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!
We received an unrestricted gift from Google to investigate the “Compatibility of Accessible Inputs for Android XR”.
Kai Malcolm successfully defended his MS thesis, “A Federated Learning Framework for Personalized and Privacy-Preserving Biosignal Interfaces”. Congratulations!
Dr. Yamagami presented her work on “Optimizing human-machine interfaces for health and accessibility” at the IEEE-BSN Conference in Chicago. Mikayla Deehring was also present at the conference. Great job!
Our lab’s work on inclusive EMG gesture recognition for individuals with motor disabilities was features on the Meta Quest Blog. The work was funded by a Meta gift in 2022 (Framework for Diverse EMG Gesture Recognition) which was renewed in 2023 for an extension project (Closing the Loop on Personalized EMG Gesture Recognition).