Materials, structures, energy, robotics and computing.
Professor Brian Jackson's team used flight data from the Ingenuity helicopter to profile winds near the Martian surface, finding them more variable and sometimes stronger than models predicted.
Dr. Stephen Prior and Daniel Newman-Sanders built a MATLAB optimization code that shapes small drone propeller blades for better efficiency, with predictions closely matching measurements from a real propeller.
Professor Tetsuo Takayama's team built a model that predicts the impact strength of injection-moulded short fibre-reinforced thermoplastics, showing fibre orientation, length and fibre-matrix bonding govern toughness.
Professor Staša Puškarić's team built an AI-guided incubator that recreates underwater light spectra, and Adriatic tests showed its plankton carbon-uptake measurements closely matched those taken at sea.
Dr. Pouya Tavousi's team built laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy into ultrashort pulsed laser machining, letting the system identify materials in real time and adjust or stop cutting automatically.
Professor Paul Dumouchel argues that treating AI as a single entity, rather than a set of diverse cognitive technologies, leads to ineffective regulation, and he critiques moratoriums and built-in ethics.
Dr. Zuhair Alyousef and Professor Oscar Crisalle found that solar cells keep high voltage and efficiency at their maximum power point, whereas direct methanol fuel cells lose much of their voltage there.
Dr. Burçak Ebin's team showed that carbon dioxide under pressure can selectively extract electrolyte solvents from spent lithium-ion batteries without the toxic emissions of heat-based recycling.
Dr. Danny Brouard's team found that unmodified polydopamine coatings reduced bacterial load in lab tests, especially for Staphylococcus aureus, while proving non-toxic to human cells.
Mudhafar Al-Saadi and Professor Michael Short propose a multiagent reinforcement learning controller that keeps plug-and-play batteries in DC microgrids balanced and stable as batteries are added or removed.
Professor Vytautas Ostasevicius's team developed a low-frequency ultrasound device that breaks up clumped red blood cells, and in sheep it raised oxygen saturation while lowering blood pressure.
Dr. Manan Vyas's team found that correlations between S&P 500 stocks entered a previously unseen market state a few months into the COVID-19 pandemic, which persisted for over a year.
