Congratulations to doctoral student Vahid Azimi, whose paper "Robust Control of a Powered Transfemoral Prosthesis Device with Experimental Verification" has been selected as one of five finalists for the best student paper award at the 2017 American Control Conference. Vahid is the lead author on the paper, which is co-authored with Tony Shu, Huihua Zhao, Eric Ambrose, Aaron Ames (all from the Georgia Institute of Technology), and Dan Simon (Cleveland State University). The American Control Conference is one of the premier control conferences in the world, with over 1,000 paper presentations each year.