I lead a team of undergraduate students in developing a low cost vision assistance device. I was inspired by my dear friend and several other students in QM who are visually impaired but making absolute strides in their careers!  However, witnessing their challenges in everyday scenarios, such as locating a vacant seat on public transportation, has left a mark on me. As a biomedical engineer, I feel a sense of duty to create solutions that address these challenges and improve someone's quality of life. This project is supervised by Dr Lei Su

Currently, our idea is to utilise sensory substitution where we change the medium of sight. There's been a lot of technology surrounding sensory substitution especially in this case where the tongue has been used quite a bit. To help with developing a socially aesthetic design, we intend to use the forearms or the fingertips to help with possible EMG signalling back to the brain.

We recently presented our work the University of Westminster during a joint event with gene editors from UoW. Click this link for more details.