Graduate Samantha Simons wins the prestigious IET Dennis Hill award
Tuesday 11 December 2012
Samantha Simons, a graduate of the MEng programme in Medical Engineering at the University of Surrey has won the prestigious IET Dennis Hill award for her final year project “Multiscale Entropy Analysis of the Electroencephalogram in Alzheimer’s Disease”.
The IET Dennis Hill is awarded annually to the MEng or MSc student who has submitted the best project dissertation in the general field of healthcare technologies and cognate subjects. Samantha’s project shows how advanced signal processing can be used to detect changes in the brain caused by Alzheimer’s disease. She was invited to present her work at The Annual Healthcare Technologies Lecture at the Savoy Place in London on 21 November 2012.
 | Multiscale Entropy Analysis of the Electroencephalogram in Alzheimer's Disease Samantha Simons
From: The Annual Healthcare Technologies Lecture, 21 November 2012, London - IET London: Savoy Place 2012-11-21 00:00:00.0 News Channel |
Samantha was announced as the winner of this award during the IET Ambition and Achievement Awards Ceremony at the Brewery, Chiswell Street, London on 22nd November 2012 in an event hosted by BBC science presenter Michael Mosley.
Samantha is now doing a PhD in the Department with Dr Daniel Abásolo, furthering the signal processing work started in her MEng final year project.
