Grants and Awards
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- VentureWell E-team Program Stage 1 Grant #15572-16, BruxAlert, Jan 2020, Principal Investigator.
- University of Illinois at Chicago Start-Up Competition, , May 2017, Principal Investigator.
- VentureWell E-team Program Stage 1 Grant #15572-16, Tongue Computer Interface, Jan 2017, Principal Investigator.
- Wearable Technology Course Featured at The University Hall as a sign of UIC Innovation, 2020-Present.
- Thesis Advisor to the UIC Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation Award of 2020 – awarded to Giulia Soresini for Distribution Analysis of the Tongue’s Free-Exploration Pattern using an Oral Wearable Device. Significance: Annually only one award is granted to the four graduate colleges at University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Best New EMBS Student Chapter Award, IEEE EMBS UIC Student Branch Chapter, Role: Faculty Advisor, 2018.
- Research Advisor for the Best paper nominee at IEEE EMBC Conference, Student author: Nicholas Marjanovic Wireless Wearable User Interface Cursor-Controller (UIC-C), Jeju, Korea, 2017.
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Graduate
- Karla Salcedo Diaz, College of Engineering Graduate Students Award for Teaching Assistance Excellence, Spring 2022.
- Giulia Soresini, Award for Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation 2020 – awarded to “Distribution Analysis of the Tongue’s Free-Exploration Pattern using an Oral Wearable Device”, University of Illinois at Chicago, Spring 2020.
- Allison Bayro, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, May 2020.
- Nicholas Marjanovic, Best paper nominee “Wireless Wearable User Interface Cursor-Controller (UIC-C)”, IEEE EMBC Conference, Jeju, Korea, 2017.
- College of Engineering Travel Award, 2017.
- Sam Dreyer, Fifty for the Future 9th Annual Celebration, 2015.
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Undergraduate Students Awards
- Nora Qatanani, Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Award, Summer 2022.
- Vaishnavi Vanamala, Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Award, Fall 2021.
- Emily Park, Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant, University of Illinois at Chicago, Fall 2021.
- Nora Qatanani, Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant, University of Illinois at Chicago, Fall 2021.
- Shaheer Anwar, Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant, University of Illinois at Chicago, Fall 2021.
- Mo Merei, Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Award, Summer 2021.
- Manuela Burek, Honors Council Award, May 2021.
- Manuela Burek, Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant, University of Illinois at Chicago, Fall 2021.
- Heba Sattar, Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant, University of Illinois at Chicago, Fall 2021.
- Mehreen Ali, Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant, University of Illinois at Chicago, Fall 2021.
- Rudy Calderon, Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Award, Fall 2021.
- Rudy Calderon, L@S GANAS Fellow Research Award Recipient, University of Illinois at Chicago, Spring 2020.
- Mehreen Ali, Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Award, Spring 2020.
- Ameera Lodhi, Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant, University of Illinois at Chicago, Spring 2019.
- Allison Bayro, Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant, Spring 2019.
- Allison Bayro, Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Award, Spring 2019- Fall 2020.
- Lauren Craig, Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant, University of Illinois at Chicago, Fall 2018.
- Gregory Roytman, Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant, University of Illinois at Chicago, Fall 2015.
- COE Expo Recognition for the Best Prototype in Biomedical Engineering, (Mary Ann Metzger, Kholoud Baste, Joseph Striblen), Spring 2019.
- Kevin Kerr, Maurice Prize, 2017.
- Tiana Wong, Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, 2015. (https://today.uic.edu/goldwater-scholar-creates-tools-to-solve-health-problems-2)