Two professors at the University of Iowa are developing a new camera system that uses Artificial Intelligence to detect child abuse as it’s happening.

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. 

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.

As ITI director, University of Iowa's Karim Abdel-Malek led an expansion of faculty, labs, and funding with a focus on applied engineering research and technology transfer, while also securing $60 million for his own research.

For 40-plus years, the Army has been waiting for someone like 18-year-old Santos. He runs, he deadlifts, executes push-ups and carries burdens like a pack mule and is fresh as a daisy the next day. He’s also entirely virtual. University of Iowa's Santos (and his female counterpart Sophia), is a biomechanically accurate digital avatar that predicts behavior through

Karim Malek, director of the Virtual Soldier Research program at the University of Iowa, and Maj. Gen. Stewart Wallace (retired) appear on the Iowa Innovation Podcast powered by NewBoCo. They discuss how the Virtual Soldier Research program has the capacity to change the world, why Wallace would come out of retirement for this specific project, and host Anthony’s fears of the movie “I, Robot” becoming a reality.

University of Iowa Technology Institute Director Karim Malek will present at Defense Strategies Institute's 6th Annual Military Virtual Training & Simulation Summit on Feb. 22-23.

The University of Iowa may not have the visibility of some aviation schools, but the institution is well known for important research for the civil and military sectors. Robert W. Moorman spoke with their principals. Often research of new technology serves as a prologue to a corresponding need for new or better training. Such could be the case with various research programs at the Iowa Technology Institute, part of the College of Engineering.

The 7th International Digital Human Modeling Symposium (DHM) proved to be a reunion for Virtual Soldier Research (VSR), a research center within the University of Iowa Technology Institute (ITI).

The UI’s Virtual Soldier Research Program puts the Army Combat Fitness Test through its paces.