
Assistant Professor @McGillU | Developer #biomechZoo | Passionate about #movement #wearables #AI | Alum @Harvard @UniofOxford @mcgillu
Montréal, Québec
Joined April 2016
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Proud to share a new paper in @Sensors_MDPI led by @samtremblay27 on automatic prediction of ice hockey shooting actions using wearable sensors #openacess mdpi.com/1424-8220/26/11/336…
Join me for my talk today "Toward real-world analyses of biomechanics and performance in sport science" events.bizzabo.com/TechTrans…
Check out our latest paper led by #MOTION Labbers O.Jlassi and @JEmmerzaal in collaboration with @Bernd__Grimm's team at LIH. Outdoor Walking Classification Based on Inertial Measurement Unit and Foot Pressure Sensor Data mdpi.com/3659252 #mdpisensors
If you are a Canadian currently studying/working abroad interested in pursuing a PhD or post-doctoral fellowship in my MOTION lab at @mcgillu, please reach out. Looking for candidates with skills in #biomechanics, #wearables, #AI, or #sportscience
Team effort by MOTION x @McGillIHRG to get this one over the line. Findings from previous MSc student Matthew Kelley on Machine learning-based classification of ice hockey skating tasks using kinematic data in @sportsbiomechj tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
New paper from MSc graduate Gabrielle Thibault (now engineer @Vicon) showing classification of running surfaces using deep learning published in @Sensors_MDPI see mdpi.com/3531698 #mdpisensors
New paper by newly minted PhD @Deku007 using IMUs to predict marker positions for biomechanical modelling mdpi.com/3498308 @Sensors_MDPI
Check out our new article led by #MOTIONLAB post docs Jill Emmerzaal and @Patrick_Ipps_PT (now assist prof @uOttawa): Non-Linear Gait Dynamics Are Affected by Commonly Occurring Outdoor Surfaces and Sex in Healthy Adults mdpi.com/3390792 #mdpisensors via @Sensors_MDPI
Proud to act as guest editor along with @DrClintHansen and Jill Emmerzaal on the special issue "Wearable Sensors in Biomechanics and Human Motion" mdpi.com/si/246193 #mdpisensors via @Sensors_MDPI Please reach out if you are interested in submitting an article!
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Proud to share our new #opensource paper in collaboration with @DrClintHansen et al. @NeurogeriatricK led by @PatrickIppersi1 mdpi.com/3347572 #mdpibiosensors @Biosensors_MDPI
Interested in starting an MSc or PhD in biomechanics at McGill University? Come join the MOTION Lab. We are looking for students with interests/expertise in gait analysis, foot modeling, IMU sensors, or machine learning. Please fill out this survey forms.gle/9uHpWLtgLVvGzQi5A
Happy to share our new publication on a novel cough detection algorithm based on signals from smart garment sensors. Great academic-industry collaboration with @pafournier et al. from @Hexoskin authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
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Excited to share our latest contribution to the book Artificial Intelligence, Optimization, and Data Sciences in Sports - #Springer Optimization and Its Applications, edited by Maude Josee Blondin, Iztok Fister, and Panos Pardalos.
Introducing the open-source Oxford Foot model (openOFM) project! Great work led by Elodie Drew. We hope this tool will help the #biomechanics community with their multi-segment modelling needs. Check out the paper and contribute to the code here github.com/mcgillmotionlab/o…
New paper out by my PhD student @Deku007 in Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Great work and it's #OpenAccess also! Gait Speed and Task Specificity in Predicting Lower-Limb Kinematics: A... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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😃New article published in J Biomech!
"Evaluation of lower-body gait kinematics on outdoor surfaces using wearable sensors", by Shah et al.
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#journalofbiomechanics
Nice work led by my former MSc student Dave Whipps published today: L-AVATeD: the Lidar And Visual wAlking Terrain Dataset available in open-access in @FrontRoboticsAI frontiersin.org/journals/rob…










