Melissa Boswell Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Driver of JGHPI’s human performance research vision by bridging multidisciplinary groups biomechanics and leading collaborative research projects between JGHPI and outside organizations and universities.

Stanford, California, United States

• Designed and led a decentralized clinical trial to test if our mindset intervention improves physical activity and osteoarthritis symptoms in individuals with knee osteoarthritis• Integrated the use of a digital biomechanical biomarker as an outcome measure.

Palo Alto, California

• Created a web-app to collect and analyze self-collected at-home videos of the 5-repetition sit-to-stand test.• Predicted osteoarthritis presence and other health variables from kinematics extracted from the at-home videos.• Developed a digital intervention to improve mindsets of people with osteoarthritis and increase physical activity engagement.• Built deep learning models for predicting internal knee loading during walking.• Performed motion capture analysis in gait retraining research for people with osteoarthritis.• Measured in-vivo sarcomere adaptations to eccentric muscle training

Stanford, California, United States

• Founded and co-host a podcast on the latest advancements in biomechanics and advice from leading experts around the world on how to improve scientific research and culture.

• Led a team of engineers in ideating and developing a web application for at-home bike fitting via a 2D video.

• Improved user experience through refinement of user interaction with Motion Coach (TM) AI algorithm for real-time motion tracking.• Advised validation of digital motion tracking tools for functional monitoring.• Liaised between software engineers, user experience designers, clinicians,and management team.

Cape Town, South Africa

• Designed experimental fixtures to test dynamic penetration of biological materials and obtained dynamic properties of skin.

Akron, Ohio

• Modeled knee mechanics using 3D computational models to understand relationships between knee ligament lengths and distal femoral geometry.• Analyzed shear and pressure data of soft tissue mechanics under the feet of diabetic neuropathic patients.• Presented at 4 conferences and coauthored a publication in the Journal of Biomechanics.

Akron, Ohio

This program gives experience on the process of commercializing technology. As a participant, I was given a business mentor to work with and attended weekly training sessions. Because my technology was a medical device, I benefited immensely by better understanding the steps to creating a medical device from the idea to the actual product.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

• Analyzed human injury during crash simulations using LS-DYNA with the Global Human Body Model Consortium (GHBMC).• Built neck musculature and improved biofidelity of head and neck kinematics of GHBMC computationally efficient model.• Presented poster at 2015 Biomedical Engineering Society Conference

Saline, Michigan

• Performed finite element analysis with LS-DYNA to predict vehicle deformation modes to achieve FMVSS standards and IIHS ratings.• Developed countermeasures to improve safety with vehicle implementation.• Built full vehicle FE simulations and component tests and correlated with real-life collisions.• Performed safety research for the Collaborative Safety Research Center projects including THUMS FEA human body model.

Akron, Ohio

• Measured movements and dimensions of bovine spine in comparison to human spine.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Bioengineering

Master Of Science - Ms, Bioengineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Biomedical Engineering, 3.94

Biomechanics Track