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GW Transportation Team designs winning "Road Vision" app for DC GigaBitDCx competition

Dr. Auñón-Chancellor on Skype from the ISS

SEAS students and faculty on the GW Transportation Team are developing “Road Vision,” a smartphone application that uses crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence to give commuters real-time information about Washington, DC’s traffic patterns. Their app recently won the public innovation competition GigaBitDCx, and was awarded $25,000 in start-up and research funds to further develop Road Vision.

Dr. Anne-Laure Papa leads research to develop therapy to fight blood clots and cancer metastasis

Biomedical engineering professor Dr. Anne-Laure Papa is first author on a study published in Science Translational Medicine that shows a new reversible, drug-free antiplatelet therapy that could reduce the risk of blood clots and potentially prevent cancer metastasis. Read more.

Dr. Robert Pless awarded $1M grant to use computer science to tackle human trafficking

Dr. Robert Pless will use the grant to expand a machine-learning project that helps law enforcement identify specific hotel rooms where they suspect illegal activity has taken place.