Research Awards - Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas

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.

September 2022

Bilal Akin
Title: SRA: Permanent Magnet Motor and Induction Motor Control Algorithms for High Performance Drive Applications
Sponsor: Nidec Motor Corporation
Amount: $45,000 for 1 year

Kanad Basu
Title: P13_2022 Scalable Security Verification Framework for Digital and Analog/Mixed-Signal System-On-Chips
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year

Stuart Cogan
Title: Normalizing Timing of Rhythms Across Internal Networks of Circadian Clocks (NTRAIN)
Sponsor: University of Utah
Amount: $201,221

Stuart Cogan
Title: Engineering the Neuronal Response to Electrical Microstimulation
Sponsor: University of Florida
Amount: $938,141

Joseph Friedman
Title: P12_2022 Stochasticity, Polymorphism and Non-Volatility: Three Pillars of Security and Trust Intrinsic to Emerging Technologies
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year

Andrea Fumagalli
Title: Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: TeTON: A Testbed and a Toolkit for Expediting Investigation of and Accelerating Advancements in All-Optical Neural Networks
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,000,000 for 3 years

Kevin Hamlem
Title: P14_2022 Formal Security Evaluation of Executing Untrusted Binaries on Embedded Processors
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $55,000 for 1 year

Stephen Levene
Title: Biophysical, Topological, and Functional Studies of Endogenous Circular DNAs
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $1,404,000 for approximately 4 years

Yaoyu Li
Title: SRA: Fast Numerical DAE Solver Package for Thermal System
AE/DAE Equations
Sponsor: Rheem Manufacturing Company
Amount: $59,789 for 1 year

Ifana Mahbub
Title: RINGS: Mobility-driven Spectrum Agile Resilient mmWave Communication Links for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Traffic Management
in Sky
Sponsor: University of North Texas
Amount: $228,746 for 2 years and 7 months

Georgios Makris
Title: P15_2022 Design Obsfuscation and Performance Locking Solutions
for Analog/RF ICs
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $75,000 for 1 year

Georgios Makris
Title: P16_2022 CAD Flow Development for Design Obfuscation through Post-Fabrication Transistor-Level Programming (TRAP)
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $125,000 for 1 year

Zhenpeng Qin
Title: STTR: Rapid Viral Diagnostic Test by Digital Plasmonic Nanobubbles
Sponsor: Avsana Labs Inc.
Amount: $237,788 for approximately 2 years

Chadwin Young
Title: US-Ireland R&D Partnership:Ga203: Understanding Growth, Interfaces and Defects to Enable Next Generation Electronics (GUIDE)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $439,603 for approximately 3 years

Jie Zhang
Title: Integrated Thermal-Electric Energy Management of All-Electric Ship with Advanced Nuclear Reactors
Sponsor: U.S. Dept. of Energy
Amount: $400,000 for 3 years

August 2022

Kanad Basu
Title: Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Small: SOCIAL: System-on-Chip Information Flow Validation under Asynchronous Events
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $290,443 for 3 years

Xianming Dai
Title: Collaborative Research: Enhanced Electricity Generation through Liquid Flow over Durable Slippery Surfaces
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $218,562 for approximately 3 years

Babak Fahimi
Title: 30kW Automotive Drive Design (Hardware) and Software Development (Task Orders 3 and 4)
Sponsor: R&D Dynamics Corporation
Amount: $115,000

Babak Fahimi
Title: High Fidelity Modeling and Optimal Resilince Management in
PEBB-based Power Distribution Systems
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Amount: $90,000 for 1st increment; expected $956,478 for 4 years

Babak Fahimi
Title: Service Agreement: Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Electric Propulsion Unit (EPU) Development – 100kW motor testing
Sponsor: Supernal, LLC
Amount: $40,663

Babak Fahimi
Title: Service Agreement: Assessment of an Interior Permanent Magnet Drive Developed by Sponsor
Sponsor: Optiphase Drive Systems, Inc.
Amount: $10,000 for 1 month

