Dr. Rahul Soangra

Dr. Rahul Soangra

Assistant Professor
Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences; Physical Therapy
Fowler School of Engineering; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Office Location: Rinker Health Science Campus
Website: http://soangra.com/
Scholarly Works:
Digital Commons
Education:
Jai Narain Vyas University, Bachelor of Science
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Master of Science
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Master of Science
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Ph.D.

Biography

Rahul Soangra is an Assistant Professor of Department of Physical Therapy at Chapman University. He completed his post-doctoral studies from School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering at Arizona State University. He received his B.E. (Chemical Engineering) from JNV University in 2003, and M.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) from IIT Roorkee in 2006. He received is M.S. (Industrial & Systems Engineering) in 2012 from Virginia Tech and Ph.D. (Biomedical Engineering) from Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University in 2014. His graduate work investigated the effects of dual-tasking on slip and fall risk in healthy young and elderly, his research also focused on frail cardiovascular disease patients, which have typically impaired motor control and result in adverse post-operative outcomes. At ASU, Dr. Soangra worked with Prof. Thurmon Lockhart in a clinical trial study to investigate the effects of dietary supplement on dynamic stability in community living elderly. Dr. Soangra’s research interests are focused on improving the overall quality of life of elderly patients by understanding the specific mechanisms that result in mobility and motor control limitations and by developing novel rehabilitation strategies that target those limitations. He investigates the use of sensor based technological systems for enriched rehabilitation in clinical and at home for patients with musculoskeletal and neurological problems.

