Dr. Muthu Wijesundara, Principal Research Scientist and Biomedical Technologies Division Head, is the recipient of over $450,000 for his Adaptive Spine Board Overlay. The funding is through The Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative (TRC4), an initiative of The University of Texas System. UTA received a total of $781,064 through…
UTARI’s Biomedical Research Division, led by Dr. Muthu Wijesundara, Principal Research Division, has two new publications. “Smart Seat Cushion Feasibility Pilot Study: Automated Interface Pressure Modulation of Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury,” was published in Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology. Researchers include Aida Nasirian, Veysel Erel, Pavan Nuthi, Yixin Gu,…
Dr. Xin Liu received the ASME/Boeing Materials and Structures Award at the ASME Aerospace Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials (SSDM) Conference in Renton, Washington. This award is for his paper “Machine Learning-Aided Cohesive Zone Modeling of Fatigue Delamination”. This work is to utilize advanced machine learning models to reduce the…
UTARI student research assistant, Harish Nambiappan, along with students Ayon Roy and Sama Nikanfar, took home first place for their project “Human-Robot Interactive System for Warehouses using Speech, SLAM, and Deep Learning-based Barcode Recognition” at UTA’s College of Engineering Innovation Day. The paper presents an initial investigation of a speech-based…
