{"639497":{"#nid":"639497","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Simonjan Wins Austrian Marshall Plan Poster Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJennifer Simonjan has won an Austrian Marshall Plan Poster Award.\u0026nbsp;She is a postdoctoral researcher in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation\u0026nbsp;benefits and supports cooperation between Austrian and American universities and academics by developing research projects and fellowships respectively\u0026nbsp;with different American and Austrian universities. Simonjan\u0026nbsp;graduated with her Ph.D. from\u0026nbsp;Universitat Klagenfurt, a university located in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 2019. She is doing her postdoctoral work with the Broadband Networking Wireless Lab, led by ECE Professor Ian Akyildiz.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESimonjan received the award for her poster entitled\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Localization and Tracking of In-body Bionanosensor Measurements via Inertial Positioning and THz Backscattering Communication,\u0026rdquo; which she co-authored with Akyildiz.\u0026nbsp;Nanotechnology is enabling the development of a new generation of devices which are able to sense, process, and communicate, while being in the scale of tens to hundreds of cubic nanometers. Such small, imperceptible devices enhance not only current applications but enable entirely new paradigms, especially for in-body environments.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis work introduces a localization and tracking concept for measurements of bionanosensors floating through the human bloodstream. Besides the nanoscale sensors, the proposed system also comprises macroscale anchor nodes attached to the skin of the monitored person. To realize autonomous localization and resource-efficient wireless communication between sensors and anchors, Simonjan and Akyildiz propose to rely on inertial positioning and sub-terahertz backscattering communication as major building blocks. Their proposed system is a first step towards early disease detection as it aims at localizing body regions which show anomalies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Postdoctoral Researcher\u0026nbsp;Jennifer Simonjan has won an Austrian Marshall Plan Poster Award.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Postdoctoral Researcher\u00a0Jennifer Simonjan has won an Austrian Marshall Plan Poster Award.\u00a0"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2020-09-23 21:03:49","changed_gmt":"2020-09-23 21:03:49","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-09-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-09-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"639495":{"id":"639495","type":"image","title":"Jennifer Simonjan","body":null,"created":"1600894622","gmt_created":"2020-09-23 20:57:02","changed":"1600894622","gmt_changed":"2020-09-23 20:57:02","alt":"photograph of Jennifer Simonjan","file":{"fid":"243148","name":"Jennifer Simonjan.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jennifer%20Simonjan.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jennifer%20Simonjan.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1275959,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Jennifer%20Simonjan.jpg?itok=N_uzi-iT"}}},"media_ids":["639495"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/bwn.ece.gatech.edu","title":"Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.marshallplan.at","title":"Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"185922","name":"Jennifer Simonjan"},{"id":"12058","name":"Ian Akyildiz"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"174305","name":"Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory"},{"id":"185923","name":"Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation"},{"id":"185924","name":"Universitat Klagenfurt"},{"id":"185925","name":"bionanosensor"},{"id":"185926","name":"THz backscattering communication"},{"id":"107","name":"Nanotechnology"},{"id":"173153","name":"wireless communications"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"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\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}