News & Updates

Open Positions

We always welcome enthusiastic undergraduate and graduate students with research interests related to biosensor engineering. For more information, please contact Dr. Ali directly or fill out the contact form via the Contact tab.

Feb 2

Our Recent Study at PHYS.ORG News

Biosensing engineer Azahar Ali, assistant professor of animal sciences and biological systems engineering at Virginia Tech, is bracing...

Jan 6

Our Recent work in American #1 Ag News Source, Morning AgClips

The Morning AgClips, America's #1 agriculture news source, highlights our pioneering work in 'Harnessing Sensors, Smart Devices, and AI...

Dec 23, 2023

Award

Dr. Ali received an Institute Distinguished Alumni 2023 award in the “Excellence in Academics and Technology Development from the Indian...

Dec 23, 2023

New Funding

A seed grant on Climate-Smart Agriculture Research and Outreach is awarded by the CALS Global, Virginia Tech, 2023. Thanks for the support!

Oct 18, 2023

How Internet of Things could help stave off a food crisis

With innovations in biosensors, Internet of Things, and machine learning, a collective effort could offer a way to overcome an impending...

Apr 18, 2023

New Funding for our Lab

We are pleased to announce our lab's funding: 1. Our lab is awarded by Center for Emerging, Zoonotic, and Arthropod-borne Pathogens...

Oct 8, 2022

Detecting dopamine in femtomolar concentrations

A group of Carnegie Mellon University mechanical engineering researchers has pushed the limits of diagnostic testing to a level never...

Oct 8, 2022

Breaking barriers in medicine

A team of mechanical engineering researchers has used additive manufacturing and nanotechnology to detect increasingly tiny levels of...

Oct 8, 2022

New biosensing platform for Covid-19 detection

A team from Carnegie Mellon University, with collaboration from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, have developed an...

Oct 8, 2022

A new biosensor detects COVID-19 antibodies in 10-12 seconds

The testing platform identifies the presence of two antibodies in microliter samples of blood. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University...

Oct 8, 2022

A 10-second COVID-19 antibody test with 3D-printed high-performance sensors

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC, have developed...