Melanie Hook received a bachelor's degree in Physics from Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA in 2020. Melanie joined the TREC Lab in Fall 2020 to pursue a MS in Mechanical Engineering. She is a NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Her research interests include biomechanics for exoskeletons and human-robot interaction. She is working on ForceBot, a project investigating active haptics to provide force and position feedback for a Virtual Reality (VR) robot.