SPRING 2020 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Nicholas Crossland, Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, MED Co-PI: Vijaya Kolachalama, Assistant Professor, Medicine, MED Track: Hariri Institute for Computing What is the Challenge? Ebola viral disease (EVD) is caused by 1 of 4 species in the Ebolavirus genus (Zaire, Sudan, Taï Forest, & Bundibugyo). These result in hemorrhagic fever in […]
SPRING 2020 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Manuel Egele, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, ENG Special Track: Honda Research Institute Europe What is the Challenge? As cybersecurity concerns increasingly move to the forefront of manufacturers’ concerns, their need to perform security assessments of products and systems pre and post-sale receives significant attention. However, though security assessments […]
SPRING 2020 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Emily M. Ryan, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, ENG Co-PIs: Sahar Sharifzadeh, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, ENG. Brian Kulis, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, ENG Track: Hariri Institute for Computing What is the Challenge? To investigate the complex interfaces in material systems and create […]
SPRING 2020 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: David Starobinski, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Systems Engineering, ENG Special Track: Honda Research Institute Europe What is the Challenge? Misbehavior by compromised vehicles represents a significant threat to connected vehicle technology. Specifically, a compromised vehicle that has authenticated credentials allowing it to communicate with other vehicles freely. With […]
SPRING 2020 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Cara Stepp, Associate Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, ENG Co-PI: Lauren Tracy, Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology, MED Track: Hariri Institute for Computing What is the Challenge? Acoustic parameters can target voice modification sessions to alter the perception of gender of transmasculine speakers meaningfully. Additionally, novel speech resynthesis techniques can be used to […]
SPRING 2020 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Jessica Stern, Research Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies Co-PI: Gianluca Stringhini, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, ENG Track: Hariri Institute for Computing What is the Challenge? Online social media has become a prominent vector for extremists to spread radicalized content, to make their ideology reach a large number of people by […]
FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Martin Herbordt, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ENG Co-PI: Mayank Varia, Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, CAS Track: HIC & Red Hat Collaboratory Datasets can tell a great story and provide critical insights in almost every aspect of society. Unfortunately, guaranteeing privacy can slow this process, and critical insights otherwise […]
FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Jennifer Beane, Assistant Professor of Medicine, MED Track: Digital Health Initiative Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death, and the pre-cancer lesion is an important clinical indicator of lung cancer risk to help therapies intercept the cancer development process in the early stage to increase survival. In this case, […]
FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Swathi Kiran, Associate Dean, SAR Co-PI: Margrit Betke, Professor of Computer Sciences, CAS Track: Digital Health Initiative & Artificial Intelligence Research Over 2 million people are currently living with aphasia due to a stroke, and the patients do not know whether they will ever recover to improve their communication/cognitive skills. Aphasia therapy […]
FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy, CAS Track: HIC In some low- and middle- income countries, transactions between the buyers and the sellers are often conducted informally and are based on credibility. Formalizing contracts can be important and beneficial. The team wants to measure the potential advantages of formalizing […]