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.
2025
October 2025
Joseph Friedman
Title: CMOS+NVM lzhikevich Primitive Circuit Prototyping for Biologically Realistic Neuromorphic Computing
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy
Amount: $498,730
Gopal Gupta
Title: SRA: Al-driven Asset Code Computation for the Theme Park Industry
Sponsor: Property Tax Service Company, LLC
Amount: $38,948
Yaoyu Li
Title: Field Control Evaluations for Multi-functional AHU System
Sponsor: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Amount: $176,845
Eric Meyers
Title: Vagus Nerve Stimulation as a Synergistic Neurolmmune Therapy for Enhancing Nerve Regeneration
Sponsor: Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative
Amount: $99,997
Majid Minary
Title: Robotic-assisted Laser Joining of Large and Complex SiC Components for Harsh Environment Energy Technologies
Sponsor: ARPA-E
Amount: $1,583,530
Victor Varner
Title: Gene Regulation Underlying Photoreceptor Neurodegeneration
Sponsor: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Amount: $477,109
September 2025
Leonidas Bleris
Title: STTR: Novel Technologies for Cellular Age Profiling and Validation
Sponsor: SyntaxisBio Inc.
Amount: $184,440
Kyeongjae Cho
Title: Multiscale and Multiphysics Modeling of LiNbO3 Bonding onto an Insulator
Sponsor: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Amount: $242,672
Xinfang Jin
Title: Multiscale and Multiphysics Modeling of LiNbO3 Bonding onto an Insulator
Sponsor: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Amount: $242,672
Hongbing Lu
Title: SBIR Phase I: Percutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation Paddle Lead Using Shape Memory Polymer
Sponsor: Backstop Neural, Inc.
Amount: $80,000
Hongbing Lu
Title: Multi-Scale Biomechanical Modeling and Measurement of Auditory Injury and Protection Mechanisms
Sponsor: University of Oklahoma.
Amount: $120,000
Arif Malik
Title: GOALI: Modeling, Prediction and Mitigation of Chatter in Cold Rolling Mills
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $380,000
Mario A Rotea
Title: STTR Phase II: Extremum Seeking Control of Wind Turbines and Wind Farms
Sponsor: Arctura, Inc.
Amount: $424,270
Benjamin Carrion Schaefer
Title: S-STEM: Advancing Innovation in Master of Science and Engineering (AIM S&E) Scholars Career Development
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $2,000,000
Kianoosh Yousefi
Title: Collaborative Research: CAIG: Multi-scale AI-powered Modeling of Small-scale Turbulence within the Coupled Air-sea Boundary Layers
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $579,598
August 2025
Yun Chiu
Title: Closed-Loop kT/C Noise Cancellation for Sampling Circuits with Unprecedented Sensitivity
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $447,363
Yi Ding
Title: NeTS: CSR: Small: Leveraging Satellite Signals for Ubiquitous Mobile Wireless Sensing
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $400,000
Sourav Dutta
Title: Miniaturized Spin-Wave Antennas with Enhanced Efficiency for loT-Scale Energy Harvesting
Sponsor: Samsung Research America
Amount: $150,000
Sourav Dutta
Title: Collaborative Research: ASCENT: Wafer-Scale Sub-THz Reflectarray for Electrical Needle Beam Forming and Steering
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $900,000
Yongsheng Gao
Title: Engineering Platelets for Therapeutic Applications
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $363,480 for year 1; expected $1,951,605
Yongsheng Gao
Title: Sliding Microgel-Based Synthetic Platelets for Managing Traumatic Bleeding
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $621,980
Matthew Gardner
Title: CAREER: High-Resolution Lumped Parameter Network Multiphysics Models for Electric Machine Topology Optimization
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $500,945
Yunhui Guo
Title: PsychSens: A Framework for Automated and Pervasive Psychiatric Comorbidity Screening Using Multimodal Wearable Sensor Data
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $499,573
Giacomo Valerio Lungo
Title: MCA: Inhomogeneous Non-equilibrium Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer in Coastal Region: A Call for Data-driven Modeling to Interconnect Turbulence, Oceanography, and Meteorology
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $380,375
Gu Eon Kang
