News

October 2014

Dr. Bozkurt gave a talk at IMEC in Leuven, Belgium.
Dr. Bozkurt was interviewed (live) by the BBC World News.
Our work in Collaboration with Drs. David Roberts and Barbara Sherman was published in IEEE Intelligent Systems: link
Dr. Bozkurt was quoted by Scientific American: link
More media coverage:
Technician: link
Science Daily: link
Fast company: link
UPI: link
Voice of America: link
Europa Press: link
Antena 3 (Spain): link
CN BETA (China): link
Today pets and animals: link

iBionicS Lab attended and presented at the BugFest organized by the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.
Our lab received NIH R21 funding in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Krystal at Duke Medical Center.
Brinnae and Eric became ASSIST Fellows.
NCSSM High School student John Fitzpatrick joined us as an intern.
Dr. Bozkurt gave a talk in Rotary Club of North Raleigh.
Our work was covered by
Newsweek (2 pages on the international print issue): link
NPR’s Take Away Show: link
New Scientist: link
NY Times: link
FUTURA (in french): link

Fay received the Department of Education GAANN Nanoscale Electronic and Energy Materials Fellowship.
Rita, Tahmid and James D. presented in IEEE EMBC Conference.
James won the CIMIT award.
Our team received funding from NSF ERC for ASSIST where Dr. Bozkurt assumed a role as Testbed Leader.
Our research was covered by Yahoo! News: link

Ryan and Peter joined us.
Our work on Journal of Visualized Experiments was published.
Our work was presented for 6 minutes by Morgan Freeman on his Science Channel (part of the Discovery network) show Through the Wormhole (aired on June 25, 2014): link youtube

We attended Smart America Challenge organized by the White House Presidential Innovation Fellows as a part of the Smart Emergency Response (SERS) Team. The other members of the SERS were Boeing, Mathworks, National Instruments, Blue Haptics, MIT Media Lab, University of Washington, Worcester Polytechnic and North Texas University. SERS was one of the highlight teams during the White House presentation. link
Smart America videos: link
Mathworks video: link
White House blog: link
Fedscoop: link
NSF: link
GAS: link
Department of Commerce: link
Ahmet Hatib and NCSSM High School students Ian Taylor and Bryan Ferrell joined us as summer interns.
Our work was covered by:
Computer World: link
Livescience: link
Gizmag: link

Dr. Bozkurt presented an invited talk on CINEMa project under SPIE Defense in Baltimore, MD.
Dr. Bozkurt presented under NCSU Building Future Faculty Workshop.
Our joint work with Dr. Edgar Lobaton’s group was published under ICCPS’2014 Conference in Berlin.
Our joint work with Dr. Coby Schal’s group was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

iBionicS had demonstrations during the NCSU Open House.
Eric and Tahmid received The Government Microcircuit Applications & Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech) Best Paper Award: link
Tahmid won First Place in the Engineering Division at the 2014 NC State Graduate Student Research Symposium: link

Dr. Bozkurt presented a lecture under the Science Café Raleigh in NC Museum of Natural Sciences: link

iBionicS Lab was on the recent Science Channel show FutureScape. link.
Dr.Bozkurt was invited to attend Smart America Challenge Workshop at White House. link.
iBionicS Lab hosted a crew from Science Channel for Morgan Freeman’s show Through the Wormhole. link.
Dr. Bozkurt’s work has been covered by Mark Alpert’s recent book Extinction (publisher: ). It will also appear in the next edition of Agnes Guillot’s and Jean-Arcady Meyer’s book How to Catch a Robot Rat (publisher: MIT Press). It will also appear on the kids science book “Weird but True: Ripped for the Headlines” to be published by National Geographic Kids.

Dr. Bozkurt hosted two sessions during IEEE Sensors Conference in Baltimore, MD.
James received the best medical product award in a competition organized by the NASA Brief Tech Magazine.

iBionics Lab was exclusively covered in the German Science show “Wissen vor 8 – Zukunft” (“Science at 8 – Future”) on ARD channel.
iBionics Lab was covered in the PBS‘ NOVA: link.
iBionicS Lab received second grant from NSF CyberPhysical Systems Program on Computer Aided Training Systems for Dogs (CATS for Dogs).
We were visited by the kindergarteners from The Montessori School of Raleigh.

iBionics Lab work was covered by WRAL of Raleigh: link.
(also by CBS News, FOX5, NewsChannel 5, Fox25, KVUE News, KRCG 13, Good Morning Texas,KRCG 13 Live, Fox 8, Action News, Fox 6 News, WCCB News, WBTC News, 9 On Your Side Morning, Fox 21, WTVR-TV, KENS-TV, ABC 13, WJBF-TV, East Texas News, Big News Network)
Yahoo TV: link.
IBionics were at iScienceTimes: link.
BBC Focus Magazine: link.

Terra Mater Magazine (distributed in Austria, Germany, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Great Britain, Italy, Malta)
Interviewed by Alison Bruzek of PBS NOVA
Covered by Sciences et Avenir in France
Technician covered our work: link.
UNC-TV visited us with a crew and aired their interview will be aired on 09/03/2013.
Yay! We were on PhD Comics: 1 2

Eric presented his work in IEEE EMBC 2013 in Osaka, Japan.
Dr. Bozkurt organized a special session on “Remote Controlled Insect Biobots” under IEEE EMBC 2013 in Osaka, Japan where researchers from USA, Japan and Singapore presented their latest work on the topic
iBionicS Lab received the Chancellor’s Innovation Award Fund.
Dr. Bozkurt was interviewed by ABC News, IEEE Spectrum, Metro New York.
iBionicS were in the News again: link.
(which was also covered by America Now (WXIX-TV and WPGX-TV), Bellingham Herald, )
GMA News: link.
EE Times: link.

iBionicS had demonstrations during the NCSU Open House.
Our work was mentioned in the new book “Frankenstein’s Cat” by Emily Anthes (publisher:Scientific American)
link
Jorge Cham (PhD Comics) visited our Lab.

We became a JEOPARDY! Question. Thanks Leonard for the correct answer…
Our work was covered by Entomologische Berichten in Netherlands and US based childen’s magazine ASK.
We were visited by a TV crew from Science Channel’s Show “This Changes Everything”.

A nice article from Walter Magazine: link.
Our work was covered by CS Bits and Bytes: an electronic newsletter aimed at high-school students published by NSF. link.