PhD defended – moving on
The 31st of August, I finally got to defend my PhD thesis on vital signs monitoring for critically ill patients. Here are my main points which may help someone else out there decide whether they should go for the degree. You define the difficulty level of all technical challenges you will …
EMBC South Korea + vacation
Each PhD candidate at Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is advised to aim for writing six peer-reviewed articles during their employment. Three of these are conference contributions. I was fortunate that my conference locations turned out to be Osaka, Japan… Orlando, USA, and finally Jeju Island, South Korea. At this …
BCI related national TV appearance
I was contacted last year by Birger Bergmann Jeppesen who has been living with the neurodegenerative disease ALS for 20 years. The disease causes a person to lose control over all muscle functions, eventually leading to complete paralysis and preventing the person from communicating with surroundings. Birger’s ALS has reached …
When a collaboration goes bad and can’t be terminated
Officially 6 months to go of the PhD, and I have not made a single post about my project on my website. Unfortunately, like many other PhD projects, mine has been revised a dozen times so I have to admit that even I did not know exactly what my project was …
Brain-Computer Interfaces outside research facilities
Working with Brain-Computer interfaces (BCI) can be challenging and fun – especially when we make something that works. But are regular consumers ready for using already developed systems, or do we need to do more research? This summer I received funding from my university to investigate the field further – to …
EMBC 2014 – Project on video surveillence of epilepsy patients
This year I participated in the annual conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2014) with a poster presentation of a project that I am very fond of even though my contribution to it was small. I was hoping to present two papers, but my most …
Project: A novel SSVEP-based BCI spelling system
In my master thesis, I developed a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) for people who suffer from locked-in syndrome, which is a condition in where a person loses the ability to control muscles and communicate. The brain mostly functions though. Fortunately, with today’s technology, it is possible to help these people by either using a …
Wrap up III – Hello Japan, Hello Osaka, Hello EMBC!
Before handing in my MSc Thesis, I was encouraged to write a ~4-page paper and submit it to the 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC ’13). Two months later, I got an acceptance letter saying, that my paper will be published and …
Wrap up II – PhD scholarship in Early Warning of Acute Diseases from Portable Vital Signs Monitoring and -Interpretation
Wouhuu!!! Already two months before my graduation, I received some amazing job offers. Since I always wanted to combine medicine with technology, I applied and got a PhD scholarship in the field of Biomedical Engineering! For the next 3 years, I’ll be working with monitoring and interpretation of physiological signals (such as heart …
Wrap up, I – Graduation
I have been super busy over the past few months, so there hasn’t been any time for updating the website. So the next few posts are quick wrap up about the most exciting things that have happened, starting with my graduation. Master of Science in Digital Media Engineering! I defended …