Leadership | Matrix: UTSA AI Consortium for Human Well-Being

Director

Dhireesha Kudithipudi, Ph.D.

Professor, Robert F McDermott Endowed Chair, Director of MATRIX AI Consortium
Departments of ECE/CS, UTSA
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Dhireesha Kudithipudi, Ph.D.
Professor, Robert F McDermott Endowed Chair, Director of MATRIX AI Consortium
Departments of ECE/CS, UTSA
Recent Honors and Awards
- 2018 Clare Boothe Luce Fellowship for Faculty in STEM
- 2018 Technology Women of the Year, Rochester
- 2018 NY State Round Table Panelist on AI
- Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2017 – Present)
- Reviewer for 22 journals (including Nature, IBM R&D, APL, various ACM and IEEE Transactions, etc.)
- Invited speaker at flagship Neuro-inspired computing elements workshop (2014-2017)
- Google CS4HS workshop chair (2012-2015)
Research Areas:

brain-inspired neural algorithms, energy-efficient machine intelligence, AI accelerators, reinforcement learning

Research Thrust leads

Thrust 1: Augmenting Human Capabilities

Amina Qutub, Ph.D.

Assistant Director of Strategic Alliances, MATRIX AI Consortium
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering, UTSA
aminaq@gmail.com 210-458-7092 Visit Website
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Amina Qutub, Ph.D.
Assistant Director of Strategic Alliances, MATRIX AI Consortium
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering, UTSA
Recent Honors and Awards

• U.S. National Academies Frontiers of Engineering Symposia Chair, Invited Speaker & Participant (2014–2019)

• Inaugural Bioinformatics Peer Prize Award, 2017

• Hamill Innovation Award, Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Rice, 2015, 2011

• The Academy of Medicine, Engineering & Science of Texas Conference Protégé Invitee, 2014

Research Areas

Systems biology human daily behavior brain health neurology biomarkers computational modeling, AI mathematical modeling
Mark P. Goldberg, M.D.

Professor, Department of Neurology ,Vice President for Strategic Research Initiatives ,UT Health San Antonio
goldbergm@uthscsa.edu 210-567-4418
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Mark P. Goldberg, M.D.
Professor, Department of Neurology ,Vice President for Strategic Research Initiatives ,UT Health San Antonio
Recent Honors and Awards:
- Edward B. LeWinn MD Memorial Endowed Chair (2021- )
- Co-founder (2013- ) and Executive Committee Chair (2022- ), Lone Star Stroke Consortium
- Multiple-Principal Investigator, NIH South Texas RECOVER (Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery) (2021- )
- Chair, Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, UT Southwestern Medical Center (2010-18)
- Director, Haggerty Center for Research on Brain Injury and Repair after Stroke, UT Southwestern Medical Center (2010-19)
Research Areas:

Neuroscience, nervous system plasticity after injury, mouse stroke models, machine learning for advanced microscopy, connectome, brain diagnostics and therapeutics

Thrust 2: Machine Learning and Deployment

Murtuza Jadliwala, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, UTSA
murtuza.jadliwala@utsa.edu 210-458-5693 Visit Website
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Murtuza Jadliwala, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, UTSA
Recent Honors and Awards:
- NSF CAREER Award, 2020
- Dwane and Velma Excellence in Teaching Award, 2017
- U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2015
- Wichita State University Award for Research/Creative Projects, 2014
Research Areas:

Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Applied Cryptography, Cryptocurrencies & Blockchains, Incentive-based Mechanism Design for Security, Adversarial Machine Learning, Activity Recognition.
Douglas A. Brooks, Ph.D., PMP

Assistant Director - Research and Development, Artificial Intelligence Department, Southwest Research Institute
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Douglas A. Brooks, Ph.D., PMP
Assistant Director - Research and Development, Artificial Intelligence Department, Southwest Research Institute
Recent Honors and Awards:
- Former member of NC State Board of Education
- Featured on the Discovery Channel for M.S. Thesis Research
- NASA Harriet G. Jenkins Fellow; 2011 Empowering Leadership Alliance (ELA) Poster Award
  Winner
- 2013 IEEE ICORR Podium Paper Presentation
- Leadership San Antonio (LSA) 2020 Class 45.
Research Areas:

Intelligent Robotic Systems

Thrust 3: Neuro-Inspired AI

Peter Fox, M.D.

Professor, Director, Research Imaging Institute Departments of Radiology, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Physiology, UT Health San Antonio
fox@uthscsa.edu 210-567-8150 Visit Website
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Peter Fox, M.D.
Professor, Director, Research Imaging Institute Departments of Radiology, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Physiology, UT Health San Antonio
Research Areas:

Neuroscience, neuroimaging, imaging, TMS, meta-analysis
Fidel Santamaria, Ph.D.

Professor
Department of Biology, UTSA
fidel.santamaria@utsa.edu 210-458-6910 Visit Website
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Fidel Santamaria, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biology, UTSA
Research Areas:

Computational neuroscience, biophysics, fractional calculus, cerebellar function in health and disease, electrophysiology

Thrust 4: Trustworthy AI

Ram Krishnan, Ph.D.

Microsoft President’s Endowed Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UTSA
ram.krishnan@utsa.edu 210-458-6293 Visit Website
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Ram Krishnan, Ph.D.
Microsoft President’s Endowed Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UTSA
Recent Honors and Awards:
- Microsoft President’s Endowed Professorship
- NSF CAREER Award (2016)
- University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award (2015)
Research Areas:

computer security, deep learning, runtime malware detection in cloud systems
Gabriela Ciocarlie, Ph.D.

Vice President for Securing Automation and Secure Manufacturing Architecture | The University of Texas at San Antonio
Gabriela.Ciocarlie@cymanii.org

Meet the team behind the research.

Director

Dhireesha Kudithipudi, Ph.D.

Recent Honors and Awards

Research Areas:

Research Thrust leads

Thrust 1: Augmenting Human Capabilities

Amina Qutub, Ph.D.

Recent Honors and Awards

Research Areas

Mark P. Goldberg, M.D.

Recent Honors and Awards:

Research Areas:

Thrust 2: Machine Learning and Deployment

Murtuza Jadliwala, Ph.D.

Recent Honors and Awards:

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Douglas A. Brooks, Ph.D., PMP

Recent Honors and Awards:

Research Areas:

Thrust 3: Neuro-Inspired AI

Peter Fox, M.D.

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Fidel Santamaria, Ph.D.

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Thrust 4: Trustworthy AI

Ram Krishnan, Ph.D.

Recent Honors and Awards:

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Gabriela Ciocarlie, Ph.D.