Kyle Fox
Title: IPA SRA: Efficient Algorithms for Matching ATE and DUT Pins
Sponsor: TessolveDTS, Inc.
Amount: $70,300 for 7.5 months

Andrea Fumagalli
Title: OpenLab @ UT-DALLAS Membership Agreement
Sponsor: Various Industry Sponsors
Amount: $78,000 for 1 year

Lev Gelb
Title: CDS&E: Thin Film Analysis by XPS: Quantitative Modeling of Sputtering and Depth Profile Data, Machine Learning Classifiers, and Novel Applications
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $420,000 for 3 years

Kenneth Hoyt
Title: Multifrequency Ultrasound Imaging for Improved Breast Tissue Characterization
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $603,593 for year 1; $2,881,691 for approximately 5 years

Giacomo Valerio Iungo
Title: WindFlux-EPRI Collaboration for Wind Wake and Yaw Misalignment Assessment
Sponsor: Electric Power Research Institute
Amount: $80,435 for approximately 16 months

Giacomo Valerio Iungo
Title: C1-22: Modeling Rotor-induced Effects on the Wind Resource for Onshore Wind Farms
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts Lowell
Amount: $55,856 for 1 year

Georgios Makris
Title: SaTC: TTP: Medium: Hardware Intellectual Property Protection through Hybrid ASIC/TRAP Integrated Circuit Design
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount:$900,000 for approximately 4 years

Georgios Makris
Title: CISE-ANR: SHF: Small: CHAMELEON: CompreHending And Mitigating Error in AnaLog ImplEmentations of On-Die Neural Networks
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $623,753 for 3 years

Kaveh Shamsi
Title: SaTC: CORE: Small: Genetic Circuit Learning from Adaptive
Side-Channel Queries
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $365,919 for 3 years

Shashank Sirsi
Title: The Use of Monodisperse Size-isolated Microbubbles for Improving the Safety and Efficacy of Chemotherapeutics in Neuroblastoma Treatment
Sponsor: Advanced Microbubbles Laboratories LLC
Amount: $40,000 for 15 months

Joshua Summers
Title: SaTC: CORE: Small: Genetic Circuit Learning from Adaptive
Side-Channel Queries
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,500,000 for approximately 6 years

Lakshman Tamil
Title: STTR: Matrix-Addressed, Thin-Film Cochlear Implant
Electrode Arrays
Sponsor: Qualia Oto
Amount: $75,000 for 8.5 months

Amy Walker
Title: Improving Transfer Academic, Career and Community Engagement
for Student Success (IT ACCESS) in Engineering and Computer Science
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,500,000 for approximately 6 years

Amy Walker
Title: Pattern-Directed Growth of Metal Chalcogenide Nanostructures on Surfaces: Composition and Structure Control
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $480,072 for 3 years

Amy Walker
Title: Collaborative Research: Photoassissted CVD for Low Temperature Area Selective Deposition
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $301,089 for 3 years

Jie Zhang
Title: STTR: Reinforced Hierarchical Probablistic Solar Forecasting Tool based on Dynamic Multi-model Machine Learning
Sponsor: Altitude Grid, LLC
Amount: $100,000 for 1 year

July 2022

Orlando Auciello
Title: SBIR: Low Temperature Plasma Enhanced Processing for Microelectronics Manufacturing
Sponsor: Microsol Technologies, Inc.
Amount: $64,947 for 1 year

Baowei Fei
Title: SRA: Evaluation of hyperspectral data from cancerous tissue
Sponsor: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
Amount: $150,000 for 1 year

Joseph Friedman
Title: Collaborative Research: 2D Ambipolar Machine Learning &
Logical Computing Systems
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $155,114 for 3 years

Jiyoung Kim
Title: SRA: Research with International Future Semiconductor Innovation and Commercialization
Sponsor: Inha University
Amount: $25,769 for 13 months

