Past Projects

Cancer evolution is a stochastic process where the cancer genome gains mutations that improve its fitness (e.g. enhance proliferation, chemotherapy resistance, immune system evasion, migration, etc). These mutations affect the cancer cell phenotype by increasing expression levels of oncogenes, and silencing tumor-suppressor genes. Expressly, this is achieved by the accumulation

Smartphones take part in any aspect of human behavior and as such, they offer a great promise as a probe of human behavior. We developed a technology for passive sensing of human behavior using smartphones. Our platform uses the multiple sensors and logs that are continuously recorded in smartphones to

Judging by the past, infectious diseases pose the greatest risk for a global catastrophe. Just like the spread of wildfires, early detection of infectious disease and a comprehensive understanding of its transmission dynamics in real-time are instrumental to contain an outbreak. We will develop an algorithm for early detection of

In metastasis, cancer cells break from the primary tumor, invade through the extracellular matrix (ECM) to eventually form distant metastases. The interaction of cancer cells with their microenvironment, specifically the mechanical interactions, have been considered potential functional markers for metastasis. However, previous studies failed to develop robust quantifications of cell-ECM

About The Project: In the first 8 months of the project we were able to establish a proof-of-concept showing a high resolution, wireless surface electromyography (sEMG) recordings during VR engagement combined with eye-tracking. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a system capable of recording

About the project: Myocardial infarction (MI; heart attack) is associated with sudden death as well as significant morbidity and mortality. MI results from blockage of one of the coronary arteries that supply the cardiac tissue, leading to ischemia of a segment of the heart. This process eventually leads to the

About the project: Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) is a formation of tissue similar to bone on the leaflets of the aortic valve (AV), which rapidly leads to aortic stenosis (AS). However, patients usually do not have symptoms until the disease has progressed to an advanced stage. Transcatheter Aortic Valve

About the project: Intra-abdominal malignancies often result in intraperitoneal free cancer cells (IPCCs), which increase the chances of cancer spreading to distal organs, and serve as an important prognostic tool in cancers such as ovarian and gastric cancers. Curative treatments based on intraperitoneal chemotherapy often have effective outcomes, however, the

About the project: The project aims to develop a multimodal brain-computer interface (BCI) for control of devices, which is based on a combination of brain signals and residual movement recordings. The system performs decoding of brain and body signals, measured by EEG, accelerometers and gyroscopes, by means of advanced artificial