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News stories archive - 2023

News stories archive - 2023

Postgrad research will investigate technique to help beat astronomy’s nemesis: the Earth’s atmosphere

23 Jun 2023

Oana Niculescu’s PhD research is aiming to improve upon solutions to an age-old problem faced by astronomers: how to correct telescope images distorted by the Earth’s atmosphere.

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Alumnus and entrepreneur Tobias Kahnert honoured in Forbes 30 Under 30 list

19 Jun 2023

Alumnus Tobias Kahnert has joined the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list. He is helping to change the path of sustainable aviation.

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Project Odysseus: How computer vision and machine learning helped London recover during the pandemic

15 Jun 2023

A monitoring tool, developed and deployed in London during the COVID-19 pandemic, has demonstrated how computer vision and machine learning techniques may benefit public health.

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Diarmid Xu centre Professor Gopal Madabhushi left and Richard Whitehouse, Technical Director of HRWallingford at the Turner Bea

Earthquake induced liquefaction in offshore wind farms

12 Jun 2023

A presentation by PhD student Diarmid Xu on the response of rock-scour protection to earthquake induced liquefaction for offshore wind applications, has won the Cooling Prize.

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Postgraduate Vareesh Pratap awarded scholarship for tech innovation

08 Jun 2023

Vareesh Pratap has secured a Royce@Cambridge scholarship on the impulse programme for tech innovators with his idea for energy profiling of intact in-use vehicles.

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Dr Amparo Güemes González – 2023 Rising Talent Fellow

05 Jun 2023

Postdoctoral researcher Dr Amparo Güemes González has been announced as a recipient of the 2023 Rising Talent Awards by the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science programme. 

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Yi Chen Hock drawing in the Virtual Reality drawing application she developed using hand gesture recognition with an OptiTracked

Art and engineering

31 May 2023

4th year engineering student Yi Chen Hock shares her journey developing her creative and technical skills and offers insights that might help others who are interested in art and engineering.

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Product Disassembly teaching extension activity

Disassembly of failed appliances to understand how they are made

24 May 2023

A new teaching extension activity for 3rd year students called Product Disassembly was launched last term.

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Alumni stories: Meet Hannah Schmitz – the F1 race strategist with nerves of steel

22 May 2023

In Formula One, every millisecond counts. Just ask alumna Hannah Schmitz, Oracle Red Bull Racing's Principal Strategy Engineer, who, on race days, has to instantly react to live scenarios.

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It’s all in the wrist: energy-efficient robot hand learns how not to drop the ball

17 May 2023

Researchers have designed an energy-efficient robot hand that can grasp a range of objects –& not drop them– using just the movement of its wrist & the feeling in its ‘skin’

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