The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) has announced that a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, supplemented with $300,000 in UTA matching funds, will help increase the number of doctoral students. Women and minorities are particularly encouraged to apply.
Ishfaq Ahmad, a professor in UTA’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, will lead the project.
When combined with Ahmad’s recent $350,000 National Science Foundation grant, the new funding will also aid interdisciplinary research efforts to design assistive technologies for people with disabilities, UTA said.
“UTA is building a niche in this research area of assistive technologies,” Ahmad told UTA. “We are also achieving our goal of graduating more domestic Ph.D. students.”
Some of the assistive technologies – considered a “national need” – involve devices and systems that make life easier for people with disabilities, including designing smarter sensors, artificial intelligence, and data-enabled software, devices, systems and environments that can improve the quality of life for a disabled person’s home to caregivers.
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