Dr. Nur Azah Binti Hamzaid
Department Of Biomedical Engineering
University of Malaya
Malaysia
Biography
Dr Nur Azah Hamzaid is Senior Lecturer at the University of Malaya, Malaysia. She obtained her bachelor in Mechatronics Engineering (Hons) in 2006 and then pursued her PhD in Rehabilitation Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia. While her background is hard engineering, her interest in applying her Mechatronics Engineering knowledge into the rehabilitation field brought her to the Faculty of Health Science for her PhD, where she undertook clinical and biomechanics courses. Her PhD project was to develop and investigate the effect of a novel isokinetic FES leg stepping trainer for individuals with Spinal Cord Injury which was used by the patients in the Rehabilitation Gym in the University of Sydney Lidcome campus for their FES training sessions. She is now at Biomedical Engineering Department in UM since 2010, pioneering the Biomechatronics, Neuroprosthetics and Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) research group in Malaysia. Dr Azah, as she is fondly called by her students in UM, teaches Biomechatronics and Prosthetics & Orthotics courses which include FES in Rehabilitation Robotics.
Research Interest
Rehabilitation Engineering (Biomechatronics, Functional Electrical Stimulation, Prosthetics & Orthotics, Rehabilitation & Assistive Devices)
Publications
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Puteri Nur Farhana Hamdan; Nur Azah Hamzaid; Juliana Usman; Md. Anamul Islam; Victor Shern Phng Kean; Ahmad Khairi Abdul Wahab; Nazirah Hasnan; Glen M Davis, Variations of Ankle-Foot Orthosis Constrained Movements Increase Ankle Range of Movement while Maintaining Power Output of Recumbent Cycling, (Submitted to Biomedical Engineering/Biomedizinische Technik, 9 Jan 2017; Q2: Engineering, Biomedical on 9 Jan 2017; Accepted on 26 July 2017; Published Online 15 Sep 2017)
