- iBionicS members (Dr. Bozkurt, Talha, Evan amd Marc) sponsored and mentored the CATALYST team at the Science House including 22 high school students with disabilities from 20 high schools from across North Carolina. The Catalyst InvenTeam also received a letter of support from President Obama. link
Dr. Bozkurt was a panelist in “Science in the Movies” Series, Part 2: “Bugs: Fear, Fascination and Fantasy” organized by North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and NC State Hunt Library. - Michael McKnight serves as the President of the Student Leadership Council at NSF Engineering Research Center for ASSIST.
- iBionicS hosts summer REU Justin Kuhn.
- iBionics Lab presented 4 papers at IEEE EMBC 2018 in Orlando, FL.
- iBionics Lab hosted students from YBM/YBW (Young Black Men/Young Black Women) Leadership Alliance (top 100 African American male and female students in Charlotte area).
- Michael McKnight is a Best Student Paper Finalist at IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference. Congrats Michael!
- iBionics Lab receive funding from NSF Smart Connected Health Program to generate a “Novel Textile based Sensors for Inner Prosthetic Socket Environment Monitoring” . link
- Talha presents a paper on infant hydration sensing at IEEE VCACS Conference
- Evan Williams and Marc Foster joined us as a PhD student. Welcome Evan and Marc!
- Tahmid defended his PhD thesis and is now a postdoc at NC State ASSIST Center. Congrats Tahmid!
- Rita defended her thesis and is now with Intel. We will miss you Rita!
- Dr. Vladimir Pozdin from Cornell University to iBionics and BioInterface Labs as a postdoc.
- Our paper on “Wearable Heart Rate Sensor Systems for Wireless Canine Health Monitoring” was published by IEEE Sensors Journal.
- iBionicS and BioInterface Labs receive NIH and DARPA commercialization grants with Profusa, Inc. link
- Dr. Bozkurt serves as a member of the North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative, Plant Data Sciences Subgroup.
- Dr. Bozkurt serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Sensors Journal.
- Dr. Bozkurt’s team received the Honorable Mention in EPA Smart City Air Challenge.
- Our paper on “Sound Localization Sensors for Search and Rescue Biobots” was published by IEEE Sensors Journal.
- Dr. Bozkurt received the IEEE Sensors Council Young Professional Award.
- Michael McKnight was Best Paper Finalist at the IEEE International Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology in Orlanda, FL. Congrats Michael!
- Our joint paper with CIIGAR Lab on “Balancing Noise Sensitivity, Response Latency, and Posture Accuracy for a Computer-Assisted Canine Posture Training System” was published by International Journal on Human Computer Studies, Special Issue on Animal Computer Interaction. Dr. Bozkurt co-mentored two senior design teams: GlucoBand Team, Plant Growth Monitor Team.
- iBionicS Lab hosted 6 undergraduate researchers (Eric Beppler, Brinnae Bent, Hannah Kausche, Kevin Keller, Bailey Blankenship, Charles Hood).
- Hannah Kausche and Bailey Blankenship received the ASSIST Fellowship.
- Our paper on “A Biobotic Distributed Sensor Network for Under Rubble Search and Rescue” was published by IEEE Computer, Special Issue Emergency Response.
- Dr. Bozkurt served as a technical committee member for IEEE Sensors Conference.
- Eric Beppler and Kevin Keller received the ECE Undergraduate Scholarship.
- Rita Brugarolas’ team won the IEEE Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2016) Hackathon.
- iBionicS continued to host North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics and other local high school students over summer to perform research on applied bioelectricity.
- Dr. Bozkurt presented an invited talk at University of Pennsylvania.
- Our paper on “Low Power Wearable Systems for Continuous Monitoring of Environment and Health for Chronic Respiratory Disease” was published by IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
- Our joint work with CIIGAR Lab “Smart Connected Canines: IoT Design Considerations for the Lab, Home, and Mission-critical Environments” was presented at 37th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, Princeton, NJ.
- iBionics Lab presented 5 papers at IEEE SENSORS 2018 in Orland, FL. Rita presented her work on “Towards a wearable system for continuous monitoring of sniffing and panting in dogs” at IEEE Body Sensor Networks Conference, San Francisco, CA.
- Jose presented a demo about our joint work on “Compressive sampling photoplethysmographic readout IC” at IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2016.
- Dr. Bozkurt presented an invited talk at “All Things Open” Conference.
- iBionicS Lab opens a booth at NC Museum of Natural Science’s BugFest.
- Bailey joined our lab as an undergraduate student and receives the ASSIST Fellowship.
