SYDE & BME students receive First in Class Engineering Scholarships and Undergraduate Research Assistantships

Thursday, March 10, 2022

The Faculty of Engineering recently announced the recipients of the Winter 2022 First in Class Engineering Scholarships and Undergraduate Research Assistantships.

First in Class Engineering Scholarships (FICES) are funded by the Dean of Engineering and awarded to the top continuing engineering students.

The FICES recipients in Biomedical Engineering are:  

  • Brian Li
  • Anni Wang
  • Vanessa Mac
  • Jeffrey Feng

The FICES recipients in Systems Design Engineering are:

  • Nicolas Palmer
  • James Carr-Pries
  • Katrina Hermanns

Undergraduate Research Assistantships (URA) are awarded to high-standing engineering students. There were 19 recipients from Systems Design Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. We appreciate the hard work of our faculty members for submitting these awards and supervising our students! 

Student

Supervisor

Project title

Amanda Hope

John McPhee

Pose estimation of wheelchair basketball players

Aryan Singh

Sushanta Mitra

Rapid detection of pathogens and contaminants in water

Nicolas Palmer

Andrea Scott

Extraction of lake ice phenology via deep learning

Hooman Ramezani

Mohammad Javad Shafiee

Design grasp detection model based on 3D data

Adam Yu

Stewart McLachlin

Vertebral segmentation from CT imaging

Jing (Amy) Lu

Chrystopher Nehaniv

Computational algebraic intelligence

Zoey Zhang

Parsin Haji Reza

PARS microscopy systems

Clare Wei

Katja Mombaur

Impact of training on karate kinematics and dynamics

Jacob Zerbs

Mohammad Javad Shafiee

Design grasp detection model based on 3D data

Kaiwen Xue

Parsin Haji Reza

OCT-PARS imaging

Mickey Dang

Chris Bachmann

Semi-automated microscopic traffic flow simulation calibration

Amanda Johnson

Kerstin Dautenhahn

Human-robot interaction with physiological sensors

Fenglin Chen

Arash Arami

Reinforcement learning based control of lower limb exoskeleton

Jane Shen

Arash Arami

Robot-based investigation on human proprioception

Vyshna Krishnakumar

Parsin Haji Reza

PARS endoscopy

Ebrahim Yaakoub Agha

David Clausi

Machine learning for hockey analytics

Jonah Leinwand

Stewart McLachlin

Virtual simulation of artificial cervical disc mechanics

Sean Ashley

Alexander Wong

Object detection and segmentation using deep learning

Oana Binder

Shi Cao

Bio-feedback prototype for virtual reality pilot interface