
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
December 2024

Kyeongjae Cho
Title: Monolithically 3D Integrated 2D/3D Heterostructures for Multispectral Remote Sensing
Sponsor: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Amount: $35,325 for 1st period; expected $460,000 for 5 years

Julia Hsu
Title: Indium-Based Resists for High- and Hyper-NA EUV Lithography
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corporation
Amount: $135,000 for year 1; expected $405,000 for 3 years

Yaoyu Li
Title: SRA: Simulation Research for Air Conditioning and Heat Pump Systems
Sponsor: Rheem Manufacturing Company
Amount: $64,200

Kristin Miller
Title: Identification of Age and Injury Dependent Mechanisms of Elastic Fiber Dynamics in the Murine Vagina
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $734,639 for year 1; expected $3,584,496 for 5 years

Shalini Prasad
Title: Engage Assess SecretE (EASE): A Platform for Treating Chronic Inflammation
Sponsor: Mayo Clinic
Amount: $280,659 for year 1; expected $863,272
November 2024

Rafik Addou
Title: Developing Atomic Oxygen Resistant Coatings via Atomic Layer Deposition and Solution Synthesis
Sponsor: DARPA (Agreement No. HR00112590033)
Amount: $89,724 for 1st increment of $400,000; expected $1,000,000 for 2 phases

Benjamin Carrion-Schaefer
Title: 2024 Investigating the Weaknesses of IP Protection Through eFPGA-based Hardware Redaction
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $75,000

Stuart Cogan
Title: Engineering the Neuronal Response to Electrical Microstimulation
Sponsor: Purdue University
Amount: $175,750 for approximately 1 year; expected $351,500 for approximately 2 years

Naofal Al-Dhahir
Title: Green Privacy-Preserving AI-Driven Communication Framework for Intelligent Transportation Systems
Sponsor: US Department of State
Amount: $60,000

Todd Griffith
Title: WindSTAR Project F1-24: Repowering of Wind Farms with Digital Health Audits of Turbine Components
Sponsor: University of Masschusetts Lowell
Amount: $27,838 for 1st increment, expected $55,676

Xinfang Jin
Title: CAREER: Unraveling Oxygen Electrode Delamination Mechanisms in Reversible Solid Oxide Cells for Robust Hydrogen Production
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $648,431

Yaqing Jin
Title: A1-24: Investigation of Riblet Surface Durability and Its Impact on Wind Farm Performance
Sponsor: University of Masschusetts Lowell
Amount: $39,939 for 1st increment; expected $79,879

Jiyoung Kim
Title: SRA: Conformal Atomic Layer Deposition of HfZrO (HZO) Thin Films on High-Aspect-Ratio (HAR) Structures Using Anhydrous Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) as an Oxygen Source
Sponsor: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.
Amount: $80,000

Bingzhe Li
Title: IPA SRA: Distributed Large-Language Model (LLM) Inference on Edge Devices
Sponsor: Edge Networking Systems
Amount: $114,897

Georgios Makris
Title: 2024 Synthetic Augmentation of Limited/Incomplete Datasets: Methods, Metrics and Applications in ML/AI-Based HW Security
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $50,000

Aria Nosrantinia
Title: 2024 Mitigation of Malicious Hardware-Induced Covert Channels in Wireless Communications
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $75,000

Siavash Pourkamali
Title: SRA: Fabrication of Micromachined Silicon Test Chips
Sponsor: Decryptor, Inc.
Amount: $40,289

Carl Sechen
Title: 2024 Cost-Effective IC Redaction Through a CMOS/MRAM Transistor-Level Programmable Fabric
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $125,000

Kaveh Shamsi
Title: 2024 Reverse Engineering Model Weights from Analog Neural Network ICs Through Electrical and Optical Side-Channel Analysis
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $75,000
October 2024

Kyeongjae Cho
Title: Heterostructure Interface Phonon Engineering for Optimized Thermal Boundary Resistance
Sponsor: Northrop Grumman Systems Corp.
Amount: $184,000

Xianming Dai
Title: Super Condenser Enabled Water Reuse and Waste Heat Recovery for Heat Pump Electrification in Food Processing
Sponsor: Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable
Amount: $2,200,000 for 3 years

Joseph Friedman
Title: FuSe2 Topic 1: Domain-Specific Probabilistic Computing with Stochastic Antiferromagnetic Tunnel Junctions
Sponsor: Northwestern University
Amount: $136,715 for 1 year; $449,999 expected for 3 years

Latifur Khan
Title: Improving RAG Models with Knowledge Graph Integration (Project-1)
Sponsor: Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.
Amount: $30,000 for year 1; expected $300,000 for 3 years

Dongsheng Ma
Title: A 3.3kV/200A 70kHz Half-Bridge SiC Power Module with Low EMI, Low Power Loss, Good Thermal Management and High Reliability
Sponsor: University of Florida
Amount: $775,000 for three years

Walter Voit
Title: AM of Texturized Piezoelectric Ceramics
Sponsor: Akita Innovations LLC
Amount: $35,000

