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Yanke Li received his Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics (with focus in Investment Science) from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2019 and his Master’s degree in Statistics from ETH Zurich in 2021 respectively. During his studies he focused on the methodological development in statistical modelling and machine learning with real-world applications in areas such as healthcare and finance. In 2019 he completed his Bachelor’s study and was awarded the Outstanding Student Award for his excellent performance in both academic and non-academic activities. For his Master’s thesis he studied the problem of domain adaptation (DA) using causal methods and proposed an novel approach to handle unsupervised DA via reconstructing the observed causal graph. Yanke joined the SCAI (Spinal Cord Artificial Intelligence) Lab as a PhD student in June 2022. He is working on causal modelling of comorbidities/conditions (e.g. pressure injuries, autonomic dysreflexia) of patients after receiving spinal cord injuries. He has a strong interest in causal representation learning for high-dimensional and multimodal data. His vision is to embed the causal knowledge into a data-driven intelligent system that can enable the timely detection and prevention in an outpatient setting.

Johan Berg, Md, is an attending orthopeadic and hand surgeon working at a highly specialized unit, C.A.R.E., Department of Handsurgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden. C.A.R.E. is a team working solely with reconstruction of upper limb function in neurologically injured patients (most of them being tetraplegics He is interested in soft tissue surgery and has been doing research on tetraplegic patients since 2021 and formally enrolled in the PhD program in 2022.

Dr Granberg works at the Centre for Advanced Reconstruction of Extremities at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden. He works primarily with patients with tetraplegia, spasticity and amputations reconstructing hand function. He trained at Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine in London and has worked as a hand surgeon since 2017. He is currently the educational lead for the Department of Hand Surgery. He spends his free time renovating his house and rock climbing.

Antonio Oliviero (ORCID: 0000-0001-7723-0478) got a degree in Medicine (1993) and a degree in Neurology (1997) at the Catholic University of Rome. In 2001, during the PhD he was Marie Curie fellow at the Institute of Neurology, UCL, London, UK. In 2002 he got his PhD in Neuroscience at the Catholic University of Rome. In 2003, Antonio Oliviero moved from Rome to the "Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos", Toledo (Spain) where he got the position of clinical neurologist and research group leader. At the moment, Antonio Oliviero is Head of the Neurology Section and Research Group Leader at the "Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos". The main clinical interests of Antonio Oliviero are the study of the physiopathology of the spinal cord injury and the diagnosis and treatment of syndromes associated to SCI.

Megan Moynahan is the Director of the Center for Spinal Cord Injury Research at MetroHealth’s Center for Rehabilitation Research, and Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Her research focus is on enabling translation of novel approaches to improve the lives of people with spinal cord injury. Since 2013, she has also served as Executive Director of the Institute for Functional Restoration, a non-profit organization at Case Western Reserve University with the mission to restore function to people with spinal cord injury by bringing research neurotechnologies to the market. In these roles, she supports investigators’ research on neuroprosthetics that restore hand grasp, reach, trunk stability, standing, stepping, bladder and bowel management, cough and respiration. Her most recent project is KeyGrip, a simple neuroprosthesis for hand grasp that is intended for commercialization. Prior to her current role, she enjoyed a 17-year career at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, where she served as Associate Director for Technology and Innovation. She holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a MS in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.