Leia Abigail Stirling (née Blumenthal) (born 1981) is the Charles Stark Draper Professor of Aeronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is the co-director of the human systems laboratory.

She moved to the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University in 2009, where she worked as director of the Motion Capture Laboratory.

[3] There, she worked on robotic devices that could improve the function of the hands of people who had suffered from stroke or cerebral palsy.

She seeks to quantify the fluency of humans and machines in tightly coupled systems through the use of wearable sensors.

[10] Stirling believes that the development of high fidelity sensors will help rehabilitation survivors monitor their well-being and performance.