two HFI Faculty receive prestigious NSF CAREER Award — Congratulations to Profs. Block and Osborn! Two of four prestigious NSF…

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Vlad Marcu defends Ph.D. dissertation — Vlad Marcu recently defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “In Vivo and In Silico Optimization…

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Clare Hess completes summer internship at HFI — A rising sophomore studying computer science and cognitive studies at Vanderbilt University,…

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HFI lab members present at IEEE Haptics Symposium, Chua and students win award — The Human Fusions Institute was well-represented…

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SaPHaRI Lab members present research in Edinburgh The Social and Physical Human-Robot Interaction (SaPHaRI) Lab had a strong showing at…

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Meet HFI’s new postdoc, Russell Hardesty When Russell Hardesty was an undergraduate studying biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University,…

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