Dr. Manish Anand received his Ph.D. from the School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University in 2018. He received his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Allahabad in 2011. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center from 2019 through 2020. He joined Emory University as a research scientist at the Sports Performance and Research Center in 2021 for 10 months.
Human lower extremity movement biomechanics,
Sports biomechanics
Pose estimation
Legged robotics
Computational human motion simulations
Neuro-mechanistic understanding of human movements and related pathologies.
Current Courses
ME 2201: Kinematics and Dynamics of Machinery
Previous Courses
ME 2400: Measurements, Instrumentation and Control
Anand, Manish; Seipel, Justin; & Rietdyk, Shirley. (2017). A modeling approach to the dynamics of gait initiation. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 14(128), 20170043.
Anand, Manish; Seipel, Justin. (2019) The rotary component of leg force during walking and running. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 10.1098/rsif.2019.0105
Anand, Manish; Diekfuss, Jed A.; Bonnette, Scott; Hurn, Matthew; Short, Ian; Grooms, Dustin; Myer, Gregory D. (2020). Validity of an MRI-compatible motion capture system for use with lower extremity neuroimaging paradigms. International journal of sports physical therapy
Anand, Manish; Diekfuss, Jed A.; Slutsky-Ganesh, Alexis B.; Grooms, Dustin; Bonnette, Scott; Barber Foss, Kim D.; DiCesare, Christopher A.; Hunnicutt, Jennifer L. & Myer, Gregory D. (2021) Integrated 3D motion analysis with functional magnetic resonance neuroimaging to identify neural correlates of lower extremity movement. Journal of Neuroscience Methods
Diekfuss, Jed A; Bonnette, Scott; Hogg, Jennifer A.; Riehm, Christopher; Grooms, Dustin R; Singh, Harjiv; Anand, Manish; Slutsky-Ganesh, Alexis B; Wilkerson, Gary & Myer, Gregory D. (2020) Practical training strategies to apply neuro-mechanistic motor learning principles to facilitate adaptations towards injury-resistant movement in youth. Journal of Science in Sport and Exercise 10.1007/s42978-020-00083-0