Research

Interfaces between bodies, sensors, and computation.

I am interested in analog and mixed-signal systems that make real-world and physiological signals useful for low-power interaction and intelligent sensing.

In progress

sEMG onset detection & feature extraction

I am developing a mixed-signal design for detecting the onset of muscle activity and extracting features from surface electromyographic signals. This project brings together my interests in analog circuits, physiological sensing, and computation close to the sensor.

Research path

My preparation draws on Hajimiri's, Razavi's, and Carusone's Analog Electronics Lecture Series, and Carsten Wulff's AIC 2025 series.

    Published · 2025

    An End to End Wearable Device and System for Indefinite, Continuous, Real Time Gesture Recognition of Directional and Shape-Based Arm Gestures

    IEEE Access · Gambo et al. · 2025

    Foundational work on a real-time wearable gesture-recognition system for device control, combining wearable hardware, inertial sensing, haptic feedback, a 5,000-sample dataset, real-time classification across 10 gestures, and a low-latency custom API.

    Classification result
    96%
    Gesture set
    20+
    Dataset
    5,000 samples
    Read the paper ↗
    Complex Gesture Samples
    Gestures from the Complex Segment of the Training Dataset
    Circuit board for an EMG analog front end
    EMG analog front-end circuit.

    EMG analog front end

    An independent analog front-end exploration for EMG signal acquisition, with comparisons between differing implementations and commercial variants. First foray into Analog signal acquisition.

    Oscilloscope capture from the EMG analog front end
    Oscilloscope capture from the front end.
    sEMG Front-end and Signal Amplification Stages
    sEMG Front-end and Signal Amplification Stages.

    As the IC project develops, this page will collect dated schematics, simulation results, layout captures, design decisions, and lessons.