Biomedical Engineering

Building Wearable Assistive Systems

PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto, working at the intersection of wearable systems, signal processing, embedded computing, and rehabilitation technology.

About

I'm a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto, working in the Dr. Kei Masani Lab on wearable assistive systems and rehabilitation technology.

My Master's, under Dr. Steve Mann, focused on signal processing, embedded computing, and hardware acceleration for biomedical sensing, including GPU-accelerated adaptive time–frequency methods and embedded EEG data acquisition systems aimed at making rehabilitation technology more accessible. My current PhD research builds on that systems perspective, applying sensing and computational methods to wearable technologies for mobility and rehabilitation.

I'm particularly interested in the space between algorithms and physical systems: developing signal-processing methods that are fast and practical enough to run on real sensing hardware, in service of assistive and rehabilitation technology. More broadly, my work sits at the intersection of signal processing, embedded sensing, and wearable assistive systems.

Research

Signal Processing · GPU Computing · EEG · Time-Frequency Analysis

Adaptive Chirplet Transform

My Master's research focused on developing and accelerating adaptive chirplet-based methods for analyzing non-stationary signals, including EEG, EMG, and radar signals whose frequency content changes over time. I investigated how to make these methods substantially more practical, including GPU acceleration, residual-based decomposition, and improvements to numerical stability and multi-channel scalability.

This work has been applied to biomedical signals including EEG, with applications spanning sleep-state and seizure-state analysis.

See the chirplet transform in action

Publications

My research has resulted in publications spanning adaptive time-frequency signal processing, biomedical sensing, embedded systems, and rehabilitation technology.

Publications
Edited Volumes / Proceedings

Projects

Alongside my research, I build software and hardware systems to explore ideas in sensing, computation, and human movement.

Drone Development

Custom drone with a 3D-printed frame and embedded flight controller. Currently going through a redesign.

In Progress Embedded C++ Sensor Fusion 3D Printing

Awards

Recognition received for research contributions and technical work.

Best Poster Paper Award · IEEE ICCE 2025
Best Session Paper · IEEE ICCE 2025
Pauline Wong Graduate Scholarship · University of Toronto · 2026

Contact

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