The Healthcare Technologies Network is delighted to announce the winners of the IET Healthcare Technologies Student and Early Career Awards 2022!
Our Dennis Hill Award winner is Darcy Murphy, a PhD student studying Health Informatics at the University of Manchester. Darcy’s submission ‘‘Applying Domain Adaptation Based Unlearning to a Neural Network for ECG Classification’ really impressed the judges who commented that it was ‘very good to base the project on a well-known international competition – this intrinsically places it at the start of the art.’
The IET Dennis Hill Award is awarded to the student on an MEng or MSc programme who has, during the past year, submitted the best individual project dissertation in the general field of Biomedical Engineering and cognate subjects (including Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Physics, Healthcare Technologies and Health Informatics). The purpose of the prize is to encourage and reward excellence in the field of study.
Our second award, the William James award is presented to encourage, support, and recognise the outstanding work of PhD or EngD students demonstrating a high level of commitment and advanced understanding of Biomedical Engineering.
Xianghao Zhan from the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University, USA won this award with his entry titled ‘Rapid Estimation of Entire Brain Strain Using Deep Learning Models’.
The judges felt Xianghao’s application was strong and found his cross-disciplinary work, using AI for the mechanics of impact of particular interest.
Our third and final winner is Dr Dominic Holmes, CEO at eXRt Intelligent Healthcare who was awarded this year’s J.A Lodge Award.
Dominic’s submission ‘Evaluation of the Acceptability and Usability of the MAGIC-GLASS Virtual Reality Solution as Part of the Care Pathway in People with Acute, Sub-Acute and Chronic Stroke: A Study Protocol’ incorporates his love of computer science as well as relating to personal matters in his life. The project develops new research that improves stroke survivors’ upper limb disability through gaming technology and artificial intelligence.
The judges commented that Dominic’s project had ‘A clear vision of the impact of the work. This candidate also has experience in setting up a spin-off company and clear pathway to achieving impact.’
Gemma Hadley, Community Manager for the Healthcare Technologies Technical Network added, ‘A huge thank you to everyone who entered this year’s awards. As always, the quality of entries was excellent, and it was a pleasure to read the submissions.
If you would like to learn more about any of our awards, please visit our Awards page.
All our award winners will be presenting their work and answering questions at our Annual Healthcare Lecture on Wednesday 7th December at IET London: Savoy Place. Following the award winners, Anne Vanhoestenberghe of Kings College London will deliver a keynote talk, followed, as always by our drinks and networking session.
It’s our first in-person event since the pandemic and we’d love to see you there! Please make sure you register online.’