Kenneth O
Title: SRA: Approaches to reduce the impact of spurious reflections on millimeter-wave reflection mode imaging
Sponsor: DiamondFox Enterprises, LLC
Amount: $22,016 for 4.5 months

Walter Voit
Title: AccelBand, a Leg-worn Transcutaneous Neuromodulation Device for Treating Neurogenic Bowel Dysfunction in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury
Sponsor: Transtimulation Research Inc.
Amount: $280,802 for 5 years

Eric Wong
Title: SRA: Improving Code Quality of Blockchain-based Smart Contracts
Sponsor: RFCyber Corp.
Amount: $28,000 for 14 months

June 2022

Jacopo Ferruzzi
Title: SPIRe: Development of a Thermo-reversible Synthetic Hydrogel Platform to Investigate the Mechanistic Links between Tissue Mechanics, Metabollic Plasticity, and Invasive Potential in Ductal Adenocarcinoma
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year

Matthew Gardner
Title: SRA: Evaluation of a cycloidal magnetic gearbox
Sponsor: Emrgy, Inc.
Amount: $12,000 for 1 month

Yaqing Jin
Title: SPIRe: Sediment Erosion over Flexible Vegetations: Modeling, Laboratory Test and Fieldwork
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year

May 2022

Feng Chen
Title: FAI: A Novel Paradigm for Fairness-Aware Deep Learning Models on Data Stream
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $392,993 for 3 years

Shuang Cui
Title: NFRS: Tunable High Energy Density Solid-State Thermal Energy Storage Using Immobilized Liquids
Sponsor:The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $25,000 for 1 year

Shuang Cui
Title: 3D Printed Desiccant Wheel with Thermo-responsive Desiccants for Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort in Buildings
Sponsor: Alliance of Sustainable Energy, LLC
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year

Kyle McCall
Title: NFRS: Harnessing Self-Trapped Excitons for Remote Force Gauging: Strain-Property Relationships in Low-Dimensional ns2-Metal Halides
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $25,000 for 1 year

Aria Nosratinia
Title: RINGS: Resilience of NextG Communication Systems to Malicious Modification Attacks
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $317,593 for year 1; expected $998,168 for 3 years

Mark Spong
Title: Collaborative Research: A Control Theoretic Framework for Guided Folding and Unfolding of Protein Molecules
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $220,952 for 3 years

Cormac Toher
Title: DMREF: Collaborative Research: GOALI: Accelerating Discovery of High Entropy Silicates for Extreme Environments
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $189,803 for approximately 16 months

Wei Yang
Title: CAREER: Enhancing Deep-Learning-based Code Analyses via
Human Intelligence
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $136,004 for year 1; expected $527,130 for 5 years

April 2022

Giacomo Valerio Iungo
Title: Improving High Resolution Offshore Wind Resource Assessments and Forecasts for the MA/RI Lease Areas
Sponsor: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Amount: $11,898 for 1 year; expected $443,613 for 5 years

Shalini Prasad
Title: IPA SRA: Testing and characterization support for Sotech breath analyzer towards clinical and regulatory study requirements
Sponsor: Sotech Health
Amount: $90,028 for 2 months

Mario Rotea
Title: STTR Phase 1: Extremum Seeking Control of Wind Turbines and
Wind Farms
Sponsor: Arctura, Inc.
Amount: $116,500 for 9 months

S.M. You
Title: Design and Manufacturing Technologies for a Thin Thermal
Ground Plane
Sponsor: Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials
Amount: $185,518 for 2 years

Jie Zhang
Title: UTD Triton: Plug and Play Hydrogen Microgrid
Sponsor: GXM Consulting, LLC
Amount: $10,000 for 2 months

Jie Zhang
Title: Nuclear-Renewable-Storage Digital. Twin: Enhancing Design, Dispatch, and Cyber Response of Integrated Energy Systems
Sponsor: Idaho National Laboratory
Amount: $132,712 for approximately 9 months

