Dr. Frank Lewis, Moncrief-O’Donnell Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering and Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, has been recognized as the #1 highly ranked scholar in the world in the two fields of Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning by ScholarGPS. ScholarGPS™ is the premier, fully indexed comprehensive database for quantifying…
Dr. Endel Iarve, Director, Institute for Predictive Performance Methodologies and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was a speaker at 9th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on the Mechanical Response of Composites – COMPOSITES 2023 in Sicily, Italy. He presented “Extension of the Regularized Extended Finite Element Method to high density arbitrary…
Kian Mahroumi, former UTARI Research Assistant, has been hired by Qarbon Aerospace as a Material Process Engineer. Mahroumi was a research assistant at from 2020 until the end of summer 2023 for UTARI’s Institute for Predictive Performance Methodologies (IPPM). Mahroumi received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from UTA.…
Dr. Nick Gans, Principal Research Scientist and Head of the Automation and Intelligent Systems division, hosted a workshop on October 1, 2023, at the Intelligent Robots and Systems conference (IROS). Along with Dr. William Beksi, and Dr. Katherine A. Skinner, Gans organized the workshop “Photorealistic Image and Environment Synthesis for…
UTARI’s biomedical technologies research scientist, Alexandra Jamieson, won top place at the Tech Transfer Office Showcase at BioNTX’s iC3 Life Science Summit on September 29, 2023. Jamieson presented on the Smart Pressure Adjusting Cushion for Pressure Injuries (SPACI). SPACI was created to prevent pressure ulcers for wheelchair users. SPACI monitors…
The Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation at The University of Texas at Arlington has awarded five Interdisciplinary Research Program (IRP) grants totaling $100,000 to foster collaboration between groups that would not typically work together. UTARI’s Dr. Muthu Wijesundara, Principal Researcher and Head of the Biomedical Technologies…
Dr. Nick Gans, Principal Research Scientist and Head of the Automation and Intelligent Systems Division, and Cody Lundburg, Research Scientist 2, won best paper in the Modeling Simulation and Software Session at the 2023 Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering Technology Symposium hosted by the National Defense Industrial Association. The paper “Targeting…
A University of Texas at Arlington researcher is working on the prototype of a golf swing training system that combines artificial intelligence (AI) with portability and can be used at home or on the driving range. Nicholas Gans, a UT Arlington principal research scientist and division head for the UT…
Dr. Xin Liu, Assistant Professor of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering, has been awarded by NASA a Phase 1 Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP). The selected project is for “Multiscale Defect Analysis of Advanced Composites.” The NASA MUREP Partnership Learning Annual Notification (MPLAN) award aims to support awardees…
Partha Pratim, UTARI Research Assistant and PhD student, has been selected to participate in the acclaimed 2023 Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Society Doctoral Consortium, taking place October 29, 2023, in Salt Lake City, Utah. PHM Society invites applications from students currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the fields of diagnostics,…
