Illinois Innovators
Illinois Innovators spotlights research, technological advances, and entrepreneurial efforts of students, faculty, and alumni of the University of Illinois College of Engineering.
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 61
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Why even changes in non-extreme weather can affect an ecosystem with Praveen Kumar
While much of the rhetoric around climate change centers on extreme events such as floods or droughts, today’s guest Praveen Kumar, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Universit…
00:29:48 |
Mon 29 Jan 2018
Robotic Surgery and Cancer with Kesh Kesavadas.
Continuing the series on "Why Cancer Research Needs Engineering," Kesh Kesavadas, Director of the Health Care Engineering Systems Center and professor of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering…
00:28:21 |
Mon 18 Dec 2017
The Doctor's Office of the Future with Stephen Boppart
What will the doctor's office of the future look like? In our continuing series on Why Cancer Research Needs Engineering, Stephen Boppart, Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering and Director of Imaging …
00:22:12 |
Mon 11 Dec 2017
Why Cancer Research Needs Engineering Part I: Rohit Bhargava, Director of Cancer Center of Illinois
This year alone in this country 600,000 people will die from the disease and 1.6 million will be newly diagnosed. In the fight to win, a new generation of researchers will use engineering to advance …
00:26:13 |
Thu 16 Nov 2017
Professor Andrew Ferguson: Targeting data-driven computational vaccine and design
Creating a vaccine typically takes a lot of trial and error and testing. However, with machine learning and data-driven modeling, physicians can have a leg up in targeting specific vaccines. Since 20…
00:24:06 |
Tue 14 Nov 2017
Aditi Das: Converting Omega 3 fatty acids to cannabinoids to elicit anti-pain relief
The anti-infammatory drugs of tomorrow may look a lot different than the ones we are used to as Professor Aditi Das explains. Her research focuses on understanding how fatty acids, in particular Omeg…
00:20:37 |
Thu 09 Nov 2017
Chao Zhang on how TrioVecEvent and geo-tagged Tweets can be vital in emergency situations
Natural disasters put a strain on the infrastructure of those areas affected, from power, to water, to utilities. As victims seek emergency assistance and friends and family reach out to their loved …
00:32:00 |
Fri 27 Oct 2017
Autonomic Energy Systems co-founder Tony Griffin talks cellphone battery life and preventing fires
Startup Autonomic Energy Systems, winner of the 2017 Cozad New Venture Competition, has developed technology which would extend the life of your cellphone battery while preventing fires from those li…
00:27:25 |
Fri 15 Sep 2017
Graphene: What a new manufacturing method could mean for the future of this wonder material
As graphene's popularity grows as an advanced "wonder" material, the speed and quality at which it can be manufactured will be paramount. Sung Woo Nam and his team of researchers have developed a cle…
00:28:58 |
Fri 15 Sep 2017
Smart security camera's audio could instantly detect sounds of distress
Professor Deming Chen and his team of researchers are developing technology which allows security cameras to detect sounds of distress (such as gun shots, screaming, cry for help)and immediately noti…
00:29:00 |
Fri 15 Sep 2017
Stephen Blakely -- The Egyptian Pulley and How the Great Pyramid was Built
If you are all familiar with the Egyptian Pyramids, then you are no doubt aware of what an engineering marvel they are. Consider that they were built around 2500 BC, the largest stands 449 feet tall,…
00:44:02 |
Fri 15 Sep 2017
Computer Science Professor David Forsyth talks coding for autonomous vehicles
David Forsyth couldn’t image 30 years ago that his career in academia would involve standing in front of a moving driverless vehicle with a traffic cone on his head. However, this spring that’s what …
00:26:53 |
Fri 18 Aug 2017
Ashley Moy, CEO, Cast 21
Cast 21 is revolutionizing the future of bone mobilizations. Instead of a traditional cast of cloth and plaster for a fracture in an arm or leg, the company has introduced a brace with a netted struc…
00:16:46 |
Mon 24 Jul 2017
Olgica Milenkovic and her team discuss DNA storage technology
It has been predicted that all the world's data, if stored on DNA, could fit into a trunk of a car. Olgica Milenkovic, and her team received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to i…
00:40:07 |
Mon 17 Jul 2017
Fullstack Academy co-founders David Yang and Nimit Maru
Fullstack is an immersive software engineering school or "coding bootcamp" in lower Manhattan and Chicago. Seeing that coding is a skill with increasing career applications, David Yang and Nimit Maru…
00:39:05 |
Wed 28 Jun 2017
Terry Howerton, CEO and Founder of TechNexus, talks about the growing Chicago tech community
Terry Howerton is the founder and CEO of TechNexus, a Chicago-based venture development firm building a new, collaborative model for leading corporations to engage and extract value from the global e…
00:27:49 |
Mon 15 May 2017
Sanjay Patel discusses the future of virtual reality and his company Personify
Personify uses the most advanced technologies in computer vision and machine learning to develop awesome immersive experiences involving video. CEO and co-founder of Personify, Sanjay has grown Perso…
00:26:58 |
Mon 15 May 2017
Mani Golparvar Fard, CEO of Reconstruct, is revolutionizing construction monitoring
Mani Golparvar Fard, CEO of Reconstruct, and his team at the University of Illinois has developed a sophisticated construction monitoring systems, which takes videos and photos using drones and a web…
00:33:20 |
Mon 15 May 2017
Mayank Kale, CEO of Invoq Health, discusses data-driven physician systems
Mayank Kale, is building the startup Invoq Health to develop a new way to deploy high- tech data collection, retention and analysis solutions intuitively in low tech environments - enabling the adopt…
00:25:09 |
Mon 15 May 2017
Divey Gulati, co-founder of ShipBob, Inc., gives an insight on logistics of his e-commerce startup
Divey Gulati founded Ship Bob, Inc., to help small businesses give customers Amazon-level logistics. Gulati as both bachelor's degree in computer engineering and an MBA from the University of Illinoi…
00:20:14 |
Mon 15 May 2017
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