• BS, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, 1979
• Sc.M., Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 1982
• Ph D, Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, 1990

Journal Articles

Meghan E Kazanaski, Joseph P Cusumano and Jonathan Dingwell, 2022, "Rethinking Margin of Stability: Incorporating Step-To-Step Regulation to Resolve the Paradox", Journal of Biomechanics, 144, pp. 8

Kirsty A McDonald, Joseph P Cusumano, Andrew Hieronymi and Jonas Rubenson, 2022, "Humans trade off whole-body energy cost to avoid overburdening muscles while walking", Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289:20221189, pp. 11

Navendu S Patil, Jonathan Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2022, "Viability, task switching, and fall avoidance of the simplest dynamic walker", Scientific Reports, 12, (8993), pp. 15

Bhattacharyya and Joseph P Cusumano, 2022, "Experimental implementation of energy closure analysis for reduced order modeling", Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, 144, (5), pp. 11

David M Desmet, Joseph P Cusumano and Jonathan Dingwell, 2022, "Humans adapt multi-objective control of stepping to perform lateral maneuvers while walking", PLOS Computational Biology, 12, (8993), pp. 15

Anna C Render, Meghan E Kazanski, Joseph P Cusumano and Jonathan B Dingwell, 2021, "Walking humans trade off different task goals to regulate lateral stepping", Journal of Biomechanics, 119, pp. 8

Bhattacharyya and Joseph P Cusumano, 2021, "An energy closure criterion for model reduction of a kicked Euler–Bernoulli beam", Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, 143, (4), pp. 11

Jonathan B Dingwell, Joseph P Cusumano, Jonathan H Rylander and Jason M Wilken, 2021, "How persons with transtibial amputation regulate lateral stepping while walking in laterally destabilizing environments", Gait & Posture, 83, pp. 88-95

Navendu S Patil and Joseph P Cusumano, 2020, "The high forecasting complexity of stochastically perturbed periodic orbits limits the ability to distinguish them from chaos", Nonlinear Dynamics, 102, (2), pp. 697-712

Navendu S Patil, Jonathan B Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2020, "Task-level regulation enhances global stability of the simplest dynamic walker", Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 17, (168), pp. 12

Meghan E Kazanaski, Joseph P Cusumano and Jonathan Dingwell, 2020, "How healthy older adults regulate lateral foot placement while walking in laterally destabilizing environments", Journal of Biomechanics, 104, pp. 15

Navendu S Patil, Jonathan Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2019, "Correlations of pelvis state to foot placement do not imply within-step active control", Journal of Biomechanics, 97, pp. 109375

Kirsty A McDonald, Joseph P Cusumano, Peter Peeling and Jonas Rubenson, 2019, "Multi-objective control in human walking: insight gained through simultaneous degradation of energetic and motor regulation systems", Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 16, (158), pp. 20190227

Jonathan Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2019, "Humans use multi-objective control to regulate lateral foot placement when walking", PLOS Computational Biology, 15, (3), pp. e1006850

Navendu Patil and Joseph P Cusumano, 2018, "Empirical Generating Partitions of Driven Oscillators Using Optimized Symbolic Shadowing", Physical Review E, 98, (3), pp. 19

Jonathan Dingwell, Nicole K Bohnsack-McLagan and Joseph P Cusumano, 2018, "Humans Control Stride-to-Stride Stepping Movements Differently for Walking and Running, Independent of Speed", Journal of Biomechanics, 76, pp. 144-151

Jonathan B Dingwell, Mandy M Salinas and Joseph P Cusumano, 2017, "Increased Gait Variability May Not Imply Impaired Stride-To-Stride Control of Walking in Healthy Older Adults", Gait and Posture, 55, pp. 131-137

Joby John, Jonathan B Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2016, "Error Correction and the Structure of Inter-Trial Fluctuations in a Redundant Movement Task", PLOS Computational Biology, 12, (9), pp. e1005118

Nicole K Bohnsack-McLagan, Joseph P Cusumano and Jonathan B Dingwell, 2016, "Adaptability of stride-to-stride control of stepping movements in human walking", Journal of Biomechanics, 49, (2), pp. 229-237

J. B. Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2015, "Identifying Stride-To-Stride Control Strategies in Human Treadmill Walking", PLOS ONE, 10, (4), pp. 27

