The People
Meet the Team
A multidisciplinary group of researchers, engineers, and students dedicated to advancing human movement science at the University of Ghana.
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator & Lab Director
Kwabena Kan-Dapaah, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra
Research Assistants
2
Nasara Sualiha Abdul-Lateef
Research Assistant
Research at the intersection of biomechanics, neuromuscular systems, wearable sensing, and rehabilitation engineering. Previously studied biomechanical effects of Ghanaian-made "Ahenema" slippers on gait parameters.
Alexander Giffah
Research Assistant
Final-year Biomedical Engineering student at the University of Ghana. Research focuses on neuromuscular biomechanics and data-driven analysis of human movement.
Undergraduate Students
7
Nana Benyin E. N. Essel-Biney
Undergraduate Researcher
Final-year BME student focusing on neuromuscular biomechanics and machine learning for human movement analysis.
Racheal Kafui Asare
Undergraduate Researcher
Biomedical Engineering student at the University of Ghana.
Asimate Kwaku Emmanuel
Undergraduate Researcher
3rd-year BME student focusing on biomedical signal processing, physiological data analysis, and machine learning applications to model and predict health conditions.
Juwon Kwabena Albert
Undergraduate Researcher
Biomedical Engineering student at the University of Ghana.
Nana Fremah Ofosu Agyemang
Undergraduate Researcher
3rd-year BME student with research focused on Neuromuscular Diseases and Biomechanics in Africa.
Maxwell John Luther
Undergraduate Researcher
Interested in computational neuroscience and machine learning, applying physics-informed neural networks and dynamical systems to model brain activity and detect neurological conditions.
Asamoah Rhoda Afiah
Undergraduate Researcher
3rd-year BME student with research focused on Clinical Gait Analysis — quantifying pathological movement.
Alumni
2
John Love Zedek
BSc Biomedical Engineering
PhD @ Purdue University
Research at UG focused on motor unit behaviour during single-leg decline squats. Now pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, focusing on auditory neural engineering.
Paul Elikplim Normeshie
BSc Biomedical Engineering
MSc @ Centrale Méditerranée
Research at UG focused on clinical gait analysis in stroke and healthy populations. Now pursuing an MSc in Biomedical Engineering at Centrale Méditerranée, with interests in musculoskeletal biomechanics.
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