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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-weight: 400;">We are currently recruiting students for two of our NSF-funded programs.</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-weight: 400;">Through the NSF
<i>IRES Track 1: International Research Experiences for Students in AI-Enabled Decision Analytics for Advancing Air Taxi and Drone Operations</i> program, graduate and undergraduate student participants will gain international research and industry experience
in India. Participants will visit the <a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iitm.ac.in%2F&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7C45bc89b0f5b04665c84b08dc16cf39f6%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638410326507116679%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=EzCdtBZF2MBMEu0EejUB1GcT7lKKLgxzOWzd1JR1h2A%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://www.iitm.ac.in/" shash="c/zvs+Nhi1gCDzBs21bTgXQvW5NjSNYlNsDfdMji811wFYxvwENfYwyp1REG3Clb/RNKNDY0Uqqwq+rjLSSdKg95ZoUpR370NEMqGOMSFSrKggP5znzk5JO17tDBlFGjYDjV6gSt58+jFn3nO2FkADYSJ7ZU9yUTfzZzC/A0qmI=" id="LPlnk" title="https://www.iitm.ac.in/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM)</a> to pursue research on Advanced air mobility (AAM) technologies, such as air taxis and drones. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-weight: 400;">More information about this IRES program can be found at:
<a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Fnsf-ires-aam&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7C45bc89b0f5b04665c84b08dc16cf39f6%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638410326507116679%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3FkOlDJui2%2BMOQNcwCHLhash11r6NQbma9AJSwgSDN4%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://sites.google.com/view/nsf-ires-aam" shash="VpxwnvKcEIY56EiNDNUDKSz9q1L6rpAJkxZhm9ullKXcfdmZltYEFmSn8W74WA3G3ziQiC2urUwP9YQLiV3rNXnwDWy89TElckKsgV/+ORQfG05DghNQ+x0UHyJ3u663cqnjXmR01Rq/NfAp3U57Im0L5mD4dIVxtD0/AdcVELg=" target="_blank" id="OWAd935321b-19ca-766d-9fae-0d4f87b123ba" class="OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://sites.google.com/view/nsf-ires-aam. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="1" style="margin: 0px;">
https://sites.google.com/view/nsf-ires-aam</a>. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-weight: 400;">2. Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at the University of Missouri </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">We are also recruiting students (only undergraduates) for our NSF REU site titled "REU Site: Research on Prescriptive Analytics for AI-enabled
Operations Engineering". This REU program will train students to use prescriptive analytics to improve three critical application sectors of the nation’s economy: service, manufacturing, and agriculture.</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">More information about this REU site can be found at:
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