EE Student Receives Technical Award in 2020 IEEE GHTC
Engineering Science student Jordan Johnston has received Technical Award with a cash prize in the student poster competition at 2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC). The poster and oral presentation titled, A Review on Image-Based Wildfire Detection Systems, "researched multiple image processing and machine learning methods to decide which would be best for detecting wildfires, a disaster that I’ve had to evacuate from numerous times and continues to ravage California." said Jordan. The research work has been conducted under Dr. Nansong Wu’s supervision in EE 498 Engineering Practicum.