Vasileios Maroulas, mathematics professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is researching potential innovations in artificial intelligence to improve national security and save lives. In September 2021, the Army Research Lab (ARL) entered into a cooperative agreement with UT for Maroulas’s project “Spatial Awareness via Topological Artificial Intelligence (SPARTAN)", The research examines the physiological data of human spatiotemporal processing to create a machine learning algorithm that would maximize the efficiency of decision making processes in potentially high stress situations