A personalized helmet design study, accepted at an international healthcare robotics symposium
Elliot came to YRI as a 10th grader with a question that had real clinical stakes: can protective helmets be personalized to the actual geometry of a person's head and brain? He had tinkered with a custom-fit prototype on his own, but turning it into research required rigor he did not yet have. With his mentor, the idea became an MRI-guided approach to personalized helmet liner design for head-injury prevention, using 3D head scanning and subject-similar MRI templates to tailor the liner to the individual rather than a one-size average. The paper was accepted at the 2nd International Symposium on BioMechatronics and Robotics in Healthcare (BioMRH 2026) in Glasgow, UK, with proceedings published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems series.
A sophomore at Mira Loma High School in Sacramento, California who had sketched a custom-fit helmet idea on his own but had no way to test it, no research training, and no publication.
Author of a biomedical engineering paper accepted at BioMRH 2026 in Glasgow, UK, with proceedings published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, indexed in Scopus and EI Compendex.