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title: 2025 Medtronic/BMES Student Design Competition Winners
description: Discover the winners of the 2025 BMES/Medtronic Student Design Competition, showcasing solutions in biomedical engineering from students nationwide.
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# [2025 Medtronic/BMES Student Design Competition Winners](https://www.bmes.org/news/2025-medtronic/bmes-student-design-competition-winners)

 Written by [BMES](https://www.bmes.org/news/author/bmes) | 10/11/2025

The Medtronic/BMES Student Design Competition was a tremendous success, showcasing an array of innovative submissions from talented students across the nation. Each project demonstrated creativity and practical solutions in biomedical engineering. Excitement filled the air as participants and attendees celebrated their hard work. Find out who won below! 

## Chemical/Biological

**First Place**

Selective Electronic peaNut Sensing Entity (SENSE): A Novel Method to Detect Peanut Allergen Presence in a Whole Plate of Food

 Washington University in St. Louis

*Myles (Max) S. Miller, Nicolas Chicoine, Cameron Freeman*

**Second Place **

VagAligna – Postpartum Healing Device

University of California, Irvine

*Fiza Qureshi, Neha Muvvala, Lyna Luu  
*

**Third Place**

ImmobiCUFF: A Device to Enhance Postoperative Outcomes in Rotator Cuff Repair Patients

University of California, Davis

*Veena Arunkumar, Saahil Sachdeva, Cynthia Ju, Rohan Kumar, Matthew Jue*

## Electrical/Computer Science

**First Place**

Neuro-Personal Alert Safety System: Real-Time Neural Feedback Monitoring for Firefighters and First Responders

University of Missouri – Kansas City; Avila University

*Gabriel Worcester, Christopher Marsh, Sita Gupta*

**Second Place**

MedSura

The University of Toledo

*Shawn Monteiro, Nabeel Khatri*

**Third Place**

BariTrack

Arizona State University; American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine; George Mason University; Georgia Tech

*Sahasra Pechetty, Nupur Hassan, Gunbir Singh, Meena Alzamani, Ala Al-Humadi, Deema Alzamani, Samyukta Iyer*

## Mechanical/Electrical

**First Place **

Engineering a Safe, Intelligent Halo Gravity Traction System for Effective Pre-Surgical Outpatient Treatment of Severe Idiopathic Scoliosis

North Carolina State University; UNC-Chapel Hill

*Will Mueller, C.H. Malinchock, W.M. Mueller, E.W. Brown, P. Thapa, E. Keeley, E.D. Katz, H.G. Nguyen*

**Second Place**

OcuSound: Accessible Glaucoma Monitoring with Acoustic Tonometry 

Johns Hopkins University

*Nancy (Shuyi) Yan, Valerie Wong, HyunSeo (Emily) Lee, Elliott Leow, Ivan-Alexander Kroumov*

**Third Place**

Simulated Microgravity Using Three Dimensional Clinorotation for Cell Culture Experiments

Boise State University

*Stella Bristol, Skyler Kichak  
*

## 2025 Special Category: AI/ML Related to Patient Disease Diagnostics

**First Place**

MeyeAttention: A Novel Diagnostic Device Using Machine Learning to Quantify Attention Dysregulation with Pupillometry

Cornell University

*Sahaar Khoja, Sally Scofield, Genevieve Wager, Rahul Ramarao, Elizabeth Paperno, Paige Cobrin, Jared Ilan, Ian Vann*

**Second Place **

Kujali: An AI-Driven Decision-Support Tool for Labor Care

Johns Hopkins University

*Sidharth Raghavan, Samhith Bhrugubanda*

**Third Place **

Neuroscan.ai: Intelligent Neurological Analysis

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

*Tommaso Calviello, Matteo Calviello*

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