Camden Brady received the SMART scholarship from the U.S. Department of Defense, allowing him to return to the university for a Ph.D. after receiving his bachelor’s degree. Camden will study how humans and artificial intelligence can form more effective teams and split his time between Clemson and the Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic in Charleston.

The scholarship will cover tuition and comes with an annual stipend and guaranteed summer internships and employment after graduation.  Camden first became interested in engineering because math came naturally for him. He chose Clemson for its in-state tuition, National Championship football team, its proximity to home in Greer and its great engineering program.

When he crosses the graduation stage at Littlejohn Coliseum, Camden will be following in the footsteps of his mother, Beverly, who received a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Clemson, and his older sister, Cheyenne, who has a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering.  Camden has been involved in several research projects over the past year. He has helped research fatigue in drone operators and how to best get patients to fill out medical consent forms remotely. He is also helping set up a virtual reality lab at Clemson, based on a similar U.S. Army lab in Maryland. In his free time, Camden enjoys ultimate frisbee, and he is a member of Clemson Mappers.