Dongyun Du

Dongyun Gu
Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Dr. Dongyun Gu is currently Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery of Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and has a joint appointment with the School of Biomedical Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. She is the Deputy Director of Engineering Research Center of Digital Medicine of the Ministry of Education, China. Dr. Gu received her BS in computer science at Shanghai University, MS and PhD in biomedical engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her research interests include gait and movement disorder analysis, neuro-musculoskeletal biomechanics, wearable technologies, machine learning and rehabilitation engineering. Her research group investigates human gait and balance disorder affected by physical disability, neurological disorders, musculoskeletal pathology and age-related diseases, with a goal of developing rehabilitation interventions and improving clinical decision-making. They also focus on the development of wearable technologies for human movement monitoring, fall risk assessment and deep-learning based human pathological gait recognition. Dr. Gu is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, the Member of Standing Committee of Digital Medicine of Chinese Medical Association and the core member of the STF (Slips, Trips and Falls) Technical Committee of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA).