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ITI affiliates turns P3 seed funding into $9.4M in NASA grants

The University of Iowa’s P3 grant program has had a transformative impact on Earth observation research in the College of Engineering, leading to faculty hires, new graduate students, critical infrastructure, and nearly $10 million in recent NASA awards for Iowa Technology Institute affiliates Jun Wang and Matt McGill.
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Iowa professor's innovation among Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2024

Yang Liu, University of Iowa associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and an ITI faculty affiliate, co-founded Unify Medical which released a digital loupe technology called Amplio to support image-guided surgical procedures. Amplio made Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2024.
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ITI faculty affiliate Song honored as 'rising star' by ASME

University of Iowa engineering professors Xuan Song and Caterina Lamuta have gained acclaim in their fields for research contributions. Song is an ITI faculty affiliate.
Fatima Toor

ITI affiliate developing ‘game-changing’ laser that could benefit national security and health care

A new Department of Energy grant will support a University of Iowa engineering professor developing a high-powered laser with benefits ranging from national security to health care diagnostics.
Karim Abdel-Malek Aislinn Conrad

Can AI detect abuse? These UI professors say it can

Monday, November 11, 2024
University of Iowa researchers working on camera that uses AI, physics to detect physical abuse in vulnerable populations.
Karim Abdel-Malek Aislinn Conrad

Iowa professors developing AI camera to detect physical abuse

University of Iowa professors in engineering and social work are inventing a camera that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and physics to detect real-time abuse of vulnerable people, such as children or the elderly. 
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University of Iowa professors develop camera program to identify abuse

Karim Abdel-Malek, University of Iowa professor and interim director of the Iowa Technology Institute, and social work Associate Professor Aislinn Conrad are working to develop an artificial intelligence camera system that could eventually track and catch child abuse as it happens.
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U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and UI's Operator Performance Laboratory partner to prepare future test leaders, conduct autonomy research

The United States Air Force Test Pilot School, in collaboration with the Iowa Technology Institute's Operator Performance Laboratory, recently made advances in modernizing the student curriculum while providing critical data for continued research in machine learning.
Fatima Toor

University of Iowa Technology Institute researcher secures nearly $1 million grant to advance quantum computing

Friday, September 27, 2024
Fatima Toor, the Lowell G. Battershell Chair in Laser Engineering at the University of Iowa, has been awarded a $999,985 grant aimed at advancing the development of next-generation computing technologies.
Fatima Toor works in her lab

Toor receives $1M EPSCoR award to improve quantum computing

Fatima Toor, University of Iowa’s Lowell G. Battershell Chair in Laser Engineering, has received a $999,985 grant to bring next generation computing closer to reality.