Date & Time: March 4, 12: 00 PM (EST)
Registration Link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/dd790754-6c68-4b99-a99c-862a563ad93e@cf7ff65a-ced6-400c-9856-fcac58ff39e8
The knee biomechanics community is full of expertise and innovative efforts, but many tools, datasets, and models remain scattered and difficult to access. How can we connect these efforts, identify shared needs, and work together to develop resources that benefit the entire community?
Supported by NSF POSE Phase 1 award [1,2], the Open Knee(s) [3] team at the Cleveland Clinic are launching a monthly webinar series to bring together researchers, tool developers, and infrastructure builders to showcase existing resources, discuss challenges, and explore opportunities for collaboration. Each session will highlight a different aspect of the ecosystem—whether it’s data, modeling tools, community driven research, or computational infrastructure —followed by an open discussion on how we can support and expand these efforts. We will kick-off the webinars with:
SimTK: A Software, Model, and Data-Sharing Platform for the Biomechanics Community
Speaker: Joy Ku, PhD
Dr. Ku is an established researcher and educator whose work focuses on biocomputation and the advancement of their use through teaching, science communications, community building, and the promotion of research resource sharing efforts, particularly as related to reproducibility and open-source science. She manages SimTK [4], a software, model, and data-sharing platform for the biocomputation research community. SimTK has hosted numerous projects and related data and models in computational knee biomechanics, including the Open Knee(s) [3].
Dr. Ku is also the Deputy Director of the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance and the Director of Promotions and Didactic Interactions for the NIH-funded Restore Center at Stanford University.
Date & Time: March 4, 12: 00 PM (EST)
Registration Link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/dd790754-6c68-4b99-a99c-862a563ad93e@cf7ff65a-ced6-400c-9856-fcac58ff39e8
Please feel free to share the webinar link with your students and colleagues.
We also want to hear from you! If you’re working on tools, gathering data, building models or infrastructure and would like to present in a future session, please reach out. This series is a platform for open discussion and collaboration—let’s work together to create something valuable for the community!
Join us and be part of the conversation!
Thank you.
Snehal & Ahmet
on behalf of Open Knee(s)