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.
2023
December 2023
Kevin Hamlen
Title: STTR II: Robust Sandboxing and Lifting of ELF Binaries
Sponsor: Immunant, Inc./DARPA (140D04-23-C-0070)
Amount: $201,997 for approximately 16.5 months
Jiyoung Kim
Title: Angstrom Era Semiconductor Patterning Material Development Accelerator
Sponsor: Brookhaven National Lab
Amount: $249,521; expected $501,245 for approximately one year
Yaoyu Li
Title: Controls Development of Multi-functional AHU
Sponsor: Oak Ridge National Lab
Amount: $59,933 for 11 months
Joseph Pancrazio
Title: Brain Glucose Deficiency: Mechanisms and Modulation
Sponsor: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Amount: $730,272 for period one; expected $1,971,800.20 for approximately five years
Mario Rotea
Title: Center for Wind Energy
Sponsor: EERE
Amount: $1,600,000 for one year
Mohammad Saquib
Title: Advancing One Health Data Capture at the Point of Zoonotic Spillover in the Congo Basin Forest Perimeter
Sponsor: University of California, Davis
Amount: $84,240 for year one; expected $552,240
November 2023
Yaqing Jin
Title: Collaborative Research: Aeolian Grain Entrainment Over Flexible Vegetation Canopies: Theoretical Models, Laboratory Experiments and Fieldwork
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $109,779 for one year; expected $335,876 for three years
Lawrence Overzet
Title: SBIR: Low Temperature Plasma Enhanced Processing for Microelectronics Manufacturing
Sponsor: Microsol Technologies, Inc.
Amount: $82,609 for one year
William Vandenberghe
Title: Phononic Traveling Wave Parametric Amplification using Heterostructures of Highly Nonlinear Materials
Sponsor: Virginia Tech/DARPA (HR0011-24-9-0314)
Amount: $74,400 for period one; expected $320,000
October 2023
Kevin Brenner
Title: Strain Effects in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Field-Effect Transistors
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $266,600 for two years
Stuart Cogan
Title: Engineering the Neuronal Response to Electrical Microstimulation
Sponsor: University of Florida
Amount: $239,982 for year one; expected $914,860 for four years
Xianming Dai
Title: YIP: Designing Flow-Separation Evaporative Cooling for 3D Heterogenous Microsystems
Sponsor: DARPA
Amount: $250,000 for one year; expected $1,000,000 for three years
Matthew Gardner
Title: SBIR: Scalable Magnetically Geared Actuator for Future Missions in Dusty & Extremely Cold Environments
Sponsor: Fluxworks, LLC
Amount: $34,316 for six months
Kangkook Jee
Title: CyberTraining: Pilot: CyberTraining for Space CI in Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $299,999 for two years
Jin Kim
Title: CRA: Development of Realtime Metaverse Testbed Environment for Haptic Interaction
Sponsor: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Amount: $96,340 for year one; expected $288,102 for three years (based on first year currency conversion)
Yaoyu Li
Title: SRA: Development of a Numerical AE/DAE Solver Package for Thermal Systems
Sponsor: Rheem Manufacturing Company
Amount: $59,816 for one year
Arif Malik
Title: SRA: Modeling Tools and Knowledge to Improve Stability of Gas Pressure Regulators
Sponsor: Emerson
Amount: $156,149 for one year
Siavash Pourkamali
Title: SRA: Microfabricated Silicon Structure Prototyping
Sponsor: MicroVision, Inc.
Amount: $47,937 for six months
Ana Hernandez Reynoso
Title: Targeted Neuroplasticity via Vagus Nerve Stimulation to Improve Urinary Dysfunction after Spinal Cord Injury
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $108,847 for period one; expected $217,694 for approximately two years
Kamil Sarac
Title: DoD Cyber Scholarship Program at UTD
Sponsor: National Security Agency
Amount: $702,905.79 for 15 months
Benjamin Carrion Schaefer
Title: Collaborative Research: DESC: Type I: SEEDED: Sustainability-aware Reliable and Reusable AI Hardware Design
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $259,741 for approximately three years
Bhavani Thuraisingham
Title: National Center for Transportation Cyber Security and Resiliency (TraCR)
Sponsor: Clemson University
Amount: $350,000 for one year
Eric Wong
Title: SRA: Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection Based on Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithm and Static Analysis
Sponsor: RFCyber Corp.
