IE grad student Zhang wins Sigma Xi poster competition

IE graduate student Ting Zhang was one of the winners of the Sigma Xi 2016 Graduate Student and Post-Doctoral Fellows Research Awards Competition, Engineering Sciences division.

Zhang, a second-year PhD student, presented a poster entitled “A Multimodal Approach of Image Perception for Blind or Visually Impaired”. Her advisors are Bradley Duerstock and Juan Wachs of Purdue Industrial Engineering. The Purdue University Chapter of Sigma Xi, a scientific research society, held the poster competition on March 2.

Posters selected for an award will be displayed at the Annual Sigma Xi Initiation Banquet to be held for the winners in the John Purdue Room on April 6.