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$3M Grant Brings Artificial Intelligence on Board for Faster, More Accurate Diagnosis, Better Patient Outcome In the ever-perilous autoimmune disease world of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE or lupus), up to 60 percent of adult…
Cullen Team Setting the Gold Standard in Diagnosis of Lupus Nephritis
International Hub for Neurotechnology Grows Again with Addition of West Virginia University and Georgia Tech Two more universities, West Virginia University (WVU) and Georgia Institute of Technology, have been funded by the…
More University Brain Power at the UH BRAIN Center
The world of at-home stroke rehabilitation is growing near, incredible news for the 795,000 people in the United States who annually suffer a stroke. A new low cost, portable brain-computer interface that connects the brain of…
ECE's Contreras-Vidal Creates Portable EEG Headset For Stroke Rehab
Technology Will Allow Drones to Respond Fluidly to Changes in the Environment It’s a long-held notion, proven in fact, that robots are the perfect instrument to free humans from jobs that are dull, dirty and dangerous – the “3 Ds…
Becker's research could unleash the Power of Intelligent Drone Swarms
University of Houston researchers are developing a program to teach small-scale, underserved and limited resources (SULR) farmers how to improve their crop production by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing carbon…
Researchers Study How Underserved Farmers Can Improve Crop, Impact Climate Change
Despite the remarkable progress in artificial intelligence (AI), several studies show that AI systems do not improve radiologists' diagnostic performance. In fact, diagnostic errors influence 40,000 to 80,000 deaths annually in U…
ECE's Hien Van Nguyen developing AI with a human touch
Lithium-ion batteries have transformed everyday lives – almost everyone has a smartphone, more electric vehicles can be spotted on the roads, and they keep power generators going during emergencies. As more portable electronic…
UH Team Develops Novel Microscope To Design Better High-Performance Batteries
Lithium-ion batteries, which today power everything from the smartphones we carry in our pockets to the electric vehicles we drive, are projected to capture 80 percent of the rechargeable battery market in the coming years. There…
ECE Researchers Charging the Future with Modern Aqueous Batteries
Stanko R. Brankovic, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering, has received a $300,000 grant to continue his research into creating a new magnetic alloys with superior properties for…
ECE's Brankovic earns $300k grant for ferromagnetic alloy research
A pair of professors from the Cullen College of Engineering are partnering with a colleague from Howard University to spur clean energy development via the use electromagnetic energy assisted hydrogen generation from fossil fuels…
ECE's Chen, Shan part of new research on converting methane to hydrogen
High Carrier Mobility in Cubic Boron Arsenide Offers Promise for Next-Gen Electronics Researchers have for the first time experimentally discovered that a cubic boron arsenide crystal offers high carrier mobility for both…
Researchers Report Major Advance in Semiconductor Materials
Lithium-ion batteries are currently the preferred technology to power electric vehicles, but they’re too expensive for long-duration grid-scale energy storage systems, and lithium itself is becoming more challenging to access.…
ECE's Yao, Research Team Develop Sodium Glassy Electrolytes Capable of Supporting Long-Duration Grid-Scale Energy Storage
High-density Energy Storage Machine Less Expensive, More Reliable than Current Technology   Pulsed power systems accumulate and store large amounts of energy for a certain period of time to be released instantaneously later. The…
UH Researchers Look to Disrupt Energy and Health Care Industries with Miniature Pulsed Power System
As the world lessens its dependence on fossil fuels, industries and manufacturers are turning to lithium-ion batteries to power the machines that make modern life possible. These batteries power electric vehicles, mobile phones,…
ECE's Shan Developing Imaging Technique to Understand How Dendrites Form in Batteries
** See video of scientists in the Bao lab shaping water with lasers into a familiar shape.** Jiming Bao, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston, has developed a new fluid that can be cut…
UH Researcher Develops New Fluid That Light Can Cut
In this pandemic era, have you ever wondered when the best time to go run an errand might be, maybe when your grocery store is the least crowded, so you could reduce the chance of being exposed to a contagious disease?   Well,…
UH Researcher Creates Real-Time COVID-19 Infection Risk Assessment System
A coveted technology, while attractive to established defense companies like Rockwell in Thousand Oaks, California, and others around the country, made its home in Sugar Land, putting millions into the greater Houston economy.…
 Boosting the Economy Through UH Engineering Technology
Researchers from the Cullen College of Engineering are exploring ways to automate the administration of medicine for patients suffering from Cushing's syndrome, with a proposal establishing architecture for that recently…
Paper from CML outlines new Approach for Management of Cushing's disease
The old adage “never let them see you sweat” doesn’t apply in the electrical and computer engineering lab of Rose Faghih, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Houston Cullen College of…
New Smartwatch Technology Uses Sweat on Skin to Infer Brain Stress
Drilling can be a challenging and expensive operation and the industry is always looking for ways to innovate and make the operation more efficient and safer. Two assistant professors in the University of Houston College of…
UH Licenses Cutting Analysis Software to Optimize Drilling Operations