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
Affiliate, Center for Social and Behavioral Science
Teaching Associate Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Research Associate Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
Research Affiliate, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Recent Publications
Bishnoi, A., Shankar, M., Lee, R., Hu, Y., & Hernandez, M. E. (2023). Effects of Therapeutic Intervention on Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Adults With Neurologic Disorder: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 104(3), 451-474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2022.06.003
Holtzer, R., Choi, J., Motl, R. W., Foley, F. W., Picone, M. A., Lipton, M. L., Izzetoglu, M., Hernandez, M., & Wagshul, M. E. (2023). Individual reserve in aging and neurological disease. Journal of Neurology, 270(6), 3179-3191. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-023-11656-8
Kaur, R., Motl, R. W., Sowers, R., & Hernandez, M. E. (2023). 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, 27(1), 190-201. https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2022.3208077
Kaur, R., Levy, J., Motl, R. W., Sowers, R., & Hernandez, M. E. (Accepted/In press). Deep Learning for Multiple Sclerosis Differentiation Using Multi-Stride Dynamics in Gait. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2023.3238680
Li, Y., Mo, P-C., Lin, C-F., Pauly, S., Kundal, N., Hernandez, M. E., & Jan, Y-K. (2023). Using near-infrared spectroscopy to investigate the effects of pressures and durations of cupping therapy on muscle blood volume and oxygenation. Journal of Biophotonics, [e202200342]. https://doi.org/10.1002/jbio.202200342