{"id":105,"date":"2025-02-12T20:17:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T20:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/hero-lab\/?page_id=105"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:55:07","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/hero-lab\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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(Oct. 2025) HERO students Zehaan, Reyansh, <\/strong>and Parshva <\/strong>won 2025 Sue Bogner Best Student Paper Award<\/a> (3rd Place) from HFES!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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(Sep. 2025) HERO lab undergraduate student Zehaan <\/strong>won a Travel Award from Human Factors and Ergonomics Society!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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(Sep. 2025) A HERO lab graduate student Jihyun <\/strong>won FGS Scholarship!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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(Sep. 2025) HERO lab undergraduate student Daniel <\/strong>won 2025 Min Byung Kee Award (one of the highest special award)<\/a> from Calgary Korean Scholarship Foundation!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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(May 2025) Dr. Junho Park <\/strong>received a Creative sentencing<\/a> research grant: Enhance Safe Work Practices for Hoisting, Rigging, and Lifting Operations<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team: Drs.Thomas O’Neill (PI), Lianne M. Lefsrud (co-PI), Junho Park (co-PI), Estacio Pereira (co-PI), Samantha Jones (co-PI), Matthew M. J. McLarnon (co-PI).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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(Apr. 2025) Dr. Junho Park’s team<\/strong> received a VPR Catalyst Grant<\/a><\/strong>: Catalytic Research for an Adaptive Pediatric Ankle-Foot Orthosis (AP-AFO): Laying the Groundwork for AI-Powered Continuous Fit.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team: (PI) Keekyoung Kim, (Co-Applicant): Junho Park; Kartikeya Murari, Koren Roach.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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(Apr. 2025) Three students in HERO lab (Zehaan, Reyansh, <\/strong>and Parshave<\/strong>) won the 2025 Ingenious+ Regional Award from Foundation Rideau Hall Foundation<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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(Mar. 2025) Dr. Junho Park’s team<\/strong> received a Schulich Momentum Fund<\/a> for research on LivingGuard: An AI-Driven Smart Home for Proactive Detection and Intervention in Cognitive Decline.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team: Drs. Sara Saeedi (ESE), Sayah Bayat (GEO), Linda Duffett-Leger (Nursing)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Mar. 2025) Dr. Junho Park’s team<\/strong> received a transdisciplinary connector grant<\/a> with the AI-powered All-Hazard Response Center (AAHRC) <\/strong>research title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team: (UofC) Drs. Junho Park, Jeff Caird, Changwon Son; (NAIT) John Sutherland; (SAIT) Jimmy Joy; (Calgary EMS Dept.) Ian Blanchard, Ryan Lee, Marc Boutet; (Calgary Fire Dept.) Christopher Webber; (Calgary Police Dept.) Joel Suss<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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(Mar. 2025) HERO lab student Zaid <\/strong>and his team won 1st place<\/a> in Biohack 2025<\/a> by developing a data-driven web app that accurately assesses the user’s predisposed risk to certain medical conditions using patient data. The ML models were trained on five datasets: cancer, diabetes, heart disease, liver disease, and stroke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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(Mar. 2025) Two students in HERO lab (Reyansh <\/strong>and Zehaan<\/strong><\/strong>) secured 1st place<\/a> with Hey Doc in Hack the Bias competition<\/a>! They addressed bias issues in healthcare decisions with a novel modeling approach.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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(Mar. 2025) HERO lab undergraduate student Divakar<\/strong> won 2025 Program for Undergraduate Research Experience (PURE)<\/a> award!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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(Mar. 2025) HERO lab undergraduate student Ali<\/strong> won 2025 Summer Undergraduate Studentship<\/a> from w21c<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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(Feb. 2025) Two students in HERO lab (Zehaan <\/strong>and Reyansh<\/strong>) secured 2nd place<\/a> with an honourable mention in EquaLearn<\/a> competition!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Oct. 2025) HERO students Zehaan, Reyansh, and Parshva won 2025 Sue Bogner Best Student Paper Award (3rd Place) from HFES! (Sep. 2025) HERO lab undergraduate student Zehaan won a Travel Award from Human Factors and Ergonomics Society! (Sep. 2025) A HERO lab graduate student Jihyun won FGS Scholarship! (Sep. 2025) HERO lab undergraduate student Daniel … Continue reading “NEWS”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/hero-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/hero-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/hero-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/hero-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/hero-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/hero-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/hero-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/hero-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}