Staff, students and alumni from UCL Engineering wish all those who celebrate a very happy LunarNew Year / Spring Festival.
Wishing you all the best for the Year of the Rabbit! 🐇
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1/17/2023
Imaging brain activity in babies as they go about everyday activities, like playing and interacting with caregivers, can give us eye-opening insights into how the baby brain develops. Portable brain imaging methods allow us to study the baby brain outside the constraints of a scanner. One such portable imaging method is diffuse optical tomography, which uses light to detect brain activation. This talk will focus on Dr Liam Collins-Jones using cutting-edge technology to develop methods to study baby brain connectivity in different social settings.
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9/15/2022
Dr Mike Thomas comes from a multidisciplinary background with an MSci in Chemistry and a PhD in Physics from the University of Bristol. In the latter, working with. Professors Robert Richardson and Stephen Mann, he developed new methodologies and scattering approaches to generate and characterise nanomaterial liquid crystal composites. Following this, he entered into the area of disease diagnostics, nanoparticle design and formulation as well as continuing research into self-assembled systems and synchrotron-based scattering techniques during a position as a research associate at Imperial College London in the group of Professor Molly Stevens.
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9/6/2022
Sailing a boat is fun but also mentally and physically challenging. In this stimulating talk Dr Yuanchang Liu will explore how we can embrace the recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to enable boats to sail themselves autonomously.
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8/30/2022
The AdReNa (Adaptive and Responsive Nanomaterials) research group is interested in the fundamental question of how materials form and interact on the nanoscale with the aim to create colloids and interfaces that can selectively interact with chemical and biological targets. In this talk, Stefan Guldin will show how this research is relevant for applications in healthcare and the environment, in particular how our work at UCL informs clinical prototypes for therapeutic drug monitoring in paediatric cancer.
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8/17/2022
How do you apply your STEM skills and programming skills to create a successful tech startup? In 2016, Kimeshan graduated from UCL's Computer Science department and turned his MSc thesis project into a company which has since raised $32 million, grown to 120 employees, and has a team of 50 engineers developing delightful software products used by 1 million+ global users.
He'll walk through how to test-and-learn, rapid prototype, find a business model that captures your value, and finally scale a prototype to a reliable, production-ready product that can serve millions of users.
In this lightning lecture (15 minutes talk, 15 minutes Q&A), Kimeshan explains his experiences before taking questions from the audience.
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8/17/2022
In this lightning talk Dr Lama Hamadeh will discuss how machine learning algorithms can be a reliable, cheap and quick tool for disease diagnosis. Join us to find out how they can replace expensive and large equipment just by analysing images of dried blood droplets...
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8/17/2022
There is something magical about being able to interact with a 3D display that shows a hologram in front of us to create a Princess Leia effect. It gets even more magical when we not only see 3D, but feel, hear, taste and smell it.
Professor Sri Subramanian's research is driven by this vision to deliver novel multi-sensory experiences to users without instrumenting them. For example, we can manipulate sound to levitate tiny objects in mid-air and move them 10,000 times a second so that the object disappears, and a 3D shape emerges in its place.
These sensations are created in mid-air – so users don’t have to touch or hold any device to experience it. Using principles from acoustic holography, many tiny and precisely timed speakers are used to shape the frontwave.
Such walk-up-and-use devices are starting to find their way into theme parks, ticketing stations and many other everyday places.
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8/12/2022