Aston K McCullough
Aston K. McCullough is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University where he is a member of the core faculty in the Center for Cognitive & Brain Health, with appointments in the Department of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences, the Department of Music, and an affiliate faculty appointment in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences.
At Northeastern University, Dr. McCullough direct Laboratory for the Scientific Study of Dance (LAB:SYNC). Prior to joining Northeastern University, McCullough was an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he directed the nation’s first National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab to study dance and health among adults.
Dr. McCullough’s research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and through generous support from foundations, and his laboratory has, or is currently, engaged in research partnerships with the Wolf Trap Institute, the Five College Dance consortium of Five Colleges, Inc., and Dance for PD® of the Mark Morris Dance Group.
McCullough completed PhD and MPhil degrees in Kinesiology at Columbia University; an MS in Applied Statistics at Teachers College, Columbia University; MA in Dance Education at New York University; BA in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College; and a Professional Diploma in Dance Studies from Laban Dance Conservatoire. He completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the School of Public Health & Health Sciences.
Interests
Dr. McCullough studies human activity in relation to health across the lifespan. He programs and evaluates methods for analyzing human activity and health-related signals within single and multi-person movement paradigms using sensors (e.g., accelerometers, 2D/3D cameras, EKG, and others). McCullough examines associations between wellness and dance exposures both quantitatively and qualitatively. His specific research areas include—movement & health, motion analysis, wearable sensors and 2D/3D camera systems, biometry, children & families, dance behavior.