Faculty Director
Faculty Co-Directors
Faculty Researchers
Staff
Students
  Kathryn Brown
Massimo Cenciarini
Sandeep Devabhakthuni
Katie Dillon
Jeffrey Jacobson
Arash Mahboobin
Martijn Müller
Mark Musolino
Kathryn O'Connor
Jarad Prinkey
Collaborators

Arash Mahboobin
Department of Electrical Engineering, Doctoral Student

ACADEMIC HISTORY
Arash received a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Tehran Azad University in 1998. In 2002, he received a MS in General Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • Sensory re-weighting in Human Postural Control: investigate the interactions amongst the sensory systems involved and their respective roles in the balance process.
  • Human Postural Control Modeling: as a means of investigating properties of quiet stance in individuals.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  Mahboobin A, Loughlin PJ, Redfern MS, A model-based approach to attention and sensory integration in postural control of older adults. Neuroscience Letters. 429(2-3):147-51, 2007 Dec 18.
  Mahboobin A, Loughlin PJ, Redfern MS, Sparto PJ: Sensory re-weighting in human postural control. Experimental Brain Research, 167:260-267 2005.
  Mahboobin A, Loughlin PJ, Redfern MS, Sparto PJ. Sensory re-weighting in human postural control during moving-scene perturbations. Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts, 27:81, February 22-26, 2004.

 

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