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Images of segmented cells are of enormous importance for biomedical research and diagnostics. And extremely expensive. Although Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now capable of cell segmentation, it needs to be trained with large quantities of data, which experts must label manually. Within the context of the SAIL research project, doctoral candidate Eiram Mahera Sheikh conducts research at HSBI to find out how this process can be sped up efficiently. She thus uses AI – more precisely, Deep Active Learning – as early as in the preparation of training data.

Jhon Pereira from Nicaragua is one of the first students in the new English-taught bachelor’s degree programme Industrial Engineering on HSBI’s Gütersloh Campus. The 20-year-old has already completed an internship with the agricultural machinery manufacturer CLAAS in Harsewinkel.

An innovative research project is examining the effectiveness and reliability of an Australian app for pain assessment in patients with moderate to severe dementia in long-term inpatient care.

More than 750 visitors from the OWL region were able to inform themselves on immigration and residence legislation, the recognition of degrees, educational opportunities, qualifications and more at over 50 booths. The information fair’s aim is to reduce barriers and to sustainably integrate people with a migration history into the German labour market.

In agriculture, biological pest control is a highly sought-after alternative to chemical pesticides – including and especially in Brazil. At HSBI’s Bielefeld Institute for Applied Materials Research, visiting scholar Dr. Natasha Sant’Anna Iwanicki from the University of São Paulo has developed an innovative process with which the fungi Beauvaria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae can be used in commercial pest control products. Thanks to preconditioning, it withstands the necessary drying process better and can take full effect on the field. This success is the result of HSBI’s targeted efforts to make its research more international.

Increased numbers of sensors, more powerful software, an innovative entrance door and an AI system that is in the training phase – these are the latest improvements to the Bielefeld-based “KogniHome” research home that are being implemented by two HSBI researchers. Their goal is to enable care recipients to live longer and more safely within their own four walls.

Together, the students examined the challenges and tasks that currently arise for social work in the various countries, or how social workers can raise more public awareness of the rights of people who depend on their support.

To participate in research projects at universities abroad, students in bachelor’s degree programmes can apply for the RISE scholarship to the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). 19-year-old Kanav Gupta, a native of India, is studying computer science at Arizona State University. He was a research intern at Gütersloh Campus for two months. What will he remember in particular? The cultural differences between the United States and Germany.

The full-time bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering and a Research Master in Data Science have boosted the number of applications from international prospective students to HSBI’s Gütersloh Campus for the winter semester – a promising measure against the decline in the number of students and, in the medium term, also for the recruitment of professionals in the region, as many hope.

Antibacterial, conductive and tear-resistant: Nonsikelelo Sheron Mpofu is investigating how the properties of fabrics can be modified using 3D printing in the Textile Technologies lab at HSBI. At the same time, she wants to learn how more women in her African homeland can pursue careers in STEM fields and is examining corresponding support mechanisms here in Germany. Her research stay was made possible by HSBI’s equal opportunities fellowship for researchers from the Global South.