new Postdoctoral fellowship opportunity (read more here).

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April 2021

Mohammad Shushtari has successfully defended his PhD comprehensive exam. Congratulation Mohammad!!

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A Big Congratulation to our undergraduate team Bless your sole for winning the Esch Pitch Competition, Sedra People Choice Award and MME capstone Medical Award!

Bravo team Bless Your Sole !!

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March 2021

Sola Weng won the first prize in UWaterloo MME Graduate Symposium (link), on his presentation on use of deep reinforcement learning in studying human gait neuromechanics. Congratulation Sola!!

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Two papers got accepted in Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress (CSME 2021) on below topics:

i) Functional Electrical Stimulation based Joint Position Control

ii) A Framework for Modeling and Simulation of Neuromuscular Control of Walking 

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February 2021

Arash Arami gave a talk titled Neuromechanics and Assistive Robotics, in Robotics & AI Research Workshop, February 24th at University of Waterloo (Virtual). 

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January 2021

Our paper on  Accurate Blood Pressure Estimation during Activities of Daily Living: A Wearable Cuffless Solution  got accepted in IEEE Journal of Biomedical Health Informatics (JBHI).

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We also released a dataset, Wearable Physiological and Blood Pressure Measurements During Activities of Daily Living, on IEEE dataport (link).  

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Iara Santelices joined the lab as an MASc student. 

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December 2020

Arash Arami gave an invited talk/webinar on Neuromechanical Modeling of the Lower Limbs in Healthy People and Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury at Sharif University of Technology.  

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Our abstract on AI-driven manufacturing got accepted 12th International
Conference on Magnesium Alloys and their Applications (Mg 2021).

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November 2020

New agreement was finalized between our lab and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute for data sharing for spasticity research. 

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October 2020

Tharindu Abesin Kodippili has successfully defended his PhD comprehensive exam. 

Congratulation Tharindu!!

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Arash Arami has been affiliated as an NSERC committee member for scholarship evaluations. 

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September 2020

Our paper on Quantitative Modeling of Spasticity for Clinical Assessment, Treatment and Rehabilitation was published in journal of Sensors.

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Hannah Dinovitzer joined the lab as an MASc student.

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August 2020

Our paper on joint impedance identification during walking was twitted by IEEE TNSRE (Twitter link).

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July 2020

Cederick Landry presented the work on Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation for Activities of Daily Living in EMBC 2020.

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Lucy Liu joined the lab as a co-op student.

 

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June 2020

Our paper titled Clustering-based approach to identify joint impedance during walking was accepted in IEEE TNSRE (early access link).

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Our paper titled Cable-driven robotic interface for lower limb neuromechanics identification was accepted in IEEE TBME (early access link).

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We participated in a COVID-19 forecasting tournament at the UW.

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May 2020

Julia Goyal obtained the Prestigious 

SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral (CGS-D).

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We published the first systematic measurement of hip joint viscoelasticity in isometric condition in IEEE TNSRE (Twitter link). 

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April 2020

Our paper on Hip Neuromechanics was accepted in IEEE Trans on Neural System and Rehab Engineering (link1, link2).

 

Our paper on Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation for Activities of Daily Living is accepted in EMBC 2020.

 

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March 2020

In a collaboration with the Structural Biomechanics Lab we secured CBB fund to investigate orthopedic implant loosening. 

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February 2020

Cederick Landry won the first place award in 3MT (3-minute thesis) competition (Twitter link) 

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2 papers got accepted in CSME 2020.

 

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January 2020

Our paper on predictive dynamical modeling of blood pressure waveform was published in IEEE Sensors Journal  (link). 

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Jiacheng (Sola) Weng joined the lab as a new MASc student. 

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December 2019

An article about our new gait freezing prediction algorithm was published in CSME Bulletin, Fall 2019, page 17  (Bulletin link, article link). 

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October 2019

Our paper  on  Shoulder robotic simulator was published in ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, for an issue in Jan 2020  (link). 

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Our paper on Blood Pressure Waveform Estimation was published in IEEE EMBC 2019 Proceedings (link).

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September 2019

Our paper  on  Prediction of freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease was published in IEEE Transactions on Neural System and Rehabilitation Engineering,  (link). 

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Mohammad Shushtari joined the Neuromechanics and Assistive Robotics Lab as a new PhD student.

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August 2019

A new journal paper was accepted in IEEE Transactions on Neural System and Rehabilitation Engineering, on the topic of prediction of freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease (early access). 

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A paper was published in the proceedings of IEEE ICORR 2019, Toronto, on the effect of visual information on bimanual motor tasks.   

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Arash Arami presented the work on Detection of Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s disease: an investigation on the role of different feature families in ISB 2019, Calgary. 

 

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July 2019

A new Journal paper was accepted in Journal of Biomechanical Engineering about a robotic glenohumeral simulator.

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Cederick Landry presented his work on Estimation of the Blood Pressure Waveform using Electrocardiography at EMBS 2019, Berlin. 

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Congratulation team OKO haptics: Udayan Sarin, Curtis Lambert, Jessie Dhillon and Hernando Castano for winning the Baylis Medical Award. 

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June 2019

Congratulation Cederick Landry and teammates for winning the first place award in CBB Bio-Hackathon 2019. 

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May 2019

Appearance in Waterloo Research News:

Arash Arami received the prestigious New Frontiers in Research Fund. 

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Arash Arami gave a talk about personalized assistive robotics at Toronto Rehab Institute as a part of Jousse Lecture Series.

 

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March 2019

Team Akomodi won the I-beam prize for their design of a multi-purpose wheelchair for CP children. 

 

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February 2019

Arash Arami was awarded the CBB Seed Fund to investigate spasticity. 

 

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November 2018

Robotics Manipulator course (ME547) will be given in Winter 2019. 

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September 2018

A new graduate course titled Human Movement Neuromechanics (ME 780) is given in Fall 2018, 2019, .... 

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July 2018

Arash Arami gave a talk in a CBB workshop.

 

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March 2018

Arash Arami gave an invited talk at Grand River hospital.

 

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January 2018

New publication in Annals of Biomedical Engineering: Knee Implant Loosening Detection: A Vibration Analysis Investigation.