Congratulations to the DCU Fujitsu Innovation Award winners

Congratulations to those who were awarded with the DCU Fujitsu Innovation Award for 2015. Awards were presented for Academic and Research Innovation, Administration and Support Staff Innovation and Student Innovation. Joint winners in the Academic and Research category were DCU’s Biomedical Diagnostics Institute who have developed a bowel cancer screening test in collaboration with Randox Laboratories, and AmbiSense, a DCU spin-out created by Professor Dermot Diamond which uses sensor technology to monitor greenhouse gases. In the Administration & Support Staff Category the winner of the award was David Molloy, an analyst programmer in the School of Electronic Engineering, who has developed GURU, a cloud-based system for monitoring student academic performance. Liam Sexton, a final year Biomedical Engineering student, has developed a mobile app capable of generating a Computer Aided Design (CAD) drawing file of an object captured on a phone’s camera feed, was winner in the student category.