Digby Chappell

Digby Chappell is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. Digby Chappell obtained his PhD from Imperial College London, and was part of the UKRI CDT in Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare. During this time, he was part of three labs: REDS Lab, the Robot Intelligence Lab, and the SiMMS Research Group, as part of a cross-disciplinary PhD project that combines robotics, machine learning, and medical research. Digby's PhD research focuses on improving Prosthetic Hand Control from a holistic point of view, considering methods to improve user training, provide sensory feedback, and investigating novel hand designs, as well as developing next generation myoelectric control algorithms. Prior to joining Imperial, Digby completed an MEng at the University of Cambridge, with his Masters thesis focusing on "Wearable Muscle Activity Sensors" in the Cambridge Bioelectronics Laboratory.

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