Dr. Calvin Kuo


Assistant Professor

Biomedical Engineering

Faculty of Applied Science

Cavin Kuo is an Assistant Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering (SBME) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is the head of the Human Motion Biomechanics Lab (HuMBL) at UBC, where he focuses on wearable technology. His PhD work at Stanford University focused on head impact research and data filtering.
 

Education
Post-Doctoral Scholar, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
PhD, Engineering, Stanford University (Stanford, CA, USA)
BSc, Mechanical Engineering, The California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA, USA)


Research Interests
Musculoskeletal modeling of traumatic brain injury
Parameter identification
Wearable sensors in concussion biomechanics
Bayesian filter for high rate human motion measurements


Honours & Awards
Michael Smith Health Research BC 2023 Scholar
Killam Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship

Supervisor(s)

First Nations land acknowledegement

The UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.


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