Research Interests
Investigation of risk factors for injury or disability during the performance of goal-directed movements • Age-related and disease-related changes in postural control • Behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying postural and gait dysfunction in older adults with and without neurological disorders • Non-linear dynamical analysis of short and noisy time series data
Education
- Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2012
- M.S., Biomedical Engineering (Biomechanics Concentration), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2005
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, 2003
Additional Campus Affiliations
Teaching Associate Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Research Associate Professor, Health and Kinesiology
Teaching Associate Professor, Bioengineering
Affiliate, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Affiliate, Social & Behavioral Science Institute
Recent Publications
Dabirian, N., Samadi, M., Babaniamansour, A., Li, Y., Hernandez, M. E., & Jan, Y.-K. (2026). Time-Frequency, Complexity, and Fractal Analyses of Hemoglobin and Deoxyhemoglobin Responses to Quantify Mechanisms of Actions of Cupping Therapy. Entropy, 28(6). https://doi.org/10.3390/e28060597
Gupta, A., Khaliji, M., Gao, R., Qiu, J., Sowers, R., Chiu, C. Y., & Hernandez, M. E. (2026). ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENERGY-REGULATION MODELING SYSTEM FOR FATIGUE PREDICTION IN PEOPLE WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS. In Proceedings of the 2026 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2026 Article V001T03A004 (Proceedings of the 2026 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2026). American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). https://doi.org/10.1115/DMD2026-1035
Hernandez, M. E., Motl, R. W., Foley, F. W., Izzetoglu, M., Wagshul, M., & Holtzer, R. (2026). Gait variability predicts falls in older adults with multiple sclerosis. Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 81(3), Article glaf269. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glaf269
Liu, J., Kelhofer, N. C., Burtner, T. S., Cheung, W. C., Hernandez, M. E., & Jan, Y.-K. (2026). Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in the Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Exercise-Based Management of Muscle Oxygenation Impairment. Diagnostics, 16(11). https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics16111585
Singhal, M., Grannie, C., Burnette, M., Hernandez, M. E., & Hegazy, S. A. (2026). Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease: A Scoping Review on the Path Towards Real-Time Therapies. Sensors, 26(7), Article 2042. https://doi.org/10.3390/s26072042