Illinois Innovators
62 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAs one of the world’s top ranked engineering programs, our students, faculty, and alumni set the standard for excellence. We drive the economy, reimagine engineering education, and bring revolutionary ideas to the world.
We solve the world’s greatest challenges. We look toward the future and find ways to make it a reality. Leading the innovation of virtual reality. Designing electronic tattoos to treat seizures. Building safer global water systems. Converting algae to biofuel. Exploring fusion energy.
We do the impossible every day.
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Smart security camera's audio could instantly detect sounds of distress
September 15, 2017 16:59 - 29 minutes - 26.5 MBProfessor Deming Chen and his team of researchers are developing technology which allows security cameras to detect sounds of distress (such as gun shots, screaming, cry for help)and immediately notify law enforcement.
Stephen Blakely -- The Egyptian Pulley and How the Great Pyramid was Built
September 15, 2017 16:20 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBIf you are all familiar with the Egyptian Pyramids, then you are no doubt aware of what an engineering marvel they are. Consider that they were built around 2500 BC, the largest stands 449 feet tall, weighs 6.5 million tons and covers 13 acres. But exactly how were they built? University of Illinois alumnus Stephen Blakely has studied its construction extensively and has formed a theory, the use of an Egyptian pulley
Computer Science Professor David Forsyth talks coding for autonomous vehicles
August 18, 2017 19:25 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBDavid Forsyth couldn’t image 30 years ago that his career in academia would involve standing in front of a moving driverless vehicle with a traffic cone on his head. However, this spring that’s what the South African born professor of computer science did as part his University of Illinois class on artificial intelligence. He talks about how the future of programming autonomous vehicles.
Ashley Moy, CEO, Cast 21
July 24, 2017 18:35 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBCast 21 is revolutionizing the future of bone mobilizations. Instead of a traditional cast of cloth and plaster for a fracture in an arm or leg, the company has introduced a brace with a netted structure. It is breathable and washable and allows for easy access to the area for cleaning. Ashley Moy, Cast 21 CEO and recent Illinois graduate in bioengineering, joins the program to discuss the progress of the start-up.
Olgica Milenkovic and her team discuss DNA storage technology
July 17, 2017 15:29 - 40 minutes - 55.1 MBIt has been predicted that all the world's data, if stored on DNA, could fit into a trunk of a car. Olgica Milenkovic, and her team received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate how to encode data in a manner suitable for portable and robust DNA-based data storage systems. Joining Olgica on the podcast are Ryan Gabrys and Houssein Yazdi.
Fullstack Academy co-founders David Yang and Nimit Maru
June 28, 2017 18:53 - 39 minutes - 15.2 MBFullstack is an immersive software engineering school or "coding bootcamp" in lower Manhattan and Chicago. Seeing that coding is a skill with increasing career applications, David Yang and Nimit Maru founded Fullstack in 2012 through a collaboration at Y Combinator. David and Nimit met on the first day of freshman orientation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After graduating in 2004 with degrees in computer science and electrical engineering, they have joined forces on at ...
Terry Howerton, CEO and Founder of TechNexus, talks about the growing Chicago tech community
May 15, 2017 21:54 - 27 minutes - 38.2 MBTerry Howerton is the founder and CEO of TechNexus, a Chicago-based venture development firm building a new, collaborative model for leading corporations to engage and extract value from the global entrepreneurial ecosystem. A lifelong entrepreneur, Terry talks about Chicago as an incubator for tech talent and companies
Sanjay Patel discusses the future of virtual reality and his company Personify
May 15, 2017 21:42 - 26 minutes - 37 MBPersonify uses the most advanced technologies in computer vision and machine learning to develop awesome immersive experiences involving video. CEO and co-founder of Personify, Sanjay has grown Personify from 5 people at the University of Illinois to a global team of more than 30 technologists and innovators, with dozens of partnerships and relationships with companies like Intel, SAP, and Lenovo.
Mani Golparvar Fard, CEO of Reconstruct, is revolutionizing construction monitoring
May 15, 2017 20:53 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBMani Golparvar Fard, CEO of Reconstruct, and his team at the University of Illinois has developed a sophisticated construction monitoring systems, which takes videos and photos using drones and a web-based platform, which continuously reconstructs and visualizes reality directly within 4D BIM, measures progress and productivity, and analyzes risk for delay.
Mayank Kale, CEO of Invoq Health, discusses data-driven physician systems
May 15, 2017 20:26 - 25 minutes - 34.5 MBMayank Kale, is building the startup Invoq Health to develop a new way to deploy high- tech data collection, retention and analysis solutions intuitively in low tech environments - enabling the adoption of important population and health management applications in under served markets of India and Africa. Mayank holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Divey Gulati, co-founder of ShipBob, Inc., gives an insight on logistics of his e-commerce startup
May 15, 2017 20:05 - 20 minutes - 27.8 MBDivey Gulati founded Ship Bob, Inc., to help small businesses give customers Amazon-level logistics. Gulati as both bachelor's degree in computer engineering and an MBA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Leading Bitcoin expert Andrew Miller talks Cryptocurrency
May 15, 2017 19:38 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBAndrew Miller, a leading voice on Bitcoin and an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois, chats about the origins and future of cryptocurrency.