Congratulations to Shashank and we look forward to your conitnued successes!

Saul presented on his McNair Scholars summer research project at the Friends of UTA Library award dinner on Nov. 3, 2016.
Saul was selected as one of two finalists and was awarded a certificate and a monetary award!
Saul and Chris during the award dinner .

Congratulations and we look forward to your continued successes!

Michael succesfully defended his master’s thesis. Unfortunately more details can not be disclosed due to intellectual propetty.
Congratulations and we look forward to your continued successes!

Your desk in the MARS lab will feel lonely, hopefully for a short time!

The MARS lab sponsored two senior design groups to continue research with the artificial hand. The two senior groups are from the MAE and CSE departments. 

MAE Students:Nicolas Long, Henry Nguyen, Heather Salah, Michelle Tadlock, Emma Vasquez Ordonez (Lead)

CSE Students: Kristina Jefferson, Damian Jimenez (Lead), Craig Lautenslager, Caesar (CeeJay) Llaga, Zubair Qureshi

We are looking forward to your accomplishments and contributions to the MARS lab activities!

The senior deisgn team, Eddie, Samantha, Britton and Aaron, sponsored by the MARS Lab successully presented their project on the redesign of an artificial thumb with improved mobility.
Congratulations and we look forward to your continued successes and participation in the research activities of the lab!

Saul completed his McNair’s scholar innternship in the MARS lab where he iinvestigated and compared the machine learning algorithms in LabVIEW 2015 for their classification capability to identify the geometry of objects (cylinder or sphere). He presented his findings at the McNair’s scholars forum. Saul worked closely with Chris and Dr. Shiakolas. The picture is from the McNair scholars dinner where certificates were awarded to all scholars.

Congratulations and we look forward to your continued successes and participation in the research activities of the lab!

The MARS lab participated in the NI Week 2016 in Austin, Texas. The NI Week was held for 4 days at the Austin Convention Center. The lab had a poster at the academic forum titled “Using LabVIEW and myRIO in Machine Learning for Human Robot Interaction with an Artificial Hand”. In addition, the lab was provided a booth where they demonstrated the current state of their research work in HRI and Machine learning with the artificial hand. The demonstrations attracted a lot of visitors, from young to experienced, who were impressed especially when they used a sensorized wearable glove to control the hand motion to perform various gestures and especially handshakes.Link to a video by Design World on the UTA artificial hand “Teaching an artificial hand to (hand)shake”. Mr. Lee Teschler (Design World) interviewed Dr. Shiakolas and Mr. Eddie Ordonez.

Link to a youtube video during the Academic Forum showing the artificial hand and UTA team.

The lab was represented by Heriberto (Eddie) Ordonez aka the plastic surgeon, Christopher Abrego and Dr. Shiakolas.

Congratulations are in order for three of the MARS Lab alumni for job offers and employment. The experience they acquired and software and hardware tools they learned during their research in the MARS Lab landed them job offers!

Utsav Shah with GM (place coming soon)
Matthew Heuser with Automation wiht Romeo Engineering in Fort Worth, TX
Divya Shah with Amazon in Dallas, TX
Shahid Faizee (coming soon)

Congratulations and we look forward to your continued successes!
Stay in touch and remember the MARS lab when you become wealthy and you are always welcomed to come back!

Matt succesfully defended his master’s thesis on robotic based additive manufacturing. Matt has already received a job offer and he will start after completing the spring semester course requirements. He fell in love with robots – what can I say, I take the blame!

Congratulations and we look forward to your continue successes!