AUGUST 21, 2023
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TEDxAtlanta
Dr. Inan recently gave a talk at the TEDxAtlanta event entitled, “Does osteoarthritis make a sound?” . Watch it HERE.
AUGUST 21, 2023
Dr. Inan recently gave a talk at the TEDxAtlanta event entitled, “Does osteoarthritis make a sound?” . Watch it HERE.
Dr. Omer Inan was recently interviewed by Future Directions. Click here to listen to his talk on “Non-Invasive Physiological Sensing and Modulation”
September 18, 2019
Fox 5 Atlanta posted a video feature entitled, “Georgia Tech researchers develop patch to track heart failure”. Read it HERE
September 16, 2019
Fox 5 Atlanta posted a video feature entitled, “Georgia Tech researchers say knee sounds reveal secrets about joint health”. Watch the video HERE
April 1, 2019
The Uncommon Engineer Podcast from Georgia Tech posted an interview with Dr. Inan entitled, “The Uncommon Engineer: Cracking Bats and Bones: Inside Sports Medicine with Omer Inan”. Listen to the interview HERE.
February 14, 2019
Georgia Tech Research Horizons posted an article entitled, “Mending a Broken Heart,” where the SCG patch is featured at #5. Read it HERE
May 24, 2016
May 24, 2016
BBC Sounds posted a feature entitled, “Ever wonder what your knees sound like when they bend”. Watch the video HERE
May 23, 2016
Georgia Tech posted an article entitled, “Hearing snap, crackle, pop may help heal your knee”. Read it HERE
January 19, 2024
Jesus Antonio Sánchez-Pérez successfully proposed his thesis entitled, “Advancing Non-Invasive Pulmonary Monitoring Technologies.” Fantastic work!
December 20, 2023
John Berkebile successfully proposed his thesis entitled, “Wearable Multimodal Sensing Systems and Machine Learning for Non-invasive Cardiopulmonary Monitoring.” Fantastic work!
December 6, 2023
Sevda Gharehbaghi successfully defended her thesis entitled, “Analysis of Joint Acoustic Emissions for Health Monitoring with Wearable Technologies.” Congratulations, Dr. Gharehbaghi!
October 20, 2023
Mohammad won the prize for Best Paper Award at the 2023 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) International Conference on Body Sensor Networks: Sensor and Systems for Digital Health. His paper is titled “KneeMS: A Low-Cost Wireless Wearable System to Monitor Knee Acoustic Emissions“. Great work, Mohammad! Read more about it HERE.
September 12, 2023
July 26, 2023
Georgia Saks has received the President’s Undergraduate Research Salary Award (PURA) for Fall 2023 in recognition of her research proposal entitled, ‘”Leveraging the Electrogastrogram to Study Transcutaneous Cervical Vagus Nerve Stimulation Effects on Stress and Gastrointestinal Processes.” Congratulations, Georgia!
July 5, 2023
Asim Gazi successfully defended his thesis entitled, “Quantifying Changes in Stress During Trauma Recall and Non-Invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation.” Congratulations, Dr. Gazi!
June 7, 2023
Tamara Lambert successfully proposed her thesis entitled, “Towards real-time estimation of decompensation status in acute disease pathologies leveraging wearable technology and machine learning.” Fantastic work!
May 19, 2023
Asim Gazi was awarded with the Best Lightning Talk Award at InterfaceRice 2023! His presentation was entitled, “Latent State-Space Modeling of Physiological Responses to Non-Invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Traumatic Stress.” Congratulations, Asim!
May 17, 2023
Michael Chan successfully defended his thesis entitled, “Enabling Accurate Cardiorespiratory Monitoring using Machine Learning and a Chest-Worn Wearable Patch.” Congratulations, Dr. Chan!
May 15, 2023
Christopher Nichols completed his qualifying exam as part of the Bioengineering PhD program. Fantastic work!
May 5, 2023
Asim Gazi was selected to be a Schmidt Science Fellow, one of the most prestigious postdoctoral awards! Asim is the first-ever from Georgia Tech to receive this highly selective award. Congratulations, Asim! Click here to find out more.
April 6, 2023
Asim Gazi was awarded the PhD Runner-up place in the 2023 3MT competition after previously being selected as a finalist. Congratulations, Asim!
March 31, 2023
Afra Nawar has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship for the remainder of her PhD career. Congratulations, Afra!
March 10, 2023
Asim Gazi has been selected as finalist for the 2023 3MT competition. The final competition is taking place on April 6th. Congratulations and good luck in the finals! Click here to find out more!
Dec 6, 2022
Mohammad Nikbakht successfully proposed his thesis entitled, “Robust Detection and Analysis of Cardio-Mechanical Signals Using Novel Synthetic Generation and Denoising Techniques.” Fantastic work!
