Wearable Devices
The wearable devices research thrust is focused on fundamental research, design, and fabrication of various wearable devices for biomedicine, to impact human health from preventative monitoring and early diagnostic confirmation to non-invasive and convenient therapeutic options.
Faculty
Larry Cheng, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics
Research: Wearable devices, transient sensors, standalone stretchable device platforms
Michael A. Bruno, M.D.
Professor of Radiology & Medicine
Research: Inobtrusive functional brain imaging in the pre-frontal cortex in working radiologists
Orfeu Buxton, Ph.D.
Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Research: Wearable sensors, ambulatory measurement of health behaviors, sleep
Felecia Davis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Architecture and Carey Memorial Early Career Professor in the Arts
Research: Textile-based wearables, computational textiles
Research lab website
Christopher Engeland, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health and Nursing
Research: Stress, inflammation, cognitive aging, and dementia
Chris Giebink, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Enrique Gomez, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
Research: Energy and environment, polymers, electron microscopy of soft materials
Jonathan Hakun, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Research: Neuroscience of aging, passive sensing technology
Vasant G Honavar, Ph.D.
Huck Chair in Biomedical Data Science and Artificial Engineering
Raj Kothapalli, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research: Acoustics and vibration
Xin Ning, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Research: Multifunctional and nano-materials; Structural Dynamics and Adaptive Structures
Shashank Priya, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President, Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Rayne Sperling, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Undergraduate & Graduate Studies, Professor of Education
Research: Educational psychology
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Ph.D.
Evan Pugh Professor and Steward S. Flashchen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering
Research: Dielectric and piezoelectric applications, electroceramic films
Vijay Varadan, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Engineering Science and Mechanics
Qing Wang, Ph.D.
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Research: Polymers, composites, flexible electronics
Yong Wang, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research: Biomaterials, drug delivery, tissue regeneration
Jian Yang, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Regenerative Engineering
Research: Cell signaling and cancer, nanomedicine and drug delivery, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
Cunjiang Yu, Ph.D.
Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Nanyin Zhang, Ph.D.
Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Brain Imaging, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Sanjib Adhikary, M.D.
Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
Research: Medical device related to pain management, regional anesthesia, and education
Joshua Smyth, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Biobehavioral Health and Medicine
Research: Ambulatory assessment; stress; health
Professor of Medicine
Neyha Cherin, D.O.
Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Elaine Eyster, M.D.
Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Elizabeth Federici, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Patricia “Sue” Grigson, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
Xuemei Huang, M.D.
Associate Dean for Physician-Scientist Development
Joe Littlejohn, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Dino Ravnic, D.O.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Yanxi Liu, Ph.D.
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Research: Motion, vision, robotics
Research lab website
Anne Martin, Ph.D.
Martin W. Trethewey Early Career Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research: Human gait, exoskeletons, modeling
Research lab website
Wen-Jan Tuan, DHA
Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine
Research: Wearable devices, electronic health records, embedded AI
Roopa Siddaiah, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Research: Lung disease, preterm infants, pulmonary hypertension
Ronald P. Miller, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Research: Renal replacement therapy; dialysis
Sample Projects
Personalized sleep parameters estimation from actigraphy: A machine learning approach
Orfeu Buxton and Vasant Honavar
On this page:
Illustration of the laser fabricated device on the skin upon deformation with various sensing modules and a stretchable wideband antenna/rectenna for wireless communication and ambient radio frequency energy harvesting. Reprinted from a manuscript under review.
Schematic and demonstration of directly fabricating transient and long-lasting devices on planar and freeform substrates. Reprinted from a manuscript under review.
The design concept of the soft body area sensor network: The paper-/fabric-based flexible printed circuit board on clothing can integrate wireless data and power transmission modules (e.g., Bluetooth or near-field communication module), along with commercial off-the-shelf chips for extended collecting and processing data (green box). The red box illustrates the simple process of preparing the directly printed on-body sensors sintered at room temperature. Reprinted from a manuscript under review.
