Prof. Ferguson was one of sixty invited participants to the 2019 German-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium hosted jointly between the National Academy of Engineering and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and held March 21-23 in Hamburg, Germany. Sixty of the most promising engineers under the age of 45 from Germany and the United States met for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium on developments at the cutting edge of engineering technology in four areas: Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning, Biomedical Optics, Electro-Mobility and Its Impact, and Technologies for Space Exploration.
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