Dec 5, 2022
Kristy Richardson successfully defended her thesis entitled, “Enabling Remote Monitoring of Joint Health with Signal Processing and Machine Learning.” Congratulations, Dr. Richardson!
Nov 16, 2022
Sungtae An successfully defended his thesis entitled, “Weakly Supervised Deep Learning for Human Activity Recognition.” Congratulations, Dr. An!
Nov 16, 2022
Sri Sundararaj has received the President’s Undergraduate Research Salary Award (PURA) for Spring 2023 in recognition of her research proposal entitled, ‘”Assessing the Lingering Effects of Transcutaneous Cervical Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Heart Rate in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.” Congratulations, Sri!
July 14, 2022
Hewon Jung successfully defended her thesis entitled, “Continuous Cardiorespiratory Monitoring Using Ballistocardiography from Load Cells Embedded in a Hospital Bed.” Congratulations, Dr. Jung!
July 6, 2022
Christopher Nichols successfully defended his thesis entitled, “Optimizing the Mechanical Design of Wearable Multimodal Biosensing Systems Towards Recording in Dynamic Settings.” Fantastic work!
June 21, 2022
Sevda Gharehbaghi successfully proposed her thesis entitled, “Analysis of Joint Acoustic Emissions for Health Monitoring with Wearables.” Fantastic work!
May 17, 2022
Kristy Scott Richardson successfully proposed her thesis entitled, “Enabling Remote Monitoring of Joint Health with Signal Processing and Machine Learning.” Fantastic work!
May 17, 2022
Jacob Kimball successfully defended his thesis entitled, “Processing and Analysis of the Seismocardiogram to Enable Estimations of Blood Volume Decompensation Status.” Congratulations, Dr. Kimball!
April 21, 2022
Goktug Ozmen successfully defended his thesis entitled, “Novel Methods Using Acoustics and Bioimpedance to Assess Musculoskeletal Health and Performance.” Congratulations, Dr. Ozmen!
April 19, 2022
Asim Gazi received the Student Outstanding Service and Outreach Award and Samer Mabrouk received the Staff Research Spotlight Award from the Roger P. Webb Awards program. Congratulations, Asim and Samer!
February 16, 2022
Asim Gazi successfully proposed his thesis entitled, “Modeling Stress Dynamics: Non-Invasive Estimation and Neuromodulation of Latent Autonomic State.” Fantastic work!
December 9, 2021
Sungtae An successfully proposed his thesis entitled, “Weakly Supervised Deep Learning for Human Activity Recognition.” Fantastic work!
December 1, 2021
Venu Ganti successfully defended his thesis entitled, “Enabling Wearable Hemodynamic Monitoring using Multimodal Cardiomechanical Sensing Systems.” Congratulations, Dr. Ganti!
November 15, 2021
Georgia Saks has received the President’s Undergraduate Research Salary Award (PURA) for Spring 2022 in recognition of her research proposal entitled, ‘”Using Electrogastrogram Measurements to Sense the Effects of Transcutaneous Nerve Stimulation on Stress and Gastrointestinal Processes.” Great work, Georgia!
November 15, 2021
Sri Sundararaj has received the President’s Undergraduate Research Salary Award (PURA) for Spring 2022 in recognition of her research proposal entitled, ‘”Studying the Dynamics of Transcutaneous Cervical Vagus Nerve Stimulation-Induced Autonomic Effects at Hour-Long Timescales.” Congratulations, Sri!
October 8, 2021
Varol Burak Aydemir successfully proposed his thesis entitled, “Processing and Learning of Cardiomechanical Signals for Heart Failure.” Fantastic work!
August 23, 2021
Camille was featured by Additional Ventures as an Early Career Investigator in Single Ventricle Research on August 23, 2021. Read about the feature here. Keep up the great work, Camille!
August 17, 2021
Asim has been selected to attend NextProf Nexus 2021, a three-day workshop that is part of a nationwide effort to strengthen and diversify the next generation of academic leaders in engineering. The program will take place at the University of Michigan from October 4 to October 7. Read more about it here. Keep up the great work, Asim!
August 7, 2021
Lan Lan has received the President’s Undergraduate Research Salary Award (PURA) for Fall 2021 in recognition of her research proposal entitled, ‘”Changes in Joint Acoustic Emissions from the Knee Diurnally and After Simple Exercises.” Congratulations, Lan!
July 30, 2021
Asim made the lab proud by winning the 3rd prize Best Paper Award at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on BIomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), hosted virtually. His paper is titled “Transcutaneous Cervical Vagus Nerve Stimulation Lengthens Exhalation in the Context of Traumatic Stress”. Great work, Asim! Read more about it HERE.
