Research Awards
Listed awards include research awards from various federal agencies, state agencies, industries and foundations. These awards have specific research requirements and are distinct from philanthropic gifts associated with capital campaigns, endowed scholarships, dean’s priority items or unrestricted gifts. Multiyear contract awards and grants are listed by the original award date, include the total expected award amount and may not reflect later changes such as funding cuts or transfers. Due to sponsor restrictions, some qualifying awards may not be listed.
Information regarding research awards including University-wide metrics and listings is available at the Office of Research and Innovation.
2024
May 2024
Chung Hwan Kim
Title: SEED: SPIRe: A Cross-Domain Framework for Retrofitting Robotic Vehicle Controllers Against Sensor Attacks
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $60,000
Danieli Rodrigues
Title: SEED: SPIRe: Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide and Nicotinamide Riboside Resorbable Implants: Potential Candidates for Anti-Inflammatory Therapy
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $60,000
April 2024
Bilal Akin
Title: IPA SRA: Advanced Control Techniques for AC Motor Drives
Sponsor: Lennox International, Inc.
Amount: $86,375
Kevin Brenner
Title: SEED: NFRS: The Dynamics of Coherent Phonons in Layered Crystals
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $25,000
Babak Fahimi
Title: SRA: Conceptualization and Optimal Magneto Thermal Design of a Pole-Changing Hybrid Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor for Electric Propulsion
Sponsor: Quanten Technologies, Inc.
Amount: $45,000
Baowei Fei
Title: Novel Short Wave Assessment Tool in Texas (SWATT) to Enhance Burn Tissue Viability Assessment
Sponsor: Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative
Amount: $16,500
Baowei Fei
Title: Real-Time, Label-Free, Micro HIS Device and Transformer-Based Attention Networks for Oral Cancer Imaging
Sponsor: Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas
Amount: $349,959 for year 1; expected $1,049,806 for three years
Yongsheng Gao
Title: A Polyrotaxane-based Systemic Hemostatic Agent
Sponsor: Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative
Amount: $100,000 for 16 months
Yongsheng Gao
Title: SEED: NFRS: Activated-Platelet-Targeted Nanoparticles for Postoperative Glioblastoma Therapy
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $25,000
Seth Hays
Title: Targeted Plasticity Therapy for the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Sponsor: Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative
Amount: $126,691 for 16 months
Yaqing Jin
Title: SEED: PREP: Sustainable Drag Reduction in Turbulent Flow Using Nanoporous Aerogels: Experiments, Computational Simulations, and Physical Modeling
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $25,000
Majid Minary
Title: SBIR: Electrodeposition of 3D Interconnects for HEP Detectors
Sponsor: Faraday Technology, Inc.
Amount: $62,500 for 8 months
Hui Ouyang
Title: Determining the Coagulation Sink Rate for sub-10 mm Atmospheric Particles
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $350,018 for three years
Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Modulation of Blood-Spinal Cord Barrier for Tumor Treatment
Sponsor: Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas
Amount: $350,000 for year 1; expected $1,050,000 for three years
Laisuo
Title: SEED: NFRS: Next-Generation Lithium Batteries Electrolyte Development via Machine Learning and Artificial Language
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $25,000
March 2024
Leonidas Bleris
Title: Bromodomain and Extra-terminal Motif (BET) Inhibitors in Solitary Fibrous Tumor (SFT)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $539,911 for year 1; expected $2,735,504 for five years
Kevin Brenner
Title: Collaborative Research: Manipulating the Thermal Properties of Two-Dimensional Materials Through Interface Structure and Chemistry
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $352,829
Shuang Cui
Title:Degradation Reactions in Electrothermal Energy Storage (DEGREES) Energy Earthshot Research Center (EERC) with University of Texas-Dallas
Sponsor: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, Managing and Operating Contractor for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the U.S. Dept. of Energy
Amount: $132,076 period 1; expected $950,000 for approximately three years
Xinya Du
Title: CAREER: Learning to Extract Consistent Event Graphs from Long and Complex Documents
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $185,202 for year 1; expected $561,219 for five years
Baowei Fei
Title: A Real-Time Hyperspectral Laparoscopic Stereo Imaging System for Robot-Assisted Surgery
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $589,457 for year 1; expected $2,658,711 for five years
Joseph Friedman
Title: Reversible Computing and Reservoir Computing with Magnetic Skyrmions for Energy-Efficient Boolean Logic and Artificial Intelligence Hardware
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $250,000
Vibhav Gogate and Sriraam Natarajan
Title: PYLON: An Integrated Semantic Framework for Probabilistic Neuro-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning
Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles
Amount: $287,501 for period 1; expected $1,150,000 for approximately four years
Gopal Gupta
Title: IPA SRA: Extracting Knowledge from Medical Data Reliably and Efficiently
Sponsor: CorroHealth, Inc.
