Poornima Apte

Student profile for MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering

In medical practice, monitoring muscle activity is one of the methods to gauge health. Tracking the thickness of the diaphragm, for example, helps evaluate pulmonary function. The traditional approach to monitoring muscle activity, electromyography (EMG), involves attaching metal electrodes to the body and studying resultant electrical signals. The stability and strength of the signals with such an approach is a challenge. It is also difficult to isolate activity from specific muscles because...

Article and resources for teens and their educators to shape a career in robotics.

Thought leadership piece for consulting company about AI predictions for 2025.

Event coverage. Local business leaders gleaned inspiration from experts in an event sponsored by Eastern Bank.
When SharkNinja launched in a small brick building in West Newton in 1994, even CEO Mark Barrocas could not have predicted its incredible success over the next three decades. The company netted close to $5 billion in revenue in 2023 and boasts a meteoric annual revenue growth rate of 20 percent.
Keeping Boston as home base — SharkNinja is headquartered in Needham — has helped sustain growth. “I thin...

Picture a tree. It needs sun, water, nitrogen and phosphorus to survive. Eliminate even one of the four and it flounders. Efforts to withstand climate change aren’t much different. To be successful, they, too, have a list of boxes that must be checked — things like biodiversity, disaster preparedness, sea-level rise and renewable energy.
So argues data scientist and ecologist Eric Berlow. Visualizing the “critical needs” of climate change mitigation will help highlight areas that need more fi...

Thought leadership piece for executive on how AI can augment software development.

People with severe loss of motor control or motor disorders—from spinal cord injuries or neuromuscular disorders such as muscle weakness or paralysis—require a therapist to support and direct them as they perform their exercises. Exoskeletons promise to let patients recover independently at their own pace, either in the clinic or at home.
These devices, known as rehabilitation exoskeletons (RE), are designed to attach to patients’ bodies and run on electric motors with their own power source....

Profile of work on small modular reactors for nuclear engineering

Much like pipes carry gas or oil, cables carry data, the fuel for computing.
The kinds of cables that data and communication equipment need depend on various factors, including the type of traffic they transport and the distances they travel. For instance, cables for data storage route traffic from computers to storage switches to storage units, while cables for network traffic route data from computers to network switches to routers....

Worked with the design team to create a premium post/infographic on the values of a four-dimensional workforce for Forbes and ServiceNow.

Faculty Highlight
Meet the Expert:
Constance Crozier
The assistant professor in industrial engineering brings a math and computer science-rooted background to fundamental challenges as the world moves away from fossil fuels.
Constance Crozier fell into her field of research almost by chance.
Having loved math for as long as she can remember, she could never get enough of it. In her early days of undergraduate engineering studies at Oxford, Crozier was so into the subject that she always picke...

At Globe Summit 2024, a panel of public health leaders explored the challenges of health inequities and shared strategies to address the alarming life expectancy gaps between Boston’s neighborhoods.
When Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, MD, MPH, executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission, called for an updated report about life expectancy in Boston, she found not much had changed in a decade. Today, the difference in life expectancy between a small census tract in Roxbury and an equivalent ...

Interactive post: 5 Traits Of AI Pacesetters To Help You Pull Ahead. Worked closely with design.

The rise of AI is transforming the IT landscape and spurring the need for innovation and agility in a modern hybrid cloud: a mixed computing environment where applications are run using a combination of public and private clouds and on-premises computers. As a critical component of this modern hybrid cloud, mainframes are key to meeting this demand.