Eni Halilaj

Eni Halilaj is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She directs the CMU Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Lab, focusing on interdisciplinary research to understand and optimize human movement mechanics. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon in 2018, she was a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University and completed her graduate and undergraduate studies at Brown University. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, bioengineering, biomechanics, computational modeling, human health, machine learning, medical imaging, rehabilitation, wearable robotics, and related fields. She is affiliated with the Extended Reality Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University.

Eni Halilaj is a Mechanical Engineering researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in biomechanics, wearables, imaging, modeling, and orthopaedics. Her work focuses on understanding human movement and joint mechanics through advanced computational and imaging techniques. She explores the application of machine learning and biomechanical modeling to analyze motion, osteoarthritis progression, and joint kinematics. Her research includes the development of wearable sensors and data fusion methods for accurate motion tracking and clinical assessment of joint health. Halilaj's studies contribute to the understanding of joint instability, osteoarthritis, and the biomechanics of the thumb carpometacarpal joint.