Meet the team behind the research.

Amanda Fernandez, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, UTSA

Research Areas:

Deep Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks, Visual Saliency, Computer Vision, Media Forensics

Academic Profile:

https://sciences.utsa.edu/faculty/profiles/fernandez-amanda.html

Industry Profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandasdfernandez/

Publications:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=2UJTwuwAAAAJ

Research Group:

https://sites.google.com/view/amandafernandez/research/vision-ai-lab

Recent Honors and Awards:

• Patent on “Authentication based on through-body signals” (2023)
• $5 million renewal grant from DOE for UTSA-led Consortium on Nuclear Security Technologies (CONNECT) (2022)
• Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) (2022)
• Patent on “System for automatic vision correction in near-to-eye displays” (2022)

Research Areas:

Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Adversarial Learning and Applications in the Physical Sciences such as Nuclear Materials and Synthetic ECG Generation.

Douglas A. Brooks, Ph.D., PMP

Assistant Director - Research and Development
Artificial Intelligence Department
Southwest Research Institute

Research Areas:

Object Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Unmanned Ground Vehicles, Robotics, Feature Detection

Industry Profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglas-brooks-phd-pmp-50596628/

Publications:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=yJm5L94AAAAJ

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