Profile
Brendan is a teaching fellow in the Department of Informatics at King's College London, and previoused completed a PhD in computer science under the supervision of Matthew Howard.
Research Outline
I am interested in the application of statistical machine learning techniques in wearable sensing systems. Specifically my area of research is to combine these techniques with sensors that are designed to be embedded into items of clothing, a topic known as fabric-embedded sensors, or e-textiles. In this area, I am primarily focused on creating robust sensing and modeling methods for acquiring motion data in the presence of fabric-induced motion artefacts. This is with aim of understanding and predicting human motion by collecting data outside the laboratory environment in a more natural, minimally invasive manner.
Publications
- Activity Recognition with Wearable Sensors on Loose Clothing (Accepted/In press)
Michael, B. & Howard, M. J. W. In : PLOS One. 2017 - Wearable embroidered muscle activity sensing device for the human upper leg
Manero, R. B. R., Shafti, A., Michael, B., Grewal, J., Fernandez, J. L. R., Althoefer, K. & Howard, M. J. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS. 2016 - Learning Predictive Movement Models from Fabric-mounted Wearable Sensors
Michael, B. & Howard, M. J. W. In : IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. 2015 - Eliminating Motion Artifacts from Fabric-mounted Wearable Sensors
Michael, B. & Howard, M. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots. 2014
For an up-to-date list of research outputs, please see:
https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/brendan-michael(780082dc-0f6b-48fc-bbbf-4a1ca77586aa).html
Awards
Hilary English Computer Prize (2013) - awarded to the final year undergraduate student in the Department of Informatics whose work shows the most promising potential for research.
Shortlisted Best Project Prize Award 2012/3
Funding Awards
GTA - Graduate Teaching Assistant research stipend.
Teaching Role
I am currently a Graduate Teaching Scholar (previously known as Graduate Teaching Assistant) at the Department of Informatics at King's College London. My role in this position involves the teaching of first-year undergraduate students, in both small and large tutorial groups, running hardware laboratory sessions, and grading coursework. I have previously taught in courses including preliminary Java, graphical applications, logic programming, data structures, and computer systems.
In addition to this, I have been an advisor/mentor to yearly BSc and MSc final year projects that have been undertaken with our research group. This has included projects involving hardware based fabric-based sensor system design, to statistical motion classification in wearables.