Dr. Chan Ping Yi has six years of experience in biomechanics, particularly in developing tremor measurement system for Parkinson’s disease tremor. It involves the kinematics of human motion, specifically in multi-degrees-of-freedom relative motions. This research requires the translation of mathematical equation to working algorithm to quantify motions using inertial sensor readings.

The quality of the research work is proven by the success in publishing papers in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering as well as Scientific Reports by the renowned published, Springer Nature. The system and methods of quantifying tremors of multiple-degrees-of-freedom coupled motions have been filed for patent in Malaysia (MyIPO) and Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). The work also led her and the research team to win RM 20,000 in an innovation competition organized by Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS.

She has more than a year of working experience as a postdoctoral fellow in Universiti Sains Malaysia. During the service, she is actively involved in a few industry-related research projects.

Her research interest is to further expand the measurement system to cater for advanced tele-monitoring of tremor and other symptoms of movement disorders. Other research directions include developing of tremor compensation system for the Parkinson’s disease patients and electromagnetic energy harvester. The research outcomes are anticipated to create greater impact to the society and environment.

Dr Chan Ping Yi's research interests include developing:

• Advanced tele-monitoring system of tremor and other symptoms of movement disorders
• Tremor compensation system for patients with severe tremor
• Renewable energy, particularly on electromagnetic energy harvesting and concentrated photovoltaic-thermal system

A tremor measurement system was developed for quantifying hand-arm tremor. It was tested in the laboratory using own developed tremor simulator and in clinics on 70 Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients and 62 normal subjects to prove its reliability for practical use and the significance of using proposed system in characterizing pathological and physiological tremors.

The project output is beyond research papers. The productization and commercialization of the system are in the pipeline. Her current research centers around motion-related measurement and control system. With the experience of bringing a research to near end-user product, she also aspires to work on another project that impact greater to the society and environment, by expanding the envelope of her research capability in energy harvesting of electromagnetic wave.