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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.

Here a sensor, there a sensor…

Meet some ECE faculty members who are putting sensors to use in new ways. This post was originally published here. Sensor technologies can be used to...

Misra Named to DARPA Microsystems Exploratory Council

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has named Dr. Veena Misra to the Microsystems Exploratory Council (MEC) for a three-year term beginning this summer....

Veena Misra Awarded Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence

Congratulations to Veena Misra for being honored with the prestigious Holladay Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence. This post was originally published here. Veena Misra, Department...

Sweat-Powered Wearable Sensors Land NC State Researcher on Newsweek’s Inaugural ‘Greatest Disruptors’ List

Amay J. Bandodkar, whose work focuses on self-powered wearable sensors for health monitoring, was named to Newsweek’s inaugural “America’s 50 Greatest Disruptors” list. Bandodkar is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University with an affiliation to the ASSIST Center and the department of Biomedical Engineering.