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Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology
It's been about 3 months since my time in Urbino, Italy at the Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology! Here I look back fondly on the things I learned, friends I made, and pasta I ate.
The Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology (USSP) i...
Post · October 02, 2023
Changelog: Speed up site access
Accessing sites is now several milliseconds faster now because I added indexing to subdomain values in sites.
I can't believe that I didn't have this indexed for a long time. I didn't notice it initially because there were only a few sites in Owl...
Post · October 02, 2023
Changelog: Reduce Ruby memory usage with jemalloc
I just reduced the amount of server memory used by Owlstown. This means that Owlstown websites can respond to more requests. It also means that webpages will load faster.
I learned about using jemalloc to reduce memory usage from this blog post b...
Post · September 28, 2023
I attended the NSF DARE Conference in LA as a selected Fellow
I attended the NSF DARE Conference: Transformative Opportunities for Modeling in Neurorehabilitation in Los Angeles as one of ten selected Fellows. This was a great meeting between clinicians, engineers, and modelers to try and break down the barr...
Post · September 27, 2023
I presented at ISB in Fukuoka, Japan
I presented our latest results from our asymmetry adaptation study using our robotic hip exoskeleton at the International Society of Biomechanics meeting in Fukuoka, Japan. It was a pleasure to catch up with old friends and meet new colleagues! Th...
Post · September 27, 2023
My Citizen Science Research for the NASA DART Mission and Learnings from the 2023 Planetary Defense Conference, UNOOSA, Vienna
Arushi Nath.
The 8th Planetary Defense Conference was held at the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in Vienna, Austria, from 3 - 7 April 2023.
The Conference, organized by the International Academy of Astronautics, is held...
Post · September 27, 2023
Split belt treadmill simulations published in the Journal of Neurophysiology
My simulation study using a musculoskeletal model to explore what drives gait adaptation on a split belt treadmill was just published in the Journal of Neurophysiology. Please take a look at the link below or check out our preprint if you're inter...
Post · September 27, 2023
R21 Trailblazer awarded
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) at the NIH has awarded the collaborative team between Meghan Huber, Wouter Hoogkamer, and myself a 3-year, $612.7K R21 Trailblazer grant to support my variable stiffness footw...
Post · September 27, 2023