Ryan Alcantara
Biomechanics Researcher at Apple
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Alcantara is a biomechanics researcher with a decade of domain experience and eight years in research-focused roles, currently contributing to product development at Apple on projects like Apple Vision Pro and AirPods Pro 3. He blends musculoskeletal modeling, wearable sensors, machine learning, and advanced imaging from postdoctoral work at Stanford to translate athlete-focused insights into consumer-facing hardware. His PhD work produced real-time neural network models that predict ground reaction forces from wearable data and statistical tools to monitor injury risk in runners, skills he has applied across academia and industry. Based in Palo Alto, he brings a rare combination of elite-sport biomechanics, prosthetics research, and product-driven experimentation to improving human performance and everyday wearable experiences.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Applied Human Biology, Bachelor’s Degree, Applied Human Biology at Seattle Pacific UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Integrative Physiology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Integrative Physiology at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (71)
motion-tracking10
computational-biology10
markdown10
motion-capture10
jekyll10
journal9
html9
biomechanics9
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jekyll-theme9
bioinformatics9
r-package9
dynamics9
github-pages9
drift9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alcantarar/ASB_Tutorial
Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
Repository for 2020 American Society of Biomechanics Tutorial
Contributions:1 release, 116 commits, 23 PRs in 5 months
biomechanicsbioinformaticsamericancomputational-biologybinder
alcantarar/Recurrent_GRF_Prediction
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
Repository supporting "Predicting continuous ground reaction forces from accelerometers during uphill and downhill running: A recurrent neural network solution"
Contributions:44 commits, 6 PRs, 43 pushes in 10 months
recurrent-neural-networksbiomechanicsrnnwearable-devices
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