Title: PsychSens: A Framework for Automated and Pervasive Psychiatric Comorbidity Screening Using Multimodal Wearable Sensor Data
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $499,573
Brian Kim
Title: Interplay between Limbic Norepinephrine and Dopamine Circuits in Sex Differences in Reward and Aversion
Sponsor: SUNY at Buffalo
Amount: $202,800 for year 1; expected $1,014,001
Ifana Mahbub
Title: Miniaturized Spin-Wave Antennas with Enhanced Efficiency for loT-Scale Energy Harvesting
Sponsor: Samsung Research America
Amount: $150,000
Hlaing Minn
Title: NeTS: CSR: Small: Leveraging Satellite Signals for Ubiquitous Mobile Wireless Sensing
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $400,000
S.O. Reza Moheimani
Title: Support for US Students to Participate in the 2025 IFAC Symposium on Mechatronics and Robotics; Paris, France; 15-18 July 2025
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $15,000
Kenneth O
Title: Collaborative Research: ASCENT: Wafer-Scale Sub-THz Reflectarray for Electrical Needle Beam Forming and Steering
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $900,000
Kenneth O
Title: GENIE-RFIC: Generative ENgine for lntElligent RFIC Design
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $760,051
Hui Ouyang
Title: Chemical Composition-Viability Relationship of Bioaerosols Through Spatial Distribution and Size-Controlled Measurements
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $429,000
Kamil Sarac
Title: DoD Cyber Scholarship Program 2025
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense
Amount: $237,750
Laisuo Su
Title: Uncovering Molecular Crowding Effects for Rational Design of Electrolytes in Zinc-Ion Batteries
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $370,413
Lakshman Tamil
Title: Agri-Swarm: Enabling Low-Cost Autonomous Agricultural UAV Swarm for Crop Monitoring
Sponsor: University of Texas at Tyler
Amount: $90,000
Yapeng Tian
Title: Collaborative Research: CAIG: Multi-Task and Multi-Scale Deep Learning Inversion for Geophysical Imaging and Monitoring
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $193,567
Xinda Wang
Title: Collaborative Research: CIRC: Planning-C: An Infrastructure and Dataset for Research in Software Vulnerability Detection and Remediation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $55,000
Yu Xiang
Title: FRR: Learning Object-Centric Representations from Human Demonstrations for Robot Manipulation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $399,158
Yu Xiang
Title: IPA SRA: A Gantry Robotic System for Industrial Applications
Sponsor: Frontier Mining, LLC
Amount: $50,000
July 2025
Kevin Brenner
Title: Two-Dimensional Oxyhalide Transistors Compatible with Back-End-of-the-Line Processing
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $570,000
Todd Griffith
Title: Center: IUCRC Phase Ill UT Dallas: Center for Wind Energy Science, Technology and Research (WindSTAR)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $50,000 for year 1; $250,000 expected for 5 years
Giacomo Valerio Iungo
Title: Center: IUCRC Phase Ill UT Dallas: Center for Wind Energy Science, Technology and Research (WindSTAR)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $50,000 for year 1; $250,000 expected for 5 years
Stefano Leonardi
Title: Center: IUCRC Phase Ill UT Dallas: Center for Wind Energy Science, Technology and Research (WindSTAR)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $50,000 for year 1; $250,000 expected for 5 years
Mario A Rotea
Title: Center: IUCRC Phase Ill UT Dallas: Center for Wind Energy Science, Technology and Research (WindSTAR)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $50,000 for year 1; $250,000 expected for 5 years
Jie Zhang
Title: Center: IUCRC Phase Ill UT Dallas: Center for Wind Energy Science, Technology and Research (WindSTAR)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $50,000 for year 1; $250,000 expected for 5 years
June 2025
Rashaunda Henderson
Title: Travel: 2025 International Microwave Symposium Project Connect Travel
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $25,000
Bingzhe Li
Title: CAREER: Cross-layer Optimization for DNA Storage to Improve Scalability, Reliability and Performance
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $241,188 for 1st 2 years; expected $623,733 for 5 years
Hongbing Lu
Title: SRA: The Application Study of Functionalized Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes Materials in Composites, Plastics, Coatings and Asphalt
