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Lyndia Wu

Assistant Professor
Academic Appointment
Assistant Professor
Research Focus
Traumatic Brain Injury
Degrees / Designations

B.A.Sc., M.Sc., PhD

Contact Info
lwu@mech.ubc.ca
604-827-2354
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Biography

Dr. Lyndia Wu is a principal investigator at the International Collaboration On Repair Discoveries (ICORD) and an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia. 

Her research program focuses on the biomechanics of mild traumatic brain injuries, known more commonly as concussions. In order to develop more accurate measures for the mechanisms of brain injury during head impact, Dr. Wu developed a mouth guard with sensors that can be worn during physical activities in her PhD work. This mouth guard captures both the translational and rotational kinematics of head motion and the skull, detects head impact and dangerous motions of the head with high sensitivity, and may enable the discovery of more accurate predictors of injury than traditional measures. In addition, Dr. Wu investigates the short- and long-term neurological effects of head trauma. Once she has established the link between the physical mechanisms of brain injury and the resultant neurological changes, she intends to further develop wearable sensors into a real-time injury screening device.

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Publications

  • Annals of biomedical engineering -

    Potential Mechanisms of Acute Standing Balance Deficits After Concussions and Subconcussive Head Impacts: A Review.

    Qiao CZ, Chen A, Blouin JS, Wu LC
  • Scientific reports -

    A new open-access platform for measuring and sharing mTBI data.

    Domel AG, Raymond SJ, Giordano C, Liu Y, Yousefsani SA, Fanton M, Cecchi NJ, Vovk O, Pirozzi I, Kight A, Avery B, Boumis A, Fetters T, Jandu S, Mehring WM, Monga S, Mouchawar N, Rangel I, Rice E, Roy P, Sami S, Singh H, Wu L, Kuo C, Zeineh M, Grant G, Camarillo DB
  • Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials -

    Viscoelasticity of children and adolescent brains through MR elastography.

    Ozkaya E, Fabris G, Macruz F, Suar ZM, Abderezaei J, Su B, Laksari K, Wu L, Camarillo DB, Pauly KB, Wintermark M, Kurt M
  • Journal of biomechanics -

    Analysis of head acceleration events in collegiate-level American football: A combination of qualitative video analysis and in-vivo head kinematic measurement.

    Tierney GJ, Kuo C, Wu L, Weaving D, Camarillo D
  • Journal of neurotrauma -

    Multi-Directional Dynamic Model for Traumatic Brain Injury Detection.

    Laksari K, Fanton M, Wu LC, Nguyen TH, Kurt M, Giordano C, Kelly E, O'Keeffe E, Wallace E, Doherty C, Campbell M, Tiernan S, Grant G, Ruan J, Barbat S, Camarillo DB
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