UMBC CSEE professors Dong Li and Konstantinos Kalpakis were awarded funding from the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Research to collaborate with UMB partners to develop innovative healthcare technology.

Professor Li aims to develop a reliable method to monitor blood pressure with a smartphone outfitted with ultrasound sensors to measure blood flow and using the built-in microphone to record heart sounds. The partnership with UMB will allow the team to conduct clinical trials, with both healthy individuals and those with hypertension, to rigorously evaluate the system’s accuracy and effectiveness.

Kalpakis and his colleagues are developing a new approach to help trauma physicians make better-informed treatment decisions quickly. The team is working on a machine-learning framework that can help ER doctors predict medical outcomes, such as which patients will experience severe complications from trauma and what their blood transfusion needs may be.