Past:

• Oxford: Chemistry summer course
  • Mass Spectrometry Analysis
• Biomedical Engineering BSc:
  • Thesis:
    • Theoretical work on TMR (Targeted Muscle Reinnervation)
    • Development of a process to analyse Pressure Sensor Data from Gait analysis (Matlab, AI)
      • Internship
      • Matlab, AI programming
      • Thesis defence
      • Poster Presentation
  • Other:
    • Organic Chemistry Lab
    • Mechanical Engineering Lab
    • Gait Analysis Lab
• Health and Rehabilitation Sciences MSc:
  •  Thesis:
    • Using Eye-tracking software for compensation training of patients with Hemianopia
      • Internship
      • Improving games and other training software (Unity)
      • Testing them with a pilot study
      • Poster Presentation
    • Making an interactive virtual trainer for motion sequences (Martial Arts in this case)
      • Internship
      • Collecting 3D kinematics data (Vicon Nexus)
      • Animating model from collected data (Blender)
      • Making it interactive and easily accessible online (Blend4Web)
      • Thesis defence
      • Poster Presentation
  • Other:
    • Mechanical Engineering Lab
    • Gait Analysis Lab
    • Motion Analysis Lab
    • Feedback Control Systems Lab
    • Prosthetics and Orthotics Workshop

Present:

Qin-Lab:

• Osteoarthritis (Histology and Grading)
• Journal Club

 

 

 

 

 

 

Osteoarthritis results in structural and functional failure of synovial joints, and is generally considered a disease of articular cartilage. However, this disease involves the entire joint, and not just the cartilage. [2]

[1]      K. P. H. Pritzker et al., “Osteoarthritis cartilage histopathology: Grading and staging,” Osteoarthr. Cartil., vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 13–29, 2006.

[2]      D. J. Hunter and D. T. Felson, “Clinical review – Osteoarthritis,” 2006.

 

Future:

Prosthetics in general is a field I am most interested

in. It is also the field where I feel I could contribute the most.

I would really like to work with Osseointegration, and using it to allow for pressure feedback for lower extremity prostheses. This is something which is currently being researched and tested for mid-thigh amputations in Europe. I have found very little on it in the USA, but it would likely be helpful to veterans, as well as athletes that require a more delicate and finer control of their movements, such as dancers and acrobats.

I would also like to work on improving prosthetic feet, since they are currently somewhat lacking, and the most common amputation, due to vascular disease.