July 7, 2021
Hyeon Ki Jeong successfully defended his thesis entitled, “Quantifying the Effects of Knee Joint Biomechanics on Acoustical Emissions.” Congratulations, Dr. Jeong!
June 11, 2021
Oludotun Ode successfully proposed his thesis entitled, “Novel Methods for Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring via Pulse Transit Time Analysis.” Fantastic work!
June 9, 2021
Luis Rosa successfully proposed his thesis entitled, “Machine learning implementation towards real-time in-the-loop sensor fusion for optimized gait and joint health.” Fantastic work!
May 12, 2021
Jacob Kimball successfully proposed his thesis entitled, “Continuous Estimation of Blood Volume Status using Wearable Sensing and Machine Learning.” Fantastic work!
April 15, 2021
Daniel Hochman successfully presented his MS thesis entitled, “Measuring and Analyzing Joint Acoustic Emissions from the Wrist.” Congratulations, Daniel!
April 13, 2021
April 6, 2021
Goktug Ozmen successfully proposed his thesis entitled, “Novel Methods using Vibration and Acoustics to Assess Joint Health Information.” Fantastic work!
March 24, 2021
Antonio has received honorable mention for the 2021 award cycle of the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations, Antonio!
March 24, 2021
Keaton has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship for the remainder of his PhD career. Congratulations, Keaton!
March 5, 2021
Venu Ganti successfully proposed his thesis entitled, “Enabling Wearable Hemodynamic Monitoring using Multimodal Cardiomechanical Sensing Systems.” Fantastic work!
January 22, 2021
Jacob has been awarded the Blended and Online Learning Design (BOLD) Graduate Fellowship for his PhD research, “Estimation of Blood Volume Status with a Noninvasive Wearable Multi-modal Sensing System.” Congratulations, Jacob!
January 20, 2021
Hewon Jung successfully proposed her thesis entitled, “Continuous Cardiorespiratory Monitoring Using Ballistocardiography from a Hospital Bed Embedded Load Cell.” Fantastic work!
November 25, 2020
Md Mobashir Shandhi successfully defended his thesis entitled, “Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Health Monitoring for Patients with Heart Failure using Seismocardiography.” Congratulations, Dr. Shandhi!
November 19, 2020
Brandi Nevius successfully presented her MS thesis entitled, “The Mechanical Design and Optimization of a Wearable Multimodal Health Sensing System.” Congratulations, Brandi!
November 16, 2020
Beren Semiz successfully defended her thesis entitled, “Digital Biomarker Discovery for Non-Invasive Health Monitoring with Acoustic and Vibration Signals.” Congratulations, Dr. Semiz!
November 2, 2020
Samer Mabrouk successfully defended his thesis entitled, “A Novel Multi-Modal Wearable Sensing System to Automatically Quantify Changes in Extravascular Fluids.” Congratulations, Dr. Mabrouk!
August 12, 2020
Nil Gurel successfully defended her thesis entitled, “Novel Technologies for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.” Congratulations, Dr. Gurel!
July 22, 2020
Our paper entitled, “Enabling the assessment of trauma-induced hemorrhage via smart wearable systems,” represents an important contribution to the area of assessing hemorrhage through wearable systems. The research was supported by Dr. Inan’s ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) award. Check out the paper here: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/30/eabb1708
Excellent work on this paper, Jon and Jacob!
May 28, 2020
Jonathan Zia successfully defended his thesis entitled, “On the Assessment of Cardiomechanical Function via Wearable Systems: Harnessing Population-Level Patterns and Dynamics.” Congratulations, Dr. Zia!
May 2, 2020
Asim’s presentation for the NYC Neuromodulation Online 2020 conference was selected for an outstanding presentation by an early career scientist award. His presentation was on “Dynamic Modeling of Digital Biomarker Responses to Non-Invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation.” Great work, Asim!
April 21, 2020
Asim has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship for the remainder of his PhD career. Congratulations, Asim!
April 10, 2020
Nicholas Bolus successfully defended his thesis entitled, “Systems for Noninvasive Assessment of Lower-Limb Biomechanical Load.” Congratulations, Dr. Bolus!
April 8, 2020
Beren Semiz successfully proposed her thesis entitled, “Digital Biomarker Discovery for Non-Invasive Health Monitoring with Acoustic and Vibration Signals.” Fantastic work!
March 26, 2020
Samer Mabrouk successfully proposed his thesis entitled, “A Novel Multi-Modal, Non- Invasive Sensing System To Automatically Quantify Changes in Extravascular Fluids.” Great work!
