An article in Business First about a local startup that is working to develop a universal pet microchip scanner reports the owner’s team of advisors and mentors includes Albert Titus, professor and chair of biomedical engineering, Shambhu Upadhyaya, professor of computer science and engineering, and Wenyao Xu, assistant professor of computer science and engineering. Link to mention


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Most owners have never checked whether their pet’s microchip is actually registered to their current phone number. A chip implanted at the vet or the shelter and never registered returns a number that leads nowhere.