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Milad was an AMTD Postdoctoral Fellow at our lab from September 2021 to December 2022. He was working on robot-based upper limb rehabilitation and motor control. From January 2023 to June 2023, Milad was a visiting researcher at our lab. 

Since January 2023 he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta.

https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/nazaraha 

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Dr. Rezvan Nasiri

Current position: Assistant Professor

at the University of Tehran

Rezvan completed a 2-year Postdoctoral Fellow research at Arami Lab, with a focus on design of controllers for lower limb exoskeletons. Rezvan has started a faculty position as an Assistant Professor at the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Tehran.

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Dr. Cederick Landry  

Current position: Assistant Professor at the University of Sherbrooke

Cederick completed his PhD on using machine learning techniques to advance cuffless blood pressure estimation and providing reliable prediction of cuffless blood pressure with potential to be translated to the clinics. Cederick is currently an Assistant Professor at Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Sherbrooke. 
https://www.usherbrooke.ca/recherche/specialistes/details/cederick.landry

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Dr. Mo (Mohammad) Shushtari  

Current position: Assistant Professor at the Toronto Metropolitan University

Mo completed his PhD on human-robot physical interaction in lower limb exoskeletons. He was a postdoctoral research with us for half a year. Then continued his postdoctoral research for another half a year at the University of Toronto and at KITE institute (Toronto Rehab). Mo is currently an Assistant Professor at the Toronto Metropolitan University. 
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Dr. Erfan Azqadan  

Current position: Postdoctoral fellow at National Research Council Canada

Erfan completed his PhD on Process Parameters Relation to Microstructure Property (Physics-based data-driven modeling)

and developed advanced machine learning tools to predict the microstructure from the process parameters.
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Dr. Tharindu Kodippili

Current position: Structure Engineer

Multimatic Inc., Canada 

During his PhD studies, Tharindu

developed techniques to for AI-powered  and Multi-objective Optimization of complex cast forging process of Mg alloys.

(co-supervised by Prof. Steve Lambert) 

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Kathleen Goldsmith

Current position: Senior Data Scientist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, England

For her Master's project, Kathleen worked on wearable systems for assessment and modelling of Parkinson's disease. She was under co-supervision of Prof. Etienne Burdet at Imperial College London.  Kathleen is currently a data scientist at Elvie. 

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Yesung Cha

Current position: Teacher (TTOC)

During his Master's studies, Yesung worked on quantitatively modelling of lower limb spasticity in spinal cord injury (SCI) using wearable sensors and machine learning.

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Jiacheng (Sola) Weng

Current position: Senior Software Engineer, Capital One, Canada

Dusing his Master's studies, Sola worked on inverse optimal control and its application to recover optimal cost function for locomotion when applied to musculoskeletal models. Sola also worked on a curriculum reinforcement learning framework to generate natural locomotion for musculoskeletal models. 

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Hannah Dinovitzer

Current position: Consulting Senior Analyst,  Accenture, Canada

During her Master's studies, Hannah developed techniques for real-time movement dynamics prediction during walking and designed feedforward torque and state-feedback controllers for lower limb exoskeletons. 

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Iara Santelices

Current position: Consulting Engineer, DEG Engineering, Canada

During her Master's studies, Iara  developed techniques allowing accurate estimation of blood velocity and control of compression cuff to maximize blood velocity in individuals with low blood velocity issues. 

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Sahand Ajami

Current position: Mechatronics Engineer, Mimosa Diagnostic,  Canada

During his Master's studies, Sahand worked on the interaction between visuhaptic feedback and motor learning. 

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Thea (Xinyue) Yu

Current position: Software Engineer

MISTRAS Group, Inc.​, Canada

During her Master's studies, Thea worked on the ML algorithms for subtype-informed detection, data augmentation and prediction of Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's disease. 

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Rachel Du

Current position: R & D Engineer

Quanser, Canada

During her Master's studies, Rachel investigated how the kinematic error has been encoded in EEG signals.

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Previous co-op or research interns

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Chatchanan (Jimmy) Po-onta

Undergraduate International Co-op intern -)

Locomotion and assistive robotics

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Julie Miller

Undergraduate Co-op intern - Lab Engineer (F24) and Volunteer (W25)

Gait analysis
Personalized controllers for lower-limb exoskeletons

Human movement analysis

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Julia Foellmer

Exchange student from Hamburg University of Technology. She worked on feedforward control of lower limb exoskeleton. 

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Nirosh Manohara

Nirosh was an undergraduate  co-op student working on exoskeleton control and gait experiments.

​He is currently a Master student at the University of Toronto.

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Yihui (Lucy) Liu

Lucy was an undergraduate co-op student in our lab working on a software development application for optimizing designs in a warm forging process for a Magnesium Alloy component.

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Returning undergraduate research assistants (URAs)

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Grace Kim

Undergraduate Research Assistant 

AI-based joint adaptive trajectory generation for exoskeleton-assisted gait

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Vanessa Mac

Undergraduate Research Assistant/volunteer

Estimating blood velocity during closed-loop calf compression

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Livia Murray

Undergraduate Research Assistant 

Livia worked on adaptive controller for personalizing exoskeleton assistance.

