Yang Liu Loupes

Iowa professor's innovation among Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2024

Friday, November 22, 2024
Yang Liu, University of Iowa associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and an ITI faculty affiliate, co-founded Unify Medical which released a digital loupe technology called Amplio to support image-guided surgical procedures. Amplio made Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2024.
Xuan Song Award

ITI faculty affiliate Song honored as 'rising star' by ASME

Friday, November 22, 2024
University of Iowa engineering professors Xuan Song and Caterina Lamuta have gained acclaim in their fields for research contributions. Song is an ITI faculty affiliate.
Fatima Toor

ITI affiliate developing ‘game-changing’ laser that could benefit national security and health care

Monday, November 18, 2024
A new Department of Energy grant will support a University of Iowa engineering professor developing a high-powered laser with benefits ranging from national security to health care diagnostics.
Karim Abdel-Malek Aislinn Conrad

Can AI detect abuse? These UI professors say it can

Monday, November 11, 2024
University of Iowa researchers working on camera that uses AI, physics to detect physical abuse in vulnerable populations.
Karim Abdel-Malek Aislinn Conrad

Iowa professors developing AI camera to detect physical abuse

Thursday, October 31, 2024
University of Iowa professors in engineering and social work are inventing a camera that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and physics to detect real-time abuse of vulnerable people, such as children or the elderly. 
Hands

University of Iowa professors develop camera program to identify abuse

Monday, October 21, 2024
Karim Abdel-Malek, University of Iowa professor and interim director of the Iowa Technology Institute, and social work Associate Professor Aislinn Conrad are working to develop an artificial intelligence camera system that could eventually track and catch child abuse as it happens.
OPL jet Schnell

U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and UI's Operator Performance Laboratory partner to prepare future test leaders, conduct autonomy research

Thursday, October 17, 2024
The United States Air Force Test Pilot School, in collaboration with the Iowa Technology Institute's Operator Performance Laboratory, recently made advances in modernizing the student curriculum while providing critical data for continued research in machine learning.
Fatima Toor

University of Iowa Technology Institute researcher secures nearly $1 million grant to advance quantum computing

Friday, September 27, 2024
Fatima Toor, the Lowell G. Battershell Chair in Laser Engineering at the University of Iowa, has been awarded a $999,985 grant aimed at advancing the development of next-generation computing technologies.
Fatima Toor works in her lab

Toor receives $1M EPSCoR award to improve quantum computing

Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Fatima Toor, University of Iowa’s Lowell G. Battershell Chair in Laser Engineering, has received a $999,985 grant to bring next generation computing closer to reality.
Edward Sander

Sander named editor-in-chief for prestigious biomedical engineering journal

Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Edward Sander, University of Iowa’s Robert and Virginia Wheeler Faculty Fellow in Engineering, has been appointed as the new editor-in-chief of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering.