Students Win Awards at the SEAS 2018 R&D Showcase

Our students have participated and presented their projects in SEAS R&D Annual Showcase in February 2018.  From our graduate students Shuyue Guan presented on Breast Cancer detection using transfer learning in convolution neural networks, Kristina Landino presented on Silence in Videos, and Apurva Singh presented on the effectiveness of radiation therapy for the treatment of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Apurva was awarded the $3,000 AccelerateGW I-Corps Site Program Grants, aimed to cover travel expenses related to client interviews and limited prototyping.

Zainab Mahmood and Nada Kamona, our undergraduate seniors, presented on “Automated Segmentation Algorithm for Thermal Breast Images” and “Reproducibility of Quantitative Image Texture Features in Identifying Tumor Regions in Thermal Breast Images” respectively.

Our undergraduate students Aidan Murray, Shannon Toole and Pannie Xu won the $2,000 Best Undergraduate Poster for their project titled “Symmetrical Cluster Analysis for Thermographic Breast Cancer Detection”.

Congratulations to our students on their accomplishments! Check their projects here and the photo gallery here.

The SEAS R&D Showcase is an annual event held at the School of Engineering and Applied Science, where graduate and undergraduate students from all different departments have the chance to present their research and projects. For more information, click here.

 

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