Hey there 👋
I'm Irfan Refai
Assistant Professor | Dad
or just Irfan 🙂

In the not-so-distant future, we will merge ourselves with machines 🦾 that enhance our abilities.

As Homohybrids, we will overcome existing motor deficits or even perform superhuman tasks. This vision inspires me to
bridge the man-machine gap by developing wearable and accessible assistive technologies.
As a start, I focus on solutions for assisting occupational tasks and hope to extend these ideas for space exploration.

By day, I am an Assistant Professor at the Neuromuscular Robotics Chair at the University of Twente. Outside of work, my partner and I are navigating the joys (and challenges) of parenting. Watching our son figure out his environment is pretty much akin to a novice AI that improves with new data.

And when I can, I play Basketball 🏀.

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General Interests
  • Human-machine Interfacing
  • Wearable Exosuits
  • Wearable Sensing
  • Biomechanics
  • Musculoskeletal Modelling
  • Machine-Learning