March 2022

Bilal Akin
Title: Task 2810.090: Motor Health Monitoring
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corporation
Amount: $85,800 for 11 months; expected $93,600 for 1 year

Kevin Hamlen
Title: SBIR: Cyber Vulnerability ANalysis and COmprehensive Formal Verification (VAN-COV) Tool Suite for Software Systems
Sponsor: Trusted Science and Technology, Inc.
Amount: $12,500 for 4 months

Shuang Hao
Title: CAREER: Empowering White-box Driven Analytics to Detect
AI-synthesized Deceptive Content
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $510,000 for 5 years

Julia Hsu
Title: Research Support for Graduate Student – Aaron Kramer
Sponsor: UES, Inc.
Amount: $10,872 for 5.5 months

Jin Ryong Kim
Title: SRA: A Perception Study on Wavelength/Phase Control and Test Spatial Pattern Formation for Ultrasound Haptic Display
Sponsor: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Amount: $82,000 for 1 year

Jin Ryong Kim
Title: SRA: Testing EdgeCPS Metaverse Experimental Environment
Sponsor: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Amount: $65,000 for 1 year

Stefano Leonardi
Title: REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates in
Wind Energy Systems
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $391,703 for 3 years

Stephen Levene
Title: SRA: Isolation of Extrachromosomal Circular NDA (eccDNA)
Sponsor: Phinomics Inc.
Amount: $150,414 for 7 months

Mario Rotea
Title: Support of FY2022 WindSTAR Projects at UT Dallas
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts Lowell
Amount: $26,637.71 for 1 year

Ill Ryu
Title: STTR Phase I: Low-Cost Packaging Solution for Space-Grade and High-Reliability Integrated Circuits
Sponsor: Apogee Semiconductor
Amount: $79,800 for 5.5 months

February 2022

Leonidas Bleris
Title: Unraveling Mechanisms of Exceptional Response to Cyclin-dependent Kinase (CDK) Inhibitors in Patients with Advanced Breast Cancer
Sponsor: Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group
Amount: $67,011 for 1 year

Stuart Cogan
Title: Bi-Directional Neural Interface for Probing Parallel Visual Pathways
Sponsor: Stanford University
Amount: $51,997 for period 1; expected $222,161 for 3 years and 9 months

Caroline Jones
Title: RNA Virus Capture of Host Chemokines: Understanding Novel Viral Mechanisms of Immune Manipulation
Sponsor: University of Florida
Amount: $34,882 for period 1; expected $70,342 for approximately for 1 year

Justin Ruths
Title: CAREER: Going Beyond Linear Models for Attack Detection and Defense in Control Systems
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $505,404 for 5 years

January 2022

Kanad Basu
Title: Task 2810.086: Machine Learning-based Functional Safety Improvement of AMS Components in Automotive SoCs
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corporation
Amount: $83,000 for 1 year; expected $249,000 for 3 years

Shuang Cui
Title: Solid State Tunable Thermal Energy Storage for Smart
Building Envelopes
Sponsor: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
Amount: $20,000 for 1 year

Joseph Friedman
Title: CAREER: Bottom-Up Localized Online Learning with Spintronic Neuromorphic Networks
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $94,236 for year 1; expected $499,998 for 5 years

Lev Gelb
Title: Acoustic Resonance Variance with Pressure and Imperfections in Hermetically-sealed Containers
Sponsor: Los Alamos National Lab
Amount: $79,468 for year 1; expected $404,342 for 3 years

Julia Hsu
Title: BRITE Pivot: Machine Learning Accelerated Optimization of Flash Lamp Processed Thin-films for Flexible Optoelectronic Applications
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $482,831 for 3 years

Georgis Makris
Title: Machine Learning Solutions for Golden-Chip Free Hardware Trojan Detection based on Fusion of Electrical and Optical Measurements
Sponsor: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
Amount: $150,000 for 7.5 months

