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Aathresh, Vishak Nandan

Vishak Nandan Aathresh was a semi-finalist in the 2024 UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Vishak presented their research, "Modeling Soft Tissue Artifacts: How Does Your Skin Jiggle?" They hope to address the challenge of measuring human motion accurately in natural environments using wearable sensor systems like Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs). However, these sensors often encounter dynamic soft tissue artifact measurement errors when placed on soft tissue, particularly during impulsive impacts. Understanding these errors is crucial as injuries such as ligament tears and mild traumatic brain injuries are associated with impulsive impacts, making it challenging to measure injuries accurately in vivo and understand corresponding injury mechanisms. Previous studies have focused on measuring soft tissue properties in quasi-static conditions, which do not reflect dynamic impulsive impact conditions. Vishak's work seeks to model human soft tissue behavior during mild impulsive impacts on the lower extremity, providing insights into improving the accuracy of wearable sensor systems in assessing human motion and injury mechanisms. Vishak Nandan Aathresh is pursuing their Master of Applied Science in Biomedical Engineering in the School of Biomedical Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Calvin Kuo.

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Three Minute Thesis (3MT)

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0447791

Applied Science, Faculty of; Biomedical Engineering, School of

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