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    • Intervertebral disc tissue-level mechanics
    • Intervertebral disc joint-level mechanics
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    • Machine learning for in vivo soft tissue strain prediction
    • 3D printing/biomimetic composites
    • Machine learning- and sensor-based posture recognition
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Meet the members of the O'Connell Lab!

(Aspiring undergraduate researchers interested in our work please fill in the Google form through this link first. Please contact Yousuf Abubakr at yousufabubakr123 at berkeley dot edu at berkeley dot edu if you have further questions or concerns.)

Faculty

Grace D. O’Connell, PhD

Grace D. O’Connell, PhD

PhD Candidates

Erin Archibeck

Erin Archibeck

PhD Students

Blythe Dumerer

Blythe Dumerer

Pete Gatenil

Pete Gatenil

Joanna Veres

Joanna Veres

Yousuf Abubakr

Yousuf Abubakr

Lab Alumni

Ishan Dogra

Ishan Dogra

Yarah Feteih (BS, 2023)

Yarah Feteih (BS, 2023)

Andre Montes (PhD, 2024)

Andre Montes (PhD, 2024)

Shiyin Lim (PhD, 2024)

Shiyin Lim (PhD, 2024)

Melissa Abed (MS, 2023)

Melissa Abed (MS, 2023)

Reece Huff

Reece Huff

Yishu Yan (PhD, 2024)

Yishu Yan (PhD, 2024)

Freddie Houghton (MS, 2022)

Freddie Houghton (MS, 2022)

Minhao (PhD, 2021)

Gabriel Lopez (PhD, 2022)

Gabriel Lopez (PhD, 2022)

Emily Lindberg (PhD, 2023)

Emily Lindberg (PhD, 2023)

Jonathan McKinley (PhD, 2023)

Jonathan McKinley (PhD, 2023)

Benjamin Werbner (PhD, 2021)

Benjamin Werbner (PhD, 2021)

Semih Bezci (PhD, 2019)

Bo Yang (PhD, 2019)

Megan Pendleton (PhD, 2018)

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