07-13, 15:00–15:50 (US/Eastern), Tobin 201/202
In the past few years, there's been quite a stir in the hacking community and in the news about a select group of diabetics who managed to hijack the readings from continuous glucose monitors in order to do everything from automatically dispensing glucose to sending notifications to their phones when they need insulin. This leads to an interesting question: what exactly makes a glucose monitor so special? This talk focuses on boiling down the complex logic of a glucose monitor, from the chemistry to the electrical engineering to the cloud, into a step-by-step process that will make you truly realize the ingenuity of these devices which more than nine million people across the world need to survive.
Michael Dierkes is an incoming senior at Lockport Township High School in Illinois. His interests range from economics, geography, and international relations to math, science, and engineering. This past year, he served as president of Lockport's model United Nations team; advised his school's superintendent on matters of policy; participated in math, science, and engineering design competitions; worked with an Argonne National Laboratory nuclear physicist on soon-to-be published research; and volunteered in his local community. He believes in the power of creative, interdisciplinary problem solving to help others and make the world a better place.