Amount: $30,000 for one year
September 2023
Ilan Buzzetti
Title: CSGrad4US – Buzzetti
Sponsor: Computing Research Association
Amount: $159,000 for four years
Shuang Cui
Title: ECO-CBET: GOALI: Condensing Water from the Air for Building Dehumidification and Decarbonization using Thermo-responsive Desiccants
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,669,674 for four years
Shengwang Du
Title: QuSec-TAQS: Nanodiamond Quantum Sensing for Four-Dimensional Live-Cell Imaging
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $2,000,000 for four years
Bingzhe Li
Title: Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Small: Efficient Ways to Enlarge Practical DNA Storage Capacity by Integrating Bio-Computer Technologies
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $283,362 for year one and 10 months
You Li
Title: Vector Flow Velocity Imaging of Human Placenta using Angle-resolved Ultrasound and Deep Learning
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $248,826 for first year; expected $741,899 for three years
Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Intramedullary Spinal Tumor Model and Treatment
Sponsor: CDMRP
Amount: $156,000 for one year
Kianoosh Yousefi
Title: Collaborative Research: Evaluating and Parameterizing Wind Stress Over Ocean Surface Waves Using Integrated High-Resolution Imaging and Numerical Simulations
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $323,315 for three years
August 2023
Kanad Basu
Title: P20_2023 Scalable Security Verification Framework for Digital and Analog/Mixed-Signal System-on-Chips
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $60,000 for one year
Kangkook Jee
Title: EAGER: Privacy Preserving Synthetic Graph Generation for System Provenance
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $123,198 for year one; expected $250,003 for two years
Georgios Makris
Title: P6-2023 Wafer-Level Provenance Attestation: Machine Learning to the Rescue
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $75,000 for one year
Benjamin Carrion Schaefer
Title: P7-2023 Investigating the Weaknesses of IP Protection through eFPGA-based Hardware Redaction
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $65,000 for one year
Carl Sechen
Title: P8-2023 Cost-Effective IC Redaction through a CMOS/MRAM Transistor-Level Programmable Fabric
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $100,000 for one year
Waseem Abbas
Title: Collaborative Research: Network Control Systems Science for Graph Machine Learning
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $240,417 for 3 years
Feng Chen
Title: Hidden Activity Signal and Trajectory Anomaly Characterization
Sponsor: Kitware Inc.
Amount: $102,823 for first increment; expected $302,420
KJ Cho
Title: SRA: Material Design of Performance and Reliability Boosters for Amorphous Oxide Semiconductor (AOS) Thin Film Transistors (TFTs)
Sponsor: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Amount: $120,000 for year 1; expected $360,000 for 3 years
KJ Cho
Title: SCI: UTD Center for Energy Storage Research (ESR)
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $400,000 for years 1 and 2; expected $700,000 for 4 years
Massimo Fischetti
Title: Radiation Effect in Electronic Materials, Circuits, Devices, and Systems: Theoretical Study of Electronic Transport and Thermalization
Sponsor: US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Amount: $169,995 for year 1; expected $524,986 for 3 years
Zygmunt Haas
Title: Collaborative Research: EAGER: Reliable Monitoring and Predictive Modeling for Safer Future Smart Transportation Structures
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $29,999 for 1 year
Seth Hays
Title: Targeted Plasticity Therapy for the Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Sponsor: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program
Amount: $2,317,051 for 2 years
Yaqing Jin
Title: Riblet Treatments on Energy Production and Loads of Turbines
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts Lowell
Amount: $65,663 for 1 year
Jiyoung Kim
Title: CeRAM ALO sub-contract in support of AFRL FA8650-22-F-5402
Sponsor: Cerfe Labs Inc.
