Zariffa, José
Professor

Biography

José Zariffa is the KITE Chair in Spinal Cord Injury Research, a Senior Scientist, and the Associate Director, Scientific at the KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute – University Health Network. He is also a Professor at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto. Dr. Zariffa received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering. He later completed post-doctoral fellowships at the International Collaboration On Repair Discoveries (ICORD) in Vancouver, Canada, and at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute – University Health Network in Toronto, Canada. His research interests focus on neuroprosthetics and technology for upper limb neurorehabilitation, encompassing work in wearable sensors, neural interfaces, electrophysiology, and machine learning. His team was awarded the Grand Prize in the Spinal Cord Rehab Innovation Challenge, a national competition focused on new tools to measure rehab activities and their impact.