Recognition and awards¶

Awards and prizes¶

Awards for members of the team:

2025: Best paper, IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things.
2025: Journal authors presentation award, IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things.
2024: University of Leeds research impact and engagement awards, category mature health impact award for projects LOCOMOTION and HEARTLOC.
2024: Student travel award for IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium for PhD student Charis Whyte.
2024: 2nd prize in the Venture Further awards for best spin out company, healthcare category for PhD student Liam Johnson.
2023: IEEE Body Sensor Networks conference travel award for PhD student Le Xing.
2023: IET Healthcare Technologies Network William James award for PhD student Le Xing.
2023: Best outstanding contribution to research impact, University of Manchester staff prize for postdoctoral researchers Zixin Wang and Mahdi Saleh.
2023: Eli and Britt Harari Enterprise Award for PhD student Liam Johnson.
2023: Researcher to Innovator award to investigate research commercialisation for PhD student Liam Johnson
2022: Highly commended poster award at the World Congress for Neurorehabilitation, MD student Stephen Halpin.
2022: 1st prize in UK Health Security Agency PhD student event, for PhD student Liam Johnson.
2022: Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers scholarship for PhD student Liam Johnson.
2021: 1st prize in School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering postgraduate research poster competition, University of Manchester, UK, for PhD student Liam Johnson.
2020: 1st prize in the Venture Further awards for best spin out company, business category for PhD student Nikhil Kurian Jacob.
2020: Outstanding presentation prize, NYC neuromodulation 2020 international conference.
2019: PhD student Nikhil Kurian Jacob given a Bee Manchester “Bee Proud” award for his work on the “UoM stories” event.
2018: Best paper award for journal article in ICT Xpress, with co-authors Arturo Vazquez Galvez, Delaram Jarchi.
2018: Highly commended in the “Better World” showcase for an outstanding contribution to equality and diversity.
2017: First prize in the University of Manchester ‘Venture Further’ awards for best spin out, business category for PhD student Eleanor Trimble.
2017: First prize in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering poster competition for PhD student Chris Beach.
2016: First prize in the Rogue Resolutions Challenge 2016 with PhD student Siddharth Kohli.
2016: First prize in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering poster competition with PhD student Mohammed Abdulaal.
2016: Together with student Sammy Medhi highly commended in the Engineering category international Undergraduate Awards. Described as the “Junior Nobel Prize”.
2013: IET JA Lodge award, recognising “promising early-career electrical engineers working in biomedical engineering”.
2012: Runner-up in QUASAR USA dry sensor innovation challenge.
2010: Eryl Cadwaladr Davies prize for best doctoral thesis in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London.
2008: IET Ambition Award to “celebrate the achievements of talented young engineering and technology professionals”.
2005, 2004, 2003: ARM limited sponsored student.
2005, 2004, 2003: Lincoln College, University of Oxford, exhibitions and scholarship.