Kent State University students and faculty took part in the second annual Innovation Day on Oct. 11, with one Kent State student bringing home honors.
Doug Delahanty, Ph.D., vice president for research and economic development, said Kent State was well-represented at the event with many students entering the poster competition and several faculty and emeritus faculty members also giving presentations.
Kent State is a top-tier research university and encourages a wide breadth of undergraduate student research.
Tram Le, a Kent State senior computer science major in the College of Arts and Sciences, received Honorable Mention in the poster competition and a $400 prize for her work, titled, “Invisible to AI: Leveraging Image Anonymization with Explainable Neural Networks via Layer-wise Relevance Propagation.” Le also participated in Kent State's Summer Undergraduate Research Experience.
The event is sponsored by the Northeast Ohio Public Universities Research Alliance, a consortium composed of Kent State, Youngstown State University, the University of Akron, Cleveland State University and Northeast Ohio Medical University.
The event is a venue for innovators, university faculties and students to discuss and showcase the region’s key innovations, technology transfer strategies and thought leadership.
The inaugural Innovation Day was hosted at Kent State in 2023. This year’s event was at Youngstown State.
