Academic Interests
In August 2007 I joined the Bioengineering department. Previously I worked as a lecturer in Computer Science University of Essex (2001-2007) and as a research fellow, Department of Medical Physics and Engineering, University of Edinburgh (1999-2001).
- 1999 PhD in Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh
- 2003 Postgraduate Certificate in teaching and learning in higher education, Open University
- 2003 - present Fellow of the Academy of Higher Education
- 2006 - present Senior Member of the IEEE
Area of Research
Rehabilitation Engineering: Motor Control and Neuroprosthetics, Gait Analysis, Risk-of-fall in older People
Current Projects
- Developing brain computer interfaces for severely disabled people.
- Assessment of risk-of-fall in older people using artificial intelligent techniques.
- Developing novel techniques for analysis of human gait.
Future Projects
- Developing brain computer interfaces for spinal cord injured patients
- Virtual reality for rehabilitation.
- Rehabilitation robotics.
Recent Publications
Lakany, H., Extracting a diagnostic gait signature, Pattern Recognition, vol 41, pp 1644-1654. May 2008 doi:10.1016/j.patcog.2007.11.004
White , C.J. and Lakany, H., A fuzzy inference system for fault detection and isolation, Expert Systems with Applications in press doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2007.08.029
Lakany, H. and Conway, B.A., Understanding Intention of movement from EEG, Expert Systems, Journal of Knowledge Engineering , vol. 24, pp. 295-304, doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0394.2007.00435.x, November 2007
Lakany, H. and Nelson, G.M., An Investigation into the Application of Fuzzy Logic Control to Industrial Gas Turbines, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, vol. 129, no. 4, pp. 7-10, doi: 10.1115/1.2771568, October 2007
Lakany, H., On feature selection for brain computer interfaces, Clinical Neurophysiology, vol. 117, pp. 170, doi: 10.1016/j.clinph. 2006.06.059, January 2006
Lakany, H. and Conway, B.A., EEG signal processing and classification for wrist movements: a case study, Journal of advanced technology on digital imaging and graphics, vol. 24, pp. 295-304, September 2005
Lakany, H., Extracting diagnostic gait signatures for cerebral palsy patients, Proceedings of European Society for Movement Analysis in Adults and Children, ESMAC abstracts, Gait & Posture, vol. 18, pp. 31, October 2003
Lakany, H. and Spanoudaki, S., Gender recognition of Children from Gait data using artificial neural networks, Proceedings of European Society for Movement Analysis in Adults and Children, ESMAC abstracts, Gait & Posture, vol. 18, pp. 39-40, October 2003
Whalley, H.C., Simonotto, E., Goddard, N.J., Marshall, I.G., Flett, S. and Lakany, H., Functional imaging in subjects at high risk of schizophrenia, Schizophrenia Research , vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 237, January 2003
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