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Other students/URAs

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Katie Langile

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Predictive modeling of human locomotion, Data curation

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Becky Luan

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Upper-limb robotic rehabilitation

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Mitchell Perera 

Undergraduate Research Volunteer

Predictive modelling of freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease

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Nathan Lu

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Multi-sensor Data fusion for human-robot state estimation in lower limb exoskeletons.

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Samson Wong

Undergraduate Research Assistant

User perception during walking with adaptive and non-adaptive controllers.

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Guy Blumenthal

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Multi-sensor Data fusion for human-robot state estimation in lower limb exoskeletons.

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Isabella Schneider

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Utilizing tactile exploration to detect varying stiffness on a surface with a robotic manipulator

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Khushi Budhwar

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Khushi works on human sensorimotor modeling

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Julia Foellmer

Exchange student from Hamburg University of Technology. She worked on feedforward control of lower limb exoskeleton. 

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Amanda Power

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Amanda worked on  the development of VR-based game for stroke recovery.

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Laila Elhossini

Undergraduate Research Assistant 

Exoskeleton Design

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Immanuel John Simon

Undergraduate Research Assistant 

Basic signal processing

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Ellen Ye

Undergraduate Research Assistant 

Human movement analysis and motor control

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Susanna Liao

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Motor Learning and Muscle Activity Patterns During Baton Twirling​. 

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Jesse Xia

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Locomotion optimallity. 

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Lauren Mackay

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Compensatory Stepping in Humans with and without an Assistive Lower-limb Exoskeleton​. 

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Hazel Posno

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Gait variation analysis using musculoskeletal models and optimal control framework.

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Rohan Mistry

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Rohan is working on gait analysis and neuromechanical analysis of locomotion.

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Ria Parkash

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Ria worked on gait phase estimator for exoskeleton assistance in real-time. 

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Sachi Bharwada

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Human-exoskeleton interaction and gait analysis.

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Emma Li

Undergraduate Research Assistant / volunteer

Exoskeleton Design

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Vanessa Mac

Undergraduate Research Assistant / volunteer

Estimating blood velocity during closed-loop calf compression

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Naomi Eshetu

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Human movement and EMG analysis.

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Heeya Shah

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Upper-limb Robot-based neurorehabilitation; Vibration module development.

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Jason Toft

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Compensatory stepping with lower-limb exoskeletons

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Thomason Zhou

Undergraduate Research Assistant

IMU-based accurate gait phase estimation.

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Livia Murray

Undergraduate Research Assistant 

Livia worked on adaptive controller for personalizing exoskeleton assistance.

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Qiche (Lucas) Sun

High School Coop Intern

Lucas is working on development of signal processing for different wrist-worn sensors.

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Naomi Thompson

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Naomi worked on determining how respiration impacts blood flow, for external limb compression systems.

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Wendy Xu

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Wendy worked on lower limb exoskeleton data collection and controller design.

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Ash Mahmoud

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Ash worked on upper limb robot-assisted movements and motor learning. 

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Grace Chen

Grace worked on neuromechanical modeling and control of exoskeleton

with deep reinforcement learning.

Grace did two URA position in our lab. 

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Aditi Sandhu

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Aditi worked on modeling proprioception.

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Thea Yu

Thea worked on myoelectric control of robotic systems. 

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Jai Prajapati

As an undergraduate research assistant, Jai worked on design of controllers in Python.

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Jane Shen

Jane worked on evaluating proprioception using different robotic systems.

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Jessica Yang

Jessica worked on foot clearance estimation and its validation during walking. She worked for two terms in our lab. 

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Jack W. Peifer-Dawson

As a volunteer, Jack worked on muscle Hill models and their application in functional electrical stimulation (FES).

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Leon Wang

Leon worked on functional electrical stimulation for lower limb assisted motion.

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Kayley Ting

Kayley worked on the prediction of Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease using machine learning techniques.

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Howard Nguyen-Huu

Howard worked on Myoelectric control of robotic systems.

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Winnie Wu

Winnie worked on human lower limb motor control.

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Abby Tien

Abby worked on control of a lower limb exoskeleton, data collection and processing.

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Muneeb Saif Qadri

Muneeb worked on development of an IR-IMU fusion prototype.

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Kevin Qiu

Kevin worked on a smart shoe to measure foot clearance.

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Nathania Chan

Nathania worked on developing simple regression models for spasticity modeling.

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Cathy Qiu

Cathy worked on a smart shoe insole that is able to detect gait pressure using force sensing resistors. 

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Raj Shah

Raj worked on software interface for sensor synchronization for spsticity modeling.

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Parsa Torabian

Parsa worked on lower limb motor control.  

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Justin Memar-Makhsous

Justine worked on building instrumented handles and analyzing data for modelling spasticity. 

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Colin Cooke

Colin worked on Deep RL for standing balance in a musculoskeletal model.

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Gabrielle Kim

Gabrielle worked on creating an impedance model for the knee and the hip, which can be used in future impedance control applications for lower limb exoskeletons.

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Qinyang Bao

Qinyang worked on the design and development of a haptic device for human-robot interaction. 

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Yanqing Wu

Yanqing worked on gait modeling in Parkinson's disease.

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