Xiaopeng Zhao is part of a collaborative team that has been awarded a $401,090 grant from the National Institutes of Health for the project RISE, which uses a robot with AI tools to help caregivers in the Alzheimer’s community.

A team of researchers from UT has helped develop Active Shooter Tracking and Evacuation Routing for Survival (ASTERS), a system that uses AI and social engineering to try and keep schools safe during an on-campus shooting.