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Student Grants & Awards

Funding for the ICDH student competition has been provided through the National Science Foundation and the Technical Committee on Services Computing (TCSVC).

The ICDH organizing committee hosted a student competition event for US-based graduate students to support participant’s registration fees. The students were selected based on a project idea submission evaluated by distinguished judges. Winners will receive mentoring from selected judges. The mentoring activities will explore and expand research ideas on digital health. Minorities and women graduate students from diverse institutes were encouraged to apply throughout the diffusion of the participation grant in minority-serving institutions. Post-doctoral students were considered for support on a case-by-case basis.

• First Place

  Ethical Sourced Digital Health Communication to Address Vaccination Hesitancey in the Poorest States of America
  Xishi Zhu, University of Alabama
  
  

• Second Place

  Constructing Dynamic Treatment Regimes for Optimal Discharge Time in Case Management
  Sean Kent, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
  

• Third Place

  Electrically Conductive Coordination Polymer for Flexible and Transparent Wearable Electronics
  Mohamed Hassan, Clarkson University
  
  

• Special Promising Work Award

  Constructing Dynamic Treatment Regimes for Optimal Discharge Time in Case Management
  Sean Kent, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
  

• Special Promising Work Award

  Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitoring system using Raspberry Pi four
  Priyanka Pola and Soin Traore, Kennesaw State University
  
  

• Special Promising Work Award

  Mobile-based Aid (mAID) tools for the development of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) using advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence
  Masud Rabanni, Md Ishrak Islam, Sayeda Farzana, Shiyu Tian
  
  

• Special Promising Work Award

  HIPAA Compliant Sharing of EHR Data in PerHL
  Kallol Naha, University of Idaho
  
  

• Special Promising Work Award

  Examining Participant Engagement in Healthy Juntos: A Family-based Digital Lifestyle Intervention for Hispanic Adolescents
  Vanina Pava, University of Miami
  
  

• Special Promising Work Award

  Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing and Integration in Healthcare Organizations
  Redwan Walid, UMBC
  
  

• Honorable Award

  A Comprehensive Framework for Modeling a Security-Aware Robust Smart Healthcare System
  Nur Imtiazul, Florida International University
  
  

• Honorable Award

  Indoor Activity Recognition with mmWave Radar Sensor to Support Digital Health Research
  Mingdian Liu, Jieyun Hu, Hongyi Brian, Meng Wang, Iowa State University
  
  

• Honorable Award

  Detecting Cardio-Metabolic Conditions from Surface Vibration Patterns Induced by Manual Wheelchair Users
  Haoxiang Yu, The University of Texas at Austin
  
  

• Honorable Award

  A Health Equity Partnership
  Loren Gordon, University of Houston
  
  

• Project Submission

  What more can Artificial Intelligence do?
  Temidara Agbesanwa, University of Houston
  
  

• Project Submission

  Emergency Department Overcrowding Management Model Using Wearable Devices and Data Analytics
  Luisa Nino and Leonardo Valladares, Montana State University
  
  

• Project Submission

  Interactive Story Authoring to Support Therapeutic Narrative Reflection in College Students
  Sarah Anne Brown, University of Florida
  
  

• Project Submission

  Novel Approach for Improved Cardiac Arrhythmia Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks
  Ivan Nenadic, University of Michigan
  
  

• Project Submission

  Comfortable Wheelchair Navigation for SCI Patients through Automated Surface Classification
  Huy Quang, Reetik Chandra, Tuong Hassan, Miami University Ohio
  
  

• Project Submission

  Towards Developing an Explainable Healthcare Framework With AI-Human Collaboration - A Causal Perspective
  Uzma Hasan, UMBC
  
  

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Request for Proposals: PDF announcement

Participation Guidelines

• Students submit a proposal for participation (max 2 pages) where they will describe their research idea or work in one of the available categories. Work in preliminary planning phases will be considered. Categories to be considered will include 1) Digital health projects for diabetes and blood pressure management; 2) Digital health projects for cancer management; and 3) General digital health projects for other healthcare purposes.
• Accepted students will receive the participation grant reimburses ICDH registrations
• Accepted students will participate in a one-day work competition, where they will present the research idea and preliminary results (if applicable) to a judging panel.
• Accepted students will participate in virtual mentoring sessions with distinguished speakers that will explore the different topics and research challenges in the above categories.
• Accepted students will participate in an award ceremony, where the best projects will be announced. There will be monetary awards to the winners.
• Students must accept an acknowledgment that they do not have any other source of support.

Awards

• First Place: $1000
• Second Place: $600
• Third Place: $400

Submission Guidelines

Students are invited to submit their research work, preliminary results, and/or preliminary ideas. No more than one team per institution will be considered. If more than one team per institution is opting for the grant, one extra team can be considered if one or more of its student members is from minorities and underrepresented groups. All submissions must adhere to IEEE Publishing Policies and will be vetted through the IEEE CrossCheck portal.

SUBMISSION LINK: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=2021ieeeicdh
Click on “ICDH Student Research Competition.”

Important Dates

Last date for submission: 20 28 August 2021
Notification of winners: 27 31 August 2021

Contact Organizers

Dr. Maria Valero - mvalero2@kennesaw.edu
Dr. Hossain Shahriar - hshahria@kennesaw.edu
Dr. Iqbal Ahamed - sheikh.ahamed@marquette.edu