Amount: $40,000 for 1 year
Rodrigo Bernal Montoya
Title: CAREER: Revealing the Atomistic Fundamentals of Probabilistic Strength Distributions in Nanomaterials via High-Throughput Experimentation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $624,884 for 5 years
Kenneth O
Title: SRA: Improving the Contrast between Pig Skins and Ticks
Sponsor: Diamond Fox Enterprises, LLC
Amount: $18,982 for 5 months
Dong Qian
Title: Data-Driven Curing Cycle Optimization in Wind Blade Manufacturing
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts Lowell
Amount: $63,019 for 1 year
Ill Ryu
Title: SRA: Predictable Multi-scale Modeling of Plasticity and Failure in Hybrid Solder Joints During Thermal Cycles
Sponsor: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Amount: $79,977 for 1 year
David Schmidtke
Title: PREP: Neutrophil Dysfunction in Ventricular Assist Device Patients
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $25,000 for 1 year
Eric Wong
Title: Collaborative Research: Conference: Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure Workshop: Building High-Performance, Ethical and Secured Geospatial Software
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $24,925 for approximately 1 year
Yu Xiang
Title: A Unified Framework for Multi-Hand Grasp Planning and Grasp Transfer of Unknown Objects
Sponsor: Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC
Amount: $100,000 for 1 year
July 2023
Bilal Akin
Title: IPA SRA: Auto-tuning of Sponsor Induction Motor Drives
Sponsor: Toshiba International Corp.
Amount: $50,000 for 11 months
Feng Chen
Title: ATD: Sparse and Localized Graph Convolutional Networks for Anomaly Detection and Active Learning
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $100,000 for 3 years
Xianming Dai
Title: Durable Fluid-like Surface for Sustainable Biofilm Inhibition
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $78,000 for year 1; expected $156,000 for 2 years
Xianming Dai
Title: CoBRA: Digital Diagnostics of Respiratory Syncytial Virus
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $125,000 for 1 year
Dave Dingal
Title: SEED: SPIRe: Rational Design and Evaluation of New Proteases Targeting Amyloid Beta
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $60,000 for 1 year
Dave Dingal
Title: Natural and Synthetic Mechanisms of Ligand Formation
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $311,600 for year 1; expected $1,857,600 for 5 years
Jacopo Ferruzzi
Title: CoBRA: Disrupted Mechanical Homeostasis as a Driver of Early Onset Colorectal Cancer
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $125,000 for 1 year
John Hansen
Title: Collaborative Research: Social-Emotional Analysis of the Language Environment (SEAL): Key Word and Phrase Spotting in Early Childhood Care Settings
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $61,126 for approximately 1 year
Caroline Jones
Title: CAREER: A Systems Approach to Create Multiplexed Microfluidics to Study Human Immune Cell Dynamics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $410,527 for first increment; expected $520,663 for 5 years
Jin Ryong Kim
Title: CRA: Testing High-Performance Multiverse Platform and Services for Sharing Senses and Experiences
Sponsor: Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute
Amount: $37,800 for 9 months (based on current conversion, amount may change slightly)
Jin Ryong Kim
Title: SEED: SPIRe: Tangible Data Interaction in lmmersive Analytics for Scientific Acceleration
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $58,400 for 1 year
Kristin Miller
Title: CoBRA: Determining the Key Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Pelvic Floor Structural Integrity in Pre- and Post-Menopausal Women
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $125,000 for 1 year
Rodrigo Bernal Montoya
Title: SEED: SPIRe: Thermosalient Molecular Crystals for Novel Soft Actuators
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $60,000 for 1 year
Joseph Pancrazio
Title: Deploying lntracortical Electrode Arrays to Record and Stimulate in a Tissue Volume
Sponsor: Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Amount: $81,061 for period 1; expected $799,874 for 4 years and 10 months
Tyler Summers
Title: Control, Estimation, and Learning in Multi-Team Dynamic Network Games with Asymmetric Information
Sponsor: US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Amount: $441,000 for 3 years
Guoping Xiong
Title: Tailoring Quasi-Solid-State “Water-in-Swelling-Clay” Electrolytes for HighVoltage, Durable Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $587,580 for 3 years
June 2023
Gopal Gupta
Title: IPA SRA: Design and Implementation of a Smart Pavement Management System
Sponsor: Central Nippon Expressway Co. Ltd.
