Shawn Roberts is a Biomechanical Engineer and Sports Scientist with a background spanning clinical gait analysis, biomechanics and neurophysiology research, and engineering systems design. He earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his MS in Exercise Science from Appalachian State University, where his graduate work focused on biomechanics and neuromuscular control of lower-extremity injury. Before joining the University of Utah, Shawn worked as a Flight Controller at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center supporting real-time International Space Station payload operations. He later worked at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles as a Motion Lab Engineer, where he developed automated pipelines for marker-based and markerless motion capture and contributed to research in pediatric and sports biomechanics. Shawn is currently split between the Orthopaedic Research Laboratory and the Neuromechanics & Applied Locomotion Research Group. Outside of research, Shawn enjoys running, rock climbing, skiing, cycling, woodworking, and exploring the outdoors.
