Meet the team

PrincipAL Investigator

Dr. Jessica Avilés

Dr. Aviles specializes in understanding (1) how people move, (2) why they move the way they move, and (3) how to help them move better. Her passions lie in improving mobility by applying innovative training interventions and assistive devices.

email:

aviles@clemson.edu

phone:

864 – 656- 2145

Graduate Students

Duleepa Subasinghe

Duleepa graduated from the University of Kelaniya Srilanka with a BS in Physics and From the University of Colombo Srilanka with an MS in Applied Electronics. He has a strong focus on rehabilitation and sports biomechanics. With a passion for understanding human movement and optimizing performance. His current PhD research is focused on the effects of exoskeleton use and adaptation.

Kshitish is an Industrial Engineering MS student with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University, India. Currently he is focusing on mechanical designs and developing perturbation devices for fall prevention training. During his free time, he likes to read or watch documentaries about world history.

Undergraduate researchers

Shane Miller

NSF REU H-CORE Recipient

Shane is a biomedical engineering student from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK). She is joining the PHASE lab as part of the H-CORE REU program, which invites undergraduates to explore an interdisciplinary approach to human factors engineering research. Back at UTK, Shane works in the Upper Limb Assist Lab that develops assistive devices and prosthetics for individuals with musculoskeletal disorders. From her research and coursework experiences, she has found a passion for studying human movement and how devices/therapies affect performance. She is excited to consider an industrial engineering approach to biomedical research, as this adds an impactful aspect to biomedical engineering that she has never explored!