Seattle, Washington, United States
Kurtlab brings forward a novel platform for investigating the mechanobiology of the brain in health and disease by developing advanced neuroimaging tools and multi-scale computational models of the human brain.
Kurtlab brings forward a novel platform for investigating the mechanobiology of the brain in health and disease by developing advanced neuroimaging tools and multi-scale computational models of the human brain.
My research is focused on understanding and modeling of brain dynamics with applications towards designing protective equipment for traumatic brain injury.
I work with Prof. Alexander F. Vakakis and Prof. Lawrence A. Bergman towards my PhD degree in Mechanical Science and Engineering Department at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My research is focused on a new approach for global/local nonlinear system identification of general mechanical systems. The global aspect of the approach is based on analyzing the free and forced dynamics of the system in the frequency-energy domain through the construction of free decay or steady-state frequency-energy plots (FEPs). The local aspect of the approach considers specific damped transitions and leads to low-dimensional reduced order models that accurately reproduce these transitions. The main advantage of this approach is that no specific type of nonlinearity is assumed a priori, and the identified model is updated solely based on time series measurements. As such, the approach is applicable to a broad class of nonlinear systems, including systems with strong nonlinearities and non-smooth effects.
I worked as a summer research intern with Prof. Yves Bellouard on building an opto-mechatronical system.