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628 STUDENT INNOVATION SHOWCASE

Photoelectron Counting Jot Device and High a cost-efficient, readily available, “green” technology
Speed Readout Circuit for Quanta Image Sensor for creating large volume vascularized mammalian
Institution: Dartmouth College tissues.
Student Members: Jiaju Ma and Saleh
Masoodian Korwave
Research Advisors: Eric R. Fossum, FNAI Institution: Arizona State University
Company formed from Technology: Gigajot Student Members: Patrick S. McFarland and
Technology, LLC Trung Dinh
The concept of the Quanta Image Sensor (QIS) was Research Advisor: Vincent Pizziconi
developed as the 3rd generation of solid-state image Company formed from Technology: Korwave
sensors after the charge coupled device (CCD) and Korwave is a mobile, wireless, home health brain
CIS. The QIS differs from the conventional CIS in that monitoring device for patients with epilepsy. Korwave
it is sensitive enough to detect the smallest particle of looks like a hairband for girls or wireless headphones
light, one single photon. The QIS works like “digital for boys. When a seizure happens, the device noti-
film,” in which billions of tiny pixels, called “jots,” fies a caretaker, allowing them to assist the patient.
output binary data (either single-bit or multi-bit) cor- If the seizure lasts too long, Korwave can call 911,
responding to the number of collected photoelectrons providing them with the patient’s location and med-
at a high frame rate (e.g., 1000fps). The combination ical information. Each month, a digest of seizure
of high sensitivity and fast readout gives this sensor activity is sent to the patient’s neurologist, as well as
a film-like exposure response curve, an exciting fea- being sent to the cloud to create a “big data” profile
ture for the photography community. The operating of epilepsy. This long term epilepsy profile is analyzed
principle of the QIS is a major paradigm shift in the using machine learning.
image sensor world and its success will require a com-
bination of innovations in many engineering fields,
such as semiconductor devices, integrated circuits, ElectroPure
and data processing and transmission. Institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Student Member: Julie Bliss Mullen
Plant Based Decellularization Research Advisor: David A. Reckhow
Institution: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Company formed from Technology: ElectroPure
Student Member: Joshua Gershlak ElectroPure is a water purification company, and
Research Advisor: Glenn R. Gaudette its primary technology is a water treatment device
Tissue engineering has the potential to increase the for homes and small community systems that com-
number of viable solutions for patients currently bines water quality issues at a competitive price.
awaiting organ and tissue transplantation. However, The ElectroPure device is the only system that kills
one of the major factors currently limiting the clinical all pathogens, maintains water quality throughout
applicability of tissue engineered grafts is the lack of plumbing systems, can be fully tuned to particular
a viable vascular network. This team investigates the customer tastes and needs with sensors, can be engi-
decellularization of plant tissue to act as a scaffold for neering at a full range of sizes, and will never require
both tissue engineering and drug screening. Plants any filter replacement unless heavy metals are a con-
follow the same physiological law of the branching cern. The ElectroPure water treatment device uses
structure of the human cardiovascular system and, as oxidation as a main treatment mechanism. The device
such, plants have that innate microvasculature. This is currently being tested for treatment effectiveness,
team’s decellularization technology should provide scalability, and power consumption.