Davide Piaggio and Georgy Namm, respectively PhD and MEng Student members of the Applied Biomedical Signal Processing and Intelligent eHealth Lab at the University of Warwick, were shortlisted among the 6 finalist teams for the IFMBE Student Design Competition WC2018.

Davide and Georgy have been therefore invited to present and demonstrate their innovative design along with other 5 other teams in the final at the Student Design Competition at the IUPESM 2018 world congress that will be held in Prague, Czech Republic this June.

Prof Siew-Lok TOH, National University Singapore and Chair of the Competition panel stated: "We have received overwhelming submissions for the competition and I am very pleased to inform you that you have been shortlisted as one of the 6 finalists. Thank you very much".

This is a great result for our students, proving their quality and the advanced research-oriented University of Warwick teaching philosophy.

In fact, design, assessment and maintained of healthcare technologies for low income settings is one of the priority research areas of the ABSPIE lab, the School of Engineering and the University of Warwick.