Student Paper Competition and UFFC ePoster Competition Winners at IUS 2020
IUS Student Paper Competition
The 20th Student Paper Competition was held during the 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium which was a virtual-only event. The award consists of a certificate and represents a prestigious recognition of the student’s achievement. Abstracts submitted by students for the Student Paper Competition were reviewed by the Technical Program Committee (TPC) members. Based on this review, 18 student finalists were selected (6 from Medical Ultrasound and 3 from each of the remaining technical groups: Sensors, NDE & Industrial Applications; Physical Acoustics; Microacoustics-SAW, BAW, MEMS; and Transducers & Transducer Materials).
Student finalists were then evaluated during online poster sessions by a panel of judges (representing the papers’ technical group). Six winners were announced during the closing awards ceremony on September 11th, 2020.
Winners are:
Medical Ultrasonics
Eno Hysi | Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
“Photoacoustic Imaging of Organ Fibrosis”
Hanna Bendjador |Physics for Medicine Paris, ESPCI, PSL Research University, INSERM, CNRS, France
“SVD Beamforming for Ultrafast Aberration Correction and Real-Time Speed-of-Sound Quantification”
Sensors, NDE & Industrial Applications
An Huang | University of California-San Diego, USA
“Enabling fast charging lithium ion batteries with surface acoustic wave devices”
Physical Acoustics
Carlos Cueto | Imperial College London, UK
“Ultrasound full-Waveform Inversion with Accurate Transducer Characterisation”
Microacoustics-SAW, BAW, MEMS
Liuqing Gao | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
“A 14.5 GHz Lithium Niobate Acoustic Filter with Fractional Bandwidth of 2.93%”
Transducers & Transducer Materials
Bohua Zhang | NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
“Laser Sensor Guided Intravascular Catheter with Ring Type Stack Transducer for Sonothrombolysis”
The UFFC ePoster Competition
The UFFC ePoster Competition was held during the symposium which is a first for IEEE IUS. Awards emphasize the rich content and innovative use of multimedia in ePosters. Winners were announced during the closing ceremony on September 11th, 2020.
Winners are:
Best Overall
Carly Pellow | University of Toronto, Canada
Real-Time Visualization and Acoustic Monitoring of Nanobubbles in Tumour-Affected Vasculature and their Extravasation
Best Layout
Saeyoung Kim | Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Designing a System for forward-Viewing 3D Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging of Blood Flow velocity: Assessing the Effect of the Catheter on Velocity Estimation in Stenoses
Best Use of Multimedia
Douwe van Willigen | TU Delft, the Netherlands
Algorithm to Reduce the Offset Error in Transit-Time Ultrasonic Flow Measurement
Honorable Mention
Gabriela Torres | UNC Chapel Hill, USA
Harmonic Imaging Improves Delineation of Human Carotid Plaque Features by ARFI Variance of Acceleration
Honorable Mention
Tuhin Roy | NC State University, USA
Multimodal Inversion for Shear Modulus and Thickness of Arteries
Honorable Mention
Siyun Li | University of Calgary, Canada
Breast Tissue Mimic Phantoms for Combined Microwave and Ultrasound Imaging