March 18, 2020
Hyeon Ki Jeong successfully proposed his thesis entitled, “Quantifying the Effects of Knee Joint Biomechanics on Acoustical Emissions.” Fantastic work!
March 13, 2020
Caitlin Teague successfully defended her thesis entitled, “Novel Multimodal Sensing Systems for Wearable Knee Health Assessment.” Congratulations, Dr. Teague!
October 28, 2019
Nordine Sebkhi successfully defended his thesis entitled, “A Novel Wireless Tongue Tracking System for Speech Applications.” Congratulations, Dr. Sebkhi!
October 22, 2019
Daniel Whittingslow successfully defended his thesis entitled, “Anatomy of a Joint Sound: Using Joint Acoustic Emissions to Diagnose and Grade Musculoskeletal Disease and Injury.” Congratulations, Dr. Whittingslow!
September 26, 2019
Jon Zia successfully proposed his thesis entitled, “Enabling Robust and Adaptive Cardiomechanical Signal Analysis via Population-Based Dynamic Modeling.” Great work!
August 17, 2019
Nordine’s speech disorder tongue tracking technology was featured in an article in the AJC. Read it HERE.
August 8, 2019
The NextProf Nexus Workshop is a three-day program that is part of a nationwide effort to strengthen and diversify the next generation of academic leaders in engineering. Read about it here.
June 17, 2019
Yaoyao Jia successfully defended her thesis entitled, “Neural Interface System for Long-Term Behavioral Experiments with Small Freely Moving Animals.” Congratulations, Dr. Jia!
May 24, 2019
Mobashir Shandhi successfully proposed his thesis entitled, “Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Health Monitoring for Patients with Heart Failure Using Ballistocardiography and Seismocardiography.” Fantastic work!
May 22, 2019
Asim made the lab proud by winning the 2nd prize for Best Poster at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on BIomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) hosted in Chicago, IL. His poster was on “Preliminary Modeling of the Kinetics of Photoplethysmogram Changes Following Non-Invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation”. Great work, Asim!
May 20, 2019
For his outstanding service as an assistant to his professors and educator and mentor to his students, Asim was awarded the 2018-2019 Georgia Tech ECE Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year award. Way to go, Asim!
May 10, 2019
Nordine and his project, MagTrack, won first place at the inaugural TiE Young Entrepreneus (TYE) University Global Pitchfest Competition in Silicon Valley, California. He also won the Technology Innovation Prize. Incredible work, Nordine!
April 15, 2019
Nordine Sebki mentored a team of undergraduates on adapting video games for quadriplegics using tongue-based controls. Come see their final presentation April 15th (6 pm – 7.30 pm) at the Klaus Atrium.
April 14, 2019
Nordine won first place at the TiE Young Entrepreneurs University Business Pitch Competition for the Atlanta chapter. He will proceed to the final round (Global Pitchfest, May 9th) to compete with the finalists from all over the world. The competition is organized by Silicon Valley’s TiECON, the world’s largest entrepreneurship conference.
April 13, 2019
Nordine is among the 8 finalists competing for the TYE 19 business pitch competition. His business presentation is on a new cordless motion tracking technology called MagTrack that is currently being developed in the lab. Good Luck, Nordine!
April 10, 2019
Congratulations Sinan, Lara, and Kristy!
Staff Research Spotlight Award: Sinan Hersek
ECE Outstanding Service and Outreach Award: Lara Orlandic
Outstanding Electrical Engineering Senior Award: Lara Orlandic
ECE Senior Scholar Awards: Kristine Scott
April 8, 2019
Caitlin Teague successfully proposed her thesis entitled, “Novel Multimodal Sensing Systems for Wearable Knee Health Assessment“. Awesome job!
April 8, 2019
Nick Bolus successfully proposed his thesis entitled, “Joint Load Estimation Using Multimodal Wearable Sensing“. Great work!
March 21, 2019
Andrew Carek successfully defended his thesis entitled, “Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring Technologies Based on Pulse Transit Time“. Congratulations, Dr. Carek!
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Daniel Whittingslow successfully proposed his thesis entitled, “Acoustic Emissions Generated by Joint Articulation as a Non-Invasive Biomarker of Musculoskeletal Injury and Disease“. Awesome job!
January 24, 2019
Congratulations, Venu! Keep up the good work.
October 28, 2018
Congratulations, Nil! You deserve it!
March 4, 2018
N. Z. Gurel, M. M. H. Shandhi, J. D. Bremner, V. Vaccarino, S. Ladd, L. Shallenberger, A. Shah, and O. T. Inan, “Toward Closed-Loop Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation using Peripheral Cardiovascular Physiological Biomarkers: A Proof-of-Concept Study,” IEEE Body Sensor Networks Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2018