Fine motor control disorders are primarily found in patients with Parkinson’s Disease (PD), Essential Tremors, and Dystonia, and affect 10-12 million people in the US. Tremor can adversely impact a number of functions, including handwriting. Therefore, development of a writing implement that accommodates kinetic tremors is very useful and important. In this research project we aim to design a hand held device to accommodate tremors in handwriting. We first frame writing ability in the context of human factors and performance metrics (PM) on end-users, then build dynamic models of a pen being oscillated by the hand, under various conditions, and use a control theory approach to accommodate oscillations, on the pen. Finally, we will implement and construct these approaches into a “Smart Pen” that will be tested on an end-user population.

Education

Ph.D, in Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA (2011-ongoing)

Dissertation Topic: Cooperative and Consensus Control of Multi-Agent Network System

Advisor: Prof. Rifat Sipahi

B.S, in Biomedical Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China (2005-2009)

Graduation Project: Design of Ultrosonic Children’s Alarm Device

Advisor: Prof. Piding Li

B.S, in Business Administration, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China (2005-2009)

Graduation Paper: The Analysis of Lanzhou Bank’s management of marketing risk

Advisor: Prof. Yiyang Fan

Hobbies

Swimming, Reading Novels, Music, Playing Chinese Erhu and Flute, Traveling.