UTA's Joe Cloud has been instrumental in creating a high-performance computer and designing space-bound robots.

Joe Cloud Awarded Tau Beta Pi Fellowship for 2021-22 Academic Year

Joe Cloud, a doctoral student in computer engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), has been awarded a Tau Beta Pi Fellowship for the 2021-22 academic year. This prestigious fellowship, recognised as the highest honour for engineering students, is bestowed upon individuals who demonstrate high scholarship and exemplary character.

Tau Beta Pi, the world's largest engineering society, provides more financial assistance to engineering students than any other. This year, only 28 Tau Beta Pi Fellowships were awarded out of 336 applicants.

Joe Cloud works closely with UTA Assistant Professor William Beksi in the Robotic Vision Laboratory. Their research focuses on robotic learning for space and industrial robots. Specifically, Joe Cloud is developing learning-based methods for safe robot trajectory generation and motion planning.

Joe's engineering journey at UTA began as a sophomore when he started working in Professor Fillia Makedon's Heracleia Lab, writing code to control robotic arms and teach them tasks. Before his senior year, he had a summer internship at NASA's Langley Research Center.

Joe Cloud is the seventh recipient from UTA in the 88 years of the fellowship's history. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from UTA in 2019.

MD Banjamin Sarder, from the Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering Department at UTA, was the last student from the University to win a Tau Beta Pi Fellowship in 2007. G. Michael Youngblood, a computer science and engineering student, was the last to receive the fellowship in 2002.

As a Tau Beta Pi Fellow, Joe Cloud will receive a stipend of $10,000 in support of his graduate work. This financial assistance, combined with his dedication and hard work, will undoubtedly propel him forward in his pursuit of groundbreaking research in the field of robotics.

Despite a lack of information regarding the 2022-23 Tau Beta Pi Fellowship recipient at UTA, it is clear that Joe Cloud's contributions to the engineering profession are already making a significant impact. His work with Professor William Beksi promises to continue shaping the future of robotics, both in space and industry.

UTA's Joe Cloud has been instrumental in creating a high-performance computer and designing space-bound robots.