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Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing (CAN-CWiC)

Post author By Onaizah Onaizah
Post date November 15, 2024
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HeART Lab members recently attended the Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing (CAN-CWiC) hosted by CS-Can | Info-Can at York University. We presented our latest work on ‘Designing Small-scale Magnetic Soft Robots using Evolutionary Algorithms’.

All of the attendees were supported by the inaugural CAN-CWiC Travel Grant generously sponsored by the Department of Computing and Software at Faculty of Engineering – McMaster University. Thank you to Dr. Swati Mishra for all her hard work in making this possible. Congratulations to all of the attendees and presenters.

Awards

Congrats Shivam

Huge congratulations to Shivam! He placed second in the Master’s category at the MIRA Knowledge Exchange. Way to represent the HeART Lab. Of course, none of this would be possible without the excellent work that he has done in his degree, his ICRA paper and the resulting invention disclosure.

Awards

HeART Lab receives CFI funding

Post author By Onaizah Onaizah
Post date September 15, 2024
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HeART Lab received funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation – John R. Evans Leaders Fund to build a world class microrobotics laboratory. Read about it here.

Awards

HeART Lab wins pitch competition

Post author By Veerash Palanichamy
Post date June 13, 2024
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A pitch for a high-precision robotic surgical technology won us the Judges Choice award at McMaster’s Innovation Matchmaking program.

Research

2024 CAS Technical Poster and Demo Competition

Post author By Veerash Palanichamy
Post date April 29, 2024
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Our students presented their thesis projects in our annual CAS technical poster competition.

Veerash presented a project on a novel magnetic actuation system

Shivam presented a project on a cool magnetic capsule design

Reyhaneh presented her project on using an Evolutionary algorithm for magnetic micro-surgical scissors design

Research

Abstract for CSME/CFD2024 Accepted

Post author By Veerash Palanichamy
Post date March 8, 2024
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Our first abstract submission for a conference got accepted 🎉🎉! Read the abstract here: CSME-CFD-2024-Abstract

News

Dr. Onaizah will deliver a lecture to the ibiomed society

Post author By Onaizah Onaizah
Post date February 23, 2024
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Dr. Onaizah will deliver a lecture on ‘Magnetically Actuated Robotic Tools’ to the ibiomed society on Tuesday, February 27th from 6 – 7 pm in ABB 164.

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Dr. Onaizah served as an invited Robotics panelist at WiSE

Post author By Onaizah Onaizah
Post date February 5, 2024
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Dr. Onaizah served on the Robotics panel at the 12th Annual National WiSE Conference: Endless Exploration on January 21, 2024 organized by Women in Science and Engineering.

Awards

Dr. Onaizah received the Chair’s Service Award

Post author By Onaizah Onaizah
Post date February 5, 2024
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Dr. Onaizah received the Chair’s Service Award in December 2023 for her contribution to the Faculty Hiring Committee.