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2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference: Best Paper Award
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the College of Engineering, led by UD assistant professor and DSI Resident Faculty member Leila Barmaki, and co-author, DSI Affiliated Faculty member Joshua Cashaback, received the Best Paper Award at the 2023 IEEE/ACM international conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), which took place in Orlando, Florida from June 21-23. The paper title is "Virtual Therapy Exergame for Upper Extremity Rehabilitation Using Smart Wearable Sensors."
Understanding Drug Tolerance
DSI Affiliated Faculty member Abhyudai Singh, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, is using $2 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health to develop computational tools for understanding the mechanisms behind specific cell states within cell populations.
Upcycling Plastics
DSI Affiliated Faculty member Dionisios Vlachos, the Unidel Dan Rich Chair in Energy and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is the corresponding author of a new paper in Nature Sustainability.
Points, Counterpoints and Data Points
DSI Affiliated Faculty member Lindsay Hoffman, associate professor of communication at the University of Delaware, is studying whether the national “College Debates and Discourse” program designed to facilitate respectful interactions makes any difference in what students think about controversial issues.
Quantifying Global Algal Blooms
DSI Affiliated Faculty member Yun Li part of research group using satellite imagery to quantify and characterize global harmful algal blooms.
DSI Founding Director Cathy Wu named 2023 Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology.
Founding Director of the UD Data Science Institute, Cathy Wu, Unidel Edward G. Jefferson Chair and Professor of the College of Engineering’s Computer and Information Sciences department, has been named as a 2023 Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).
Mind and Body
DSI Affiliated Faculty member Joshua Cashaback, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, received an NSF CAREER award to study the relationship between decision-making and movement control. The long-term goal of this research is to develop novel rehabilitation programs for patients with neurodegenerative disease.
Crop Shocks
Kyle Davis, DSI Resident Faculty member and assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences and the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, and Dongyang Wei (left), a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, led a new study that focused on crop production shocks and how they are affected by variations in planted and harvested areas.
Poultry Pests
UD professor and DSI Affiliated Faculty member Michael Crossley and grad student investigate the cost of lesser mealworm on farmers’ bottom line.
Computation and Crochet
The National Science Foundation has awarded an Early Career Award to DSI Affiliated Faculty member, Jodi Hadden-Perilla, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Delaware. The award brings five years of support for her study of viruses and the processes they use to hijack healthy cells.
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