Gelsy Torres-Oviedo was a Ph.D. student of Prof. Lena Ting at The Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, where she developed analytical tools for understanding the neural control of balance and the functional consequences of changes in muscle activity. She was a post-doc in the laboratory of Prof. Amy J. Bastian at Johns Hopkins University and The Kennedy Krieger Institute, where she investigated factors that enhance motor learning and generalization of locomotor adaptation, which could improve the gait rehabilitation of patients beyond the clinical setting.