Nicholas W Sterling, Joseph P Cusumano, Noam Shaham, Stephen J Piazza, Guodong Liu, Lan Kong, Guangwei Du, Mechelle M Lewis and Xuemei Huang, 2015, "Dopaminergic Modulation of Arm Swing During Gait Among Parkinson's Disease Patients", Journal of Parkinson's Disease, 5, (1), pp. 141-150

Joseph P Cusumano, A. Roy and Q. Li, 2015, "Damage Dynamics, Rate Laws, and Failure Statistics via Hamilton's Principle", Meccanica, 50, pp. 77-98

Joseph P Cusumano, Joseph M. Mahoney and Jonathan B Dingwell, 2014, "The Dynamical Analysis of Inter-Trial Fluctuations Near Goal Equivalent Manifolds", Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 826, pp. 22

Joseph P Cusumano and Jonathan B. Dingwell, 2013, "Movement Variability Near Goal Equivalent Manifolds: Fluctuations, Control, and Model-Based Analysis", Human Movement Science, 32, (5), pp. 899-923

J. B. Dingwell, R. F. Smallwood and Joseph P Cusumano, 2013, "Trial-to-trial dynamics and learning in a generalized, redundant reaching task", 109, (1), pp. 225-237

Xuemei Huang, Joseph M. Mahoney, Mechelle M. Lewis, Guangwei Du, Stephen J. Piazza and Joseph P Cusumano, 2012, "Both coordination and symmetry of arm swing are reduced in Parkinson's disease", Gait & Posture, 35, (3), pp. 373-377

J. B. Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2010, "Re-Interpreting Detrended Fluctuation Analyses of Stride-To-Stride Variability in Human Walking", Gait & Posture, 32, (3), pp. 348-353

J. B. Dingwell, J. John and Joseph P Cusumano, 2010, "Do Humans Optimally Exploit Redundancy to Control Step Variability in Walking?", PLoS Comput Biol, 6, (7), pp. e1000856

K. Jordan, J. H. Challis, Joseph P Cusumano and K. M. Newell, 2009, "Local Dynamic Stability and the Time-Dependent Structure of Gait Variability in Walking and Running", Human Movement Science, 28, (1), pp. 113-128

L. J. Passmore, O. O. Awaldekarim and Joseph P Cusumano, 2009, "High-Sensitivity Tracking of MOSFET Damage Using Dynamic-Mode Transient Measurements", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 59, (6), pp. 1734-1742

Aaron Raftery, Joseph P Cusumano and Dagmar Sternad, 2008, "Chaotic Frequency Scaling in a Coupled Oscillator Model for Free Rhythmic Actions", Neural Computation, 20, pp. 205-226

Joseph P Cusumano and P. Cesari, 2006, "Body-Goal Variability Mapping in an Aiming Task", Biological Cybernetics, 94, (5), pp. 367-379

D. Chelidze and Joseph P Cusumano, 2006, "Phase Space Warping: Nonlinear Time Series Analysis for Slowly Drifting Systems", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London, Series A, special issue on Control of Chaos: Its Suppression, Enhancement, and Exploitation in Mechanical Systems, 364, pp. 2495-2513

Conference Proceedings

Changik Cho, Christopher Rahn, Edward Smith and Joseph P Cusumano, 2023, "Thrust Control and Vibration Damping Using a Wingtip Electric Proprotor", AIAA, (AIAA 2023-1891), pp. 8

Anne Martin, Dell Snook and Joseph P Cusumano, 2019, "Determining the control goal for treadmill walking when belt speed varies", pp. 1

Souyabrata Maiti, Jonathan Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2019, "Speed regulation of a 3D compass walker driven by a noisy toe-off impulse", pp. 1

Navendu S Patil, Jonathan Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2019, "In-step correlation of pelvis state to foot placement does not imply active control", pp. 1

Navendu S Patil, Jonathan Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2019, "Speed regulation increases the robustness of a simple treadmill walker more than position control", pp. 1

Meghan E Kazanaski, Joseph P Cusumano and Jonathan Dingwell, 2019, "Step-to-step regulation of lateral stepping by older adults in destabilizing environments", pp. 1