Shalini Prasad
Title: Assessment of a Biosensor for Electrochemical Efficacy in Designing an Assay Platform on READ 2.0 for Melioidosis Antigen Measurement
Sponsor: EnLiSense LLC
Amount: $63,180 for 1 year

Mario Rotea
Title: Ocean Energy Safety Institute 2
Sponsor: Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Amount: $29,601 for period 1; expected $148,000 for 5 years

Chadwin Young
Title: REU Site: Electronic Materials Evaluation Research for Greater Exposure to Future Technology Careers (EMERGE)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $389,870 for 3 years

December 2021

Kanad Basu
Title: P11_2021: Scalable Security Verification Framework for Digital and Analog/Mixed-Signal System-on-Chips
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year and 7 months

Joseph Friedman
Title: P12_2021: Stochasticity, Polymorphism and Non-Volatility: Three Pillars of Security and Trust Intrinsic to Emerging Technologies (C)
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year and 7 months

Todd Griffith
Title: SRA: Innovation with Thermoplastics in Future Wind Turbine Blades (Phase 1)
Sponsor: CREADIS, Inc.
Amount: $8,151 for approximately 2 months

Kevin Hamlen
Title: P15_2021: Formal Security Evaluation of Executing Untrusted Binaries on Embedded Processors (C)
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year and 7 months

Dongsheng Brian Ma
Title: P10_2021: On-Chip Parallel-Processing RSSM Switching Power Regulator for EM/Power Side-Channel Security
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $80,000 for 1 year and 7 months

Georgis Makris
Title: P14_2021: Design Obfuscation and Performance Locking Solutions for Analog/RF ICs
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $75,000 for 1 year and 7 months

Georgis Makris
Title: P13_2021: CAD Flow Development for Design Obfuscation through Post-Fabrication Transistor-Level Programming (TRAP) (C)
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $125,000 for 1 year and 7 months

Reza Moheimani
Title: STTR II: Atomically Precise Scanning Probe Based Analysis of Activated Dopants for 2D Micro Electronics
Sponsor: Zyvex Labs, LLC
Amount: $256,992 for 1 year

Kenneth O
Title: SBIR: F2-14652 – CeRAM at Radio Frequencies
Sponsor: Cerfe Labs, Inc.
Amount: $117,997 for 1 year

Manuel Quevedo-Lopez
Title: IPA SRA: X-ray sensors and systems based on thin films materials
and devices
Sponsor: EMP Technology Solutions, Inc.
Amount: $227,323 for 1 year

Chadwin Young
Title: SBIR II: CeRAM at Radio Frequencies
Sponsor: Cerfe Labs, Inc.
Amount: $166,386 for 1 year

November 2021

Babak Fahimi
Title: SRA: Electric Motor Design Trade-Offs
Sponsor: Dana Ltd.
Amount: $132,00 for 3 months

Babak Fahimi
Title: 30kW Automotive Drive Design (Hardware) and Software Development (Task Orders 1 and 2)
Sponsor: R&D Dynamics Corporation
Amount: $125,000 for 7 months

Vibhav Gogate
Title: Neuro-Symbolic Dynamic Probabilistic Models: A Unifying Representation and Reasoning Tool for PTG
Sponsor: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Amount: $2,331,192 for phase 1; expected $4,908,187 for 2 phases

Julia Hsu
Title: Carbon-free Sol-gel Precursors for Metal Oxide EUV Resist
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corporation
Amount: $90,000 for 1 year; expected $270,000 for 3 years

Justin Ruths
Title: SPIRe: Inferring Effective Connectivity of Sparsely Sampled
Neuronal Networks
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $60,000 for 1 year

Amy Walker
Title: Next Generation Area Selective Deposition Reactive SAMs and Photochemical CVD
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corporation
Amount: $45,000 for 1 year; expected $135,000 for 3 years

