ArtSciLab
Alejandro, Evan, Clement, and a few other UTD students are participating in NASA’s Mars XR challenge, where they create assets and scenarios for astronauts to train on before embarking on their journey to the red planet. The challenge concludes on August 2nd, and the team will proudly present their creation to the public during the Fall semester of 2023 at UT Dallas.
Project By:
Evan Acuna
Alejandro Garcia
Clement Lee
On April 12th, 2023, which marked the lab’s 10th anniversary with the event theme, “Where artists and scientists dance together,” perfectly captured the essence of ArtSciLab’s interdisciplinary approach. The event, which ran from 12:30 pm to 6:00 pm, was filled with various activities and presentations showcasing the lab’s and its members’ achievements.
The event kicked off a series of presentations by lab members, who shared their research and projects with the audience. The presentations were informative and engaging, and it was fascinating to see the diverse range of topics that ArtSciLab members are exploring.
In addition to the projects, the Space Exhibition was a fascinating collaboration between UTD’s AIAA (The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) and ArtSciLab. It featured a variety of rockets, drones, and space-themed artwork, including some historical items from Dr. Roger Malina’s collection. The exhibition explored the creative process in extreme environments such as space travel. Visitors were encouraged to question what it would be like to create art or design in such conditions. Notably, artist Teja Krasek was featured and will soon send her art to the moon. The Space Exhibition was a great addition to the Deca-Dance event and added a unique and thought-provoking element to the celebration.
One of the event’s highlights was the treasure hunt, organized to encourage attendees to interact with the lab members’ work. The treasure hunt involved scanning QR codes to provide feedback, and the participants who completed it were eligible for a prize. This was an excellent way to get people involved in the event and showcase the lab members’ work.
The event concluded with a keynote speech by our esteemed lab director, Dr. Roger Malina. His speech was focused on the lab’s vision and the significance of the 10th milestone anniversary. He emphasized the importance of collaboration between art and science. The graduating lab members were also presented with certificates and recognized for their outstanding contributions. It was a touching moment highlighting the close-knit and supportive community that ArtSciLab has fostered.
The Deca-Dance celebration honored ArtSciLab’s 10th anniversary and was a spectacular success. The talks and activities at the event provided a window into the interdisciplinary research being done at the lab, which drew an enthusiastic audience.
By:
1. Misal Shah
2. Alejandro Garcia
This research paper aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of Covid-19 mortality in the United States, with a focus on understanding the relationships between Covid-19 deaths, health conditions, age, and vaccination release periods. The paper explores the impact of Covid-19 on the country’s death rate and the contributing factors, including other health conditions, age groups, and holidays.
Using data visualization techniques, the paper presents an overview of Covid-19 mortality trends in the United States, highlighting the variations based on time and the release of the vaccine. The findings of this research can help policymakers and healthcare professionals develop effective strategies to combat Covid-19 and protect vulnerable populations.
Project By:
Sujaan Shah
Nirmala Rani Pinnamaneni
Yoga is much more than the physical practice. At its core is practice of self-reflection and self-discovery. This work is inspired from body postures that communicate our emotions and mental state. The everydayness of yoga is about becoming self-aware with breath, body, mind and soul. Often bodily postures change when seen in a reflection. This interaction is designed to provoke the visitor of that very reflection in a nuanced way using technology to reflect upon inner feelings.
Credits: This AI model is trained using EEG dataset of yoga practitioners from SVYASA Yoga Centre, India.
Project By:
Anupama Gowda
Bryant James Hargreaves
Nicholas George Gross
The ArtSciLab Carousel is a project created by a previous lab member named, Mahmoud Elkarmalawy. The idea for the project is to have art, science, and art/science work rotating within the Edith O’ Donnell building. Eventually, extending out to a variety of areas throughout the campus. There are a group of individuals that organize this project called, The Carousel Collaborators (CACO).
Group members will have a chance to create a piece of work in their field of interest if they would like. Or allow someone that they know that wants to exhibit a project to collaborate with the lab. After completing any projects, an artist’s presentation is allowed to display the completion in the Dean’s lobby. Then the work rotates to the ArtSciLab bulletin board and/or the sky gallery. The results of this operation are to exemplify new projects to give onlookers different perspectives on art and science work.
Project By:
Taylor Green
The ArtSciLab is proud to celebrate its 10th anniversary, and as part of this momentous occasion, we are embarking on an exciting project called “Interesting Incomplete Ideas.” We recognize that there have been previous lab members who had brilliant ideas but were unable to bring them to fruition. So, we’d like to contact our esteemed alums and document their unfinished work in some form. By doing so, we honor their contributions to the lab and inspire current and future members to build on their innovative ideas. Join us in this endeavor to uncover and showcase the fascinating unfinished projects of our alums.
Project By:
Misal Shah
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Arts-Based Learning for Business (ABLB) is a research project conducted by director and producer Kathryn Evans in conjunction with Paul Nichols, a member of the faculty at the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Through a set of online video modules, instructors have the opportunity to inject arts-based learning into their curriculum.
Students view the videos and then practice the exercises that are demonstrated. The art-based curriculum has been shown to enhance innovation and creativity in all academic areas.
Project By:
Kathryn Evans
Gautam Iyer
Ojal Bhatnagar
The phrase “Federated Query” refers to a group of capabilities that allow users and systems to conduct searches across several siloed data sources without the need to transfer all of the data to a single system. A federated system can access data from database systems from several different vendors, in contrast to a distributed database system, which is a single vendor database system and can store data on multiple server instances on different hosts while treating all of the data as one database.
Companies produce tons of data every day and it seems to grow exponentially with time and become more complex. Storing, processing and analyzing such huge unstructured data becomes costlier and tedious process. Many companies shifted their local storages to Cloud services that provides them with advance features to handle and process such huge data and analyze them in an optimized way. Here, this project propose some of the federated queries strategies to query your data stored in different cloud service and in different regions. We have used Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the primary cloud service provider to query data stored in AWS Athena and Redshift, Google BigQuery and Microsoft Azure Synapse. We demonstrated some of the optimized ways to perform SQL join queries that incur less cost and improve query performance.
Project By:
Kirtan Pathak
Judd Bradbury
As an experimental publisher at ArtSci lab at UT Dallas, Dhatri can explain that peer reviewing is an essential part of the publishing process. It is a quality control measure that ensures the research or work submitted for publication is of high quality and meets the standards of the scientific community. Peer reviewing involves soliciting feedback from subject matter experts or peers who have the necessary expertise in the relevant field. The peer reviewing process typically involves sending a lot of emails back and forth between the authors, reviewers, and the publisher. This can be a tedious and time- consuming task, and it can also be prone to errors and delays.
To address these challenges, we can automate the peer review process using Python to automate repetitive tasks, such as sending and receiving emails, tracking revisions, and generating reports. By automating the peer review process, we can streamline the workflow, reduce errors, and improve the efficiency of the publishing process. This will enable us to provide faster feedback to authors and ensure a timelier publication process.
Overall, automating the peer review process using Python can help us to improve the quality and efficiency of the publishing process, making it more accessible and beneficial to both authors and reviewers.
Project By:
Dhatri Polasanapalli
In the home page, the photos of the food are instant, and the photos disappear from the home page after an hour of display. The reason for this setting is mainly because the food eaten at different times is different (breakfast, lunch, dinner). However, if we click on the personal page, we can see all the meals posted by that person before.