Vipul Lugade
Associate Professor and Director of the MARL
Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Biography
Vipul Lugade joined Binghamton University's Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences in September 2021. He is the director of the Motion Analysis Research Laboratory and an associate professor in the Division of Physical Therapy.
Lugade's research includes the development of tools to remotely monitor activity, the investigation of body-worn sensors, evaluating concussions in adolescents and the risk of falls in older adults, and the use of large-scale datasets to optimize disease prognosis and recommend individualized intervention in a range of populations.
Over the past 12 years, Lugade has provided data science and software solutions to medical, academic and independent engineering groups through a company he founded, Control One, LLC. He previously held positions as a postdoctoral fellow at the Mayo Clinic and as an independent scholar in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Education
- Postdoctoral fellowship, rehabilitation and body-worn monitoring, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
- PhD, human physiology and biomechanics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore.
- MS, human physiology and biomechanics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore.
- BS, engineering, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, Calif.