Kirsty A McDonald, Andrew Hieronymi, Joseph P Cusumano and Jonas Rubenson, 2019, "Optimization in human walking: decoupling whole-body energetics and local muscle effort", pp. 1

Jonathan Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2019, "Regulation of lateral stepping movements in walking is redundant, multi-objective, and adaptable", pp. 1

Jonathan Dingwell, Jonathan H Rylander, Joseph P Cusumano and Jason M Wilken, 2019, "Regulation of lateral stepping in destabilizing environments by persons with transtibial amputation", pp. 1

Navendu S Patil, Jonathan Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2019, "Within-step correlation of pelvis state to foot placement does not imply active control", pp. 1

Navendu S Patil, Jonathan Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2019, "Step-to-step speed regulation enhances the robustness of a compass walker on treadmill more than position regulation", pp. 1

Soumyabrata Maiti, Jonathan Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2019, "Hierarchical control for stabilization and speed regulation of a powered 3D compass walker with actuation noise", pp. 1

Jisung Yuk, Robert L Sainburg, Joseph P Cusumano and Jonathan Dingwell, 2019, "Exploiting redundancy in a 2D shuffleboard task", pp. 2

Navendu S Patil, Jonathan Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2019, "Pelvis-state-to-foot-placement correlation does not imply active control", pp. 2

Navendu S Patil, Jonathan Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2019, "Speed regulation increases the robustness of a simple treadmill walker more than position control", pp. 2

Anna C Render, Meghan E Kazanski, Joseph P Cusumano and Jonathan Dingwell, 2019, "Manipulating lateral stepping regulation in human walking", pp. 2

Michael A Bianco, Joseph P Cusumano and Joseph Mahoney, 2018, "Virtual Air Hockey Table as Motor Control Analysis Research Platform", pp. 2

Navendu S Patil, Jonathan Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2018, "Effect of Speed Control on Global Stability of a Powered Compass Walker", pp. 2

Navendu S Patil, Jonathan Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2018, "Effect of Speed Control on Global Stability of a Powered Compass Walker", pp. 2

Soumyabrata Maiti, Jonathan Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2018, "A Powered 3D Compass Walker: Energetics and Stability of Period-1 Gaits", pp. 2

Soumyabrata Maiti, Jonathan Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2018, "A Powered 3D Compass Walker: Energetics and Stability of Period-1 Gaits", pp. 2

Meghan E Kazanski, Joseph P Cusumano and Jonathan Dingwell, 2018, "Lateral Stepping Control in Older Adults During Mediolateral Perturbations", pp. 2

Meghan E Kazanski, Joseph P Cusumano and Jonathan Dingwell, 2018, "Lateral Stepping Control in Older Adults During Mediolateral Perturbations", pp. 2

Joseph P Cusumano and Jonathan Dingwell, 2018, "Motor Noise Regulation in a Simple Shuffleboard Machine", pp. 2

Joseph P Cusumano and Jonathan Dingwell, 2018, "Motor Noise Regulation in a Simple Shuffleboard Machine", pp. 2

Davis Evans, Corina S Drapaca and Joseph P Cusumano, 2017, "A Piecewise-Linear Model of Intracranial Pressure Dynamics", Elsevier, 199, pp. 595-600

Davis Evans, Corina S Drapaca and Joseph P Cusumano, 2017, "A Mechano-Hydraulic Model of Intracranial Pressure Dynamics", Society of Experimental Mechanics, pp. 111-118

Jonathan B Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2017, "Multi-Objective Control of Lateral Stepping While Walking", pp. 2

Jonathan B Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2017, "Step-to-Step Regulation of Walking Movements Is Redundant, Multi-Objective, and Adaptable", pp. 2

D Evans, C Drapaca and J P Cusumano, 2016, "A Mechano-Hydraulic Model of Intracranial Pressure Dynamics", pp. 7

D Evans, C Drapaca and J P Cusumano, 2016, "A Mechano-Hydraulic Model of Intracranial Pressure Dynamics", pp. 9

Jonathan B Dingwell, Joseph P Cusumano, Jonathan H Rylander and Jason M Wilken, 2016, "Frontal Plane Stepping Control And Lateral Balance In Human Walking", pp. 2

Jonathan H Rylander, Joseph P Cusumano, Jason M Wilkens and Jonathan B Dingwell, 2015, "Frontal Plane Stepping Control in Persons with Transtibial Amputation", pp. 2

