Planet Texas 2050 hosted its spring research symposium Resilience Research in Action earlier this month at The University of Texas at Austin.

In 2021, University of Texas at Austin Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Professor Fernanda Leite published a paper in an academic journal showing the benefits of virtual reality to construction engineers.

Data and integrated technologies can transform cities. Sensors and artificial intelligence can assist people crossing busy streets, provide broadband access at bus stops, or use drones that use AI to help fight fires. These are what we call smart cities: using technology to improve transportation,…

Good Systems announces three summer research opportunities to help advance the grand challenge’s mission to design ethical AI technologies to benefit society.

In the past decade, machine learning — using machines to detect patterns in data and make decisions with minimal human supervision — has become a critical component in a variety of applications from healthcare to autonomous vehicles. But as artificial intelligence like this expands into more areas…

As part of the Whole Communities–Whole Health research grand challenge, we’ve promised to give the results of our community health study back to the people who need it most — our participants. To do this, our team envisioned a mobile dashboard that study participants can install on their phones to…

The words we use matter, even — or perhaps especially — in transdisciplinary research programs like Planet Texas 2050 where numerous disciplines and departments meet at one table for a common purpose. Although all Planet Texas 2050 projects share a focus on climate adaptation, it can sometimes be…

Computer Science Professor Peter Stone and School of Information Assistant Professor Elliott Hauser are among several UT researchers working on a new project for the Good Systems grand challenge called “Living and Working with Robots.” It’s a new core research project that seeks to deploy human…

Scientists working to understand how lifestyle, environmental exposures, and family history contribute to health and wellbeing are fundamentally interested in causal links. Catch that word “causal”? That means we want to understand when one thing causes something else to happen.

David Kulpanowski has an important job. As an IT business systems analyst with Austin-Travis County EMS, he’s responsible for tracking ambulance response times in the City of Austin and then conducting simulation models to see how they can be improved.