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications

Harper, B., Aron, A., & Soangra, R. (2023). Soccer heading drills and concussion-related deficits in high school female athletes. Journal of Physical Education and Sport, 23(5), 1207 - 1220. https://doi.org/10.7752/jpes.2023.05150
Harper, B., Shiraishi, M., & Soangra, R. (2023). A portable and reliable tool for on-site physical reaction time (RT) measurement. Invention Disclosure, 3, 100013.
Chen, J., Soangra, R., Grant-Beuttler, M., Nanehkaran, Y. A., & Wen, Y. (2023). Dense & Attention Convolutional Neural Networks for Toe Walking Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering.
Boyd, L., Soangra, R., Mukhar, L., Kling, R., & Beuttler, M. G. (2023). Stepping Beyond Efficacy: Understanding the User Experience of Wearables for Children with Idiopathic Toe Walking in the Natural Setting. Human Factors in Healthcare, 3, 100044.
Soangra, R., Smith, J. A., Rajagopal, S., Yedavalli, S. V. R., & Anirudh, E. R. (2023). Classifying Unstable and Stable Walking Patterns Using Electroencephalography Signals and Machine Learning Algorithms. Sensors, 23(13), 6005.
Hepp, J., Shiraishi, M., Tran, M., Henson, E., Ananthanarayanan, M., & Soangra, R. (2023). Exploring Teslasuit’s Potential in Detecting Sequential Slip-Induced Kinematic Changes among Healthy Young Adults. Sensors, 23(14), 6258.
Masoud Abdollahi, Pranav Madhav Kuber, Michael Shiraishi, Rahul Soangra, Ehsan Rashedi Abstract TP61: Can A Single Motion Sensor Identify Lower Limb Movement Alterations Among Stroke Survivors? Stroke 53 Suppl_1 ATP61-ATP61 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2022/2
Soangra, R. (2021). Unobtrusive Accelerometer-based Longitudinal ADL Monitoring among Different Populations. SPAST Abstracts, 1(01).
Rajagopal, S., Goswami, R. D., Tiwari, R., Sabhapandit, E., & Soangra, R. (2022). Analysis of Contrast and Correlation Between Deep Learning Algorithms for Diagnosis of COVID-19 from Lung Ultrasonography. ECS Transactions, 107(1), 1877.
Rajagopal, S., Arpan, W., Thomas, S., Gomare, G., & Soangra, R. (2022). Comparison and Analysis of Different Thermography Techniques in the Biomedical Applications. ECS Transactions, 107(1), 9403.
Rajagopal, S., Arpan, W., Thomas, S., Gomare, G., & Soangra, R. (2022). Comparison and Analysis of Different Thermography Techniques in the Biomedical Applications. ECS Transactions, 107(1), 9403.
Rajagopal, S., Arpan, W., Thomas, S., Gomare, G., & Soangra, R. (2022). Comparison and Analysis of Different Thermography Techniques in the Biomedical Applications. ECS Transactions, 107(1), 9403.
Rajagopal, S., Balaji, D., Venkatesh, V., Kanishka, S., & Soangra, R. (2022). Identification of Drunk People Among Crowds Using Thermography and Machine Learning. ECS Transactions, 107(1), 1867.
Bhatia, A., Desikan, S., Tripathy, S. A., Rajkumar, S., Rajagopal, S., & Soangra, R. (2022). Smart Pre-Screening of Patients for COVID-19 Using Depth-Wise Separableconvolutional Neural Network. ECS Transactions, 107(1), 847.
Balasenthilkumaran, N.V., S, B.R., Gorti, S. et al. Correction to: Design and comparison of machine learning-based computer-aided diagnostic techniques to aid diagnosis of diabetes and detection of ulcer-prone regions in the feet using thermograms. Res. Biomed. Eng. 38, 1027 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42600-022-00221-3
Soangra, R., Sivakumar, R., Anirudh, E. R., Reddy Y, S. V., & John, E. B. (2022). Evaluation of surgical skill using machine learning with optimal wearable sensor locations. PloS one, 17(6), e0267936.
Soangra, R., Jiang, P., Haik, D., Xu, P., Brevik, A., Peta, A., ... & Clayman, R. V. Beyond Efficiency: Surface Electromyography Enables Further Insights into the Surgical Movements of Urologists. Journal of endourology.
Soangra, R., Wen, Y., Yang, H., & Grant-Beuttler, M. (2022). Classifying Toe Walking Gait Patterns Among Children Diagnosed With Idiopathic Toe Walking Using Wearable Sensors and Machine Learning Algorithms. IEEE Access, 10, 77054-77067.
Harper, B.; Shiraishi, M.; Soangra, R. Reliability and Validity of Inertial Sensor Assisted Reaction Time Measurement Tools among Healthy Young Adults. Sensors 2022, 22, 8555.
Rohafza, M., Soangra, R., Smith, J. A., & Ignasiak, N. K. (2022). Self-paced treadmills do not allow for valid observation of linear and nonlinear gait variability outcomes in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Gait & Posture, 91, 35-41.