Jonathan B Dingwell, Mandy M Salinas and Joseph P Cusumano, 2015, "Stride-to-Stride Control of Treadmill Walking in Healthy Elderly", pp. 2

Navendu Patil and Joseph P Cusumano, 2013, "Information-theoretic characterization of bifurcations in nonlinear dynamical systems with noise", ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences

Arjun Roy and Joseph P Cusumano, 2013, "A numerical averaging algorithm for rapid simulation of multiscale damage dynamics", ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences

Joseph P Cusumano and Q. Li, 2010, "Couple Field Damage Dynamics via Hamilton's Principle", Proceedings of the ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, pp. DETC2010-29078

Joseph P Cusumano, 2008, "Nonlinear Modal Interactions and Low Order Modeling of a Kicked Flexible Rod", Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 7, (1)

Joby John and Joseph P Cusumano, 2007, "Inter-Trial Dynamics of Repeated Skilled Movements", Proceedings of the ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2007

Abstracts

Jisung Yuk, Robert L Sainburg, Joseph P Cusumano and Jonathan Dingwell, 2019, "Lateralization in motor learning of a de novo shuffleboard task", pp. 1

Jonathan Dingwell, Joseph P Cusumano, Meghan E Kazanski and Anna C Render, 2019, "Walking humans regulate lateral stepping in a redundant, multi-objective, and adaptable way", pp. 1

Jonathan Dingwell, Joseph P Cusumano and Navendu S Patil, 2019, "Center-of-mass predictions of foot placement may reflect passive dynamics and not ‘control’", pp. 1

Meghan E Kazanaski, Joseph P Cusumano and Jonathan Dingwell, 2019, "How healthy older adults regulate lateral stepping in destabilizing environments", pp. 1

Jonathan Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2019, "Humans use multi-objective control to regulate lateral foot placement when walking", pp. 1

Navendu S Patil and Joseph P Cusumano, 2019, "The high forecasting complexity of noisy periodic orbits limits the ability to distinguish them from chaos"

Jonathan Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, , "Multi-Objective Control of Lateral Foot Placement While Walking", pp. 1

Joseph P Cusumano, Connor J. Smith and Jonathan Dingwell, , "Modeling a Shuffleboard Machine That Regulates Motor Noise Like a Human", pp. 1

Manuscripts

S G Abaimov and J P Cusumano, 2014, "Nucleation phenomena in an annealed damage model: Statistics of times to failure", 90, (6), pp. 062401

Other

Joseph M. Mahoney, Jonathan B. Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2014, "Error Correction Alone Does Not Capture Behavior in a Virtual Shuffleboard Experiment", pp. 2

Joseph P Cusumano, Joseph M. and Jonathan B. Dingwell, 2014, "Simple Optimal Control Models Explain Observed Human Motor Variability", pp. 2

Navendu S. Patil and Joseph P Cusumano, 2014, "Information-Theoretic Complexity of the Noisy Duffing Oscillator", pp. 2

Joseph P Cusumano, 2014, "(Mis)adventures in Artful Chaos", pp. 2

Nicole K. Bohnsack, Joseph P Cusumano and Jonathan B. Dingwell, 2013, "Determining how humans regulate variability during Walking"

Joseph P Cusumano and Jonathan B. Dingwell, 2013, "On the Role of Perception in Regulating Stride-to-Stride Walking Dynamics"

Jonathan B. Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2013, "Preserved Stride-to-Stride Control in Healthy Elderly Despite Increased Locomotor Variability"

Jonathan B. Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2013, "Increased Gait Variability May Not Imply Impaired Stride-to-Strice Control in Healthy Elderly"

Jonathan B. Dingwell, Rachel F. Smallwood and Joseph P Cusumano, 2012, "Goal-Equivalent Trial-to-Trial Control of a Generalized, Redundant Reaching Task"

Hung P. Nguyen, Rachel F. Smallwood, Joseph P Cusumano and Jonathan B. Dingwell, 2012, "Learning goal-equivalent trial-to-trial control strategies for performing redundant reaching tasks"

Jonathan B. Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2012, "Increased variability does not imply impaired control: Stride-to-stride fluctuation dynamics of walking in healthy young and elderly subjects"

