Partha Pratim Das, a UTARI research assistant with UTARI’s Institute for Predictive Performance Methodologies, presented his doctoral research proposal “A Neural Network Framework for Predicting Durability and Damage Tolerance of Polymer Composites Under Combined Hygrothermal-mechanical Loading” at the Doctoral Symposium at PHM Conference. His work was recognized with the distinction of “Most Novel Contributions.” The…

Dr. Xin Liu, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, presented two talks at AIAA SciTech conference in early January. The first talk is “Analysis of Tow-steered Laminates of Composites Using DATC and Machine Learning Models”. This work is funded by a NASA Phase II STTR program, aiming to develop a design tool in…

Dr. Nick Gans, Principal Research Scientist and Division Head, Automation & Intelligent Systems (AIS), and his team members have partnered with Novateur Research Solutions on a Phase 2 STTR. The AIS team visited the Army Corp of Engineers (ACoE) in Mississippi this previous month to provide an update and deliverables. The project’s goal is to…

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 scholarly activity. ScholarGPS™ begins by…

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 interacting networks.” The conference focuses…

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. “Qarbon Aerospace values new graduate…

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 Robotics (PIES-Rob).” The purpose was…

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 and modulates seating interface pressure…

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 division, was a recipient. Entire…

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 Simulation for Assessment of lay…