Science enthusiasts from diverse backgrounds gathered at the Department of Engineering recently to pitch their innovative ideas to an audience, including a panel of judges, in three minutes.
Lefan Wang has been awarded the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to support her research project, “New insights into foot biomechanics via personalised multimodal sensing insole".
PhD students Ivan Grega and Sara AlMahri are researching a 3D printed self-sensing and wearable mesh ‘glove’ for the reconstruction of gestures, applicable to VR, AR, and other applications.
Douglas Brion has received two awards for his PhD research and start-up Matta – a spin-out company working to create artificial general intelligence for the manufacturing sector.
The internal structure of an Iron Age sword has been understood for the first time, thanks to scientific imaging and analysis techniques involving a Cambridge engineer.
