Achievements

Summer Stipend Award from the URI Graduate School 2025 - MD Abdullah Al Rumon 

Summer Stipend Award from the URI Graduate School 2025 - Shehjar Sadhu

Enhancement of Graduate Research Award 2024-25 [$2,000] - “TMedMaS - An Automated Smart Medication Management System for Seniors” - Mehmet Seckin

Travel Award at the 2025 NSF NeTS Early Career Investigators Workshop - Dr. Nishtha Bhagat, PhD 

Student Travel Award at the 2024 IEEE Conference on Body Sensor Networks - Shehjar Sadhu 

Student Travel Award at the 2024 IEEE Conference on Body Sensor Networks - Mehmet Seckin

URI Intellectual Property Student Excellence Award 2024 - Vignesh Ravichandran

Honorable Mention at the E-Week Graduate Research Presentation titled ‘NeoTex: A Soft and Unobtrusive Smart Belt to Monitor Neonates' Vital Signals in NICU’ - Abdullah Al Rumon  

Runner Up Prize ($500) - 3 Minute Thesis Pitch Competition - Abdullah Al Rumon 

Student Travel Award at the 2023 IEEE Conference on Body Sensor Networks - Abdullah Al Rumon

Student Travel Award at the 2023 IEEE Conference on Body Sensor Networks - Shehjar Sadhu

Best Poster Award at the 2023 IEEE SmartComp Conference - Abdullah Al Rumon, Suparna Veeturi, Mehmet Seckin

NSF Travel Award to Attend the 2023 IEEE SmartComp Conference - Abdullah Al Rumon 

NSF Travel Award to Attend the 2023 IEEE SmartComp Conference  - Suparna Veeturi 

Enhancement of Graduate Research Award 2022-2023 [$1,000] - “Tend2Ortho: Personalized Physiological Sensing Joint Sleeves for Musculoskeletal Injuries” - Vignesh Ravichandran 

Winner of the 2022 IEEE Sensors Big Idea Pitch (BIP) competition - MD Abdullah Al Rumon

NSF Travel Award to Attend the IEEE Chase Conference to Present a Research Paper - Shehjar Sadhu 

One-year Doctoral Fellowship sponsored by the URI Foundation & Alumni Engagement (URIFAE) - MD Abdullah Al Rumon

ECBE Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award - Gozde Cay 

Enhancement of Graduate Research Award 2021-2022 [$1,000] - “Re-Boot. Cueing device for overcoming Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease” - Jose Canton

Enhancement of Graduate Research Award 2021-2022 [$1,000] - “DietWell: Integration of Wearable Devices into Electronic Health Records for Smart Diet Monitoring Interventions in Polycystic Kidney Disorder” - Shehjar Sadhu 

Winner in MIT's hackathon, "Africa Takes on COVID-19." - Dylan Kennedy and Vignesh Ravichandran

Third place winner in a design competition sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Circuits and Systems Society (IEEE CASS) RespDetect Mask.

Student Travel Award for the NSF Connections in Smart Health Workshop - Gozde Cay

URI Graduate Commencement Speaker 2019 - Nick Constant

Selected in CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop for Women 2019 - Gozde Cay

Student Travel Award for the NSF Connections in Smart Health Workshop - Gozde Cay

Third Place Winner at WaterHacks RI 2018 - Brendon Driscoll, Josh Gyllinsky, Travis Frink 

First Place at IFAI Smart Fabric Design-a-thon – Josh Gyllinsky

Second Place at IFAI Smart Fabric Design-a-thon – Reza Abtahi

Second Place Winner at J-&-J Hack-a-thon – Josh Gyllinsky, Nick Peltier, Matt Constant, Andrew Peltier

Winner of HealthHacks Pitch Competition "ResponseRT" - Matthew Constant & Debanjan Borthankur 

Semifinalist of RI Business Plan Competition - Team "EchoWear" - Nick Constant 

Final Round Contestant in Intel Makers TV Show - Project "Always-In-Control" – David Cipoletta

URI Honors Student Selection: Lohith Chatragadda

Undergraduate Research Grant [$1,400] - “Flexible Upper-Arm Wearable For Stress & Recovery Monitoring” - Jeremy Gervais, Arouney (Allie) Sithtaphone, Benjamin Annicelli

Undergraduate Research Grant [$910] - “Visual Altercation in Photosensitive Epilepsy” - Shiva Veera 

Undergraduate Research Grant [$1400] - “Pulse and Patterns: Assessing Human Motion-Induced ECG Artifacts and Biocompatibility Study of Textile-Based Conductive Electrodes: A Comprehensive Study” - Anna Erb, James Cook, Karissa Sullivan

Undergraduate Research Grant [$1000] - “Mind Game” - Elijah Castillo

Undergraduate Research Grant [$500] - “NeoTex: A Wearable Belt to Track Premature Babies Vitals” - Kaitlyn Lum 

Undergraduate Research Grant [$1,000] - “Smart Position and Movement Tracking Mattress Pad to Improve the Adherence of Sleeping Posture in Geriatric and Post-Op Patients” - Arianne Parvaresh-Rizi, Joey Confessore, Olivia Wojnilo  

NSF Travel Award to Attend the IEEE Chase Conference to Present and Demo a Research Project - Afnan Altekreeti  

Undergraduate Research Grant [$1,000] - “Technology for Knee Cryotherapy” - Sebastien Guerrier  

Undergraduate Research Grant [$1,200] - “Snapshot Snack: An Image-Based Diet Management App with Machine Learning Classification” - Savannah Weyhmiller 

Undergraduate Research Grant [$1,200] - “e-Belt (A Wearable Chest Belt Integrated with Internet of Things Functions to Monitor Respiration Rate in Intensive Care Unit)” - Afnan Altekreeti and Rachel Arruda 

Scholarship award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Rhode Island (ACEC-RI) - Anna Cetera  

First place in the Astropreneurship, Space Medicine and the Dataverse Hackathon (held at Harvard University) - Himanshu Mishra, Ayush Arora and Adityaraj Verule

NSF Student Travel Award - IEEE BSN Conference - Vanessa Kamara 

First Place Winner at Immerse-o-thon RI 2018 - Nathan Mensah, Fatima Issa, and Josh Gyllinsky 

Undergraduate Research Grant to Design a Smart Textile Biodegradable Sensor - Vanessa Kamara

Selected for the CleanTech Startup Accelerator Program - AquaByte Team 

Selected for the Boston University Summer Accelerator Program -  Dylan Kennedy 

First Place Winner at WaterHacks RI 2018 - Dylan Kennedy

Third Place at RI Elevator Pitch Competition – Marjorie Pickard

URI Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Excellence Award – Matt Constant, 3rd Year.

Winner of Rhode Island Elevator Pitch Competition "Smart Dog Collar" - Andrew Peltier 

Winner of PVDHack Competition - Team "Tunnel-Vision" - Nicholas Peltier 

Winner of RI Biz Plan Elevator Pitch Competition – Project "Always-In-Control" – Cara Nunez 

Finalist at RICE360 Global Health Design Competition -  Trevor Bernier, Joseph Tudino, Toye Onikoyi 

Best Design Award to the TEAM "BIG EARS" at Intel’s BSN Hack-a-thon at MIT – Nick Constant 

Best Application Award to the TEAM "Queue-Ez" at Intel’s BSN Hack-a-thon at MIT – Cody Goldberg