New Venture Competition Winners (2019)

SEAS congratulates the SEAS student finalists in GW’s 2019 New Venture Competition (NVC). Our student Sydney Bailes, along with her team, Caitlyn Pratt (SEAS ’21), and Solomon Abrams (GWSB ’19), won the Runner Up Prize ($5,000) for Takin’ it Easy. Takin’ it Easy is a user-friendly, cost-effective automated pill dispenser providing medical safety and autonomy for users and families.

GW Research Days 2019

Our students have presented a variety of projects at GW Research Days on April 9th. GW Research Days is an annual event held at the George Washington University, where graduate and undergraduate students from all schools present their research and projects.

From our graduate students, Kristina Landino presented on silence in videos, Nada Kamona presented on automatic detection of blur in mammograms, and Ange Lou presented on IR image segmentation with U-nets. Shuyue Guan presented his work on image histogram equalization with convolution neural networks, Apurva Singh presented on the effectiveness of radiation therapy for the treatment of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, and Zixian Lin presented on classification of renal cell carcinoma using texture feature analysis.

From our undergraduate students, Samhita, Jill and Emillie presented their work on automatic segmentation methods for IR breast images, while Sydney Bailes presented on cluster analysis of thermal images to aid in the diagnosis of breast cancer.

Finally, our two high school students, Sam Lossef and Nicholas Steele, showcased their project on multispectri RTI, an innovative imaging tool for art conservation. 

We congratulate everyone for their participation and hard work!

Check our students’ projects here and the photo gallery here. For more information on GW Research Days, click here.