- Biomechatronics
Christopher Shallal is a current graduate student in the Biomechatronics lab that specializes in neural interfacing and control system design. He is a part of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology PhD program.
My doctoral research focuses on advancing intuitive human-machine interfacing. In practice, intuitive control remains elusive because many interfaces rely on weak, indirect, or unstable signals, or require extensive processing that obscures the user's underlying motor intent. I am therefore developing tools that maximize the information we can extract from the peripheral nervous system. To further this goal, I design novel interfaces that can efficiently read from and write to the human nervous system. These tools, such as previous work in the lab called magnetomicrometry, are now being evaluated in an FDA IDE clinical trial (NCT06391697) to assess their feasibility for restoring intuitive control of bionic prostheses.
Please check out my website for the latest information regarding publications, code, videos and news: chshallal.github.io