Zeinab Mahmoudi - The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Post Doc Zeinab Mahmoudi, Technical University of Denmark, has received an exchange travel grant of 32.200 DKK to visit the laboratory of Professor Wayne Bequette at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, from 1 March - 1 June 2017. 

Dr. Bequette is one of the world's leading scientists in the field of signal processing, fault detection, and modeling of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) sensors. The several years of research experience and systematic exploring of novel approaches for CGM signal processing and the closed-loop control of blood glucose concentration have made the RPI diabetes group one of the world's best CGM expert teams. 

Thanks to the postdoctoral fellowship from the Danish Diabetes Academy awarded in 2015, Zeinab Mahmoudi has, so far in her artificial pancreas group at the Technical University of Denmark, developed a model-based algorithm that can detect fault and anomalies of a CGM sensor and compensate for them. During the four months of her stay at the RPI, she will work on the modeling aspect of the algorithm in order to develop a model of the CGM signal that fits best the artificial pancreas application. This paves the way for a prototype implementation of the algorithm as smartphone app, which is the next step of her postdoc project after returning from the RPI. Therefore, this travel grant significantly contributes to the practical outcome of their fault detection algorithm in an artificial pancreas set up, and it will be a major contributor to the final success of the project.