Three Illinois Tech faculty members—Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Lin Cai, Professor and Frank Gunsaulus Faculty Fellow in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Boris S. Pervan, and Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering Thomas Wong—have been selected as fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.  

Routine newborn screening (NBS) has transformed early disease detection. However, traditional biochemical tests limit the range of conditions that can be identified at birth. Next-generation sequencing is being explored as a complementary screening tool. A review published in Pediatric Investigation examines how next-generation sequencing could expand NBS from single-disease assays to genome-enabled, multi-disease screening approaches.

Scientists at the University of Sharjah report that they have developed a new machine-learning system designed to overcome challenges encountered in the diacritization of Arabic texts. The system mainly targets problems that existing programs face when encountering undiacritized Arabic script, writing that lacks the vowel marks necessary to pronounce words correctly, a process linguists refer to as diacritization. The presence of diacritics in Arabic is vital not only for how a word is pronounced, but also for semantics. A single word can have multiple, entirely different meanings, depending on how it is articulated.