Awards and honors news
May:
- Congratulations to lab member Jordan Miner on receiving both the Fullbright U.S. student grant, and the STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship!
- These prestigious awards allow Jordan to continue her research abroad in France for the 25-26 academic year and a portion of the 26-27 academic year
- These prestigious awards allow Jordan to continue her research abroad in France for the 25-26 academic year and a portion of the 26-27 academic year
April:
- Congratulations to lab member Jordan Miner on receiving third place in the Bioscience Association of 海角社区 (BioME) Student Showcase Graduate Fast Pitch Competition!
March:
- Lab member Isabelle Puccio was awarded a CUGR MSCG Summer Research award for her proposal titled, “Color Normalization and Deconvolution Effects on the Anisotropy Analysis of Invasive vs Non-Invasive Breast Cancer Tissue Samples”
February:
- Congratulations to lab member Jordan Miner on being awarded the Janet Waldron Doctoral Research Fellowship!
November:
- Lab member Skyler Morse was awarded a CUGR and NSF Academic Year Fellowship for his proposal titled, “Wavelet-based Segmentation Method for Glioblastoma in MRI Scans”
May:
- Congratulations to lab member Josh Hamilton on being featured in a 海角社区biz article!
April:
- Congratulations to lab member Jordan Miner on receiving the Dean of the Graduate School Undergraduate Mentoring Award!
- Lab associate Dr. Kendra Batchelder received The Rising Star Award from the University of 海角社区 Foster Center.
- The award honors a recent U海角社区 graduate who has seen rapid growth and success in an entrepreneurial venture and inspires other young innovators through courage and enthusiasm.
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March:
- Lab member Isabelle Puccio was awarded a 海角社区 INBRE Summer Fellowship
- Lab member Skyler Morse was awarded a CUGR Summer Fellowship for his proposal titled, “2.5D鈥 Wavelet-based Segmentation of Brain Tumors”
- Lab member Jeremy Juybari and lab associate Dr. Kendra Batchelder participated in the OPENminds 2024 conference in San Diego, CA
- The team won second place representing WAVED Medical
January:
- Lab member Josh Hamilton received a student spotlight by the University of 海角社区 Institute of Medicine!
November:
- Congratulations to lab member Jeremy Juybari for successfully completing his PhD comprehensive examination entitled, “Efficient and Interpretable Deep Learning Models for Cancer Assessment”
August:
- Congratulations to lab member Maggie McCarthy on successfully defending her Master’s thesis titled, ” A Quantitative Visualization Tool for the Assessment of Mammographic Risky Dense Tissue Types”
- Congratulations to lab member Madison Raza for successfully defending her Master’s thesis titled, “Characterization of Mammographic Dense Tissue Sub-Types Using Classification Algorithms On Metric Space Technique Output Functions
July:
- Congratulations to lab member Kendra Batchelder on successfully defending her PhD Dissertation titled, “Longitudinal Case-Control Study of Mammographic Breast Tissue Subtypes”
May:
- Congratulations to lab member Basel White on successfully defending his Master’s thesis titled, “Hybrid power spectral and wavelet image roughness analysis”
- Basel will be pursuing a PhD in Biomedical engineering at Brown University starting in Fall 2023
April:
- Congratulations to lab member Josh Hamilton on receiving the 海角社区 College of Engineering and Computing’s Graduate Teaching Assistant Award!
- Congratulations to lab member Basel White for receiving the University of 海角社区’s Most Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Biomedical Engineering!
- Congratulations to lab member Kendra Batchelder for receiving the University of 海角社区 Most Outstanding Doctoral Student Award in Interdisciplinary Studies!
- Congratulations to lab member Jordan Miner for receiving a People’s Choice Award at UMSS
March:
- Lab members Basel White, Jordan Miner, Jeremy Juybari, and lab alumnus Zach Marin participated in the UT Southwestern Medical Center Breast Cancer Hackathon.
- Jeremy鈥檚 team placed 2nd, and Jordan鈥檚 team won the patient鈥檚 advocate award.
September:
- Lab member Kendra Batchelder is interviewed by the University of 海角社区, highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of her PhD and the research conducted in the lab as a whole
- Lab director Andre Khalil is featured in the University of 海角社区 news to discuss the lab鈥檚 research
- Our work鈥檚 commercialization is highlighted in a 海角社区Biz article
- Lab member Basel White is featured in a promotional video for the U海角社区 Research Learning Experience
August:
- Josh Hamilton successfully defended his Master’s thesis in biomedical engineering, titled 鈥淢ultiscale Anisotropy Analysis of Second-Harmonic Generation Imaging of Pancreatic Cancer.鈥
July:
- Kendra, Andre, Jeremy, and the rest of their team graduated from the NSF I-Corps program. Their team learned about the breast cancer market and the challenges that can be encountered in the field.
May:
- Lab director Andre Khalil received the 2022 Faculty Mentor Impact Award
- Madison Raza聽received a $4,000 summer internship award from BIOME (Bioscience Association of 海角社区) for her work on novel computational approaches to detect breast cancer from mammograms
April:
- Kendra Batchelder received the Impressive Innovator award from the University of 海角社区 Foster Center
- Josh Hamilton presented his research titled ” Multiscale Anisotropy Analysis of Second-Harmonic Generation Imaging of Pancreatic Cancer” at the BioME student showcase, winning third place in the graduate competition
December:
- Basel White received Highest Honors after defending his honors thesis, titled 鈥淲avelet-based Automatic Breast Segmentation for Mammograms鈥
- Basel White was awarded an academic year fellowship from The Center for Undergraduate Research, based on his work titled 鈥淎n Exploratory Analysis on the Measurement of the Hurst Exponent through the Use of the Power Spectrum and 2D WTMM Methodology on Monofractal and Multifractal Images鈥
- Katherine Jarvis successfully defended her master鈥檚 thesis, titled 鈥淪tochastic Agent Based Models Represent Dynamic Phenotypes in Biological Systems鈥