We are excited to annouce that Dr. Onaizah has been nominated as ‘Innovator of the Year in 2024’ at McMaster University.
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.
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Congrats Shivam
Huge congratulations to ! He placed second in the Master’s category at the ‘MIRA Knowledge Exchange’. He ranked third at the ‘CAS Poster and Demo Session’. Way to represent the . 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.
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HeART Lab receives CFI funding
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.
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HeART Lab wins pitch competition
A pitch for a high-precision robotic surgical technology won us the Judges Choice award at McMaster’s Innovation Matchmaking program.
Read more about it here: https://brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/mcmaster-innovation-matchmaking-health-technology-solutions/
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
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Abstract for CSME/CFD2024 Accepted
Our first abstract submission for a conference got accepted 🎉🎉! Read the abstract here: CSME-CFD-2024-Abstract
Photo credits: Veerash Palanichamy (not pictured)
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.
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.