ADEPT Cancer Imager Team Captures Nayar Prize
Kenneth Tichauer and Jovan Brankov graciously accepted the grand prize in Illinois Institute of Technology’s inaugural $1 million Nayar Prize competition on Wednesday, February 6, for their pioneering...
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A Breakthrough in Cancer Detection: the ADEPT Imager
TRANSCRIPT Kenneth Tichauer, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering: We’re working on a project that we’ve called the ADEPT Imager. Our first application of this imager is to improve the...
Nayar Prize Winners Give Cancer Screenings Sharper Image
Two Illinois Institute of Technology professors are accelerating the pace in the race to find tumors in the earliest stages, earning them the final award in the first $1 million Nayar Prize package...
Innovation, Collaboration Sparked by Nayar Prize
What began as pleasant conversations during coffee breaks evolved into a collaboration to develop a new cancer screening imager and two faculty-researchers landing the final award of the inaugural $1...
Soft Makes Safe: NSF Awards $2 Million for Novel Soft Robotics Research
Matthew Spenko and Ankit Srivastava, associate professors in Illinois Tech’s Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, were awarded a $2 million, four-year grant to develop the...
Professor Zheng John Shen Elected 2018 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Grainger Endowed Chair Professor in Electrical and Power Engineering Zheng John Shen was elected a 2018 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). “It is a great honor to be the fourth...
Amazon Alexa VP Delivers 2018 Darsh T. Wasan Lecture
“The way I think about Alexa is the way AI is revolutionizing daily convenience,” said Rohit Prasad (M.S. EE ’99), vice president and head scientist at Amazon Alexa, as he opened the 2018 Darsh T...
Power System Add-On Can Protect Against City-Sized Cyberattacks
Cyberattacks on the energy sector and other critical infrastructure systems are on the rise and can significantly impact a city or even a country. Earlier this year, for example, the United States...
John L. Anderson Nominated As Next National Academy of Engineering President
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) 2019 nominating committee has recommended John L. Anderson, president emeritus and distinguished professor of chemical engineering at Illinois Tech, as the...
Formulating Rolls-Royce Jet Engines
Rolls-Royce is well known for its world-edge technologies in building some of the most powerful and fuel-efficient aircraft engines. Illinois Tech’s Sammy Tin, professor of materials engineering, is...