Andrew Nordin
Assistant ProfessorOffice Location SERC 2020
Phone 713-743-0990
Email adnordin [at] central.uh.edu
Website Nordin Neuromechanics Laboratory
Google ScholarDr. Nordin’s lab studies biomechanics and neural control of human movement. His academic training is in biomechanics, physiology, neural engineering, and signal processing. Dr. Nordin has degrees in physics and kinesiology from Lakehead University (BS, HBK, MS) and University of Nevada, Las Vegas (PhD), and he completed postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan. Dr. Nordin was previously Research Assistant Scientist in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Texas A&M University.
Courses
BIOE6342 Biomedical Signal Processing
BIOE6300 Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Engineering
Awards and Honors
2024 American Society of Biomechanics Junior Faculty Research Grant
2020 Brain Products Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Award
2015 Nevada System of Higher Education Regents’ Graduate Scholar Award,
2014 University of Nevada, Las Vegas President’s Graduate Research Fellowship
2014 New Balance Footwear Research Award: Production Footwear Award Category
2013 Norman James Research Award, Southwest Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine
Funding Received
Human brain and body dynamics during visually-guided locomotion in virtual and real-world environments (PI: Nordin), Agency: American Society of Biomechanics
Human brain and body dynamics during adaptation to lower-extremity physical augmentation (PI: Nordin, Co-I: J. Cortney Bradford, Seongmi Song), Agency: US Army Research Laboratory
Selected Publications
- Phillips, S., Nordin, A.D. (2025). Gait-induced myoelectric EEG artifact removal validation from conventional and tripolar concentric ring electrodes. Applied Sciences. 15,12103. https://doi.org/10.3390/app152212103.
- Cheng, Y.P., Nordin, A.D. (2025). Navigating complex virtual environments at a range of gait speeds differentially modulates human sensorimotor and occipitoparietal electrocortical spectral power. Visual Neuroscience. 42: e018. https://doi.org/10.48130/vns-0025-0017.
- Song, S., Nordin, A.D. (2025). Cortical processing and lower limb muscle activity increase during bodyweight supported treadmill locomotion underwater compared to on-land. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. 33, 1729-1739. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSRE.2025.3566301.
- Song, S., Fernandes, N.J., Nordin, A.D. (2023). Characterizing Bodyweight-Supported Treadmill Walking On-Land and Underwater Using Foot-Worn Inertial Measurement Units and Machine Learning for Gait Event Detection. Sensors. 23(8). https://doi.org/10.3390/s23187945.
- Song. S., Nordin, A.D. (2023). Balance perturbations in simulated low-gravity modulate human premotor and frontoparietal electrocortical theta, alpha, and beta band spectral power. IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology. 4, 195-203. https://doi.org/10.1109/OJEMB.2023.3238319.
- Song, S., Nordin, A.D. (2021). Mobile electroencephalography for studying neural control of locomotion. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, The Neural Control of Locomotion: Current Knowledge and Future Research, 642. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.749017.
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