Sponsor: Graphene TX
Amount: $50,000
Hongbing Lu
Title: STTR: Development of Melt Spinnable Polyacrylonitrile Based Carbon Fiber Precursor
Sponsor: Graphene TX
Amount: $100,000
Georgios Makris
Title: P6-2025 Evaluating Resilience of Analog Neural Network ICs to Radiation-Based Model Pertubation Attacks
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $85,000
Siavash Pourkamali
Title: I-Corps: Translation Potential of Micromachined Electrostatic Cooling Fans
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $50,000
Matthew Wong
Title: SEED: TCI: Heterogenous Integration of Ill-Nitride Light-Emitting Devices on Silicon Platform
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $40,000
Jie Zhang
Title: SEED: TCI: Generative AI Enabled Cybersecurity of Small Modular Reactors and Microreactors
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $35,000
May 2025
Shuang Cui
Title: SEED: SPIRe: Efficient Recovery of Valuable Chemicals from Kraft Black Liquor Using Thermo-Responsive Polymer Absorbents
Sponsor: University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $60,000
Yongsheng Gao
Title: SEED: SPIRe: AI-Assisted Design of Polymeric Vectors for Genetic Engineering of Platelets
Sponsor: University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $60,000
Vibhav Gogate
Title: DROIDDS: Data-Efficient, Robust, Ontology Induction for Deontic-Compliant Decision Support
Sponsor: University of Southern California through Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) HR00112590089
Amount: $44,960 for 1st Increment; expected $299,825 (if phase 2 is funded)
John Hansen
Title: R.A.S.P. – Real-time Anonymization and Speech Protection
Sponsor: Honeywell
Amount: $363,051 for phase 1; expected total of $746,360 if phase 2 is awarded
Hongbing Lu
Title: SBIR: Robotic-Inserted, Shape-conforming Cochlear Implant Electrode Arrays
Sponsor: Qualia Oto Inc.
Amount: $75,000
April 2025
Zhiyu Chen
Title: SEED: NFRS: Enhancing Large Language Model for Cognitive Behavior Therapy Conversations
Sponsor: The University of Texas at DallasAmount: $25,000
Ruijiang Gao
Title: SEED: NFRS: Large Language Model for Business Hypotheses Discovery
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $25,000
Jiyoung Kim
Title: CRA: International Collaboration Research between International Future Semiconductor Innovation and Commercialization Center at University of Texas at Dallas and Inha University Sponsor: Inha University
Amount: $13,728
Moon Kim
Title: Development of Ascendium through the Discovery of Meta-stable New Phases for Multi/Extreme Environment Applications
Sponsor: Kookmin University
Amount: $137,500
Ifana Mahbub
Title: I-Corps: Translation Potential of a Wireless Implant for Brain Neuromodulation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $50,000
Ifana Mahbub
Title: SRA: All-Metal Additively Manufactured High-Gain, Wide Bandwidth High Power Handling Capable Phased-Array Design in K-band
Sponsor: Fabric8Labs Inc.
Amount: $35,999
Georgios Makris
Title: Administration of UT Dallas CHEST I/UCRC Research Projects
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $100,000
Georgios Makris
Title: LP25_4 An Experimentation Platform for Research and Training in Hardware-Induced Covert Channels in Wireless Communications
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $375,000
Eric Meyers
Title: EMG Sleeve to Enable At-home, Closed-loop Targeted Plasticity Therapy
Sponsor: Battelle Memorial Institute
Amount: $32,552
Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Enhancing Non-Viral Neuron-Specific Molecule Delivery Across Species in the CNS
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $821,998 for year 1; expected $3,926,916 for 5 years
Yue Zhou
Title: Fundamental Understanding of Interface Evolution and Mass Transfer in Li-metal Batteries by Theory-guided Experimental Studies
Sponsor: Welch Foundation
Amount: $300,000
March 2025
Kanad Basu
Title: CAREER: Security-Aware Next Generation Embedded Hardware Design
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $347,792 for period 1; expected $545,801 for 5 years
Kyeongjae Cho
Title: UT Dallas Next-Gen Battery Manufacturing Incubator
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Amount: $1,666,279
Stuart Cogan
Title: A Single-Cell and Cell-Type Resolution Artificial Retina for Vision Restoration
