Karl Zelik

https://theconversation.com/its-2019-wheres-my-supersuit-115679 The piece has been picked up by >30 media outlets such as HuffPost, Phys.org, Curiosity.com, Orbiter Magazine & Inverse.com. Read More

In anticipation of the Boston Marathon, inverse.com releases an article on our wearable sensor research to monitor and prevent running-related injuries: https://www.inverse.com/article/54835-wearables-marathon-running-training This vision builds upon Emily’s recent paper that highlighted that ground reaction force metrics (like impact peaks and loading rates) cannot be assumed to reflect injury… Read More

Maura Eveld (Zelik Lab) and Jantzen Lee (Goldfarb Lab) are both members of CREATE, and amongst this year’s recipients of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Read More

National Biomechanics Day, our biggest outreach event of the year got even larger this year, drawing nearly 400 visitors to CREATE over 3 days, including about 250 middle and high school students. Read more here: https://engineering.vanderbilt.edu/news/2019/national-biomechanics-day-draws-370-visitors-to-assistive-tech-labs/ We also participated in the ISBS Twitter competition, and received the award… Read More

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8667351?arnumber=8667351&source=authoralert Other authors were Josh Tacca (an undergraduate at Vanderbilt, who is now a PhD student at the University of Colorado) and Karl Zelik. This paper also received some nice media write-ups such as: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/vanderbilt-ankle-exoskeleton/ Or for Karl’s Twitter summary: The latest chapter in… Read More

Eric showcased his rigorous work and keen expertise related to ankle and foot biomechanics. It has been a pleasure and privilege to have him in lab, and to learn with him and from him. He has completed and published an impressive body of work, reflecting his important contributions to this scientific field. Read More

This collaborative research brings together expertise in biomechanics (Zelik), wearable robotics (Goldfarb) and machine learning (Volgyesi). The objective of this research is to address core scientific challenges related to sensing, actuation and control of cyber-physically assistive clothing (CPAC), for the purpose of reducing societal incidence of low back pain, by preventing… Read More

Congrats to Shane King & Erik Lamers who were each recognized for their excellent presentation at the Mid-South Biomechanics Conference, along with 4 other student presenters. King, S. T., Eveld, M. E., Martinez, A., Zelik, K. E. and Goldfarb, M. Development of a novel gait perturbation system for the study… Read More

Foot and shoe responsible for majority of soft tissue work in early stance of walking Soft tissues in the body perform mechanical work through wobbling and deforming. We estimated the percentage due to foot/shoe deformation in early stance of walking. . Foot/shoe contributed ∼60–70% of the soft tissue work during… Read More

This study was carried out by Emily Matijevich (PhD student in Mechanical Engineering) in collaboration with Dr. Leon Scott (Dept. of Orthopaedics), and Lauren Branscombe and Prof. Karl Zelik (Mechanical Engineering). Links 1-4 below progress from least to most technical, and Link 5 allows you to download free software… Read More