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Dr. Thanassis Rikakis is the director of the Interactive Neurorehabilitation Lab at USC. He is Dean of the Iovine and Young Academy at USC and a Professor in Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Rikakis leads the biomedical and computational movement algorithms research in the INR lab.

Dr. Pavan Turaga is a Professor in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering, and the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. Dr. Turaga co-leads the computer vision and machine learning aspects of INR research.

Dr. Mike Buehrer is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Director of Wireless @ Virginia Tech, a comprehensive research group focusing on wireless communications. Dr. Buehrer leads the development of the wireless architectures in the INR SARAH project.

Dr. Alan Asbeck is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech and the director of the Assistive Robotics Lab at VT. Dr. Asbeck leads the development of the activity sensing and analysis algorithms in the INR SARAH project.

Dr. Carmel Majidi is the Clarence H. Adamson Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Majidi directs the Soft Machines Lab at CMU and leads the microelectronics and soft matter systems aspects in the INR SARAH project.

Dr. Steven L. Wolf is a Research Physiologist at the Center for Visual and Neurocognitive Rehabilitation and Professor in the Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Medicine, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell Biology, at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Wolf is the primary stroke rehabilitation expert in the INR lab.

Tamim Ahmed is a Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering at USC. His research focuses on understanding upper extremity stroke survivor’s movement patterns and stroke rehabilitation in the home and the clinic. Tamim is the lead developer of the segmentation algorithms and task assessment models for the INR SARAH and ARAT projects.

Lucy Guo is a Masters student in Computer Science at USC. She leads the development of the interactive interfaces for distributed data capture and analytics in the INR lab. 

Grace True is junior undergraduate student in Biomedical Engineering at USC with an emphasis in Electrical Engineering. She is interested in the intersection between technology, engineering and medicine and is responsible for segmenting video data for the ARAT project.

Don-Roberts Emenonye is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. His research interests span the areas of communication theory and wireless positioning and he is leading the beacon location sensing aspects of the SARAH project.

Mohammod Shaikh Sadid Khan is a software engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology industry. He is collaborating with the INR research group in migrating the existing SARAH storage system to a database to make it more manageable and secure. He is also responsible for implementing a data access service for the project.

Riyank Mukhopadhyay is a Masters student in the Geometric Media Lab at Arizona State University. He contributes to the computer vision research in the SARAH project.