Research
Academic research, publications, and thesis work.
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WAFFLE: Wearable bite timing for robot-assisted feeding
Best paper at HRI '26 — a wearable system for robot-assisted feeding that reads natural cues like chewing and head movement to decide when to offer the next bite, built on custom Posey IMU hardware.
- wearable
- IMU
- assistive-robotics
- HRI
Distributed strain sensing with notch filters
Soft sensor arrays using variable-frequency notch filters for spatially-distributed sensing with minimal wiring.
- soft-robotics
- sensing
- analog-circuits
- strain-sensing
TEG-powered, battery-free PPG sensing
Battery-free photoplethysmograph (PPG) powered by body heat captured using flexible thermoelectric generators (TEGs).
- energy-harvesting
- wearable
- PPG
- BLE
Characterizing material degradation due to ion migration
Test apparatus design for characterizing material degradation in the presence of high-voltage fields.
- materials-science
- hardware
- embedded
- test-equipment
Posey: BLE-enabled motion tracking
A small form-factor IMU research platform designed for use in stroke rehabilitation and robotic feeding assistance.
- wearable
- BLE
- IMU
- hardware
Soft manipulator control
Soft manipulator modeling, calibration and open-loop trajectory optimization.
- soft-robotics
- trajectory-optimi…
- SMA
- control
Data and anomaly visualization
Tool development for real-time and post-hoc data visualization and analytics.
- data-visualization
- tooling
- open-source
- bokeh
Trauma Care in a Rucksack (TRACIR)
Automated platform for validation of closed-loop physiologic monitoring and resuscitation.
- medical-robotics
- automation
- critical-care
- real-time
Postoperative renal failure prediction
Modeling of patient biometric data before, during, and after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery to predict a patient's likelihood of postoperative acute renal failure.
- machine-learning
- medical
- mentoring
- RISS
Counter human trafficking
Correlating multi-modal sex worker advertisement data to uncover and combat human trafficking.
- data-science
- social-good
- mentoring
- RISS
Physiologic state clustering in shock
Unsupervised segmentation of physiologic state during crash using convolutional autoencoders.
- deep-learning
- medical
- mentoring
- RISS
Fast detection of hemorrhagic shock
Investigation of patient personalization and data granularity in detection of hemorrhagic shock.
- machine-learning
- medical
- hemorrhage
- signal-processing
Microcirculatory Bloodflow Analysis (MCBA)
Video processing and analysis to correlate changes in microcirculation with disease state.
- computer-vision
- medical
- video-processing
- OpenCV
Real-time Bayesian Aggregation (RTBA)
Real-time detection of low SNR radionuclide threats.
- signal-processing
- Bayesian
- nuclear-detection
- real-time