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 Arlington Research Institute (UTARI), leads…

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 to partner with NASA researchers…

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, prognostics, or condition-based maintenance to…

Dr. Endel Iarve, Director, Institute for Predictive Performance Methodologies and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been invited as a keynote speaker at the 2023 International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM) in Belfast, Northern Ireland being held July 30-August 4. ICCM is the premier international conference in the field of composite materials and was…

Dr. Singh’s paper “Development of Soft Pneumatic Actuator Based Wrist Exoskeleton for Assistive Motion” has been accepted for the IEEE/ASME International Conference of Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics to be held late June in Seattle, Washington. The conference will highlight advanced intelligent mechatronics systems expecting their promising contribution to our society. Their goal is to provide a…

Dr. Xin Liu is collaborating with Dr. Yiran Yang at Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering (IMSE) department in design, prototyping, and computational modeling of a new type of beam lattice metamaterials. Beam lattices are emerging material systems whose mechanical performance can be tailored from structural design instead of material compositions. Dr. Liu has proposed a…

Dr. Haleh Aghajani, Research Scientist who leads UTARI’s Bio-signal Processing and Health Research Group (BPHR), has been invited as a lecturer at the TExBioMed Summer Institute. On June 23, 2023, she will present “Bio-Signal Processing and Applications of Data Science in Healthcare” for training and experiential learning in biomedical informatics at the summer institute. TExBioMed…

UTARI Researchers, Dr. Nick Gans, Principal Researcher and Head of the Automation and Intelligent Systems Division, as well as Cody Lundberg, Research Engineer II, participated in the Technical Exchange Meeting at the US Army Armor and Cavalry Collection, Ft. Moore, GA with Analytical Framework for AI University Partners, Maneuver Center of Excellence, and Armor Master…

UTARI’s Institute for Predictive Performance Methodologies (IPPM) visited the Harmony School of Innovation Euless to participate in the school’s Math & Science Night on May 11. The event showcased many activities and experiments to demonstrate to students and their families how learning can be fun and engaging. UTARI participated by showing and exciting young students…

Dr. Nick Gans, head of the Automation and Intelligent Systems division, has been awarded the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant in collaboration with Immobileyes Inc. for “Small UAS Detection and Classification for Rapid Multiple C-UAS Operations using a Novel Multi-Wavelength Directed Energy Technology.” The goal of the Air Force (AF) STTR project is to…