Education:

• Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering            
  • Candidate for PhD. in Biomedical Engineering, Aug 2018 – July 2024 

• University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science         
  • Master of Science in Engineering in Robotics, May 2016 
  • Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Bioengineering, Dec 2015  

Research:

I am a PhD candidate in the joint Biomedical Engineering department of Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, where I am mentored by three principal investigators: Dr. Lena Ting (computational modeling and biomechanics), Dr. Gordon Berman (machine learning), and Dr. Trisha Kesar (gait rehabilitation). My research centers on developing data-driven models for interpreting and tracking individual-specific locomotor patterns in physically impaired populations without needing to construct physiologically based mechanistic models. Our work is the first study that uses machine learning to study the dynamics of gait in an interpretable manner. My long-term goal is to develop clinical tools to improve tailored rehabilitation and recovery of individuals with walking dysfunction due to neuropathologies.  

Publications:

• Winner TS, et al. Discovering individual-specific gait signatures from data-driven models of neuromechanical dynamics. PLOS Computational Biology. 2023 Oct 27 
• Cregg JM, et al. Highlights from the 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement. Journal of Neurophysiology. 2022 Dec 21