Dr Navrag SINGH

Dr Navrag Singh received his PhD from the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, in 2012. During his PhD, he specialised in identifying adaptations in motor behaviour that occur with age and muscle fatigue. Currently, Dr Singh is involved in applying experimental and statistical approaches for benchmarking these motor behaviour adaptations with age, pathology as well as perturbations during activities of daily living. Benchmarking behavioural adaptations will enhance clinical uptake.

Within the flagship Future Health Technologies program, his project aims at assessing the risk of falling in elderly adults via the use of wearable sensors. The project focusses on generalising existing statistical models by using machine and deep learning approaches to provide features (signatures) within movement patterns that are precursors to fall risk. The advantages of such an approach are personalised assessment of fall risk in ecologically valid settings. The personalised fall risk will allow development of therapies targeted to the movement signature specific to the individual.

Please visit Dr Singh’s group at Neuromuscular Biomechanics affiliated with the Laboratory of Movement Biomechanics at ETHZ for more information.