Arjun Roy and Joseph P Cusumano, 2012, "Numerical simulations of a multi-scale damage model using the method of averaging"

Arjun Roy and Joseph P Cusumano, 2012, "Coupling Between Failure-Time Variability and Macro-Strain Distributions in a Multiscale Damage Model"

J. Dingwell, N. Bohnsack and Joseph P Cusumano, 2012, "Simple Predictive Models Reveal Step-To-Step Control of Walking"

H. Nguyen, Joseph P Cusumano and J. Dingwell, 2012, "Modeling Intra-Trial Variability of a Redundant Planar Reaching Task"

Joseph P Cusumano, Joby John and Jonathan B. Dingwell, 2010, "People Walking on Treadmills Control Speed, Not Position"

Jonathan B. Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2010, "DFA Exponents May Not Mean What You Think They Do"

Jonathan B. Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2010, "Stride-to-Stride Control Strategies for Walking Revealed by Goal-Directed Variability Analyses"

Lucas Passmore, Joseph P Cusumano and Osama O. Awaldekarim, 2010, "Damage Assessment Via Eigen-Transient Analysis of MOSFET Devices", pp. USNCTAM2010-956

Jonathan Dingwell, Joby John and Joseph P Cusumano, 2010, "Exploiting Redundancy to Control Step Variability in Human Treadmill Walking: Experiments and Modeling", pp. USNCTAM2010-918

Joby John and Joseph P Cusumano, 2010, "Inter-Trial Dynamics In A Virtual Shuffleboard Experiment", pp. USNCTAM2010-1134

Joseph P Cusumano and Joby John, 2010, "Stability and Variability Generation in Inter-Trial Task Dynamics", pp. USNCTAM2010-1199

Joseph P Cusumano, Arjun Roy, Jonathan S. Pitt and Sergey G. Abaimov, 2010, "Simulated Space-Time Failure Statistics for a New Coupled-Field Damage Model", pp. USNCTAM2010-1350

Sergey G. Abaimov, Arjun Roy and Joseph P Cusumano, 2010, "Multiscale Damage Evolution as a Nucleation Phenomenon", pp. USNCTAM2010-1351

Jonathan B. Dingwell, Joby John and Joseph P Cusumano, 2009, "Computational Models of Goal Equivalent Control in Human Treadmill Walking"

Joby John and Joseph P Cusumano, 2009, "Effect of Passive Sensitivity on Goal-Level Variability in a Shuffleboard Task"

Jonathan B. Dingwell and Joseph P Cusumano, 2009, "Re-Interpreting the So-Called "Fractal" Structure of Stride-to-Stride Variability in Human Walking"

Jonathan B. Dingwell, Joby John and Joseph P Cusumano, 2009, "Stochastic Control Models Explain How Humans Exploit Redundancy to Control Stepping Variability During Walking"

Jonathan B. Dingwell, Michelle A. Garel and Joseph P Cusumano, 2008, "Goal Relevant Gait Variability in Healthy Young & Elderly"

Joseph P Cusumano and Joby John, 2008, "Goal Equivalence and Human Movement Dynamics"

Joseph P Cusumano and Joby John, 2007, "Performance Variability and Task Dynamics"

Jonathan B. Dingwell, Michelle A. Garel and Joseph P Cusumano, 2007, "Goal Equivalent Control of Variability in Steady-State Human Treadmill Walking"

Jonathan B. Dingwell, Michelle A. Garel and Joseph P Cusumano, 2007, "Goal Equivalent Control of Variability in Human Walking"

Joseph P Cusumano and D. Chelidze, 2005, "Phase Space Warping: A Dynamical System Approach to Diagnostics and Prognostics", 122, pp. 183-189

• Best Oral Presentation by a Trainee, International Society of Posture and Gait Research, July 2022 - July 2022

• Spotlight Presentation at the 2021 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, ASME, August 2021 - August 2021

Service to Penn State:

• Committee Work, Member, Campus Arts Initiative, February 2019 - May 2021

• Participation in Governance Bodies and Related Activities, Other, Committee Member, Faculty Senate, Intra-University Relations Committee, September 2016 - January 2018

• Participation in Governance Bodies and Related Activities, Other, Senator, Faculty Senate, September 2016 - January 2018

Service to External Organizations: