Maggie Delano

Maggie Delano is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Swarthmore College.12 She is currently on leave for the 2024-2025 academic year.1 Her office is located in Singer 233, and she can be contacted via email at mdelano1@swarthmore.edu or by phone at 610-328-8295.1

Research Interests

Professor Delano's research interests are focused on two main areas:

1. Development of monitoring systems for chronic diseases: Her current embedded systems research concentrates on using textile electrodes for long-term fluid status monitoring through bioimpedance measurements.1 This work aims to overcome the limitations of standard Ag/AgCl electrodes that dry out over time.

2. Inclusive engineering design: Inspired by her research and experiences with the Quantified Self community, she has developed an interest in inclusive and anti-oppressive design.1

Notable Projects and Achievements

• Fluid status monitor: For her PhD dissertation, she built a fluid status monitor for patients with congestive heart failure, working with Professor Charlie Sodini.1

• Quantified Self Boston: During graduate school, she co-organized Quantified Self Boston and started the Quantified Self Boston Women's Meetup.1

• Inclusive engineering design course: In Fall 2020, she taught the first iteration of her inclusive engineering design course, described as "half seminar, half design studio".1

• Research publications: She has co-authored papers on inclusive design, including articles about adversarial machine learning and the use of sex/gender data in medical machine learning applications.1

Current Work

Professor Delano is currently working on:

1. Techniques to eliminate artifacts in textile electrode measurements for bioimpedance systems.1
2. A new project aimed at reducing racial bias in pulse oximetry measurements through hardware.1

She has also written articles for a general audience on topics such as the design of period tracking apps and privacy concerns related to period trackers in the post-Dobbs era.1