WGN News features Dr. Esmailbeigi's Research and Course
Biomedical Engineering Department Clinical Associate Professor Hannaneh Esmailbeigi and a group of her students were recently featured on WGN’s Medical Watch.
The segment profiled Dr. Esmailbeigi’s research and BME/Computer Science 479 Wearables and Nearables Technology Laboratory course, which is open to engineering and computer science students.
The video segment spotlights Esmailbeigi’s Wearable Technology and Sensory Enhancement Laboratory and its work on creating a discreet wearable retainer to help disabled individuals.
The profile was also featured on iBIO’s Daily News Brief rundown.
2024
WTSE Receives the Center for Clinical and Translational Science award
The WTSE lab receives the Center for Clinical and Translational Science Award for its research in tongue movement rehabilitation.
Andrea Scarpellini presents at the IEEE Sport Technology and Research (STAR) Workshop in Lecco, Italy.
Andrea Scarpellini presents “A Wireless Intra-Oral Device for Respiratory and Cardiovascular Monitoring” at the IEEE STAR 2024. This work is done in collaboration with Dr. Andrea Aliverti at Politecnico di Milano.
Dr. Esmailbeigi receives The Undergraduate Student Government Faculty Open Educational Resources Leadership Award
Dr. Esmailbeigi receives the student nominated The Undergraduate Student Government Faculty Open Educational Resources Leadership Award.
WTSE Lab presenets at the BME 2024 Research Symposium
Andrea Scarpellini, Anna Carroll, Bart Nowobilski, Asif Rifat, and Hassan Qadir present their research work at the WTSE lab at the BME 2024 Research Symposium.
2020
Dr. Esmailbeigi featured at the Grace Hopper Conference
“Technology can be a powerful tool for opening up the world to people with disabilities. This is something that Hananeh Esmailbeigi, a clinical associate professor with the Richard and Loan Hill Department of Bioengineering, knows firsthand from her research in wearable devices, and it’s the topic of her talk at this year’s virtual Grace Hopper Celebration.”
2020 BioE undergrads win accolades for new wearable device to treat bruxism
“Allison Bayro, Analise Hernandez, and Brandon Sakas worked on creating a wearable oral device called BruxALERT that uses biofeedback to alert users when they are clenching or grinding—a habit called bruxism that can lead to chronic headaches, face and jaw soreness, receding gums, and lesions of the teeth.”
Online learning allows students to discover ‘incredible implications of wearable technology’
This article talks about how the wearable technology wearables and nearables laboratory course functions in the virtual environment. Dr. Esmailbeigi and her teaching assistance worked hard to make 32 kits containing all the supplies needed to make all the devices for this semester.
“The silver lining of going virtual is that each student will have the ability to learn how to put together the devices from start to finish, whereas in the past, some students shied away from different aspects of the work. Also, previously students had to work on the projects in a lab setting during class.”
2017
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2017 EMBC Student Paper Competition
Nicholas Marjanovic was one of the 11 open finalists at the 2017 EMBC Student Paper Competition, which took place at Jeju, Korea. He presented his work “Wireless Wearable User Interface Cursor-Controller (UIC-C)” on behalf of Dr. Esmailbeigi lab (Wearable Technology and Sensory Enhancement Laboratory). He was honored during a special reception and received an award for his achievement.
2017 UIC Start Up
On Monday April 10th, Tongue Ventures participated in the UIC Start Up competition and received 2nd Place receiving a $2,000 prize. The team consists of Kevin Kerr, Nicholas Marjanovic, Ricardo Aranada, Ernesto Berrum, and Dr. Hananeh Esmailbeigi. Tongue Ventures works on developing assistive devices for disabled patients using the tongue as a medium. The potential devices would be able to help a wide range of disabilities ranging from individuals with ALS and Amputees to Quadriplegia. Each device is a custom made retainer with electronics housed internally allowing for discrete and wireless transmission to any Bluetooth enabled technology.
For more information on the work in progress go to: https://esmailbeigi.lab.uic.edu/research-2/tongue-ventures/
VentureWell E-Stage One Award
The Tongue Controller Interface group was awarded the VentureWell E-Stage One award for $5,000. The team participated in the VentureWell workshop held at Autodesk and M.I.T. The workshops exposed engineering students to industry experts versed in the fields of entrepreneurship, business, and protection of intellectual property.
Here is a link to the VentureWell E–Team stage one grantees: https://venturewell.org/e–team-grantees/
Fall 2017 Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant
Lauren Craig, from The Wearable Technology and Sensory Enhancement Laboratory, was awarded a $500 Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant for her project proposal. This grant will fund the development and prototyping of a wearable device for detecting disease biomarkers.