Mary Kate was born and raised in Saint John, Indiana. She graduated from Lake Central High school in 2009 and is currently pursuing a degree in biomedical engineering. She plans to obtain her Master’s next year and to continue on to a PhD in Neuroscience.

Mary Kate is currently working with Justin Tanner on his texture discrimination project along with developing a model to determine the center of pressure of an object and its location. Her research involves non-human primates trained to grasp an object that is equipped with nanosensors that distinguish the amount of force that is applied when grasped in xyz coordinates.

Link to the related research pages: Neuroprosthetics Research Page.