Conferences & Events
Sustaining Performance under Stress Symposium on December 4-6, 2007
Mission
Our mission at the Center for Strategic and Innovative Technologies (CSIT) is to capture leading edge technologies developed at The University of Texas at Austin and transition them to the marketplace through partnerships with industry and federal laboratories.
Vision
Goal: Meet emerging national homeland security needs through research and development efforts at The University of Texas in biotechnology, biomedical engineering, and neural mechanisms of behavior.
Approach
CSIT will develop partnerships between University laboratories, government laboratories and the private sector to move University technology to the marketplace.
CSIT will rapidly transition research in sensors, communication, and behavior to address emergent needs in defense and national security. The areas of interest include:
- Communications systems capable of assessing integrity and reliability of data through intelligent software.
- Imaging systems to provide real-time monitoring of health and stress conditions.
- Sensors for threat agents, signatures for early alert of threat conditions in a community.
- Understanding and discovery of biosignatures of host response to infection and toxicants.
- NORMATIVE DATA DISCOVERY
Rationale
The events of September 11, and October 2001 have created a need to develop new paradigms by which the expertise resident at The University of Texas at Austin can meet national needs and enhance the transition of technology to the marketplace.
There is a niche for an entity that will enhance University performance and increase economic return to the benefit of the school, the state of Texas, and the nation. CSIT, together with the Office of Intellectual Property, fills this niche. CSIT identifies emerging research and engineering in the area of strategic and innovative technologies.