From our outgoing chair, Junfeng Jiao:

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are working with state and local agencies to create a mobile application that will improve the way emergency departments respond to flooding.

Everyone on the planet is affected by climate change in some way. Now, a student duo will set out across Texas to tell their stories.

As a computing researcher, I have spent the past two decades developing software and devices that allow humans to use technology to interact with their physical world and the people around them. This work has ranged from digital games that use real-time data to encourage healthy behavior changes…

Joseph Diaz takes the 801 rapid bus every day from his home in Central Austin to the Georgian Acres neighborhood in North Austin to get to his job. The bus lets off at the North Lamar transit station on U.S. 183. Diaz, 22, walks across the highway to check in for work at Jail to Jobs on East Powell…

In March 2021, Good Systems hosted a first-of-its-kind event with the World Economic Forum, inviting researchers and industry leaders to talk about government procurement of artificial intelligence, or — simply — how state, local, and federal government agencies buy AI technologies like computer…

After Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of the East Coast in 2012, 911 systems became so overloaded that people couldn’t get through by phone to report an emergency. At a loss for how to reach out for help, people turned to Twitter to post distress calls, which the New York Fire Department began…

Nitrogen and oxygen make up 99% of the air we breathe, but that’s not all that’s swirling around us as we go about our day. Other compounds like carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide, together with fine particles like dust and smoke, can contribute to air pollution that has adverse effects on our…

I originally wrote this blog aiming to publish it in mid-March of 2020. I was traveling back to Austin at the time and suggested that we hold off until we saw how COVID unfolded. It is a year later, and I’m still not sure if now is the right time to talk about climate change in Texas. We’ve lost 2…

Karen Johnson, an associate professor in the School of Nursing and Whole Communities–Whole Health researcher, remembers administering her first COVID-19 vaccine — and the rush of adrenaline that came over her.