News

September 2026

Congratulations to Emily Bersin '28, Amy Enayati '28, and Frank Huang '29 for presenting great posters at the Harvey Mudd College Poster Session! Emily presented work investigating demographic, anatomical, and clinical factors associated with nonoperative treatment success. Amy presented work investigating how statistical shape models built from clinical MRIs compare to those built from research-grade MRIs. Frank presented work developing and characterizing a statistical shape model of knees with patellar instability.

September 2026

Welcome Sanya Arora '29 to the team! Sanya will join our ACL team in investigating cueing in ACL injury prevention.

July 2026

Congratulations to Annette Chang '27 for her poster presentation, "Patellar instability anatomy affects patellofemoral walking kinematics: a subject-specific musculoskeletal modeling study," at the World Congress of Biomechanics in Vancouver, BC!

May 2026

Welcome Emily Bersin '28 to the team! Emily will join our patellar instability team in investigating how knee anatomy influences patient outcomes.

May 2026

Congratulations to Ethan Sandoval '26, Izze Stolzoff '26, and Sara Wexler '26 on graduating! We are so grateful for your leadership in designing and executing a study to investigate the effect of cueing on drop jump biomechanics and in enhancing our statistical shape model of the knee. Wishing you the best for your futures!

March 2026

Welcome Amy Enayati '28 to the team! Amy will join our patellar instability team in investigating methods in statistical shape modeling.

March 2026

We enjoyed presenting "Let's Jump! Biomechanics of Movement" at the Women Engineers and Scientists of Tomorrow (WEST) Conference, hosted by Harvey Mudd College's Society of Women Engineers chapter. We had a great time sharing our research and experiences in engineering with local students. Thanks to Izze Stolzoff '26 and Sara Wexler '26 for leading much of the workshop!

January 2026

Welcome Tay Han '27, Frank Huang '29, Shreyan Mittal '27, Jasmine Liu '28 to the team! Tay and Frank will join our patellar instability team in investigating relevant anatomy. Shreyan and Jasmine will join Izze Stolzoff '26 and Sara Wexler '26 in investigating cueing in ACL injury prevention.

December 2025

We are excited to announce the publication of "3D Patellar instability Anatomical Severity Score (3D-PASS): A Novel Machine Learning Score Using 3D Bone Position From MRI to Predict Outcomes of Patellar Instability Treatment (Using a Subset of Data in the JUPITER Cohort)." Read the paper in OJSM or on our Publications page.

November 2025

Congratulations to Alex Bilello '28 for a great poster presentation at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research at California State University Channel Islands! Alex presented: "Few 3D knee morphology differences are associated with non-operative patellar instability treatment success."

October 2025

Congratulations to Ethan Sandoval '26 for a great poster presentation at Computational Cove: The Inaugural SoCal Research Computing & Data Symposium! Ethan presented: "Capturing cartilage and bone shape variation to support joint health research."

October 2025

Congratulations to Alex Bilello '28, Annette Chang '27, and Ethan Sandoval '26 for putting together and presenting great posters for the Harvey Mudd College Poster Session! Alex presented work investigating 3D differences between patients with patellar instability who are treated nonoperatively and either do or do not require later surgery. Annette presented work estimating patellofemoral joint mechanics using musculoskeletal simulation. Ethan presented work developing a statistical shape model of knees with patellar instability.

August 2025

Welcome Izze Stolzoff '26 to the team! Izze will join Sara Wexler '26 in investigating cueing in ACL injury prevention and brings experience in measuring movement with OpenCap.

July 2025

We are excited to present the 3D Patellar instability Anatomical Severity Score (3D-PASS), a novel metric of patellar instability severity that is associated with patient-reported outcomes one year after baseline, at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine meeting this month and at the American Society of Biomechanics meeting next month!

May 2025

Congratulations to George Skaff '25 on graduating! We are so grateful for your work in developing a bone and cartilage segmentation model to help launch HUMBLE off the ground. Best wishes for your next chapter in your MS at Vanderbilt!

March 2025

Welcome Alex Bilello '28, Andra Marinescu '27, and Ethan Sandoval '26 to the team! Alex, Andra, and Ethan span three majors (Engineering, Physics, and CS) and three class years (first-year, sophomore, and junior). The will join Annette for a ten-week summer research program in HUMBLE.

January 2025

Welcome Annette Chang '27, George Skaff '25, Sara Wexler '26, and Wendi Zheng '28 to the team! George brings in experience in machine learning and dynamics; Wendi comes with experience in AI in healthcare, Sara brings experience in human-centered design and biomedical devices, and Annette comes with experience in wearable technology and neuromuscular biomechanics. Each is an athlete (many for CMS) and brings a great positive research mindset in addition to their technical expertise!