2019-03 Bilge's team win the first place at Hacks with Friends 2019

Hacks with Friends is a two-day event brings together IT professionals across campus to innovate and quickly solve technology problems. Along the way, they make connections that last.

This year, Bilge's team's idea "ContaMiNot" win the first place at the event. ContaMiNot is a sustainability app to help you determine which bin your trash should go into. It uses object recognition & machine learning to identify a piece of trash, then tells the user which waste bin to place it in.

Here is a link to thier website.

2019-02 Yanling's Farewell Dinner

Yanling was a visiting scholar in Jun's lab. He worked on the dynamics of gene expression in skeletal muscle during exercise. In his own words, "It's refreshing to combine computational techniques and what I know from wet lab. I’ve been enjoying science every minute here."