Past lab member, Jan Heinen, was interviewed on the podcast "Talk That Science" about his skateboard research: https://talkthatscience.com/Skateboard-Science Talk That Science · Skateboard Science @Echobox Radio

Summary of the work performed under the Chan-Zuckerberg Foundation Open Source Software for Science Cycle 4 grant awarded to Sympy and performed by Delft University of Technology. We developed new biomechanics capabilities in SymPy and improved code generation performance for large mathematical expressions.

Jan Heinen successfully defended "Optimal Skateboard Geometry for Maximizing Ollie Height". He developed a skateboard and skateboarder model capable of performing an ollie. He used trajectory optimization to maximize the height of the skateboard ollie under physiological and dynamic constraints. Then he used his solver to optimize the skateboard's geometry …