{"id":1097,"date":"2026-10-30T08:21:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2026-11-03T08:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:28:22","slug":"innovation-day-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/2026\/10\/30\/innovation-day-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Day 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On October 29, 2026, our school held a small conference for Innovation Day, where two of our amazing lab members presented their research. Both did a great job, and it was an absolutely wonderful experience to speak about their research with colleagues from nearby colleges and from other departments. The posters presented were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Bayan Ahmad <\/strong>presented <em>Foundations for Generalizing Cortical Current Density Predictions From High-Density EEG Using Gradient Boosted Decision Trees<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Maria Leyba Mesa<\/strong> presented <em>A Multimodal Deep Network for Parkinson\u2019s Disease Assessment from Handwriting Kinematics and Visual Task Traces<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"768\" width=\"1024\" data-id=\"1099\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0984.jpeg?w=500\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0984.jpeg 5712w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0984.jpeg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0984.jpeg?resize=768,576 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0984.jpeg?resize=1024,768 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0984.jpeg?resize=1536,1152 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0984.jpeg?resize=2048,1536 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0984.jpeg?resize=800,600 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"768\" width=\"1024\" data-id=\"1100\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0987.jpeg?w=500\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0987.jpeg 5712w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0987.jpeg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0987.jpeg?resize=768,576 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0987.jpeg?resize=1024,768 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0987.jpeg?resize=1536,1152 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0987.jpeg?resize=2048,1536 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0987.jpeg?resize=800,600 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"768\" width=\"1024\" data-id=\"1098\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0986.jpeg?w=500\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0986.jpeg 5712w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0986.jpeg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0986.jpeg?resize=768,576 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0986.jpeg?resize=1024,768 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0986.jpeg?resize=1536,1152 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0986.jpeg?resize=2048,1536 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/IMG_0986.jpeg?resize=800,600 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 29, 2026, our school held a small conference for Innovation Day, where two of our amazing lab members presented their research. Both did a great job, and it was an absolutely wonderful experience to speak about their research &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/2026\/10\/30\/innovation-day-2026\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}