Davista Technologies LLC, a startup that licensed a Purdue University innovation, has developed a visual data analytics solutions technology that could provide real-time information to help first responders save lives.

Two recent Purdue graduates are developing a user-friendly, cost-effective camera and software system designed for brick and mortar retail operations. The system could allow retailers to understand more about their customers, formulate better marketing strategies for their stores, and increase sales performance.

Researchers have developed a low-cost skin patch that changes color to indicate different levels of hydration, representing a potential new medical technology.

Xiaojun Lin, Dimitrios Peroulis, and Hong Tan have been elevated, effected January 2017. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth of one- percent of the total voting membership. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.

The College of Engineering recognizes the graduate student advisors who do an outstanding job of mentoring their MS and PhD students.

SensorHound Inc., a Purdue-based startup co-founded by ECE alums, develops software products that could increase the reliability and security of the embedded software that drives IoT devices and thus protect them from being used in attacks, known as DDoS. The company also provides products and services that reduce developmental and operational costs for large networked systems of internet-connected devices.

His company, SmartGait, is developing a device that will provide an easy and inexpensive assessment of fall-risk in older adults. The grant is from the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer Program.

The team, which includes ECE Professors Pedro Irazoqui and Zhongming Liu, is researching the stomach's neural circuitry and whether bioelectronics medicine can aid conditions such as diabetes or obesity.

The award was in recognition of his work in visual analytics, both through development of fundamental predictive techniques and as director of the Purdue/DHS Visual Analytics Center of Excellence.

Purdue University is working with Argonne National Laboratory to supercharge a "metagenomics data" system that could bring innovations in personalized medicine, better management of oil spills and other clinical and ecological applications.