Robert Matthew, PhD
Assistant Professor
Physical Therapy
School of Medicine

Dr. Robert Matthew is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science and Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and is an Affiliate Faculty Member in the joint UC Berkeley/UCSF graduate program in Bioengineering. Their research focuses on the development and use of clinically deployable systems to assess function and augment the recovery process.

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California, San Francisco 09/2019
• Ph. D. Electical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley 10/2016
• M. S. Electical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley 12/2015
• M. Eng. Mechanical Engineering Imperial College London 06/2011

Websites

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• UCSF Musculoskeletal Research Consortium (METRiCS) (orthosurgery.ucsf.edu)
• Biorobotics @ UCSF (biorobotics.ucsf.edu)

Publications (22)

Top publication keywords:
MovementMotionExoskeleton DeviceBiomechanical PhenomenaKneeSpinal DiseasesSpineKnee JointUpper ExtremityModels, BiologicalPostureOrthotic DevicesWhole Body ImagingImage Processing, Computer-AssistedRange of Motion, Articular

• ISSLS PRIZE IN BIOENGINEERING SCIENCE 2019: biomechanical changes in dynamic sagittal balance and lower limb compensatory strategies following realignment surgery in adult spinal deformity patients.
  European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society 2019 Bailey JF, Matthew RP, Seko S, Curran P, Chu L, Berven SH, Deviren V, Burch S, Lotz JC
• Estimating Sit-to-Stand Dynamics Using a Single Depth Camera.
  IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics 2019 Matthew RP, Seko S, Bailey J, Bajcsy R, Lotz J
• Kinematic and Kinetic Validation of an Improved Depth Camera Motion Assessment System Using Rigid Bodies.
  IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics 2018 Matthew RP, Seko S, Bajcsy R, Lotz J
• Biomechanical Phenotyping of Chronic Low Back Pain: Protocol for BACPAC.
  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) 2023 Quirk DA, Johnson ME, Anderson DE, Smuck M, Sun R, Matthew R, Bailey J, Marras WS, Bell KM, Darwin J, Bowden AE
• Point-of-care motion capture and biomechanical assessment improve clinical utility of dynamic balance testing for lower extremity osteoarthritis.
  PLOS digital health 2022 Halvorson RT, Castillo FT, Ahamed F, Khattab K, Scheffler A, Matthew RP, Lotz J, Vail TP, Feeley BT, Bailey JF

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• Compensatory biomechanics and spinal loading during dynamic maneuvers in patients with chronic low back pain.
  European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society 2022 Nyayapati P, Booker J, Wu PI, Theologis A, Dziesinski L, O'Neill C, Zheng P, Lotz JC, Matthew RP, Bailey JF
• Unsupervised Machine Learning on Motion Capture Data Uncovers Movement Strategies in Low Back Pain.
  Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology 2022 Keller AV, Torres-Espin A, Peterson TA, Booker J, O'Neill C, Lotz JC, Bailey JF, Ferguson AR, Matthew RP
• The Black Box of Technological Outcome Measures: An Example in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
  Journal of neuromuscular diseases 2022 Naarding KJ, Janssen MMHP, Boon RD, Bank PJM, Matthew RP, Kurillo G, Han JJ, Verschuuren JJGM, de Groot IJM, van der Holst M, Kan HE, Niks EH
• Automated assessment and classification of spine, hip, and knee pathologies from sit-to-stand movements collected in clinical practice.
  Journal of biomechanics 2021 Girase H, Nyayapati P, Booker J, Lotz JC, Bailey JF, Matthew RP
• Reachable Workspace and Proximal Function Measures for Quantifying Upper Limb Motion.
  IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics 2020 Matthew RP, Seko S, Kurillo G, Bajcsy R, Cheng L, Han JJ, Lotz J
• Design of a Passive, Variable Stiffness Exoskeleton for Triceps Deficiency Mitigation.
  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference 2020 McPherson A, Matthew R, Estrada M, Bajcsy R, Tomizuka M
• Functional workspace and patient-reported outcomes improve after reverse and total shoulder arthroplasty.
  Journal of shoulder and elbow surgery 2019 Ngan A, Xiao W, Curran PF, Tseng WJ, Hung LW, Nguyen C, Matthew R, Ma B, Lotz J, Feeley BT
• IMU Sensor Fusion Algorithm for Monitoring Knee Kinematics in ACL Reconstructed Patients.
  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference 2019 Bravo-Illanes G, Halvorson RT, Matthew RP, Lansdown D, Ma CB, Bajcsy R
• Passive Knee Assistance Affects Whole-Body Biomechanics During Sit-to-Stand.
  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference 2019 Seko S, Matthew RP, Riemer R
• Simple Spline Representation for Identifying Sit-to-Stand Strategies.
  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference 2019 Matthew RP, Seko S, Bailey J, Bajcsy R, Lotz J
• Hybrid Control Interface of a Semi-soft Assistive Glove for People with Spinal Cord Injuries.
  IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings] 2019 Kaneishi D, Matthew RP, Leu JE, O'Donnell J, Zhang B, Tomizuka M, Stuart H
• A functional method for generating individualized spine models from motion-capture data.
  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference 2018 Seko S, Matthew RP, Bajcsy R, Lotz JC
• A sEMG Classification Framework with Less Training Data.
  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference 2018 Kaneishi D, Matthew RP, Tomizuka M
• Tracking Kinematic and Kinetic Measures of Sit to Stand using an Instrumented Spine Orthosis.
  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference 2018 Matthew RP, Seko S, Bailey J, Bajcsy R, Lotz J
• Fusing motion-capture and inertial measurements for improved joint state recovery: An application for sit-to-stand actions.
  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference 2017 Matthew RP, Seko S, Bajcsy R
• Generating physically realistic kinematic and dynamic models from small data sets: An application for sit-to-stand actions.
  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference 2016 Matthew RP, Shia V, Venture G, Bajcsy R
• Initial investigation into the effect of an Active/Passive exoskeleton on hammer curl performance in healthy subjects.
  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference 2015 Matthew RP, Mica EJ, Meinhold W, Loeza JA, Tomizuka M, Bajcsy R