Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership

Faculty: Gabriel Gomes

Gabriel Gomes

[Blue Goji] Building a Scaled-Down Omni-Directional Treadmill

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Team: Adrian Neoh (ME), Ben Lowe (ME), Bo Peng (ME), David Xiao (ME), Olivier Masse (ME), Morgan LaMarca (ME), Adeen Bilal (ME), Efe Yavuz (ME), Victor Detavernier (ME), Aryan Nainy-Nejad (ME) Advisor(s): Gabriel Gomes Walking rehabilitation is a necessary treatment in over 70% of patients suffering from Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and stroke. Blue Goji’s team is… Read More »

No Salt, No Problem: Genetic Algorithms for Cost-Optimization of Solar Desalination Plants

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Team: Martina Dwek (ME), Megan Dyer (IEOR), Coleman Thompson (CEE), Vaitea Bahri (CEE), Valentina Dai (CEE) Advisor(s): Gabriel Gomes By 2025 nearly 1.8 billion people are projected to live with absolute water scarcity, adding to the large portions of the world’s population already suffering from water access problems. Sponsored by Optony, a clean energy consultancy,… Read More »

[Siemens] Coding-Free Robot Control: Rapid Learning for Automated Processes

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Show it once, and leave the rest to the robot Team: Zhe Wang (ME), Gordon Li (ME), Tsegab Mekonnen (ME) Advisors: Chengtao Wen (Siemens), Gabriel Gomes (ME) Industrial robot arms are widely used in various fields including manufacturing automation. When these robots need to adapt to a new production task, reprogramming of the control is… Read More »

CalCardiac: Classifying Heartbeats Using Machine Learning

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CalCardiac worked to reduce false hospital alarms due to arrhythmias. Collaborating with the UCSF School of Nursing, the team used various machine learning techniques to create a browser-based utility to view and label ECG waveform images. Capstone Team: Alex Ackroyd, Adam Andrews, Siddhant Issar, Segev Malool, Umesh Thillaivasan, Yuntao Wang. Research in collaboration with Jacob… Read More »