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Mar 30, 2026

A Hopeful Future of Pets

Left to right: Panelists Alper Bozkurt, Carlos Goller, and Margaret Gruen address the audience during the Hopeful Futures: Future of Pets event. Did you know that over 70% of households in the U.S. have pets? Pet ownership has been steadily increasing over the last 35 years, up from 56% in 1988. As pets continue to…

Jan 12, 2026

Yifan Wu, NC State Research Team Wins Best Presentation Award at ACI

Congratulations to NC State ECE Ph.D. student Yifan Wu on receiving the Best Presentation Award at the 2025 Animal-Computer Interaction International Conference (ACI). Mentored by Professors David Roberts (CS) and Alper Bozkurt (ECE, ASSIST and IConS), Wu presented his paper, “Toward Automated Pain Evaluation in Osteoarthritic Dogs Through Inertial Data and Machine Learning” last month at the conference in Indiana; this is…

Sep 26, 2025

SenseNC Team Wins Top Innovation Award at International Biosensor Competition

Poole College students Jayden Ford and Ben Cole (second and third from left) celebrate with their teammates from the College of Engineering, College of Sciences, and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. We are proud to announce that SenseNC, a student-led, interdisciplin, ary team supported by the Institute of Connected Sensor Systems (IConS) and the ASSIST…

Jul 3, 2025

Transforming Guide Dog Training with AI and Sensor Technology

With an estimated 45 million blind individuals worldwide and only around 10,000 to 20,000 guide dogs in service globally, there is a significant gap between the demand for and availability of trained guide dogs. Researchers at NC State University, led by Dr. Alper Bozkurt from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dr. David Roberts from the Department of Computer Science, have…

Jun 30, 2025

NC State ECE, IConS and NSF ASSIST Center join Interdisciplinary Exhibit: Your Brain on Art at the Gregg Museum

Electrical engineering plays a pivotal role in transforming how art is created, experienced, and understood—powering interactive installations, enabling immersive sensory experiences, and bridging the gap between technology and human expression. NC State’s Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Dr. Alper Bozkurt joined an extraordinary interdisciplinary collaboration that has culminated in the launch of the new exhibition, Your Brain on…

May 22, 2025

NC State Engineering Shows Off Skills at General Assembly’s UNC System Day

This is an article originally written by Nicole Zelniker. May 9, 2025 North Carolina State University students, faculty and alumni came out to represent the College of Engineering for the University of North Carolina System Day at the General Assembly. Among the mascots and merriment, representatives from different College of Engineering departments displayed new and updated technology in…

Mar 14, 2025

Sensors, Centered

The Institute for Connected Sensor-Systems (IConS) ties together NC State’s strengths in sensor development and application-driven solutions. This is an article originally written by Engineering Communications for the Engineering Magazine. In 2021, Shevaun Neupert wrote a proposal for the National Institutes of Health on integrating off-the-shelf wearable devices, such as a smartwatch, into her research on…

Feb 28, 2025

Year 3 Seed Grant Request for Proposals

The Seed Grant Request for Proposals has been released and has a deadline of April 28, 2025. We encourage you to take this opportunity to actively showcase your research and to foster collaborations with another college within NC State University. This initiative aims to enhance interdisciplinary partnerships and innovation in research endeavors. Important DaysRFP Release Date: TODAY (February 28,…