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Face Shield or Face Mask to Stop The Spread of COVID-19?

May 01, 2020

If the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines aren’t enough to convince you that face shields alone shouldn’t be used to stop the spread of COVID-19, then maybe a new visualization study...

Researcher will use the latest AI technology to detect chronic medical conditions.

NSF CAREER Award to Use Wearables and a Smartphone for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s

April 25, 2020

Behnaz Ghoraani, Ph.D., faculty fellow at FAU’s Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering (I-SENSE) and assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, received a...

NSF CAREER Grant to Develop Automated Tests for Viral Infections

April 20, 2020

Waseem Asghar, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, has received a $500,000 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a technology that can be...

New methods of coding will prevent information leakage and secure portable devices.

NSF CAREER Grant Aims to Improve Cryptography Theory and Practice

April 10, 2020

If you lost your cell phone, how secure would your personal information be from a potential hacker trying to steal your passwords and other sensitive information? Cryptography, or the study of techniques to ensure secure...

Researchers have installed 92 automated weather monitoring stations in seven counties in Florida, including Broward, Palm Beach and Martin counties; one county in Georgia; 12 counties in South Carolina; and in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

FAU Technology Makes ‘Weathering the Storm’ More Precise

April 01, 2020

Researchers have installed 92 automated weather monitoring stations in seven counties in Florida, including Broward, Palm Beach and Martin counties; one county in Georgia; 12 counties in South Carolina; and in San Juan, Puerto...

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

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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