- NewsRx and Biotech Week covered our joint work with imec Belgium on a compressive sampling photoplethysmographic (PPG) integrated circuit.
- Dr Bozkurt received the 2017 IBM Faculty Award.
- Pest Control Technology Magazine covers our work on using drones and insect biobots to map disaster areas link
- iBionicS Lab attended the “Innovation Workshop: NC Plant Sciences Initiative for Big Data Research”.
- iBionicS Lab had a booth presentation at Smithsonian National Museum of American History in DC under ACCELERATE Festival link, link)
- iBionicS Lab has contributed to “NC State Plant Sciences Initiative: A Strategic Plan for Using Technologies to Understand Complex Data and Improve Decision Making”.
- Dr. Bozkurt delivered an invited talk at the Sensors Expo & Conference 2017.
- iBionicS Lab opened a booth in NC Museum of Natural Sciences’ Adult Night event on Harry Potter Theme. This series of events allows people ages 21 and older to explore the museum at night while engaging in various science activities that relate to a theme.
- Dr. Bozkurt was nominated by NC State for Moore Inventor Fellowship.
- Our biobot work was covered in Newsweek’s gaming and geek culture website, Player. link
- Dr. Bozkurt delivered an Invited talk at SPIE Biosening and Nanomedicine Conference.
- Our work on biobots was featured in New York Post article “How playing with bugs could save the world”.
- iBionicS mentored CATALYST team was visited by the NC Governor Roy Cooper link link
- Dr. Bozkurt was interviewed by Radio In vivo about our work on cyber enabled bionic organisms link
- iBionics Lab and our PhD Student James Reynolds organized a Summer Camp in collaboration with NC State The Science House Imhotep Academy on BioInstrumentation 1 week for Wake County students and 1 week for Vance County students hosting students from minority backgrounds in STEM.
- We provided materials for Youtube Red’s show Mind Field for their Season 2.
- Our biobots work was covered by Contagiuous Magazine on February 15, 2017.
- Our work on biobots was in Science Daily article “Tracking the movement of cyborg cockroach” on February 27, 2017.
- Our collaboration with Profusa was highlighted in Chemistry World link
- iBionics mentored CATALYST Team reached the final stage of Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam competition and won the Technical Achievement Award. Talha, Evan and Marc traveled to Boston with the Team to provide support on their project “A Cow Lameness Detection System”.
- iBionicS Lab opened a booth during NC BREATHE Conference.
- iBionicS Lab hosted more than ten 9th graders from Bradford Academy in Mebane for a lab tour.
- Former iBionicS student Brinna Bent used iBionicS equipment to offer a class to senior citizens under Osher Lifelong Learning Instititute at Duke University.
- James Reynolds serves as the Education and Outreach Chair for ASSIST Center.
- Talha Agcayazi and James Reynolds served as the President and Vice-President of the ECE Graduate Student Association.
- James Reynolds attends Phenome 2018.
- Our review paper on “Flexible Interconnects for Electronic Textiles” has been published by Advanced Materials Technologies.
- iBionicS collaborates with Guiding Eyes for the Blind Foundation for developing smart harnesses for temperament assessment of trained puppies (supported by IBM). link link
- Michael McKnight was Awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Scholar of the Year for NCSU College of Engineering. Big congrats!
- iBionicS’ collaborative paper on skin impedance sensing with Zhu Lab becomes a cover article on Advanced Healthcare Materials and was one of the most downloaded and read publications in 2017.
- iBionicS Lab and PhD student James Reynolds has a presentation about the 2017 Summer Camp at North Carolina Science Teachers Association Professional Development Institute Conference at Koury Convention Center in Greensboro.
- Dr. Bozkurt served in NC State ECE Strategic Planning Committee.
- iBionicS Lab opens a booth in NC State Open House.
- Our joint paper with IMEC Belgium on “A 172 μW Compressively Sampled Photoplethysmographic (PPG) readout ASIC with Heart Rate Estimation Directly from Compressively Sampled Data” has been published by IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.
- James and Talha participate in the IEEE International S&M Student Contest in Glasgow, Scotland.
- James Dieffenderfer defended his PhD thesis and leading two start ups he spun-off NC State. Congrats Jimmy!
- iBionicS hosts summer REU Chadwick Gilligan.
- Jose Manuel Valero Sarmiento defends his PhD thesis and is now with Intel. Congrats Jose!.
- Our joint work with CIIGAR Lab on “Creating an Evaluation System for Future Guide Dogs: A Case Study of Designing for Both Human and Canine Needs” was presented at ACI 2017 in Milton Keynes, UK.
- Michael McKnight presents his multimodal sensors for monitoring the prosthetic socket at the ECE GSA symposium.
- Talha passed his qualifier exam.
- Talha wins the 2nd place at FLEX conference Innovators of the Future Award. Congrats Talha!
- iBionicS hosted 5 undergraduate researchers (Charles Hood, Max Gordon, Cory White, Cole Tullos, Tanya Mittal, Tuli Ghosh).
- Our paper on “Roach Biobots: Toward Reliability and Optimization of Control” has been published by IEEE Pulse.
- Michael passed the preliminary oral exam. Congrats Michael!
- Katie Walker defended her MS Thesis. Congrats Katie!
- Our joint paper with Zhu Lab on “A Wearable Hydration Sensor with Conformal Nanowire Electrodes” has been published by Advanced Healthcare Materials.
- Charles Hood and Joseph Tullos received the ECE Undergraduate Scholarship and ASSIST Fellowship.
- Timothy Holder, Tanner Songkakul, Hannah Kausche, Parvez Ahmmed joined us as PhD students. Welcome folks!
- Michael McKnight presents at ECE GSA Poster Day.
- Peter Sotory passed the prelim exam. Congrats Peter!
- James Reynolds passed the qualifier exam. Congrats James!
- Our paper on “In vitro evaluation of an injectable EEG/ECG sensor for wireless monitoring of hibernation in endangered animal species” has been published IEEE Sensors Journal.
- Dr. Bozkurt delivered an invited talk on our work on “Shedding Light to Sleep Studies” at SPIE Biosensing and Nanomedicine Conference in San Diego, CA.
- Our joint work with CIIGAR Lab on “Stimulus Control for Semi-autonomous Computer Canine-Training” was presented at Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems Palo Alto, CA and published by Springer.
- Dr Bozkurt offered two talks at Cambridge Display Devices in UK and Holst Center, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
- Our patent application on “Smart sensing systems and related methods” was filed by NC State.
