Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership

Industry: Health Care

Health Care

[Blue Goji] Velocity: Making Stationary Bikes Fun with Virtual Reality

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Virtual reality equipped exercise bike: Leave traditional stationary bikes in the dust with a new immersive experience. Team: Mikio David (ME), Liang Dong (ME), Jordan Francis (ME), F. Patrick Lai (ME), Kristjan Sigurdsson (ME), John Young (ME) Advisors: Coleman Fung (Blue Goji), Gabriel Gomes (ME) Imagine biking down a mountain path, fighting to keep your… 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 »

A Novel Device for Organ Preservation

Cryopreservation

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Project Description Long-term preservation of biological organs using cryopreservation (sub-zero temperature preservation) techniques could revolutionize organ transplantation. Currently the average preservation time of kidneys, livers, and hearts are 72, 8, and 6 hours, respectively. Increasing this time will allow for the transplantation of vital organs to thousands of individuals that need help, and also slow the… Read More »