Abdollahi M, Kuber PM, Shiraishi M, Soangra R, Rashedi E. Kinematic Analysis of 360° Turning in Stroke Survivors Using Wearable Motion Sensors. Sensors (Basel). 2022 Jan 5;22(1):385. doi: 10.3390/s22010385. PMID: 35009931; PMCID: PMC8749703.
John J, Soangra R. Visualization-Driven Time-Series Extraction from Wearable Systems Can Facilitate Differentiation of Passive ADL Characteristics among Stroke and Healthy Older Adults. Sensors (Basel). 2022 Jan 13;22(2):598. doi: 10.3390/s22020598. PMID: 35062557; PMCID: PMC8780832.
M. Abdollahi, P. M. Kuber, C. Hoang, M. Shiraishi, R. Soangra and E. Rashedi, "Kinematic Assessment of Turning and Walking Tasks Among Stroke Survivors by Employing Wearable Sensors and Pressure Platform," 2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 2021, pp. 6635-6638, doi: 10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9630791.
Moon, S. H., Soangra, R., Frames, C., & Lockhart, T. (2021). Three Days Monitoring of Activities of Daily Living Among Young Healthy Adults and Parkinson’s Disease Patients. Biomedical sciences instrumentation, 57(2).
G. Ershadi, M. Gwak, A. Aminian, R. Soangra, M. Grant-Beuttler and M. Sarrafzadeh, "Smart Insole: Remote Gait Detection Algorithm Using Pressure Sensors For Toe Walking Rehabilitation," 2021 IEEE 7th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), 2021, pp. 332-337, doi: 10.1109/WF-IoT51360.2021.9595676.
Perry Xu, Daniel Haik, Pengbo Jiang, Andrew Brevik, Akhil Peta, Zhamshid Okhunov, Shlomi Tapiero, Emmanuel John, Rahul Soangra, Jaime Landman, and Ralph Clayman. "PD58-11 Beyond Efficiency: Surface Electromyography Enables Further Insights Into The Quality Of Surgical Movement Of Expert Urologists"
Chou EF, Khine M, Lockhart T, Soangra R. Effects of ECG Data Length on Heart Rate Variability among Young Healthy Adults. Sensors (Basel). 2021 Sep 19;21(18):6286. doi: 10.3390/s21186286. PMID: 34577492; PMCID: PMC8472063.
Lockhart, T.E., Soangra, R., Yoon, H. et al. Prediction of fall risk among community-dwelling older adults using a wearable system. Sci Rep 11, 20976 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00458-5
Soangra, R., & Rajagopal, S. (2021). Effects of visual referencing on backward and forward treadmill walking in VR environments. Displays, 66, 101975. doi:10.1016/j.displa.2020.101975
Soangra, R., & Lockhart, T. (2021). Smartphone-Based Prediction Model for Postoperative Cardiac Surgery Outcomes Using Preoperative Gait and Posture Measures. Sensors, 21(5), 1704. doi:10.3390/s21051704
Soangra, R., Shiraishi, M., Beuttler, R., Gwerder, M., Boyd, L., Muthukumar, V., . . . Grant-Beuttler, M. (2021). Foot Contact Dynamics and Fall Risk among Children Diagnosed with Idiopathic Toe Walking. Applied Sciences, 11(6), 2862. doi:10.3390/app11062862
Soangra, R., Krishnan, V., John, J., Rashedi, E., & McKenzie, A. (2021). Comparison of 360° Turn Cycles among Individuals after Stroke and Healthy Older Adults. Applied Sciences, 11(7). doi:10.3390/app11073202
Smith, J. A., Eiteman-Pang, W. K., Soangra, R., & König Ignasiak, N. (2021). Adaptations in trunk-pelvis coordination variability in response to fatiguing exercise. Gait & Posture, 84, 1-7. doi:10.1016/j.gaitpost.2020.11.019
Moon, S.H., Frames, C.W., Soangra, R., Lockhart, T.E.L., (2021). Effects of Rucksack Military Accessory on Gait Dynamic Stability. International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management, Vol. 12, No. 4 Special Issue on PHM for Human Health and Performance II doi:10.36001/ijphm.2021.v12i4.2778
Special Issue on PHM For Human Health and Performance II, Vol. 12, No. 4 (2021): Special Issue on PHM for Human Health & Performance II , Lockhart, T.L., Soangra, R.
Zhang, J., R. Soangra, and T. E. Lockhart, Automatic Detection of Dynamic and Static Activities of the Older Adults Using a Wearable Sensor and Support Vector Machines. Sci, 2020. 2(3): p. 50.
Zhang, J., R. Soangra, and T. E. Lockhart, A Comparison of Denoising Methods in Onset Determination in Medial Gastrocnemius Muscle Activations during Stance. Sci, 2020. 2(2): p. 39.
M. L. Pollind and R. Soangra, "Mini-Logger- A Wearable Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) for Postural Sway Analysis," 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2020, pp. 4600-4603, doi: 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9175167.
Pollind, M. and R. Soangra, Development and Validation of Wearable Inertial Sensor System for Postural Sway Analysis. Measurement, 2020. 165: p. 108101.

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