About Me
I am the founding director of the Center for Remote Patient and Participant Monitoring, co-director of the M-Sense Research Group and an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
I earned my master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Michigan, where I also completed a postdoctoral fellowship. I then led digital biomarker development at MC10, Inc., helping to achieve FDA 510(k) clearance for the BioStamp wearable sensor platform.
After my time at MC10, Inc., I moved back to academia, first as the Karl and Mary Fessenden Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Vermont and then as a visiting associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford, before joining the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
I have received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, was elected to the Inventor Hall of Fame at the University of Vermont and was selected for the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Additionally, I am a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and an elected member of the IEEE EMBS Technical Committee on Wearable Biomedical Sensors and Systems.
My group conducts translational digital health research with the aim of empowering patients with digital health technologies. My research program is funded by the NSF, National Institutes of Health (NIH) and industry. The program pairs innovations in wearable and mobile technologies with my expertise in user-centered design, biomedical signal processing, biomechanics, data science and machine learning to develop, validate and commercialize new digital health technologies.
Many of our studies have been conducted with collaborators across a wide array of disciplines, including neurology, physical therapy, mental health and orthopedics. Our work has been featured in the popular press in outlets that include WIRED and Mashable and commercialized to form the heart of product offerings from 8 companies.