Amount: $85,819 for 7.5 months
May 2023
Shuang Cui
Title: Sus SPIRe: Transforming Wood Waste into Sustainable Building Materials using Carbon-Negative Binders
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $60,000 for 1 year
Yichen Ding
Title: Volumetric Imaging and Computation to Characterize Cardiac / Electromechanical Coupling
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $383,914 for year 1; expected $1,883,456 for approximately 5 years
Dave Dingal
Title: NFRS: Experimental and Predictive Models to Determine Protease Specificity
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $25,000 for 1 year
Emily Fox
Title: Collaborative Research: AF: Small: Shape Matching in a Messy World Using Frechet Distance
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $398,189 for 3 years
Mona Ghassemi
Title: High Power Density Cost-effective MC DC Aircraft Cable
Sponsor: US Dept. of Energy
Amount: $881,731 for 2 years
Mona Ghassemi
Title: TCI: Nanodielectric Fluids Using a Multi-Nanoparticle System for Two-Phase Heat Transfer in 3D Heterogeneous Microsystems
Sponsor: US Dept. of Energy
Amount: $881,731 for 2 years
Kevin Hamlen
Title: STTR II: High Assurance Information Segregation Solution (HAISS) for Real Time Embedded Systems
Sponsor: Trusted Science and Technology, Inc.
Amount: $175,000 for approximately 2 years
John Hansen
Title: Leveraging Natural Language Processing for Reverberant Speech Enhancement in Cochlear Implants
Sponsor: Duke University
Amount: $46,800 for approximately 1 year
Wei Li
Title: Printing Functionally Gradient Cylinder with Mechanical Properties Gradient
Sponsor: Sandia National Labs
Amount: $43,659 for approximately 6 months
lfana Mahbub
Title: TCI: Resilient Intelligent Secured Electromagnetic Spectrum Sensing Systems (RISES3) for the Next-Generation of Electronic Warfare
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $40,000 for 1 year
Kristin Miller
Title: Elastic Fiber Regeneration Potential During Postpartum Healing
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $40,000 for 1 year
Theodore Moise
Title: North Texas Semiconductor Workforce Development Consortium
Sponsor: US Dept. of Education
Amount: $3,000,000 for 3 years
Sriraam Natarajan
Title: Human-aware Probabilistic Logic Approach for Learning with Less Labels from Multimodal Data to Model Credibility
Sponsor: US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Amount: $314,923 for 3 years
Shalini Prasad
Title: IBD AWARE: A Wearable Action For Real-Time Elevations In IBD Markers
Sponsor: EnLiSense LLC
Amount: $78,994 for 1 year
Manuel Quevedo
Title: TCI: Germanium Telluride Chalcogenide Switches for RF Applications
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $40,000 for 1 year
Dong Qian
Title: SBIR: Development of Data-driven Digital-twin Software DD-Cure for Carbon Fiber Composite Curing
Sponsor: GrapheneTX
Amount: $S5S,579 for 15 months
Ill Ryu
Title: Multiscale Defect Dynamics Model for the Mechanical Cold Trimming Process
Sponsor: Sungkyunkwan University Korea
Amount: $14,000 for 8 months
Kaveh Shamsi
Title: Low-Cost Automated Integrated Circuit Analysis through Al-assisted LaserScanning-Microscopy
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Amount: $120,000 for 1 year
Wei Yang
Title: Collaborative Research: CCRI: Planning-C: An Infrastructure and Dataset for Research in Android Testing & Analysis
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $32,924 for approximately 1.5 years
Kianoosh Yousefi
Title: Sus SPIRE: Impact of Harvesting Energy from the Ocean on the Upper Ocean Circulation and Ecosystem Structures
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $60,000 for 1 year
April 2023
KJ Cho
Title: Machine Learning Methods for Predictive Atomic and Electronic Structures of Nanostructure Interfaces for THz Device Simulations with DFT Accuracy
Sponsor: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Agreement No. RH00112390075
Amount: $498,832 for Phase 1; expected $995,707 for 2 Phases
Jin Kim
Title: CRA: A Perception Study on Wavelength/Phase Control and Test Spatial Pattern Formation for Ultrasound Haptic Display
Sponsor: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Amount: : $75,063.80 for year 1; expected $151,063.80 for 2 years -estimated based on 1st year currency conversion
Hongbing Lu
Title: STTR I: Soft and Flexible Aerogel Earplugs for Sound Insulation
Sponsor: Oto-Biomechanics, LLC
Amount: : $83,750 for approximately 1 year
Benjamin Raichel
Title: Travel: Student Travel Grant for 2023 Computational Geometry Week
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: : $15,000
Eric Wong
Title: SRA: Combinatorial Design-Based Testing Framework for GPS Navigation Software
Sponsor: lnfoGation Corp.