Walter Voit
Title: SBIR II: Personally-Fitted Half-Mask Respirators
Sponsor: Akita Innovations LLC
Amount: $47,600 for period 1; expected $142,800

Walter Voit
Title: STTR II: Additive Manufacture of MOF Elastomers
Sponsor: Akita Innovations LLC
Amount: $56,000 for year 1; expected $168,000
September 2024

Nandika D’Souza
Title: Tunable Thermal Conductivity, Dielectric Strength Biobased Molding Compounds and Die-Attach Adhesives
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Cop.
Amount: $47,221; expected $142,222

Nandika D’Souza
Title: Engineering for One Planet — Mini-Grant Program
Sponsor: American Society for Engineering Education
Amount: $8,000

Nandika D’Souza
Title: Establishing a Journey of Inclusion, Identity and Intersectionality through Guided Pathways to Enhance Latinx Success in Engineering and Computer Science
Sponsor: American Society for Engineering Education
Amount: $8,000

Nandika D’Souza
Title: Establishing a Journey of Inclusion, Identity and Intersectionality through Guided Pathways to Enhance Latinx Success in Engineering and Computer Science
Sponsor: University of North Texas
Amount: $95,000 for 1 year

Baowei Fei
Title: Digital Twin Augmented Reality for Prostate Laparoscopic Surgery
Sponsor: Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas
Amount: $131,990 for year 1; expected $250,000 for 2 years

Julia Hsu
Title: FuSe Topic 3: Co-designing Indium-based Sol-gel Precursors for Extreme Ultraviolet Resist and Back-end-of-the-line Oxide Nanoelectronics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $669,396 for year 1; expected $1,900,000 for 3 years

Xinfang Jin
Title: Sustainable Renewable and Hydrogen Hybrid Power Testbed for Remote Naval Bases
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts
Amount: $79,174 for year 1; expected $156,513 for 3 years

Latifur Khan
Title: UT Dallas Center for Secure and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
Sponsor: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Amount: $962,930 for 2 years

Majid Minary
Title: Workshop on Challenges of Electronics and Sensors for Extreme Environment
Sponsor: US Army Research Lab
Amount: $16,681

Kenneth O
Title: SRA: Feasibility of Imaging of Written and Printed Features Using Terahertz
Sponsor: Smart Data Solutions
Amount: $24,000 for 4 months

Girgis Obaid
Title: Improving the Management of Gastric Peritoneal Carcinomatosis with Photo-Betabody Immunotherapy
Sponsor: CPRIT
Amount: $124,486 for year 1; expected $248,991 for 2 years

Balakrishnan Prabhakaran
Title: Research and Innovation High Performance Computing Facility
Sponsor: National Institutes of Standards and Technology
Amount: $963,000 for 1 year

Shalini Prasad
Title: Austere Environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes (ACESO): Optimization of READ Point-of-Care Diagnostic Platform for CRP Assay
Sponsor: Henry M Jackson Foundation
Amount: $98,679

Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Delivering Immunotherapy More Effectively to Glioblastoma with a “Magnetic Switch”
Sponsor: Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas
Amount: $125,000 for year 1; $250,000 for 2 years

Jean-Francois Veyan
Title: SBIR: PFAS Sensor for Remediation and Industrial Wastewater Treatment Optimization Applications
Sponsor: Max-IR Labs, LLC
Amount: $50,000

S.M. You
Title: Core Technology and Module Development in Boiling-type Heat Pipe Heat Exchanger
Sponsor: Ajou University
Amount: $185,653 for 2 years
August 2024

Bilal Akin
Title: Software-based Real-time RUL Estimation of Inverter MOSFETs
Sponsor: Nexteer Automotive Corporation
Amount: $94,956

Kanad Basu
Title: Collaborative Research: SaTC: EDU: A Socially-Distant Cloud-Based Hardware Security Educational Platform
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $186,000 for 3 years

Leonidas Bleris
Title: DMS/NIGMS 2: The Mathematics of Epigenetic Regulation in Human Cells
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $294,647 for year 1; expected $1,098,244 for 4 years

Ovidiu Daescu
Title: Application of Machine Learning to Chest Computer Tomography in Pediatric Cancer
Sponsor: The University of Texas SW Medical Center
Amount: $50,000

Andrea Fumagalli
Title: Accelerating Compatibility and Commercialization of open RAN for Deployments (ACCoRD)
Sponsor: AT&T Services, Inc. and Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund
Amount: $2,360,000

Mona Ghassemi
Title: Collaborative Research: Robust, Efficient, and Compact Packaged Ultra-Wide Bandgap Gallium Oxide Power Switches for High Voltage, High Temperature Applications
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $303,103 for 3 years

Yaqing Jin
Title: Gulf Research Program’s Early-Career Research Fellowship
Sponsor: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine
Amount: $76,000 for 2 years

Latifur Khan
Title: SATC: EDU: Curriculum Development for Secure Blockchain Technologies – Supplement
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $99,856

