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Thursday, May 31, 2007

UTSA Professor receives $400,000 career award


by Kris Rodriguez (photo)
UTSA Public Affairs Specialist

Carola Wenk uses GPS Technology to determine real-time traffic conditions

Carola Wenk, assistant professor of computer science at The University of Texas at San Antonio, has been awarded a five-year, $400,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study geometric shape handling in theory in practice.

In Greece this past summer, Wenk, who joined UTSA in 2004, used data from GPS receivers in school buses and taxis to develop real-time traffic estimation and prediction systems.

“I would like to apply similar technology here in San Antonio and maintain a database for each road segment to determine current travel situations using GPS receivers in cars traveling all over this area,” said Wenk.

Wenk received her bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in math and computer science from Free University of Berlin and completed her post doctoral research at The University of Arizona in Tucson.

Earlier this month, she was the recipient of UTSA’s 2007 President's Distinguished Achievement Award for Research Achievement for Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty.

The University of Texas at San Antonio is one of the premier institutions of higher education in South Texas and one of the fastest growing universities in the state. One of nine academic universities and six health institutions that comprise the UT System, UTSA is the second largest institution in the system. Celebrating its 37th anniversary, UTSA serves more than 28,300 students enrolled in 63 bachelor's, 43 master's and 20 doctoral degree programs.

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