Amount: : $25,000 for 1 year
March 2023
Stuart Cogan
Title: Regenerative Micro-Electrode Peripheral Nerve Interface for Optimized Proprioceptive and Cutaneous Specific Interfacing
Sponsor: University of Houston
Amount: $46,086 for year 1; expected $213,660 for 5 years
Babak Fahimi
Title: IPA SRA: Development of Two Power Electronic Inverter System and Control Algorithm for Sensorless Control of Submersible Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors
Sponsor: Henry Pump LLC
Amount: $160,000 for 9 months
Xiaohu Guo
Title: IPA SRA: Improving Object Recognition for Touchless Self-Checkout System
Sponsor: Digit7 Corporation
Amount: $96,410 for 6 months
Jiyoung Kim
Title: Normal-incidence Mirror for Narrow-band X-ray Imaging of Circumgalactic Medium
Sponsor: NASA
Amount: $200,302 for 2 years
Yaoyu Li
Title: SRA: Data-driven Modeling and Analytics-based Control Performance Assessment, Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Building HVAC Systems
Sponsor: Precision Building Controls LLC
Amount: $26,706 for 6.5 months
Yue Zhou
Title: Understanding the Oil-water Stability and Separation in Inhomogeneous Porous Media
Sponsor: University of Texas at Arlington / American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
Amount: $14,529 for 1 year
February 2023
Bilal Akin
Title: Task 3160.020 Transient Reliability and Condition Monitoring of GaN HEMTs
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp.
Amount: $84,280 for year 1; expected $253,628 for 3 years
Leonidas Bleris
Title: EAGER: PUF-based Probe Design for Secure Access to DNA Storage
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $300,000 for approximately 2 years
lfana Mahbub
Title: Next Generation of Wireless Power Transfer Network of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) using Electromechanical Beamforming
Sponsor: DARPA
Amount: $250,010 for 1 year; expected $500,001
Kenneth O
Title: TxACE Task 3160
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp.
Amount: $1,864,731 for first year; expected $5,594,978 for 3 years
Shalini Prasad
Title: Austere Environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes (ACESO): Optimization of READ Point-of-Care Diagnostic Platform
Sponsor: Henry M. Jackson Foundation
Amount: $677,148 for 1 year and 9 months
Benjamin Raichel
Title: SEED: Workshop: Symposium on Computation Geometry s
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $15,000 for 5 months
January 2023
Bilal Akin
Title: IPA SRA: Advanced Control Techniques for AC Motor Drives
Sponsor: Lennox Industries, Inc.
Amount: $81,117 for 1 year
Kanad Basu
Title: Improving Fault Injection-based Functional Safety Evaluation using Machine Learning
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp.
Amount: $81,050 for year 1; expected $249,836 for 3 years
KJ Cho
Title: Applications and Systems driven Center for Energy-Efficient Integrated NanoTechnologies (ASCENT)
Sponsor: University of Notre Dame
Amount: $125,000 for year 1
Matthew Gardner
Title: SBIR: Ultra-Reliable Magnetic Gear Integrated Motor-Generator for Extended Range and Reduced Maintenance of Electric Transportation Air & Ground Vehicles
Sponsor: Fluxworks, LLC
Amount: $30,000 for 8.5 months
Mona Ghassemi
Title: Unconventional High Surge Impedance Loading Transmission Linefrom Wide Bandgap Power Electronics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $285,368 for 25 months
Jiyoung Kim
Title: SRA: Atomic layer deposition (ALD) of In based nitride channel layer for 3-D stacked device applications
Sponsor: SK Hynix
Amount: $300,000 for 3 years
Manuel Quevedo
Title: SBIR P-II: Atomically Precise Manipulation of Silicon-Aluminum Interfaces for Improving Energy Performances in Microelectronic Devices
Sponsor: 3D Epitaxial Technologies LLC
Amount: $98,768 for year 1; expected $199,563 for 2 years
Rym Zalila-Wenkstern
Title: SRA: Distributed Agent-based Traffic Lights Autonomous Traffic System
Sponsor: City of Richardson
Amount: $145,117 for approximately 1 year
Yue Zhou
Title: Collaborative Research: Understanding and Tailoring the Anode-Electrolyte lnterfacial Layers on the Stabilization of Lithium Metal Electrode
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $124,827 for 14 months