Corinna E. Lathan
Corinna E. Lathan, Ph.D., is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of AnthroTronix, a research and development company headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
Lathan co-founded AnthroTronix in 1999. Her background includes research, teaching, and consulting in the areas of human performance engineering, medical device design, and assistive technology.
Lathan is also founder of AT KidSystems, a spinoff of AnthroTronix, which distributes alternative computer interfaces and educational software. Her work with children with disabilities and robotics has been featured in Forbes, Time, and the New Yorker magazines and she was named as Maryland's Top Innovator of the Year,[1] MIT Technology Review Magazine's "Top 100 World Innovators,” and one of Fast Company Magazines “Most Creative People in Business.”
Lathan has also been named a Technology Pioneer and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and is currently on their Global Agenda Council for Robotics and Smart devices.
Lathan is actively involved in educational outreach programs that empower women and minorities in science and technology. She is the Founder of Keys to Empowering Youth for junior high school girls, an advisor to the FIRST and VEX robotics program, and a Board Member of the National Black Child Development Institute. Dr. Lathan is also on the Board of Engineering World Health, which supports the emergence of healthcare technology in the developing world, and on the Advisory Board of Amman Imman - Water is Life.
Previously, Lathan was an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at The Catholic University of America (CUA) and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Lathan received her B.A. in Biopsychology and Mathematics from Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania and an S.M. in Aeronautics and Astronautics and Ph.D. in Neuroscience from MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In 2002, she received the TR100 "100 young innovators" award by the MIT Technology Review.[2]
References
- ↑ http://thedailyrecord.com/innovator-of-the-year/2012/01/16/2002-winners/. Maryland Daily Record. "Top Innovators of the Year Award". 2002
- ↑ http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?TRID=272. "Innovator Under 35: Corinna E. Lathan". 34 - MIT Technology Review. 2002
- McCarthy, Ellen, 'AnthroTronix Puts Robotics to Work for Disabled Children and Soldiers in Combat', The Washington Post, 2003.
- Taboh, Julie, 'Robot Helps Children with Disabilities', Voice of America, 2009.