We have been awarded one of the President’s Research Excellence (PRE) Accelerator grants as seed support for cross- and interdisciplinary research that has the potential to attract external funding. The project is in collaboration with Prof. David Hoelzle, Prof. Jinghua Li, and Prof. Desmond D’Souza, and will explore: “In-Situ 3D Printing of Wireless Medical Implants.” Further information is available here.
Prof. Kiourti has been invited to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s 2021 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium this September. More than 100 outstanding early career engineers will meet for an intensive three-day program to discuss cutting-edge technological developments. Further information is available here.
Vigyanshu Mishra has been selected by URSI to receive a Young Scientist Award. These awards recognize an international group of individuals who have made innovative contributions and discoveries in multidiscipline research related to electromagnetic fields and waves. Further information is available here.
Ally Rice has been selected to receive a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO) fellowship. According to the award letter, Ally was “chosen to develop groundbreaking, high-risk/high-payoff, early-stage space technology. (Her) contributions will help make science and space exploration more effective, affordable, and sustainable.”
Prof. Kiourti has been selected as one of the 40 Under 40 for 2021. According to Columbus Business First, 400 nominations were submitted this year, breaking records and confirming that 40 Under 40 is the most prestigious program for showcasing the region’s best and brightest young community leaders.
Tony Han has been selected to receive a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) award by Ohio State’s Chronic Brain Injury (CBI) Discovery Theme. SURF awards support the training and development of outstanding Ohio State undergraduate students through participation in basic, clinical, and translational research. His project is entitled “De-Noising E-Textile Sensors for Real-World Kinematics Monitoring after mTBI”.
Our paper entitled “Wearable Planar Magnetoinductive Waveguide: A Low-Loss Approach to WBANs” by V. Mishra and A. Kiourti has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. The paper is available here.
Prof. Kiourti is the 2021 awardee of the Buckeye Engineering Women in Executive Leadership (BEWEL) “Leadership in Innovation” award. This award is presented to a junior or mid-career faculty member in the College of Engineering who is committed to the advancement of women in the college and has demonstrated excellence in leadership in innovation, research and/or scholarship.
We welcome Chris Cosma, Connor Jenkins, Ian Anderson and Tony Han to our group. They are all ECE undergraduates and will research with us on wearable technologies.
Vigyanshu has been selected as an Autumn 2020 Presidential Fellow. The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School to recognize the outstanding scholarly accomplishments and potential of graduate students entering the final phase of their dissertation research or terminal degree project. Further information is available here.