Victor Prost
PhD student
Prosthetic foot team
Research Interests
After completing his undergraduate degree at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, Victor joined the GEAR Lab to work on an affordable high-performance passive prosthetic foot for Indian amputees. He is passionate about applying his designing and building skills to make a difference in the developing world. His research interests includes machine/product design, manufacturing, structure & fluid mechanics, and control.
Education
M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017
M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique, 2015
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique, 2014
Honors and Awards
DeFlorez Travel Award in Design and Manufacturing, MIT MechE (2019)
Thomas Sheridan Prize — Creativity in man-machine integration, MIT (2019)
Runner Up Prize at the Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (2017)
2nd Prize in de Florez Competition for Graduate Design (2016)
Milton Van Dyke Award - Gallery of Fluid Motion (2016)
Tata Center for Technology Fellowship (2016)
Jean Gaillard Memorial Fellowship (2015)
Publications
Hobbies
Making things, hydrofoil boat design, traveling, sailing, soccer, windsurfing, squash