Sing Yian Chew
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4
Total Citations
25
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About
Driven by a vision to restore mobility after catastrophic spinal cord injury (SCI), Sing Yian Chew pioneers a bold intersection of regenerative medicine and rehabilitation robotics. Her work confronts the central tragedy of SCI—the inability of damaged central nervous system axons to regenerate—by engineering combinatorial therapies that pair biological repair with precise mechanical support. In her most cited studies, Chew develops a developmental rehabilitation robotic system for rats with complete thoracic transections, enabling quadrupedal posture and synchronized forelimb-hindlimb gait. She tackles the fundamental challenge of interlimb coordination, creating algorithms that automatically infer hindlimb trajectories and extract phase information from limb movements in real time. These innovations allow her robotic systems to simulate natural walking patterns, dynamically adapting to the animal’s own motion. While her citation counts (10 for her flagship papers) reflect a focused, emerging field, the impact is profound: she is building the foundational engineering and biological framework for a future where regenerative therapies and intelligent robotics work in concert. Chew’s research does not just treat paralysis—it reimagines locomotion as a dialogue between healing tissue and adaptive machines.
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