PhD Dissertation won the 2020 PhD Thesis Award from the Editor-in-Chief of MDPI Sensors

November 16, 2020

The PhD Thesis Award is organized annually by the Editor-in-Chief of MDPI Sensors. One outstanding PhD thesis is selected as the winner from the applications worldwide. Dr. Martin Halicek, a PhD student from Dr. Baowei Fei’s lab, won the 2020 PhD Thesis Award. The title of his thesis is “Development of deep learning methods for head and cancer detection in hyperspectral imaging and digital pathology for surgical guidance”.

Dr. Baowei Fei received the FRIEND Award from the Office of Research and Innovation at UT Dallas

November 1, 2020

The Federal Research Innovation and ExpeNditures Dynamo (FRIEND) Awards of the Office of Research and Innovation are recognized based on achieving a cumulative level of federal research expenditures (CLFRE) in excess of $500,000 as either PI or co-PI for fiscal year 2020.  Dr. Fei was a recipient of the 2020 FRIEND Award that was signed by Dr. Joseph Pancrazio, the Vice President for Research, and Dr. Richard Benson, President of the University of Texas at Dallas.