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Alper Bozkurt and Team Win $4.3M Grant

A multidisciplinary team led by researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) has received a $4.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS) program. NC State ECE Distinguished Professor and ASSIST Center Co-Director Alper Bozkurt is part of the team, and Baranidharan Raman, professor of biomedical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering, is leading the study.
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Alper Bozkurt Gains Support from Chancellor’s Innovation Fund for Wearable “EKG” for Dogs

Nowadays, a wristwatch can track your heart rate, measure your blood oxygen level and even give you an electrocardiogram test (commonly abbreviated as “EKG” or “ECG”). And plenty of pet owners probably wish they could afford to track their furry friend’s health in real-time the same way, too. Thanks to David Roberts and Alper Bozkurt, maybe one day they can.
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Alper Bozkurt Receives NSF Rules of Life Funding for Mussels Research

The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced funding for Alper Bozkurt’s mussels research under the Using the Rules of Life to Address Societal Challenges program.
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Reflections on Ten Years of ASSIST

Ten years ago, the ASSIST team set out to create disruptive, always-on wearable devices that would enable continuous monitoring for chronic disease management. We achieved this through unique co-engineering of energy harvesting, low-power systems-on-chip, low-power sensing and integration on flexible platforms such as textiles. ASSIST built these systems to meet the requirements of several key chronic health concerns such as asthma, cardiac disease, diabetes, and wound monitoring.
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NC middle and high schoolers demonstrate the future of ASSISTive technology

The annual Wearable Device Challenge is in its eighth year at NC State, with one year off for the pandemic in 2020. Put on by the ASSIST Center, students are tasked with developing wearable health monitoring devices for humans or animals.
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Researchers Help AI Express Uncertainty to Improve Health Monitoring Tech

A team of engineering and health researchers has developed a tool that improves the ability of electronic devices to detect when a human patient is coughing, which has applications in health monitoring. The new tool relies on an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that helps the AI better identify uncertainty when faced with unexpected data in real-world situations.