Alumni – Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellows

Siddharth Doshi

Department: Materials Science
Faculty Mentors: Mark Brongersma and Nick Melosh
Wireless sensing of chemical signals in vivo with implantable optical meta-mirrors

Jiaman Li

Department: Computer Science
Faculty Mentors: C. Karen Liu and Jiajun Wu
Capturing, analyzing, and synthesizing human motion in natural environments

Anoosha Pai Shirvanthe

Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Mentors: Akshay Chaudhari and Scott Delp
Automated personalization of musculoskeletal modeling using medical imaging

Kristen Steudel

Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Scott Delp
Knee and hip joint dynamics differ between sprinting and nordic hamstring exercises

Amanda Wiggenhorn

Department: Chemistry
Faculty Mentors: Katrin Svensson and Jonathan Long
A novel class of secreted mammalian peptides with the potential to mediate exercise-induced muscle hypertrophy

2023 Postdoctoral Fellows

Maria Dolores Moya Garzon

Department: Pathology
Faculty Mentors: Jonathan Long and Steven Banik
Biochemical interrogation of keto-amino acids, a novel class of ketosis-inducible metabolites linked to energy metabolism

Kyun Kyu Kim

Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Mentors: Zhenan Bao and Scott Delp
Personalized wireless e-skin device for tracking musculoskeletal health

Morgan Smith

Department: Genetics
Faculty Mentors: Emily Kraus and Michael Snyder
Deep molecular profiling and biomarkers of RED-S in female endurance athletes

Elena Monti

Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Faculty Mentors: Helen M. Blau and Anshul Kundaje
Elucidation of the molecular determinants of muscle weakness and diminished performance in human aging

2022 Graduate Fellows

Ananya Goyal

Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Mentors: Feliks Kogan and Seth Sherman
Changes in bone metabolic activity in patients with patellofemoral pain after short-term use of a knee brace

Shivani Guptasarma

Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Mentors: Monroe Kennedy and Krishna Shenoy
Augmented reality testbed for intelligent upper-limb prostheses

Veronica Li

Department: Chemistry
Faculty Mentors: Jonathan Long and Michael Snyder
Chemical interrogation of an exercise-induced metabolite signaling pathway

Alissa Ling

Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Mentors: Paul Nuyujukian and Scott Delp
Neural dynamics of ambulatory behavior using markerless point cloud pose tracking

Michael Silvernagel

Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Mentors: Paul Nuyujukian and Scott Linderman
Neural dynamics of performance

2022 Postdoctoral Fellows

Kaiwen Hsiao

Department: Radiology
Faculty Mentors: Joseph DeSimone and Zhenan Bao
3D printing lattice-based capacitive pressure sensors for human performance monitoring

Xuchao Lyu

Department: Pathology
Faculty Mentors: Jonathan Long and Joshua Knowles
Systematic mapping of exercise-secreted factors at cell type-specific resolution

Samuel Montalvo

Department: Cardiovascular Medicine
Faculty Mentor: Matthew Wheeler
Leveraging genetic and omics data to develop exercise and nutritional interventions

Laurens van de Wiel

Department: Cardiovascular Medicine
Faculty Mentors: Stephen Montgomery and Matthew Wheeler
Multi-omic identification of alternative splicing that drives human performance

Jean Won Kwak

Department: Radiology
Faculty Mentors: Joseph DeSimone and Tom Soh
Personalized point-of-care skin patch for physical impact management

Ruohan Zhang

Department: Computer Science
Faculty Mentors: Jiajun Wu and Nicholas Haber
Virtual task guidance systems for human visuomotor behaviors in natural environments and tasks

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