Andrew Nordin

Assistant Professor

Office Location SERC 2020

Phone 713-743-0990

Email adnordin [at] central.uh.edu

Dr. Nordin’s lab studies human brain and body dynamics during gait. His academic training is in biomechanics, physiology, neural engineering, and signal processing. Dr. Nordin has degrees in physics and kinesiology from Lakehead University (BS, HBK, MS) and University of Nevada, Las Vegas (PhD), and he completed postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan. Dr. Nordin was previously Research Assistant Scientist in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Texas A&M University.

Courses

BIOE6342 Biomedical Signal Processing

Awards and Honors

2024 American Society of Biomechanics Junior Faculty Research Grant

2020 Brain Products Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Award

2015 Nevada System of Higher Education Regents’ Graduate Scholar Award,

2014 University of Nevada, Las Vegas President’s Graduate Research Fellowship

2014 New Balance Footwear Research Award: Production Footwear Award Category

2013 Norman James Research Award, Southwest Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine

Funding Received

Project: Human brain and body dynamics during visually-guided locomotion in virtual and real-world environments (PI: Nordin), Sponsor: American Society of Biomechanics

Selected Publications

- Song, S., Fernandes, N.J., Nordin, A.D. (2023). Characterizing Bodyweight-Supported Treadmill Walking On-Land and Underwater Using Foot-Worn Inertial Measurement Units and Machine Learning for Gait Event Detection. Sensors. 23(8). https://doi.org/10.3390/s23187945.
- Song. S., Nordin, A.D. (2023). Balance perturbations in simulated low-gravity modulate human premotor and frontoparietal electrocortical theta, alpha, and beta band spectral power. IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology. 4, 195-203. https://doi.org/10.1109/OJEMB.2023.3238319.
- Song, S., Nordin, A.D. (2021). Mobile electroencephalography for studying neural control of locomotion. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, The Neural Control of Locomotion: Current Knowledge and Future Research, 642. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.749017.
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