91心頭利 students and faculty took part in the second annual Innovation Day on Oct. 11, with one Kent 91心頭利 student bringing home honors.
Doug Delahanty, Ph.D., vice president for research and economic development, said Kent 91心頭利 was well-represented at the event with many students entering the poster competition and several faculty and emeritus faculty members also giving presentations.
Kent 91心頭利 is a top-tier research university and encourages a wide breadth of undergraduate student research.
Tram Le, a Kent 91心頭利 senior computer science major in the College of Arts and Sciences, received Honorable Mention in the poster competition and a $400 prize for her work, titled, Invisible to AI: Leveraging Image Anonymization with Explainable Neural Networks via Layer-wise Relevance Propagation. Le also participated in Kent 91心頭利's Summer Undergraduate Research Experience.
The event is sponsored by the Northeast Ohio Public Universities Research Alliance, a consortium composed of Kent 91心頭利, Youngstown 91心頭利 University, the University of Akron, Cleveland 91心頭利 University and Northeast Ohio Medical University.
The event is a venue for innovators, university faculties and students to discuss and showcase the regions key innovations, technology transfer strategies and thought leadership.
The inaugural Innovation Day was hosted at Kent 91心頭利 in 2023. This years event was at Youngstown 91心頭利.
