Curriculum Vitae

Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology (BBME) Department 

School of Medicine
University of Missouri

Columbia, MO 65211

MarchalN@missouri.edu

Research 

Topics

Clinical Health Informatics

Ubiquitous Computing for Remote Monitoring

Methods

• Continual machine learning model building and feature engineering for time-series based sensor data and electronic health records utilizing: [I] Adaptive Feedback,  [II] Meta-information and [III] Meta-models, [IV] Streaming Clustering.

• Computational mediation of human motor function using [I] Biophysical Sensors, [II] Kinematics, [III] Teleoperational, [IV} Mobile, and [V] Wearable Technologies.

Education

Ph.D. Informatics, University of Missouri 2025 (expected)

• Health Informatics

M.Sc. Data Science, University of Missouri 2021

• BioHealth Analytics

M.F.A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2008

• Interdisciplinary Electronic Arts

B.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2004

• Art and Technology Studies

Work Experience

Programmer Analyst, University of Missouri 2017 - current

• Center for Eldercare and Rehabilitation Technology (College of Engineering)

Research Engineer, University of Missouri 2011-2017

• Rehabilitation Neuroscience Laboratory (Psychological Sciences)

     Research Assistant / Adjunct Faculty, University of Oregon 2009-2011

• Human Neuroimaging and TMS Laboratory (Psychology Department)

Junior Research Specialist, University of California at Davis 2007-2009

• Music and Cognition Laboratory (Center for Mind and Brain)

Publications

Robinson E, Tefera GM, Park G, Skubic M, Marchal N, Popescu M, Keller J, Marilyn R. Deploying In-Home Sensors to Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Adoption of Technology and Lessons Learned. Innov Aging. 2022 Dec 20;6(Suppl 1):741. 

doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2697. PMCID: PMC9767039.

G. J. Scott, J. Saied-Walker, N. Marchal, H. Yu and M. Skubic, "HTIDB: Hierarchical Time-Indexed Database for Efficient Storage and Access to Irregular Time-series Health Sensor Data," 2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, 2022, pp. 2972-2975 

doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871855.

J. Saied-Walker, P. Gupta, R. Yi, N. Marchal, M. Skubic and G. J. Scott, "Enabling Scalable Analytics of Physiological Sensor and Derived Feature Multi-Modal Time-Series with Big Data Management," 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), Osaka, Japan, 2022, pp. 3124-3130, 

doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData55660.2022.10020369.

Valyear, K. F., Philip, B. A., Cirstea, C. M., Chen, P. W., Baune, N.A., Marchal, N., & Frey, S. H. (2020). Interhemispheric transfer of post-amputation cortical plasticity within the human somatosensory cortex. NeuroImage, 206(September 2019), 116291. 

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116291

Frey, S. H., Hansen, M., & Marchal, N. (2015). Grasping with the Press of a Button: Grasp-selective Responses in the Human Anterior Intraparietal Sulcus Depend on Nonarbitrary Causal Relationships between Hand Movements and End effector Actions. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 27(6), 1146–1160.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00766

Honors

• Rockefeller New Media Fellowship Nominee 2008

• Humanities, Arts, Architecture, and Social Sciences Fellowship, RPI 2005-2007

• School of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant, RPI 2005-2006

• BFA Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2004

Poster Presentations

• Marchaln, N. 2022. Assessing Fall Risk in Older Adults with Modeled Gait Parameter Estimates Computed from Depth Image Centroids During Walks. Poster presented at MUIDSI Informatics Symposium, Columbia, MO.

• Hansen, M.D., Marchal, N., & Frey, S.H. 2011. Neural Encoding of Teleoperated Reaching and Grasping Using a Button-controlled Robotic Arm. Poster presented at the 41st annual meeting of Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.

• Hansen, M. D., Marchal, N., & Frey, S. H. 2010. Parieto-premotor Contributions to Planning and Execution of Grasping Movements. Poster presented at the 40th annual meeting of Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.

Mentors 

Xing Song, Ph.D.

Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology 

Health Management and Informatics 

School of Medicine

University of Missouri 

Marjorie Skubic, Ph.D.

Center for Eldercare and Rehabilitation Technology

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

College of Engineering

University of Missouri