Projects
New-to-nature Biological Sensors: Unlocking the full potential of biological sensors beyond nature Ghent University
“If you can not measure it, you can not improve it” (Lord Kelvin) clearly articulates the need for efficient and robust sensors in all fields of science and technology, especially in pharma, agriculture, environment, food and industrial biotechnology. However, current analytic techniques require laborious, expensive multi-step processes with highly specialized, non-portable equipment. As a solution, all living organisms have been evolving and ...
Senses as tools. A philosophy of the sensory modalities. University of Antwerp
Multi-modal sensor fusion for deep state estimation Ghent University
There is an abundance of sensory information being collected by sensors since the emergence of the Internet of things. Combining this information (sensor fusion) to get a meaningful picture of the system under observation currently needs a lot of expert knowledge and human engineering, which doesn't scale well with the growing amount of sensors available. These sensors can vary strongly (multi-modality), ranging from complex depth camera's to ...
Run-time adaptive hierarchical neural architectures for representation learning in modular sensor networks Ghent University
The human brain excels when it comes to the efficient processing of multiple correlated
information streams. It continuously receives massive streams of sequential data from our
hearing, vision, touch and other senses. Nevertheless, it is capable to quickly process and learn
from these huge amounts of data, because it can efficiently abstract it into a more compact
representation and because it ...
Function of PERK in T cell metabolic reprogramming: deciphering its role as ER stress sensor vs its novel role as coordinator of membrane contact sites KU Leuven
Metabolic reprogramming plays a crucial role in T cell development, differentiation, and acquisition of effector functions. Inadequate metabolic fitness of T cells is a critical factor limiting the efficacy of immunotherapy for cancer therapy, highlighting the need for studies to improve our understanding of T cell metabolic regulation. Growing evidence indicates that metabolism is regulated at highly specialized sites of close appositions ...
Towards zero-power sensor interfaces for future cyber-physical systems. KU Leuven
In order to be able to ...
Self-learning, stepped sensor interface KU Leuven
With the miniaturization of electronic hardware, it becomes feasible to take portable devices equipped with sensors with us every time of the day. Many applications build on this to provide us more direct feedback on our well-being and our environment, or to provide context-aware services. However, the energy consumption of the required always-on sensors impedes its practical realization as it is currently infeasible to keep a collection of ...
Chemical sensor arrays based on metal-organic frameworks and field-effect transistors (SAMETRA) KU Leuven
Detecting volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at low concentrations
is an important but challenging task with a range of applications,
including checking food freshness, monitoring indoor air quality, and
diagnosing lung conditions through breath analysis. In all of these
areas, high-performance yet compact VOC sensors are needed.
While compact VOC sensors exist, they suffer from limited lifetimes
and low ...