Oct 29, 2015
ECE PhD Candidate Is A Winner In 3 Minute Thesis Competition
Tahmid Latif, under the advisement of Dr. Alper Bozkurt, placed second in The Graduate School’s inaugural 3 Minute Thesis competition, a test of both his engineering and communication skills. Tahmid’s PhD research in the iBionicS Labuses Madagascar hissing cockroaches as search and rescue “roach-bots.” With electrodes implanted into the roach antennae and electronic backpack, Tahmid uses neurostimulation […]
The award-winning paper by Xu and Eun entitled, "Modeling Time-Sensitive Information Diffusion in Online Social Networks" focused on the complex issue of how to predict how many users will forward or comment on information posted in online social networks.
Rita Brugarolas and Jose Manuel Valero-Sarmiento, ASSIST PhD students in Electrical Engineering and research assistants in Dr. Alper Bozkurt's iBionics Laboratory at North Carolina State University, conceived a novel idea: an auto-titrating oral appliance for at home use.