Jonathan Weisz

I received a BS in Biomedical Engineering with a concentration in Materials Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2006. From 2005 to 2007, I worked on robotics and augmented reality systems with the Lab for Computational Motor Control on projects involving phantom limb pain and bilateral motor control under Reza Shadmehr. Since 2007, I have been part of the Biomedical Engineering PhD program at USC as part of the Brain Body Dynamics Lab.

I am primarily interested in sensorimotor integration and grasp planning algorithms that can be used to understand human dextrous manipulation and produce artificial dextrous manipulators for prosthetic and industrial purposes. I am also interested in computer modelling of grasping and manipulation dynamics. My primary research goal is to extend Madhusudan Venkadesan's thesis work on sensorimotor integration models for manipulating unstable objects. In my spare time, I take on small coding projects in making better tools for neuroscience research - such as a much faster implementation of the statistical learning approach to synapse counting in electron microscopy images.

I would like to find more time to play with the Linux kernel memory manager.