Our amazing undergrads, Joyce (Moyuan) Wu (Bioengineering senior) and Eugenia Sung (Electrical and Computer Engineering junior) presented their poster, “EMG-Driven Closed-Loop taVNS for Stroke Rehabilitation” at the 2025 Dr. Robert G. Grossman Mission Connect Neurotrauma Symposium in Houston, TX. Congratulations!
Kai Malcolm presented his work, “Cluster-Driven Modeling to Enable Personalized Gesture Classification” and Mikayla Deehring presented her work, “Pilot Study for a Pediatric Stroke Exergaming System”.
TIRR Foundation awarded Dr. Yamagami with the Dr. Eugene Alford Robotics and Rehabilitation Research Award in October 2025 for her work in virtual and augmented reality and rehabilitation engineering. Many thanks to the Mission Connect Program and the TIRR Foundation for this honor!
Mikayla has received the Clinical & Translational Sciences (CCTS) at UTHealth Houston and MD Anderson Cancer Center T32 fellowship to fund her work, “User-Centered Engineering of a Personalized Exergame Platform for Pediatric Stroke”. Congratulations, Mikayla!
In collaboration with our collaborator Dr. Stuart Fraser at UTHealth, we received the Provost’s TMC Collaborator Fund for our proposal, “User-Centered Engineering of a Personalized Exergaming Platform for Pediatric Neurologic Injury”. We are looking forward to this new collaboration!
Mikayla Deehring successfully defended her master’s thesis on “Predicting exertion using smartwatch data for frail ESKD patients.” Congrats Mikayla!
Congrats to Shivam, Sabrina, and Joyce for presenting their summer research projects at the undergraduate research program! Great job this summer!
Graduate student Mikayla Deehring gave a poster presentation on “Predicting Adherence to At-Home Rehabilitation Using Biosignals”. Great job Mikayla!
The Yamagami lab participated in the first Health Equity Workshop hosted by the Digital Health Initiative at Rice University. Momona Yamagami presented on “Accessible and Inclusive Digital Health Technologies for Ubiquitous Rehabilitation“. We also had poster presentations from Kai Malcolm and Mikayla Deehring:
Our lab has received funding on “Enabling Access to Prehab for Kidney Transplant Candidates who are Frail” through seed funding from the 2023 Digital Health Workshop hosted by the PATHS-UP ERC. We are looking forward to working with Drs. Atiya Dhala (Houston Methodist), Farzan Sasangohar (Texas A&M University), and Elizabeth Lorenz (Baylor College of Medicine) to develop a mobile health platform to support at-home prehabilitation for individuals with end-stage kidney disease. See other winners and more information on Rice News.