7. Alyssa Spomer: on biofeedback technology to improve motor control, ankle exoskeletons, and works as a clinical scientist in a hospital episode artwork

EPISODE · Feb 23, 2024 · 56 MIN

7. Alyssa Spomer: on biofeedback technology to improve motor control, ankle exoskeletons, and works as a clinical scientist in a hospital

from Gears of Progress · host Sasha Portnova

Dr. Alyssa Spomer (LinkedIn, Google Scholar) got her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington. Her work focused on biofeedback technology to improve motor control in children with cerebral palsy and worked on understanding how interpretable machine learning methods can be used to identify factors of response to a resistive ankle exoskeleton (Biomotum). In this episode, we discussed what it takes to write a winning NSF Graduate Research Fellowship application, how common emulation of disabled gait patterns are in rehab engineering research, and how different doing science in a hospital in comparison to academia. This episode is powered by: ⁠⁠⁠CREATE ⁠⁠⁠(the Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences) at the University of Washington ⁠⁠⁠RESNA ⁠⁠⁠(the Rehabilitation Engineering and assistive technology Society of North America) ⁠⁠⁠NIDILRR ⁠⁠⁠ARRT Training grant 90ARCP0005-01-00 The transcript for this episode can be found ⁠here⁠.

Dr. Alyssa Spomer (LinkedIn, Google Scholar) got her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington. Her work focused on biofeedback technology to improve motor control in children with cerebral palsy and worked on understanding how interpretable machine learning methods can be used to identify factors of response to a resistive ankle exoskeleton (Biomotum). In this episode, we discussed what it takes to write a winning NSF Graduate Research Fellowship application, how common emulation of disabled gait patterns are in rehab engineering research, and how different doing science in a hospital in comparison to academia. This episode is powered by: ⁠⁠⁠CREATE ⁠⁠⁠(the Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences) at the University of Washington ⁠⁠⁠RESNA ⁠⁠⁠(the Rehabilitation Engineering and assistive technology Society of North America) ⁠⁠⁠NIDILRR ⁠⁠⁠ARRT Training grant 90ARCP0005-01-00 The transcript for this episode can be found ⁠here⁠.

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