Rory O’ Keeffe (MERIIT’s incoming Ph.D. student) in collaboration with his teammates at PhysioAI won the NYU-Tandon Telehealth Challenge

PhysioAI: Smart, Speedy, Remote Rehabilitation: An online platform utilizing advanced machine-learning techniques to provide physical rehabilitation and therapy for patients.

 

“The NYU Tandon Made Challenge is an innovation competition and opportunity for all incoming NYU Tandon students, both undergraduate and graduate, to be engrained in the entrepreneurial culture at the school. Student teams will focus their immense talents on solving pressing healthcare challenges during and after the COVID-19 crisis — and to potentially see their solutions brought to market.”

Author: Farokh Atashzar Atashzar

Bio: Atashzar is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at New York University (NYU). He received his Ph.D. in 2016 and has recently joined NYU. His research interests include areas of applied computer science, robotics, neuro-rehabilitation robots, neuroscience, smart prostheses, and human-robot augmentation. His work has been featured in about 30 journal papers, 30 peer-reviewed conference papers, and 2 book chapters. Postdoctoral Journey: Prior to joining NYU, Atashzar was a senior postdoctoral scientist in the Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College, University of London, UK, sponsored by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada. From February 2017 to August 2018, he served as a postdoctoral research associate at Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics (CSTAR) center. Awards: His many awards include the highly-competitive Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) in 2013 and an NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship (PDF) in 2018. He was ranked among the top 5 applicants in Canada for the 2018 NSERC PDF competition in the Electrical and Computer Engineering sector.

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