Straker and Stine Awarded Runner-Up for Best Poster at IEEE Conference

Two members of MSAL, Justin Stine and Michael Straker, were separately awarded runner-up for best poster at the Robotics for the Gut workshop as part of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, held from October 1-5 in Detroit, Mich.

The conference is the premier international meeting for robotics research. The workshop focused on systems developed to aid in treating or diagnosing gastrointestinal diseases. 

"I am thrilled that our research group is leading the way,” said Ghodssi, Herbert Rabin Distinguished Chair in Engineering, Director of MSAL in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research. 

Justin Stine ‘23, electrical and computer engineering, Ph.D., a researcher with expertise on Microsystems Autonomy at the MATRIX Lab in Southern Maryland, presented a poster titled "Wireless Ingestible Capsule System for Electrochemical Detection of Hydrogen Sulfide in the GI Tract." A culmination of two conference proceedings, Hilton Head 2022 Workshop, and Transducers 2023, the poster detailed an ingestible sensing capsule that can perform electrochemistry to selectively measure hydrogen sulfide, an inflammatory gas produced in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The poster also described the fabrication of a hydrogen sulfide sensor designed to operate within the GI environment and attach to the lab’s capsule prototype.

Michael Straker, a BIOE Ph.D. student, presented a poster titled "Bilayer Functional Packaging Strategy for Ingestible Actuators," which detailed key results from an article he and his lab published earlier this year in Nature - Microsystems & Nanoengineering.