Academic Title:
Post Doc Fellow
Primary Appointment:
Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science
Additional Title:
UMANRRT Postdoctoral Fellow
Education and Training
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University
2018
M.S. in Mechatronics Engineering, Ain Shams University
2012
B.S. in Mechatronics Engineering, Ain Shams University
2008
Biosketch
Mechanical engineer and researcher with 12 years of professional experience as well as 6 years of teaching in mechatronics and mechanical engineering departments. I devise engineering methods and robotic solutions for biomechanical applications.
During my Ph.D., I devised system identification methods to investigate the underlying motor control mechanisms of osteopathic manual therapy for subjects with low back pain and neck pain.
As a postdoctoral fellow, I enhanced rehabilitation robots for subjects with stroke and knee injuries: from recognizing hemiparetic ankle deficits using wearable pressure sensors to developing rehabilitation robots and performing rehabilitation interventions.
I have a solid ground of fundamentals in different engineering disciplines, especially controls and robotics, thanks to my interdisciplinary mechatronics teaching portfolio.
Research/Clinical Keywords
Neuromuscular dynamical models, Gait analysis, Robotic rehabilitation, Inverse Problems
Highlighted Publications
Ramadan, A., Roy, A., Smela, E. Recognizing hemiparetic ankle deficits using wearable pressure sensors. IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine. 2019 Oct 08. DOI: 1109/JTEHM.2019.2942922.
Ramadan, A., Choi, J., Cholewicki, J., Reeves, N. P., Popovich, J. M., Jr., Radcliffe, C. J. Feasibility of incorporating test-retest reliability and model diversity in identification of key neuromuscular pathways during head position tracking. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. 2019 Jan 10; 27(2):275-282. DOI: 1109/TNSRE.2019.2891525. PMID: 30629508.
Ramadan, A., Choi, J., Radcliffe, C. J., Popovich, J. M., Jr., Reeves, N. P. Inferring control intent during seated balance using inverse model predictive control. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2018 Dec 12; 4(2):224-230. DOI: 1109/LRA.2018.2886407.
Ramadan, A., Boss, C., Choi, J., Reeves, N. P., Cholewicki, J., Popovich, J. M., Jr., Radcliffe, C. J. Selecting sensitive parameter subsets in dynamical models with application to biomechanical system identification. ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. 2018 May 08; 140(7): 074503. DOI: 1115/1.4039677. PMID: 29570752.
Ramadan, A., Cholewicki, J., Radcliffe, C. J., Popovich, J. M., Jr., Reeves, N. P., Choi, J. Reliability of assessing postural control during seated balancing using a physical human-robot interaction. Journal of Biomechanics. 2017 Nov 07, 64:198-205. DOI: 1016/j.jbiomech.2017.09.036. PMID: 29066244.
Community Service
Reviewer Experience
ASME DSCC Dynamic Systems and Control Conference
2020
The American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting
2020
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
2019-2020
American Control Conference
2016-2018
ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control
2014-2018
Editorial Board
Associate Editor
2020
17th International Conf. on Ubiquitous Robots, Ritsumeikan University, Suzaku Campus, Kyoto, Japan