Nicholas Witham
  • Graduate Research Assist (RA), Elect & Computer Engineering

Publications

  • Nicholas S Witham, Christopher F Reiche, Thomas Odell, Katrina Barth, Chia-Han Chiang, Charles Wang, Agrita Dubey, Katie Wingel, Sasha Devore, Daniel Friedman, Bijan Pesaran, Jonathan Viventi & Florian Solzbacher (2022). Flexural bending to approximate cortical forces exerted by electrocorticography (ECoG) arrays. Journal of Neural Engineering. Vol. 19. Published, 08/17/2022.
  • Chia-Han Chiang, Charles Wang, Katrina Barth, Shervin Rahimpour, Michael Trumpis, Suseendrakumar Duraivel, Iakov Rachinskiy, Agrita Dubey, Katie E Wingel, Megan Wong, Nicholas S Witham, Thomas Odell, Virginia Woods, Brinnae Bent, Werner Doyle, Daniel Friedman, Eckardt Bihler, Christopher F Reiche, Derek G Southwell, Michael M Haglund, Allan H Friedman, Shivanand P Lad, Sasha Devore, Orrin Devinsky, Florian Solzbacher, Bijan Pesaran, Gregory Cogan & Jonathan Viventi (2021). Flexible, high-resolution thin-film electrodes for human and animal neural research. Journal of Neural Engineering. Published, 06/17/2021.

Research Statement

To research, develop, and provide high-performance sensors and actuators for assistive devices that are intuitive, affordable, and accessible

 

Research Keywords

  • rehabilitation
  • prosthetics
  • linear actuator
  • artificial muscle
  • actuator
  • Twisted
  • TCP
  • Sensors and Actuators
  • Renewable Energy
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Polymer
  • Muscles
  • Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)
  • MEMS
  • Instrumentation
  • Computer Vision
  • Coiled
  • Brain Imaging
  • Brain
  • Biosensors
  • Biomimetics
  • BioMEMS
  • Amputee Rehabilitation

Patents

  • HIGH DENSITY DISTANCE SENSOR ARRAY ALTERNATIVE TO SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY FOR THE CONTROL OF POWERED UPPER LIMB PROSTHESES (#US 20220160524 A1). Status: Issued. Inventors: Nicholas Witham, Devan Anderson, Farshad Mogharrabi, and Rami Shorti. File date 04/08/2020; Issue date 05/26/2022. Assignee: Gaia Tech, LLC.
  • Pneumatic otoscope that utilizes a novel monocular 3D computer vision system (trigonometry and laser diffraction) to quantify ear infections (#US 20220095907 A1). Status: Issued. Inventors: Nicholas Witham, Tarek Marrouche, Allison Kachel, and Bryan R. McRae. File date 04/05/2020; Issue date 03/31/2022. Assignee: Heimdall Health, LLC.