Sponsor: Stanford University
Amount: $87,254 for year 1; expected $351,455 for 3 years
Jin Ryong Kim
Title:CAREER: Designing Next-Generation Thermal User Interfaces for Multisensory VR Experience
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $107,654 for year 1; expected $593,868 for 5 years
Theodore Moise
Title: Texas Institute for Electronics (TIE) Next-Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing (NGMM) Center (TNC)
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Austin and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Amount: $1,169,197 for year 1; expected $2,499,880 for 2 years
Tien Nguyen
Title: IPA SRA: Implementing Product Features for DMI AI Software (pWing)
Sponsor: Digital Management, LLC
Amount: $59,562 for 1 year
David Schmidtke
Title: Deciphering Links Between Leukocyte Activation and Infections in VAD Patients
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $608,874 for year 1; expected $2,281,878 for 4 years
Zejiang Wang
Title: A Cooperative Driving Automation (CDA) Framework for Developing Communications Requirements of Energy Centric CDA Applications
Sponsor: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Amount: $136,850
February 2025
Stuart Cogan
Title: Brain Glucose Deficiency: Mechanisms and Modulation
Sponsor: Cornell University
Amount: $736,618 for year 1; expected $1,250,476
Joseph Pancrazio
Title: Brain Glucose Deficiency: Mechanisms and Modulation
Sponsor: Cornell University
Amount: $736,618 for year 1; expected $1,250,476
Yichen Ding
Title: QuSec-TAQS: Nanodiamond Quantum Sensing for Four-Dimensional Live-Cell Imaging
Sponsor: Purdue University
Amount: $390,454
Nandika D’Souza
Title: MUREP: Resilient Supply Chain Ecosystem for Agile Manufacturing of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (MUREP-SAM)
Sponsor: University of North Texas
Amount: $51,840
Shalini Prasad
Title: READ: A Non-Invasive Platform for Exploring Salivary Biomarkers for IBD
Sponsor: Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation
Amount: $110,000 for year 1; expected $220,088 for 2 years
Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Enabling the Therapeutic Delivery for Spin Cord Glioma by Epidural Light-Guided Modulation of Blood-Spinal Cord Barrier
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $679,176 for year 1; expected $3,360,102 for 5 years
Yapeng Tian
Title: SCH: AI-Assisted Vision: Scene-Aware Augmented Reality Systems to Support Low Vision People in Activities of Daily Living
Sponsor: University of Wisconsin at Madison
Amount: $92,338 for period 1; expected $331,340 for approximately 4 years
Zeijang Wang
Title: Real-Sim Core Tool
Sponsor: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Amount: $118,802
January 2025
Katherine Brown
Title: TxACE BIO: Ultrasound Platform for Wearable Applications
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $40,000
Wei Li
Title: Design, Fabrication, and Repair of Multi-Material Gears for Improved Performance and Reliability of Wind Turbine Systems
Sponsor: General Electric
Amount: $500,939
Wei Li
Title: Integrated Computational Materials Modelling Framework for Investigating the Process-Structure-Property Linkage of the Lunar Metal Welding with Internal Defects
Sponsor: NASA
Amount: $249,296 for year 1; expected $748,958 for 3 years
Georgios Makris
Title: Task 3160.056: Generative AI-Based Test Generation for Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corporation
Amount: $105,000 for year 1; expected $315,000 for 3 years
Georgios Makris
Title: P6-2023 Follow-on Project: Testing of Process Control (PCMs) for Wafer-Level Provenance Attestation
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $264,583
Majid Minary
Title: PFI-TT: 3D Printed Zirconia Dental Restorations
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $550,000
Arindam Pal
Title: Non-Invasive Modulation of Endothelial Calcium Signaling to Study Vascular Behavior (Award number 25PRE1377051)
Sponsor: American Heart Association
Amount: $69,548 for 2 years
Zeijang Wang
Title: Autonomous Heavy-Duty Vehicle Sensor Suites
Sponsor: Autonomous Heavy-Duty Vehicle Sensor Suites
Amount: $78,799
Kianoosh Yousefi
Title: YIP: Sea Spray-Induced Fluxes at High Wind Conditions: Synergistic Experiments and Data-Driven Modeling
Sponsor: Stanford University
Amount: $87,254 for year 1; expected $351,455 for 3 years