We are excited that Arnau joined the lab to do his MS thesis. Arnau work is focused on state-of-art physiological measurement wearable devices and to collect data relating robot state to psychological stress and safety in proximal human-robot teams 🤖.

We are really happy that Tara joined the lab. She is going to work on a really cool project that involves measuring skin electrodermal activity with a smart ring 👀 

Congratulations Henry!

Really happy to have been invited to be part of a panel of exceptional speakers and have the opportunity to present our work on bioimpedance wearable sensing at the 2021 IEEE EMBC Mini-Symposium on Recent Advances in Wearable Device Detection and Machine Learning for Biomechanics.

Animation video of our latest work published in IEEE Access 👀: skin-based bioimpedance technology for breast cancer.

We are very excited for Elaine to join our lab! She will be exploring different aspects of machine learning applied to neuromuscular disorders.

Rik Pintelon was born in Gent, Belgium, on December 4, 1959. He received a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1982, a PhD in engineering in 1988, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium. Over the course of his long career, Pintelon was coauthor of 4 books on System Identification and published more than 260 articles and gave countless lectures. He received numerous awards in recognition of his contributions, including the 2012 IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement (IEEE Technical Field Award).

He received the 2008 IOP outstanding paper award (best paper in Measurement Science & Technology), the 2014 Martin Black prize (best paper in Physiological Measurement), the 2014 Andy Chi award (best paper in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement), the 2020 Silver Medal for being the second most published author of all time in the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, and several honorary positions.

As a scientist, Pintelon was best known for many studies related to system identification, signal processing, and measurement techniques. He developed and provided important theoretical insights for building mathematical models of dynamic systems from experimental data. A man of honesty and positive energy, Pintelon touched the lives of his many colleagues and students, including myself. Thank you Rik for being my mentor, you were a source of inspiration. Today is a sad day for me.

Rest in peace.

Benjamin

Congratulations to Henry Crandall for being awarded with the 2021 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists PhD Fellowship by the College of Engineering!

On Monday 4/26 we will be presenting the UTA technology to the Head and Neck Surgery Division at the University of Utah. This novel intraoperative real-time electrical impedance sensing technology has the potential to provide an accurate, rapid, and efficient method for gauging the contrast between the electrical properties of healthy tissue and oral squamous cell carcinomas located in the tongue.