Research / 2026 — present
Wearable Biosensing Research
Research assistant work at McMaster since January 2026, focused on wearable-sensor literature, identifying suitable sensors, and developing speed-measurement test guidelines.
Context
The problem
Understand which sensing approaches are suitable for a measurement before treating a device reading as evidence. For speed testing, that also means specifying how a test starts, how sensors activate, and what a comparison can establish.
How it fits together
Architecture & approach
This is ongoing learning, literature work, and early experimentation. The paper, multi-sensor test guidelines, and validation work remain unfinished; unpublished material is not shown here.
- ReadSensor literature
- IdentifyCapabilities + limits
- PlanTests + activation
- ExperimentEarly practical work
My contribution
What I worked on
- Reviewed approximately 16 wearable-biosensor studies and worked on a cross-paper synthesis.
- Studied the capabilities and limitations of heart-rate, GPS, inertial, and infrared sensing.
- Processed personal run data into CSV files and tried Arduino speed tracking.
- Used draft-combine 40-yard dash data to help identify test cases and plan sensor activation and measurement conditions.
Technical choices
The choices behind the work
Published athletic benchmarks can help choose test cases. They do not substitute for a reference measurement or validate a sensor system.
The scope needs to stay precise: a literature review, an early experiment, and a completed research paper are different outputs. The first two inform work that is still in development.
Looking back
Results & current status
Research is ongoing. The paper and test guidelines are unfinished, and there is no completed multi-sensor validation study.
Testing and evidence
Practical work to date includes personal-run CSV processing and an Arduino speed experiment. There is no completed, validated multi-sensor study or finished paper to present.
What I learned & what comes next
The next useful step is a clear test specification: the sensor, its activation condition, the recorded fields and units, and a reference method. Making those assumptions explicit is part of the research, even before a final result exists.
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