Team: Charit Mehta (ME), Aishwarya Pamula (BIOE), Sheila Sharifzad (BIOE) Advisors: Ying Han (UCSF), Syed Hossainy (BIOE), Dorian Liepmann (ME) Glaucoma is the second highest cause of blindness worldwide. Affecting over 65 million people, glaucoma is a disease that causes excessive fluid buildup within the eye. Over time, increased pressure inside the eye damages the… Read More »
Team: Kian Talaei (IEOR), Ryan Zolyomi (ME), Fang-Jhen Su (BIOE), Tianyi Xing (IEOR) Advisors: Scott Lee (UC Berkeley School of Public Health), Taiki Nishihara (Ocuelar), Tarek Zohdi (ME) More than 75 million people worldwide suffer from glaucoma--the leading cause of irreversible blindness. The majority of these patients lack a proper and consistent medication routine, a… Read More »
Team: Stu Burgess (ME), Mubasheer Chombakkadath (NE), Yong Mok Kim (NE), Juhi Nandwani (NE), Richy Rocha (NE), Tatiana Siaraferas (NE), Madeleine Waller (NE) Advisor: Massimiliano Fratoni (NE) Nuclear fission creates many rare elements that are not normally found in nature and are discarded in traditional reactor fuels. These rare elements are useful for many industrial… Read More »
Team: Wenqi Fan (MSE), Moriah Garcia (BIOE), Bianca Riello (BIOE), Jeremy Wan (BIOE) Advisor: Grace O’Connell (ME) Over 370,000 total hip arthroplasties are performed annually with 70,000 revision surgeries being performed each year. Surgeons at UCSF VA Medical Center Department of Orthopedic Surgery who perform these procedures daily believe that it is worth investigating the… Read More »
Discovering Inaccurate Extracted Information from Unstructured Clinical Notes Using Natural Language Processing Team: Lengning Wei (BIOE), Marcel Schaack (BIOE), Chloe Kim (BIOE) Advisors: Gundolf Schenk (UCSF), Gabriel Gomes (ME) Despite the development of medical records systems, there is no precise technology for large-scale information extraction, public health research and precision medicine. We designed a reliable… Read More »
Team: George Durrant (BIOE), Elie Celnikier (BIOE), Rongbo Zhou (ME) Advisors: Pierre Karashchuk (Evolution Devices), Aashyk Mohaiteen (Evolution Devices), Gabriel Gomes (ME) Neurological damage such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, and spinal cord injury cause walking impairments. The EvoCode team is improving the EvoWalk, a medical device developed by Evolution Devices, which corrects abnormal gait patterns… Read More »
GaitTrac, providing wireless, real-time gait analysis for clinical gait diagnosis through seven custom motion sensors Team: Ross Schneider (ME), Anisha Basu (BIOE), Hayley Boyd (BIOE) Advisors: Juan Rodriguez (Evolution Devices), Andrew Ekelem (Evolution Devices), Gabriel Gomes (ME) A third of people over the age of 60 suffer from impaired gait, which leads to loss of… Read More »
Heralding a new era of stroke treatment Team: Yu-Shuo Chen (BIOE), Paula Schultheiss (BIOE), Kylua Chen (BIOE), Matthew Kennedy (BIOE), Jesse Yang (BIOE) Advisor: Syed Hossainy (BIOE) Ischemic stroke, characterized by the restriction of blood flow to the brain due to mechanical blockage via blood clot, leads to significant mortality in both developed and emerging… Read More »
Utilizing Sensor Data to perform Gait and Posture Analysis for Rehabilitation Team: Clara Shu Qi Lim (IEOR), Emma Leiner (IEOR), Kenneth Lim (IEOR), Minsoo Kang (IEOR), Ziyu Li (IEOR) Advisors: Coleman Fung (Blue Goji), Gabriel Gomes (ME) “A growing number of older adults fear falling and, as a result, limit their activities and social engagements.”… Read More »
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