Invited Speakers
 


Ajay SETH

Graduated from the University of Waterloo (Canada) in 1997 with a Bachelor’s degree in Systems Design Engineering with industrial experience at the Canadian Space Agency (Ottawa, CA), CAE Electronics Inc. (Montreal, CA) and Visible Genetics Inc. (VGI: now Bayer Diagnostics; Toronto, CA). He received his Master’s degree in Systems Design Engineering specializing in the modeling and simulation of human upper-limb movements using optimal control theory. He completed his Master’s degree in 2000 and returned to VGI as a Software Engineer to develop proprietary DNA sequencing and diagnostic algorithms. Passionate about musculoskeletal modeling and biomechanics, he returned to academia in 2002 to pursue his Doctorate under the guidance of Marcus G. Pandy at the University of Texas at Austin. His doctorate work has focused on generating human musculoskeletal system simulations with both greater computing efficiency and realism by adopting control system techniques that combine forward and inverse dynamics analyses. He was a 2004 ISB Dissertation Grant holder, a University of Texas Continuing Fellow (2004-05) and was granted the Komor New Investigator Award by the ISB Technical Group on Computer Simulation in 2005.
His ongoing interests include the automatic generation of patient specific models from imaging and clinical protocols and the integration of these models and simulations into the clinical regimen to analyze and treat musculoskeletal disorders.

Stefano CORAZZA

 

He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford Biomotion Lab and Contract Professor of Bioengineering of Human Movement at University of Padova (I). He majored in Mechanical Engineering in 1998 at the University of Padova (I), received his M.S. in Design from University of Florence (I) in 1999 and received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from University of Parma and Padova in 2002 and 2005, respectively. His current main research area is markerless motion capture for biomechanics. Dr. Corazza has published in Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation.
Lars MÜNDERMANN He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in Biomechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He majored in Physics at the Universität Konstanz, Germany, received his M.S. in Physics from Portland State University, OR in 1998 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science / Computer Graphics from University of Calgary, Canada in 2003. He has focused his research on the development of a markerless motion capture system for biomechanical and medical applications. Dr. Mündermann has published in applied Physics, at SIGGRAPH, EuroGraphics, Plant Physiology, and Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitatio
Fabio Remondino graduated in environmental eng. at the TU Milan, Italy in 1998
- PhD in 'image-base modeling for object and human reconstruction' at the Institue of Geodesy and Photogrammetry - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- author of ca 40 scientific publications
- organized / co-organized 5 international conferences
- serving as Chairman of ISPRS Commission V - Working Group 4 on 'Virtual Reality and Computer Animation'
- Awarded with E.H.Thompson Award in 2005 and ISPRS Best Young Author Award in 2002
- interests: human body modeling, cultural heritage documentation, machine vision, close-range photogrammetry
- actual position: scientific researcher at IGP - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Pierre Loslover Pierre Loslever obtained his PhD in Human and Industrial Automatics in 1988. The topic was the ergonomics of the sitting posture in the data entry task using posture, peformance and subjective data. The data analysis was performed thanks to multivariate statistical methods based on 1) clustering to get postural classes and 2) factor analysis interfaced with fuzzy windowing to get relation between objective and subjective data and the influence of the factors on the measurement variables. Since 2002 he is professor in automatic control at the university of Valenciennes and his research field concerns the data analysis in Human component system studies.
Ugo Della Corce Ugo Della Croce
- Associate Professor, Dipartimento Scienze Biomediche, Università degli Studi di Sassari
- Adjunct Professor, PM&R Department, University of Virginia Medical School, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
- Lecturer, PM&R Department Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Main research activity: human movement analysis.

 

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