MathematicsJuly 8, 2024
‘Digital Twins’ Give Olympic Swimmers a Boost
In the Paris 2024 summer Olympics, swimmers will be guided by their digital twin. Here’s how they work to help the fastest swimmers break records
Stories by Jerry Lu
Jerry Lu is a graduate researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sports Lab. He received a master’s degree from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management after completing his undergraduate in systems engineering at the University of Virginia. Lu has been working on performance optimization and race strategy design for elite swimmers and triathletes and has worked on analytics with AusCycling, the governing body for cycling in Australia, to help inform performance outcomes. His research interests include applied math, sports quantitative research, athlete biomechanics and financial markets. Outside of research, Lu likes sailing and tennis, and he was a semiprofessional poker player for a year.