Lynette Jones

Lynette Anne Jones is a New Zealand mechanical engineer whose research concerns haptic technology,^[1] haptic perception, thermal output devices, microsurgery, and the function and mechanics of the human hand and skin. She is a senior research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and editor-in-chief of the journal IEEE Transactions on Haptics.^[2]

Jones earned bachelors and masters degrees at the University of Auckland in 1976 and 1978. She completed a PhD at McGill University in Canada in 1983.^[2]

After postdoctoral research at McGill's Montreal Neurological Institute, she continued at McGill as a researcher and, in 1991, became a tenured associate professor there. She moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a principal research scientist in 1994, and was named a senior research scientist in 2010.^[2]

She has been editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Haptics since 2014.^[2]

Jones is the author of the book Haptics (MIT Press, Essential Knowledge Series, 2018). With Susan Lederman, Jones is coauthor of the book Human Hand Function (Oxford University Press, 2006).^[3]

Jones was named an IEEE Fellow in 2018, "for contributions to tactile and thermal displays".^[4]

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