Lyndia Wu

Assistant Professor

Canada Research Chair in Wearable Brain Injury Sensing

B.A.Sc. (Toronto); M.S. (Stanford); Ph.D. (Stanford); Postdoctoral Fellowship (Stanford)

Selected Awards

• Scholar Award, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, 2019.
• Junior Faculty Teaching Award, UBC Mechanical Engineering, 2022.

Research Interests

• Wearable Sensors
• Brain Health Sensing
• Injury Biomechanics
• Sleep Disorders
• Sensors and Instrumentation
• AI in Healthcare

Current Research Work

The general goal of the lab is to develop novel sensing and data analytics to study the biomechanics of the human body in health and disease states. One main research area is brain injury or concussion biomechanics, where we employ sensing, modeling, and machine learning tools to study the mechanism of traumatic brain injury. Other areas include the development of novel sensors and algorithms to study sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea.

Selected Publications

• Clansey, A.^†, Bondi, D.^†, Kenny, R., Luke, D., Masood, Z., Gao, Y., Elez, M., Ji, S., Rauscher, A., van Donkelaar, P., Wu, L.C., On-field head acceleration exposure measurements using instrumented mouthguards: multi-stage screening to optimize data quality. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 52(10): 2897-2910. (2024). ^†co-first authors
• Rezaei, A. ^†, Wang, T.Y.L. ^†, Titina, C., Wu, L.C. Immediate and transient perturbances in EEG within seconds following controlled soccer head impact. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 52(10): 2666-2677. (2024). ^†co-first authors
• Takagi, R., Wanasundara, C., Wu, L.C., Ipsiroglu, O., Kuo, C., Sleep after concussion: a scoping review of sensor technologies. Journal of Neurotrauma. 42(15): 1827-1841. (2024).
• Luu, C.^†, Gao, Y.^†, Nguyen, H.C., Soltanian, S., Virji-Babul, N., Servati, P., van der Loos, H.F.M., Wu, L.C., Correlating motion artifacts in wet and dry electrodes with head kinematics during physical activities in ambulatory EEG monitoring. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 73: 1-10. (2024) ^†co-first authors
• Zhang, C., Bartels, L., Clansey, A., Kloiber, J., Bondi, D., van Donkelaar, P., Wu, L.C., Rauscher, A., Ji, S., A computational pipeline towards large-scale and multiscale modelling of traumatic axonal injury. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 171(108109): 1-13. (2024).
• Kenny, R., Elez, M., Clansey, A., Virji-Babul, N., & Wu, L.C. Individualized monitoring of longitudinal heading exposure in soccer. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 1796.  (2024).
• Liu, E., Luu, C., & Wu, L.C. Resting State EEG Variability and Implications for Interpreting Clinical Effect Sizes. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. (2024).
• Luke, D., Kenny, R., Bondi, D., Clansey, A. C., & Wu, L.C. On-field instrumented mouthguard coupling. Journal of biomechanics, 162, 111889. (2024).
• Qiao, C. Z., Nasrabadi, A. M., Partovi, R., Belzner, P., Kuo, C., Wu, L.C., & Blouin, J. S. Multidirectional Human-in-the-Loop Balance Robotic System. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. (2023)
• Gabler, L., Patton, D., Begonia, M., Daniel, R., Rezaei, A., Huber, C., Siegmund, G., Rooks, T., Wu, L.C. Consensus Head Acceleration Measurement Practices (CHAMP) – Laboratory Validation of Wearable Sensor Systems. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. Online. 1-16. (2022)
• Rezaei, A., Wu, L.C. Automated soccer head impact exposure tracking using video and deep learning. Scientific Reports. 12(1): 1-12. (2022).
• Kenny, R., Elez, M., Clansey, A., Virji-Babul, N., and Wu, L.C., Head Impact Exposure and Biomechanics in University Varsity Women’s Soccer. Annals of biomedical engineering, Online. (2022).
• Wang, T., Kenny, R. and Wu, L.C., Head impact sensor triggering bias introduced by linear acceleration thresholding. Annals of biomedical engineering, 49(12): 3189-3199. (2021).
• Qiao, C. Z., Chen, A., Blouin, J. S., and Wu, L. C. Potential mechanisms of acute standing balance deficits after concussions and subconcussive head impacts: a review. Annals of biomedical engineering, Online. 1-23. (2021).

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