Marcia O'Malley

Marcia Kilchenman O'Malley is an American mechanical engineer, the Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor in Mechanical Engineering and the chair of the department of mechanical engineering for the George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing at Rice University. Her research concerns "system for enhancing the human sensorimotor control system",

Early life O'Malley was born on January 7, 1975 in Ohio, United States. Her father was "Mr. Fix-It" and she helped him with restoring cars for her mother to drive. She loved math and science which clashed with her mother as an English teacher. O'Malley wrote a report in high school about a mechanical frame used to realign bones, which sparked her interest in engineering

Education and career O'Malley is a 1996 graduate of Purdue University, where she majored in Mechanical Engineering.