Brandon Oubre

Dr. Brandon Oubre is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he received the Outstanding Dissertation Award, followed by postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital Neurology Department.

His research focuses on applying computing technologies and sensors to improve human health monitoring, particularly in neurological disorders. Key areas include mobile health, health informatics, and quantitative behavioral assessment of neurologic diseases. He employs machine learning and data science to analyze time-series sensor data related to human movement, aiming to identify early disease signs, support clinical trials, and enable personalized care through interdisciplinary collaborations with neurology, neuroscience, and biomechanics experts.

Dr. Oubre’s work emphasizes wearable sensor systems for unobtrusive monitoring of motor impairments in conditions like ataxia, stroke, and neurodegenerative diseases. His innovations include platforms like the Neurobooth for multimodal digital phenotyping and novel methods for gait analysis, oculomotor assessment, and upper-limb impairment evaluation. These techniques leverage deep learning and kinematic analysis to extract sensitive clinical metrics from sensor data.

• Education:
  • Ph.D./M.S. in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics, Louisiana State University
• Awards:
  • Outstanding Dissertation Award (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• Advising/Grants: Details not explicitly listed in provided texts
• Labs/Teams: Collaborates with neurology and biomechanics teams on sensor-based health monitoring projects