Ismail Araci
Santa Clara University, CA·Biomedical Engineering·Early-career
Musculoskeletal disorders, which affect muscles, bones and joints, are the leading cause of disability worldwide. They are rising as the population ages, and physical rehabilitation is the main treatment.
- Fields
Biomedical Engineering
Engineering
- Topics
wearable sensors
skin-mountable biosensors
microfluidics
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2027
What they work on
- Measure how skin stretches during specific movements, such as facial or shoulder rehabilitation exercises, using digital image correlation to map skin strain fields, and use these patterns as a driving force for microfluidics.
- Design capillaric sensor networks, tiny fluid-channel circuits pumped by body movement, with electrical readouts for real-time wireless data transfer and image-based readouts for fluidic data storage.
- Build a microfluidic computer-aided design tool that models capillaric circuits as electrical circuits, to choose device parameters for analog and digital signal processing in the fluid.
- Develop manufacturing methods for large-area, skin-conforming microfluidic devices and stable electrode-ionic liquid interfaces, and validate a wireless rehabilitation-tracking patch on volunteers.
More about the research
Patients and clinicians have little way to track whether exercises are done often enough and with correct form. A wearable device that counts and checks specific movements could improve how well patients follow their therapy. It could also support studies linking rehabilitation exercises to health outcomes.
Why it matters
People recovering from musculoskeletal injuries and disorders often do rehabilitation exercises at home with no feedback on whether they are doing them correctly. A thin, low-power skin patch that counts repetitions and checks form could help patients stay on track. It could give therapists data on progress and support clinical studies of which exercises improve health outcomes.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Mauro Rodriguez
Brown University, RI·Engineering
Develop a method to make linearly graded hydrogels whose stiffness is tuned with ultraviolet light, to serve as model non-uniform soft materials.
Elliot Botvinick
University of California-Irvine, CA·Biomedical Engineering
Design and build a minimally invasive, ultra-thin flexible sensor placed just under the skin that continuously measures glucose, lactate, oxygen, and pH — analytes that report tissue oxygen delivery and metabolic stress.
Ranajay Ghosh
University of Central Florida, FL·Engineering·Early-career
Test whether concentrated salt solutions give green strength to oxide and nitride ceramic powder beds through ion transport and particle bridging during wetting and drying, using mechanical testing, microscopy and x-ray imaging.
The school
Santa Clara University: 8 labs on PI Pages, $8M a year on research, 24 research doctorates a year.
Reach out
A start for your email. Fill in the brackets.