Emily Yik Kwan Chan, Eleni Koumantou, Lucas Low, Isaac Siy, Chris M. Jones, Kieran Austin, Mike Loosemore, Stuart J. McDonald, Mazdak Ghajari
medRxiv, 2026
Research interests
- Head trauma biomechanics
- Surrogate modelling
- Machine learning
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Dr Emily Yik Kwan Chan
Research Associate
Emily is a Research Associate in the HEAD Lab at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. Her research focuses on developing more personalised approaches to understanding and predicting traumatic brain injury, combining wearable head-impact mouthguard measurements, computational finite element modelling, and machine learning. A key aim of the project is to better account for individual differences in brain anatomy and biomechanics when estimating the brain’s response to head impacts.
Before joining the project as a Research Associate, Emily completed her PhD research in the HEAD Lab, funded by Sports and Wellbeing Analytics (SWA). She investigated how sports head impacts translate into brain deformation and injury risk by combining large-scale wearable sensor datasets with computational brain modelling and data-driven methods, with a particular focus on improving the interpretation and prediction of brain injury biomechanics.
She is interested in research that bridges engineering, neuroscience, and real-world applications, particularly in developing practical tools that can improve the assessment and prevention of traumatic brain injury.