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 »

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 »