Website Goal
The goal of this website is to create an interactive and visual way to view parts of my academic and professional career. It highlights projects and skills I learned during my journey that may otherwise be left in the past, including things from course projects, internships, and previous jobs. This website is a living document that will be forever growing, just like me.
Click through the links provided at the top of the page to explore my graduate research, teaching experience and some graduate and undergraduate projects.
My resume and CV can be found at the bottom of this page.
About Me
My name is Jacob Sindorf, and I am a currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Northwestern (T32 recipient). A true Arizona native now in the windy city, I have lived my entire life in the Grand Canyon state, from my first steps until my dissertation.
After high school I found myself yearning to move as far away from home as possible. Ambitious and determined, I landed a daunting 150 miles away, in Tucson, Arizona. The sunny skies and dusty roads of Tucson presented a major fork in my career: engineering or medical school. Confident, I already knew my decision and went straight down the middle of both of them with biomedical engineering. Four years pass, and the opportunity to further my education finally gave me a way to move even farther from home. This time a full 50 miles to be exact.
The final semester at UofA was cut short due to COVID, and my first year at ASU was almost entirely through a computer screen. Adversity, however, always provides a way to grow. I took the time to focus on becoming an independent scholar, an individual whose skill set makes them an irreplaceable member of any team. After a year hunched in front of a computer screen, I walked the home stretch of my PhD with a Master’s degree in hand. With 3 out of 3 degrees completed, and approaching the final months of my postdoc, I am currently looking for work.
Education
Graduate (Fall 2020 - Spring 2023):
Arizona State University, PhD, Systems Engineering
(GPA: 4.0)
Arizona State University, Masters in Passing, Systems Engineering
(August 2021) (GPA: 4.0)
Dissertation: Exploration of the Photoplethysmography Signal and its Application to Wearable Devices
ITServe Alliance Stem Scholarship Recipient (2022)
Undergraduate (Fall 2016 - Spring 2020):
University of Arizona, Bachelors of Biomedical Engineering, minor of Mechanical Engineering
(GPA: 3.917)
Publications
Sindorf J., Campagnini S., O’Brien M.K., Sunderrajan A., Knutson K.L., Zee P.C., Wolfe L., Arora V.M., Jayaraman A. (2025). “Sleep Following a Stroke: Multimodal Evaluation of Sleep Health and Disruptions and Impact on Recovery During Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation” Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair. (link)
Wang J. E., Sindorf J., Chen P.-W., Wu J., Gonzales A., O’Brien M. K., Sunderrajan A., Knutson K. L., Zee P. C., Wolfe L., Arora V. M., Jayaraman A. (2024). “Assessing actigraphy performance for daytime sleep detection following stroke: Insights from inpatient monitoring in a rehabilitation hospital.” SLEEP Advances. (link)
Sindorf J., Szabo A. L., O’Brien M. K., Sunderrajan A., Knutson K. L., Zee P. C., Wolfe L., Arora V. M., Jayaraman A. (2024). “Wireless wearable sensors can facilitate rapid detection of sleep apnea in hospitalized stroke patients.” Sleep(link)
Sindorf J., and Redkar S. (2024). “PBVI for optimal photoplethysmography noise filter selection using human activity recognition observations for improved heart rate estimation on multi-sensor systems.” ASME Journal of Medical Devices. (link)
Grijalva C., Toosizadeh N., Sindorf J., Chou Y. H., Laksari K. (2021). “Dual-task performance is associated with brain MRI morphometry in individuals with mild cognitive impairment.” Journal of Neuroimaging.
doi:10.1111/jon.12845 (link)
Publications in Progress
Ramos B., Ram K., Siddiqui S., Martinez M., Sunderrajan A., Sindorf J., Masangkay A., Rubel V., O’Brien M.K., Prokup S., Morris L.L., Knutson K.L., Mokhlesi B., Prabhakaran S., Wolfe L., Zee P., Jayaraman A., Arora V.M. “Adaptation and Implementation of the SIESTA Protocol to an Acute Stroke Rehabilitation Setting” (Under review).
Nataletti S., Sindorf J., Okita S., Maronati R., McGuire M., Hoppe-Ludwig S., Banerjee A., Wacek A., Cave J., Looft J.M., Dearth C.L., Hendershot B.D., Jayaraman A. “Predicting prosthesis use and mobility needs in lower limb amputees: A machine learning approach using clinical and sensor data” (in submission)
Sindorf J., O’Brien M.K., Sunderrajan A., Arora V.M., Jayaraman A. “Using Wearable Sensors to Detect Sleep Stages after Stroke: Machine Learning Design and Challenges” (In submission).
Sindorf J., Ramos B., Masangkay A., Ram K., Sunderrajan A., O’Brien M.K., Knutson K.L., Wolfe L., Zee P.C., Arora V.M., Jayaraman A. “COVID-19 Policy Changes and the Effects on Sleep During Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation”
(In submission).
Sunderrajan A., Sindorf J., O’Brien M.K., Knutson K.L., Zee P.C., Wolfe L., Jayaraman A., Arora V.M. “The Effectiveness of the SIESTA-rehab Intervention on inpatient sleep in patients with stroke” (in preparation)
Sindorf J., Sunderrajan A., O’Brien M.K., Knutson K.L., Zee P.C., Wolfe L., Arora V.M., Jayaraman A. “The Effectiveness of the SIESTA-rehab Intervention on functional recovery in patients with stroke” (in preparation)