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May 18, 2024

Brooke presents at UW Undergrad Research Symposium

Brooke, undergraduate research student, presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium at the UW Seattle campus with her poster, “Studying Human Perception to Support the Implementation of a Cardiorespiratory Resuscitation Feedback App” We hope this has been a great experience for Brooke! Very well done job and looking forward to continue her work in the next…

March 30, 2024

Congratulations! 2024 SRCP Grant Funding to Support Medical-Robotics Project

Congratulations! Academic Affairs and the Office of Sponsored Research informed the Yoon’s lab that the UW Bothell Scholarship, Research, and Creative Practice (SRCP) review panel has reviewed the Yoon’s grant request for Development of a Collaborative Robot‐Assisted Ultrasound System for CPR and has awarded the team $28,504.00. This is the fifth cohort of awardees and…

March 13, 2024

Yoon receives Midcareer Faculty Fellowship

Dr. Yoon has been awarded the competitive Midcareer Faculty Fellowship for 2024/2025! The Office of Faculty Success provides up to four awards per year. Thank you for the support!

December 3, 2023

A patent issued for smart multifunction toilet wheelchair

Congratulations on the patent award, a joint effort between UW Bothell STEM (Smart Medical Devices Lab) and UW Seattle Art School (Industrial Design). U.S. Patent Number 11,793,695, issued October 24, 2023 Entitled: “MULTIFUNCTION TOILET WHEELCHAIR” Inventors: Woon Jong Yoon, Sang-gyeun Ahn UW Reference: 47453.03US2

June 8, 2023

Eric gets 2023 E&M Academic Excellence Award! Congrats!!

Congratulations Eric on your excellent job for your Undergraduates (REU) program in 2022! Check out the story in the link below. https://www.uwb.edu/stem-news/june-2023/em-excellence-awards

May 12, 2023

A new conference paper on the integration of robot-ultrasound imaging accepted at UR 2023

The outcomes of 2022 summer REU project led to a peer-reviewed paper, which was co-authored with two Heritage University undergrad students, and it has been accepted to a conference. Yoon will be attending the conference, Ubiquitous Robots 2023 (https://2023.ubiquitousrobots.org/ ) as the first author of the paper (6/25/2023 – 6/28/2023). Jong Yoon, Maria Barrios*, Eric…

April 16, 2023

the EV Grand Prix — an electric go-kart race

UW Bothell’s Electric Motorsport Club, which is advised by Dr. Yoon was founded by Belknap in autumn quarter 2022. After several months of hard work, student engineers Jordan Belknap, Samantha Brown, Giuliano Bussadori and Adrian Corona were able to participate in the EV Grand Prix — a competitive, electric go-kart race hosted for collegiate teams…

March 10, 2023

Yoon is awarded a funding from WA State Department of LNI!

SMDL is excited to announce that Dr. Yoon and his collaborators have been awarded funding for their new project from the Safety & Health Investment Projects (SHIP) under the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) within the Department of Labor & Industries. The project is titled, “A Comparative Study of Different Wheelchair-toilet Transfer Approaches…

February 6, 2023

Yoon speaks at Husky Highlights seminar

The Offices of Sponsored Research and Connected Learning would like to invite you to the Husky Highlights Seminar on Tuesday featuring two great presentations. Tuesday, February 7, 2023, from 3:30-5:00PM Towards high-quality inference services in mobile edge computing –Dr. Yang Peng Deep neural networks (DNN) have enabled dramatic advancements in mobile applications such as real-time…

November 17, 2022

REU to ABRCMS Conference Presentation

Maria Barrios has done great job at ABRCMS conference to present her robotic ultrasound vein imaging (REU Poster 8-15). Well done!! Design and Optimization of a Collaborative Robot with a Portable Ultrasound Machine for Brachial Vein Imaging, Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), Anaheim, CA, Nov. 9-12, 2022