Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering
Contact Information
Campus: Fairfax
Building: Peterson Hall
Room 3106
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Biography
Qi Wei leads the Biomechanics lab at the College of Engineering and Computing at George Mason University. The lab’s research focuses on developing and applying computational methods to advance the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the oculomotor system and the musculoskeletal system. Using clinical data-driven biomechanical models, ocular ultrasound imaging, and a robotic platform of the ocular motor plant, the lab examines the coordination of extraocular muscles as well as the biomechanics of strabismus. Applying quantitative ultrasound image analysis of the pelvic floor, the lab studies childbirth-related pelvic floor muscle injuries. Other ongoing projects include spatial analysis of cancer microenvironment and machine learning control strategies for robotic systems.
Research
2019 - : Data-Driven Biomechanical Simulation of Eye Movement and Strabismus. Funded by NIH.
2014 - 2017: The Neural Control of Internal Joint State Variables. Funded by Northwestern University and NIH.
2018 - 2021: Life STEM EAGER: Exploring the Relationship between High School Mathematics and Bioscience, Standardized Testing and College Performance in Biotechnology-related Fields. Funded by NSF.
Research Interests
Computational Biomechanics, Medical Image Analysis, Modeling and Simulation, Applied Machine Learning
Degrees
- PhD, Computer Science, Rutgers University
- MSc in Computer Science, University of British Columbia
- BE in Computer Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology