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
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
Assistant Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Assistant Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Affiliate, Center for Social and Behavioral Science
Recent Publications
Bishnoi, A., Chaparro, G. N., & Hernandez, M. E. (2022). Effect of Heart Rate Reserve on Prefrontal Cortical Activation While Dual-Task Walking in Older Adults. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(1), [47]. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010047
Bishnoi, A., Lee, R., Hu, Y., Mahoney, J. R., & Hernandez, M. E. (2022). Effect of Treadmill Training Interventions on Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Older Adults with Neurological Disorders: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(5), [2824]. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052824
Hernandez, M. E., Ziegelman, L., Kosuri, T., Hakim, H., Zhao, L., Mills, K. A., & Brašić, J. R. (2022). Classification of extremity movements by visual observation of signals and their transforms. MethodsX, 9, [101739]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2022.101739
Kaur, R., Motl, R. W., Sowers, R., & Hernandez, M. E. (2022). A Vision-Based Framework for Predicting Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's Disease Gait Dysfunctions - A Deep Learning Approach. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2022.3208077
Meade, Z. S., Likens, A. D., Kent, J. A., Takahashi, K. Z., Wurdeman, S. R., Jacobsen, A. L., Hernandez, M. E., & Stergiou, N. (2022). Subthreshold Vibration Influences Standing Balance but Has Unclear Impact on Somatosensation in Persons With Transtibial Amputations. Frontiers in Physiology, 13, [810079]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.810079