Amount: $76,550
Yaqing Jin
Title: Aerodynamic Performance of Rotor Blades in Air-Sand Two-Phase Flows
Sponsor: US Army Research Lab
Amount: $119,958 for 1st increment; expected $359,737 for three years
Latifur Khan
Title: Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy through Social-Media Data Collection, Machine Learning Algorithm Development, and Targeted Use
Sponsor: Rutgers – the State University of New Jersey, supported in part by a research grant from Investigator-Initiated Studies Program of Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Amount: $36,000
Brian Kim
Title: CAREER: Superresolution Neurochemical Probe based on Stochastic Neurotransmitter Localization
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $473,421 for three years and seven months
Justin Koeln
Title: CAREER: Set-Based Dynamic Modeling and Control for Trustworthy Energy Management Systems
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $589,527 for five years
Stephen Levene
Title: SBIR: Novel Technologies to Isolate and Analyze Extrachromosomal DNAs
Sponsor: Phinomics, Inc.
Amount: $115,595
Shalini Prasad
Title: NSF Convergence Accelerator Track L: HEADLINE — HEAlth Diagnostic eLectronIc NosE
Sponsor:University of South Florida
Amount: $130,000
Manuel Quevedo-Lopez and Ali Aliev
Title: Transparent Superconductors for Single-Photon Detectors
Sponsor: NASA
Amount: $226,985 for year 1; expected $644,998 for three years
Tyler Summers
Title: STTR: Ensuring Continuity: Resilient Power For Autonomous Forward Deployed Devices
Sponsor: Spark Connected
Amount: $34,999 for three months
February 2024
Mona Ghassemi
Title: Prediction of Insulation Breakdown in Air and Solid Dilectrics: A Complete Plasma Model from Discharge Initiation to Flashover
Sponsor: US Department of Energy
Amount: $150,354 for year 1; expected $734,140
Brian Kim
Title: Simultaneous High-Density Mapping of Synaptic Neurochemical Transmissions and Action Potential in a Large Neural Network
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $245,235 for 11 months
Bingzhe Li
Title: SHF: Small: Exploring and Enhancing Capabilities of Emerging Hybrid/Convertible Solid-State Drives
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $377,158 for year 1 and 10 months
Phu Cuong Nguyen
Title: SBIR II: Low-Cost Packaging Solution for Space-Grade and High-Reliability Integrated Circuits
Sponsor: Apogee Semiconductor
Amount: $112,674 for approximately two years
Mario Rotea
Title: Remote Smart Monitoring of Offshore Wind Plant Components
Sponsor: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and U.S. Department of Energy, and Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, Award #E21AC00000
Amount: $499,649
Kianoosh Yousefi
Title: Collaborative Research: Sea-State-Dependent Drag Parameterization Through Experiments and Data-Driven Modeling
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $302,091 for three years
January 2024
Kanad Basu
Title: Secure and Robust Low-Quantization AI Hardware
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corporation
Amount: $83,000 for year 1; expected $249,000 for three years
Chen Cao
Title: Recruitment of First-Time, Tenure-Track Faculty Member – Dr. Chen Cao
Sponsor: CPRIT
Amount: $1,800,000 for five years
Chen Cao
Title: Decoding the Dynamics and Regulation of Parental Allelic Expression at Single-Cell Resolution
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $224,099 for year 1; expected $721,271 for 3 years
Yun Chiu
Title: Task 3160.034 Energy-Efficient Pipelined GS/s+ 12-bit TDC/ADC with Time-Domain RNS Encoding
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corporation
Amount: $105,243 for year 1; expected $315,729 for three years
Sriraam Natarajan
Title: Predicting ECMO NeuroLogICal Injuries using mAchiNe Learning (PELICAN)
Sponsor: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Amount: $100,000
Lakshman Tamil
Title: AIM-HDR: AI-ML-Powered Secure Healthcare Data Warehouse Repository
Sponsor: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Amount: $192,664 for 1 year
Eric Wong
Title: REU Site: Software Dependability Centric Research and Application
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $464,734 for three years