Check out a BioE MEng Capstone team’s work on treating stroke with electromagnetic field therapy.
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MEng project takes 4th place in IBM Call for Code
Meng capstone team Project AsTeR took 4th place in the 2019 IBM Call for Code, an international competition that solicits technology-based ideas that can help mitigate the catastrophic effects of natural disasters. Team members Meryll Dindin, Pierre-Louis Missler, Florian Fesch, Oskar Radermecker and Thomas Galeon are MEng alumni from several departments, including Bioengineering.
MEng project finalist in IBM Call for Code 2019
AsTeR, an MEng team project by recent BioE, CEE and IEOR alumni Meryll Dindin, Oskar Radermecker, Pierre-Louis Missler, Florian Fesch and Thomas Galeon, is one of 5 finalists out of 5,000 entries for the Call for Code 2019 Global Prize. Project AsTeR is an app that uses natural language processing to prioritize emergency calls during […]
Using Artificial Intelligence to Help with Earthquake Response
BioE MEng alumni Thomas Galeon and Meryll Dindin, with CEE teammate Pierre-Louis Missler were recently featured by the Consumer Technology Association for their creation of AsTeR: a platform for collecting and prioritizing information to facilitate decision making during natural disasters.
Q&A with MEng team Intellicare
Interdisciplinary MEng team Intellicare won the 2019 Fung Institute Mission Award , for their work on machine learning to fight alarm fatigue in hospitals. Bioengineers Thomas Galeon, Oskar Radermecker, Yixun Tan and Jessica Wu joined IEOR students Xudan Luo, Clement Ruin, Wei Tan, Jidapa Thanabhusest, and Sruthi Thomas, advised by professors Gabriel Gomes, Xiao Hu, and Michelle Pelter.
Q&A with Brain Cell Rejuvenation student team
Learn more about the experience of this MEng capstone team, winner of the 2019 Most Innovative Project award. Yu-Shuo Chen, Kylua Chen, Matthew Kennedy, Paula Schultheiss, and Jesse Yang worked on “Exploring Post-Stroke Neural Recovery Via Exogenous Electromagnetic Field Therapy”, advised by professors Irina Conboy and Syed Hossainy
BioE MEng team wins Fung Mission Award
The Master of Engineering capstone team of Yu-Shuo Chen, Kylua Chen, Matthew Kennedy, Paula Schultheiss, and Jesse Yang, mentored by Bioengineering Professors Irina Conboy and Syed Hossainy, has won the 2019 Fung Institute Mission Award for Most Innovative Project.
Bioengineers have Big Ideas
Great results for bioengineers in the 2019 Big Ideas competition – one first place and three third place projects!
From $30,000 to $200: slashing the cost of prosthetic hands
An interdisciplinary team of Master of Engineering students are working to reduce the cost of bionic “smart” prostheses by redesigning the electronic controller board, and making it compatible with inexpensive 3D printed prosthetic hands. The Project Sparthan team, including bioengineers Davide Asnaghi and Alva Liang, recently won the 3rd place in the Hardware for Good category of the Big Ideas competition at UC Berkeley.