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Speaker: Assistant Professor Hatice Ceylan Koydemir
Biomedical Engineering Department and Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems
Texas A&M University (TAMU)
Title: Portable Sensing and Imaging Technologies for Personalized Telemedicine
Date: Thursday, Aug 3, 2023
Time: 14:00 PM, ISTANBUL
Place: Koç University, SNA Building, A22
Abstract:
Developments in micro- and nano-fabrication technologies have substantially advanced the powerful and smart portable biomedical devices for point-of-care diagnostics, especially for low-resource settings. Such portable devices offer great potential to transform the future of healthcare through personalized telemedicine. They can improve people’s life quality through rapid and accurate detection and classification of various analytes with integrated computational learning approaches. This talk will cover portable imaging and sensing technologies using various imaging techniques, including fluorescence imaging, speckle imaging, brightfield imaging, and lens-free holographic imaging, and the design details of each platform and their assay components will be presented. The advantages and limitations of each miniaturized and portable platform will be discussed compared to the standard imaging methods. Procedures followed in evaluating their design robustness will be provided by highlighting the major considerations in future designs. With interdisciplinary work, these inspiring and engineered medical diagnostic and imaging technologies could help build the next generations’ more advanced, accessible, and affordable imaging and sensing devices.
Short Bio:
Hatice Ceylan Koydemir has been a tenure-track assistant professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department and Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems at Texas A&M University (TAMU) since August 2021. She is a Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station member and Thrust-2 Co-leader of the NSF-funded Precise Advanced Technologies and Health Systems for Underserved Populations (PATHS-UP) Engineering Research Center (ERC). She is the Director of the Integrated Biomedical Sensing and Imaging Laboratory and currently mentors a diverse team of researchers. She completed her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Middle East Technical University in 2013 and joined the Bio- and Nanophotonics Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for her postdoctoral studies. In 2018, she was promoted to the Assistant Project Scientist position at UCLA. Her research interests are in the development of noninvasive/minimally invasive biomedical technologies for on-body monitoring of diseases to advance healthcare. She has co-authored 38+ peer-reviewed journal articles, 7 awarded/submitted patents, 1 book, 1 book chapter, 100+ conference presentations, and given 12 invited talks.