Dr. Frank Lewis’s, Moncrief-O’Donnell Endowed Chair, Professor, Electrical Engineering Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, book Integral and Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Control Systems and Games has been published. Advances in Industrial Control is a series of monographs and contributed titles focusing on the applications of advanced and novel control methods within applied settings. The…

Dr. Nick Gans, head of UTARI’s Automation and Intelligent Systems Division and Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, and Cody Lundberg, Research Scientist II, has been awarded a patent for “Camera and Sensor System for Measurement of Road Surface Deflection.” Gans and Lundberg collaborated with Novateur Research Solutions on an Army Phase 1 and 2…

Before a new autonomous system is set loose in the world, it must be thoroughly tested. That’s where the Autonomous Systems Lab at the UTA Research Institute (UTARI) steps in. Small companies that develop technologies to control autonomous vehicles or to counter unmanned aircraft system (UAS) applications often do not have the ability to test…

Dr. Ye Cao, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, has earned a five-year, $500,000 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to make computer processing of large amounts of data faster and more efficient with devices called memristors. Applications such as deep learning require computers that can process large amounts of data. They also necessitate…

Dr. Nick Gans, Head of UTARI’s Automation and Intelligent Systems division and Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, is a recipient of the University of Texas System Rising Star Award. STARs Awards of up to $300,000 may be made for recruitment or retention of promising faculty members who are recruited in a tenure-track position at…

Fillia Makedon, a Distinguished Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington, has been awarded two new National Science Foundation (NSF) grants involving human-computer interaction. In one, she will study extended reality to assess attention levels in people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD); in the other, she…

Two University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute (UTARI) students from Material State Assessment and Sustainability (MSAS) Lab made significant impressions at the Composites and Advanced Materials Expo (CAMX) 2024 and University Research Symposium (URS) held in San Diego, CA from September 7-12, 2024. Sharif Sakif Hassan and Connor Berberek, undergraduate mechanical engineering students, secured…

Foot ulcers are strongly related to diabetes mellitus and arise from secondary complications of the disease. Although many factors contribute to the development of ulcers, the major contributors are peripheral neuropathy, poor blood circulation, foot deformities, and an impaired immune response. High blood sugar levels can damage nerves, particularly in the distal part of the…

The MSAS Lab at IPPM-UTARI, organized a special summer research program for high school students. Four participants – Jesus Aguire from Cassata Catholic High School, and Ayshi Abed, Farris Syed, and Fayek Syed from Colleyville Heritage High School – received training in Composite Manufacturing, Materials Testing, Electrospinning, and basic Python Programming. The program aimed to…

UTARI has welcomed students, Sharmin Akter and Monjur Morshed Rabby, as research assistants under the “Dr. Robert E. Schafrik Endowment for Materials Engineering Research”. The research assistants will be working with UTARI’s Institute for Predictive Performance Methodologies (IPPM). Akter will focus research on structural battery. Rabby’s research will focus on recycling or repurposing of fiber-reinforced…