Balakrishnan Prabhakaran
Title: EAGER: III: Visualizing and Tracking Progress in Multimodal CR (Cardiac Rehabilitation) Data
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $100,000 for 2 years

Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Modulating Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability by TRPV4 Activation
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $447,501 for 2 years

Kumail Sarac
Title: : DoD Cyber Scholarship 2024
Sponsor: National Security Agency
Amount: $80,814 for 1 year

Eric Wong
Title: Assuring the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles Using Combinatorial Design-Based Testing
Sponsor: Wayne State University
Amount: $47,500 for 1 year
July 2024

Chandramallika Basak
Title: SEED: AHT-STEM: Home-based Immersive Video Environment for Mild Impairment of Neurocognitive Diagnosis (HIVE-MIND)
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $25,000

Kanad Basu
Title: Collaborative Research: EAGER: CSR: Full-stack Defense of Vision-based Autonomous Driving Systems
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $109,992 for 2 years

Babak Fahimi
Title: IPA SRA: Vienna Rectifier PFC Development
Sponsor: Technology Dynamics, Inc.
Amount: $76,000

Todd Griffith
Title: A Low-Cost Floating Offshore Vertical Axis Wind System
Sponsor: US Department of Energy
Amount: $4,420,000

Julia Hsu
Title: Short-term Synaptic Plasticity in Oxide Phototransistors for Temporal Data Processing in Neuromorphic Computing
Sponsor: US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Amount: $150,000 for year 1; expected $450,000 for 3 years

Murat Kantarcioglu
Title: Building Robust AI Systems
Sponsor: US Army Research Lab
Amount: $398,249

Ifana Mahbub
Title: SRA: Far-field Wireless Power Transfer System
Sponsor: AuresTech, Inc.
Amount: $30,000

Sriraam Natarajan
Title: Human-Allied End-to-End Differentiable NeuroSymbolic Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Sponsor: US Army Research Lab
Amount: $40,000 for first increment; expected $449,182 for 3 years

Girgis Obaid
Title: Molecular Imaging Guidance for Potentiating Chemoimmunotherapy in Pancreatic Cancer using Photodynamic Printing
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $640,089 for year 1; expected $2,116,760 for 4 years

Balakrishnan Prabhakaran
Title: CIRC: Dev: SMILE: Scan to Multi-sensorial Interactive Learning Environment
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $750,000 for 2 years
June 2024

Feng Chen
Title: Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Medium: Interactive and Integrated Training for Building High-Performance Ethical AI
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $499,996 for 4 years

Babak Fahimi
Title: IPA SRA: Development of a Prototype Alpha for the Sensorless Current Source Inverter Used in Submersible Pumps
Sponsor: Henry Pump, LLC
Amount: $53,000

Jacopo Ferruzzi
Title: Mechanisms of CD8+ Mediated Cell Non-autonomous Arterial Aging
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Arlington
Amount: $167,324 for period 1; expected $780,007 for approximately 4 years and 9 months

John Hansen
Title: Collaborative Research: Using Sensing Technology and Automated Speech Recognition to Capture Teacher Language Interactions in Diverse Pre-K Classrooms
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $169,965

Jiyoung Kim
Title: SBIR: High Temperature Nonvolatile Memory Applications
Sponsor: Cerfe Labs, Inc.
Amount: $200,168

Hui Ouyang
Title: Probing the Particle Size-viability Relationship in Bioareosols through Size-controlled Measurements
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $175,000 for period 1; expected $370,500 for approximately 2 years

Manuel Quevedo
Title: High Temperature Non-volatile Memory Prototype
Sponsor: Cerfe Labs, Inc.
Amount: $350,827

Dong Qian
Title: Rapid Optimization of Curing Cycle in Large-Scale Composite Blade Manufacturing Enabled by a Smart Digital Twin
Sponsor: Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable
Amount: $2,721,445 for 3 years and 5 months

Berrak Sisman
Title: CAREER: What is in a Voice?: Scientific and Machine Learning Advancement for Voice Conversion
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $293,805 for year 1; expected $563,693 for 5 years

Yonas Tadesse
Title: SEED: JSOM-STEAM: Enabling Effective Flexible Manufacturing Systems through Additively Manufactured Soft Robotic Grippers and Machine Learning
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $25,000
May 2024

Simon Dai
Title: SEED: TCI: Energy-Efficient Power and Thermal Management for 3D Packaged Electronics
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $40,000

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

Jin Ryong Kim
Title: CRA: An XR Testbed for Haptic Device Evaluation and Optimization
Sponsor: Electronics and Telecom Research Institute
Amount: $70,000 for 1 year; expected $210,00 for 3 years
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

Murat Kantarcioglu
Title: FARML: Flexible, Adaptive and Robust Machine Learning for Resource Constrained Environments
Sponsor: US Army Research Office
Amount: $699,999 for year 1; expected $1,391,415 w/option to total $3,489,175 for 5 years

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