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Apr 11, 2024
2024 Investiture to Feature Purdue President and OpenAI CTO
Mung Chiang, president and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue will deliver the keynote address at Investiture which will be followed by a Q&A event with Mira Murati Th'12, chief technology officer of OpenAI.News
Apr 08, 2024 | Dartmouth Athletics
Engineering Major William Bender '24 Qualifies for US Olympic Rowing Team
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pv magazine International
Scientists identify new ‘promising’ absorber material for thin-film solar cells
Professors Geoffroy Hautier and Jifeng Liu, and researcher Zhenkun Yuan are featured in an article about their discovery of zintl-phosphide as a new potential high-efficiency, stable absorber material for thin-film photovoltaic applications.
Mar 18, 2024
The Washington Post
How one of the coldest, darkest towns on Earth is trying to get more energy from the sun
Professor Mary Albert Th'83 is featured in this article about her energy transition project in Qaanaaq, Greenland. "It's cogeneration of knowledge, so they can continue to live where they want to live and how they want to live," said Albert.
Mar 09, 2024
MIT Sloan School of Management
What's next for generative AI: Household chores and more
Professor Geoffrey Parker co-authored this piece about how "Large X models" that turn text into actions may ultimately allow generative AI to water plants and peel potatoes.
Mar 07, 2024
B&H Photography Podcast
Camera on a Chip: Eric Fossum's Invention of the CMOS Image Sensor
On this podcast about "pioneers of photography and digital imaging," Professor Fossum is a featured guest discussing "the invention of the CMOS active-pixel image sensor as part of his work for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory [and] the transfer of the CMOS sensor's 'camera-on-a-chip' technology to industry."
Feb 15, 2024
Research Quick Takes
Evolving Ontologies
Professor Eugene Santos co-authored "Bayesian-knowledge driven ontologies: A framework for fusion of semantic knowledge under uncertainty and incompleteness" published in PLOS ONE. The paper describes how to fuse multiple conflicting ontologies into a single knowledge base. "Biomedicine's rapid advancement is inundating us with new words, labels, and concepts that can be duplicative or even contradictory," says Santos.
Interface Design for Bioelectronic Implants
Professor Alex Boys co-authored "Bioelectronic interfacial matching for superior implant design" published in Cell Reports Physical Science, including discussion of the relevance of different mechanical and electronic factors. "Interface design is an important aspect for any material that is implanted into the body," says Boys, "and we wanted to provide a framework for researchers who work on bioelectronics to think about this important issue."
Grad Students Shine at NEAAPM
PhD candidates Roman Vasyltsiv and Savannah Decker—both in the Optics in Medicine labs and the Medical Physics Education Program—tied for first place in the early investigator competition at the New England Chapter of the American Association of Physics in Medicine (NEAAPM) meeting in Quincy, Mass. Savannah presented "Improving Cherenkov Dosimetry via Quantitative Skin Tone Analysis," and Roman presented "Fast Imaging of a Novel Conformal Scintilator Mesh for 2D In VivoValidation During UHDR PBS Proton Therapy."
SPIE Medical Imaging Conference
At the SPIE Medical Imaging conference, PhD students Yuan Shi (Halter Lab), Chengpei Li, Haley Stoner, and William Warner Th'17 Th'19 (Paulsen Lab) presented their work on image-guided surgery, including talks on "A surgical navigation framework for image-guided transoral robotic surgery" and "Intraoperative stereovision cortical surface segmentation using fast segment anything model," and posters on "Large MRI specimen submersion phantom design" and "Smart line detection and histogram-based approach to robust freehand ultrasound calibration."
Materials for Hydrogen Storage
Professor Geoffroy Hautier is a co-author of "Small-pore hydridic frameworks store densely packed hydrogen" published in Nature Chemistry. The study reveals a way of achieving high volumetric gas storage in nanoporous materials. "Transforming water to hydrogen is a promising way to store energy, but hydrogen gas takes up a lot of space. Developing materials that can absorb reversibly and 'pack' this hydrogen in a tighter space would reduce the volume needed for storage," says Hautier.
Embracing Ethical Research
First-year PhD student Amritha Anup Th'23 is first author of "Embracing ethical research: Implementing the 3R principles into fracture healing research for sustainable scientific progress" published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research. Anup and her international co-authors, as well as professor Katie Hixon, explore recent advances "to replace, reduce, and refine [3R] animal experiments in musculoskeletal, bone, and fracture healing research."
Multiplex Ultrasound Imaging
Austin Van Namen Th'21, Sid Jandhyala Th'22, Catalina Spatarelu Th'22, and Professors Kim Samkoe and Geoff Luke are coauthors of "Multiplex Ultrasound Imaging of Perfluorocarbon Nanodroplets Enabled by Decomposition of Postvaporization Dynamics" published in Nano Letters. The paper describes a method to use phase-changing nanodroplets as ultrasound contrast agents for imaging multiple biomarkers simultaneously.
A Better, Safer Surgical Stapler
Professors Ethan Murphy and Ryan Halter, and PhD student Harsha Devaraj, along with Medtronic collaborators, coauthored "Development of an Electrical Impedance Tomography Coupled Surgical Stapler for Tissue Characterization" published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. The featured article investigates the incorporation of electrical impedance tomography into a surgical stapler to improve outcomes. Further studies are planned based on the promising results.