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Borko Furht, Ph.D., principal investigator, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and director of the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement (CAKE), FAU’s College of Engineering and Computer Science, will use an innovative risk score approach in modeling and predicting COVID-19 spread.
Big Data Analytics Enables Scientists to Model COVID-19 Spread
March 28, 2020
Public health efforts depend heavily on predicting how diseases like COVID-19 spread across the globe. Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science in collaboration with LexisNexis...
Using flow visualization of emulated coughs and sneezes, researchers assessed the efficacy of facemasks in obstructing droplets. Loosely folded facemasks and bandana-style coverings provide minimal stopping-capability for the smallest aerosolized respiratory droplets.
SEEING IS BELIEVING: EFFECTIVENESS OF FACEMASKS
March 25, 2020
Currently, there are no specific guidelines on the most effective materials and designs for facemasks to minimize the spread of droplets from coughs or sneezes to mitigate the transmission of COVID-19. While there have been...
A sample screenshot of the COVID-19 knowledge base dashboard under development. The screen shows four types of COVID-19 related entities, virus (blue), cell (pink), gene or genome (green), and disease or syndrome (red), and their relationships. All entities are Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) compatible for convenient knowledge sharing. The systems support 75 types of UMLS entities.
COVID-19 KNOWLEDGE BASE AND RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL IS POWERED BY AI
March 20, 2020
Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science, in collaboration with FAU’s Schmidt College of Medicine, have received a one-year, $90,000 National Science Foundation (NSF)...
STAY 6 FEET APART. SIMULATED COUGH REVEALS THAT MAY NOT BE ENOUGH
STAY 6 FEET APART. SIMULATED COUGH REVEALS THAT MAY NOT BE ENOUGH
March 15, 2020
These days, even the sound of a cough – one of the most common symptoms of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) – can cause panic and fear. People can get infected when a person coughs or sneezes as tiny droplets travel...
FAU re-tooled their facilities to leverage the opportunity to make face shields much faster than are currently being manufactured. They plan to share the blueprint for this personal protection equipment broadly with other academic institutions as well as industry. (Photo by Alex Dolce)
FAU TO MAKE THOUSANDS OF FACE SHIELDS FOR BAPTIST HEALTH SOUTH FLORIDA
March 10, 2020
The FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science leveraged their facilities to produce a total of 16,000 disposable face shields, 8,000 for Baptist Health, South Florida and 8,000 for local medical practices.
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Smart City Technologies Can Provide Streetscape Data for Pandemic Analytics.
March 08, 2020
Researchers from I-SENSE/Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science look at how smart city technologies and fine-scale mobility data sets can help in the study of pandemic analytics.
RESEARCHERS TAKE BODY ARMOR TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH HIGH ENERGY FIBERS
RESEARCHERS TAKE BODY ARMOR TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH HIGH ENERGY FIBERS
November 28, 2019
It sounds like something out of the movie “Iron Man,” where the fictional American superhero builds an armored suit to fight terrorists and overturn his captors. For researchers at Florida Atlantic University’s College...
ADVANCED DNA SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGY UNCOVERS EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF NATIVE AMERICANS
ADVANCED DNA SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGY UNCOVERS EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF NATIVE AMERICANS
November 26, 2019
A professor from the FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, received an NSF grant to study genome-level data.
USING DEEP LEARNING TO IMPROVE OUR RESPONSE TO NATURAL DISASTERS
USING DEEP LEARNING TO IMPROVE OUR RESPONSE TO NATURAL DISASTERS
November 25, 2019
Together with Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, researchers at the FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science have been awarded a $350,000 grant to apply a deep learning approach for predicting the Loop Current...
OWLS-IN-ACTION: ENGINEERING STUDENTS BUILD A BRIDGE IN AFRICA
OWLS-IN-ACTION: ENGINEERING STUDENTS BUILD A BRIDGE IN AFRICA
November 24, 2019
A group of students from the FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science, Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering, traveled to Eswatini, South Africa to build a suspension foot bridge.
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