Nathan Schilaty, DC, PhD

Nathan Schilaty, DC, PhD
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor - Neurosurgery & Brain Repair; Medical Engineering
Director - Center for Neuromusculoskeletal Research

Nathan Schilaty, DC, PhD

Principal Investigator
Associate Professor - Neurosurgery & Brain Repair; Medical Engineering
Director - Center for Neuromusculoskeletal Research
  • Chiropractic Physician (DC)
  • Neuroscientist (PhD)

Skillsets and background allow for a unique merge and specialty niche of kinesiology and motor control

Expert in electrophysiology techniques for motor control analysis

  • Novel decomposed electromyography (dEMG)
  • Electroencephalography (EEG)

Knowledgeable with application of complex statistical modelling and machine learning

  • Neural networks (CNN or RNN)
  • Linear discriminant analysis (LDA)
  • Principal component analysis (PCA)
  • Boosted trees

Innovated methods to measure / monitor sensorimotor and proprioceptive differences

Automated custom-designed data collection with LabVIEW

  • Mechanical impact simulator
  • Spine Simulator
  • Isometric neck strength, visual reaction
  • High-velocity threshold to detect motion