{"302251":{"#nid":"302251","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Akbar Places Second in Broadcom Competition Finals","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMuhammad Bashir Akbar was named a finalist in the Broadcom Foundation University Research Competition, held on June 5. For this competition, there were 63 proposal invitees from around the world, 33 reviewed proposals, and 12 finalists selected for on-site presentation in Irvine, California.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAkbar\u2019s project, entitled \u201cHybrid Inertial Microwave Reflectometry (HIMR)\u201d, was selected for final round presentation at the Broadcom Technical Conference. Students presented a short talk and took part in a three-hour poster session in front of Broadcom\u2019s top engineers. At the Thursday night banquet, Akbar won runner-up, taking home a cash prize of $1,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAkbar is a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and is a member of the Propagation Group, which is led by ECE Associate Professor Gregory D. Durgin.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs for the research, HIMR is a technique for remote motion capture that was co-invented by Akbar, Durgin (Akbar\u2019s advisor), and ECE Professor David G. Taylor. Where most radio localization techniques struggle to break the 1-meter accuracy floor, HIMR can track absolute position in real time with an accuracy of 1-2 mm using low-powered 5.8 GHz RFIDs equipped with accelerometer circuitry. The technology applications include sports motion capture, diagnosis of traumatic brain injury, and precise robotic way-faring, to name just a few.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student Muhammad Bashir Akbar was named a finalist in the Broadcom Foundation University Research Competition, held on June 5.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student Muhammad Bashir Akbar was named a finalist in the Broadcom Foundation University Research Competition, held on June 5."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2014-06-09 14:06:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:33","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"302201":{"id":"302201","type":"image","title":"Muhammad Bashir Akbar","body":null,"created":"1449244592","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:56:32","changed":"1475895007","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:07","alt":"Muhammad Bashir Akbar","file":{"fid":"199578","name":"muhammad_bashir_akbar.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/muhammad_bashir_akbar_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/muhammad_bashir_akbar_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2705483,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/muhammad_bashir_akbar_0.jpg?itok=F5r2Qokh"}}},"media_ids":["302201"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.broadcomfoundation.org\/university","title":"Broadcom Foundation University Research Competition"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.propagation.gatech.edu\/","title":"The Propagation Group"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"95061","name":"Broadcom Foundation University Research Competition"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"90031","name":"Gregory D. Durgin"},{"id":"95041","name":"Muhammad Bashir Akbar"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"95051","name":"The Propagation Group"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}