Category Archives: Research
From Bike Lanes to Freight Trains, CA Secretary of Transportation Toks Omishakin (’22) Thinks in Connections
In 2022, CA Secretary of Transportation Toks Omishakin completed his PhD at UT—the payoff of a 22-year shift from technical analysis to systems-level thinking.
College of Nursing and Tickle College of Engineering Launch Groundbreaking Maintenance Optimization Project
TCE is partnering with UT College of Nursing in a $980,000 research and development initiative aimed at enhancing high-consequence operations. The project is sponsored by Y-12 National Security Complex.
ISE Benefits from Multiple Funding Sources
The sustainability research performed by the ISE students and faculty has benefited from diverse funding sources to produce results that have global, national, and regional implications.
New Research Project to Assist Disadvantaged Communities Confronting Environmental Health Challenges
A team of researchers were granted $1.7 million to address environmental health and energy challenges in disadvantaged communities and provide a solution.
UT Team Uses AI to Improve Sepsis Detection and Effective Treatment
ISE Associate Professor Anahita Khojandi and a multidisciplinary team of researchers from UT use data and predictive tools to improve the detection of sepsis.
Laying the Foundations for Quantum Computing
Assistant Professor Rebekah Herrman details how her team’s research is creating a foundation for quantum computing and how it could change the world.
Khojandi Awarded AI/ML Research Diversity Fellowship
Anahita Khojandi was recently awarded with a fellowship to the National Institute of Health’s Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity program.
Yao Receives $1.1 Million to Create Algorithm that Personalizes Heart Surgery
Bing Yao has received a $1.1 million NSF-NIH grant to develop an algorithm that will help doctors turn complex patient data into a surgical action plan.
Transportation Planning Goes Viral
Professor Xueping Li and his interdisciplinary, multi-institutional team have been awarded funding from the US Department of Energy to launch a first-of-its-kind, national-scale undertaking to address freight’s impact on climate change.
TCE Research Leaders Merge Expertise for International Collaboration
Professors Mingzhou Jin, Chien-fei Chen, and Kevin Tomsovic join colleagues from Japan in interdisciplinary, collaborative effort to pursue clean technologies.