October 2021

Naofal Al-Dhahir
Title: IPA SRA: Secure Federated Edge Intelligence Framework for AI-driven 6G Applications
Sponsor: Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Amount: $100,440 for 3 years

Stuart Cogan
Title: Regenerative Utlramicroelectrode Arrays for Sensory-motor
Specific Interfacing
Sponsor: University of Houston
Amount: $101,736 for 1 year; expected $535,142 for 5 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: $170,000 for 2 years

Kevin Hamlen
Title: PRISM: Proof-driven Refinement of Infrastructure Software Modules
Sponsor: Georgia Institute of Technology
Amount: $219,969.61 for period 1; expected $549,906.74

Stefano Leonardi
Title: Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Grain Shape Effect on Munition Mobility
Sponsor: University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez campus
Amount: $191,816 for approximately 4 years and 5 months

Hlaing Minn
Title: SRA: Research Study on Enhancing Sensing Capabilities for Network as a Sensor (NaaS)
Sponsor: DOCOMO Innovations, Inc.
Amount: $50,000 for approximately 5 months

Alexander Murphy
Title: Engineering Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Sponsor: American Society for Engineering Education
Amount: $259,000 for 2 years

Shalini Prasad
Title: IPA SRA: Exploring Soil Parameters through Electrochemistry Towards Assessment of Soil Health
Sponsor: Soil in Formation
Amount: $640,040 for 2 years

Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Magnetomechanical Modulation of Blood-brain Barrier Permeability
Sponsor: CPRIT
Amount: $250,000 for 2 years

September 2021

Feng Chen
Title: IPA SRA: A Prototype Machine Learning System for Load and Price Forecasting and Bid Optimization for the ERCOT Market
Sponsor: Rayburn Country Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Amount: $280,956 for 1 year

Shuang Cui
Title: Phase-change Thermal Energy Storage from Biodegradable
Wood-based Materials
Sponsor: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, Managing and Operating Contractor for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the US Dept.
of Energy
Amount: $65,000 for 1 year

Doug DeGroot
Title: CENT-IQ: The Center for Applied AI & Machine Learning
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $125,000 for 5 years

Baowei Fei
Title: CENT-IQ: The Center for Imaging and Surgical Innovation
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $125,000 for 3 years

Giacomo Valerio Iungo
Title: Technical Support for the American Wake Experiment (AWAKEN) Project
Sponsor: Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC, Managing and Operating Contractor for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the U.S. Dept. Of Energy
Amount: $58,650 for 1 year

Rishabh Iyer
Title: Collaborative Research: RI: Medium: Submodular Information Function with Application to Machine Learning
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $599,594 for approximately 3 years

Jeong-Bong Lee
Title: Realtime Greenhouse Emission Monitoring Sensor Development
Sponsor: The US Dept. of Agriculture
Amount: $83,309 for 1 year

Tien Nguyen
Title: Human-in-the-Loop XAI-enabled Vulnerability Detection, Investigation and Mitigation
Sponsor: National Security Agency
Amount: $239,870.05 for period 1; expected $491,485.86 for approximately
3 years and 3 months

Tien Nguyen
Title: Collaborative Research: CCRI: ENS: Boa 2.0: Enhancing Infrastructure for Studying Software and its Evaluation on a Large Scale
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $448,168 for 3 years

Dong Qian
Title: Development and Validation of a Virtual Laparoscopic Hiatal Hernia Simulator (VLaHHS)
Sponsor: University of the Southwest
Amount: $54,290 for 1 year; expected $109,290 for 2 years

Shashank Sirsi
Title: IPA SRA: Testing Agreement: Proof of concept pilot experiments to test the efficacy of using AMB Labs proprietary drug delivery platform to treat mice models of neuroblastoma using anticancer drugs
Sponsor: Advanced Microbubbles Laboratories
Amount: $99,474 for 1 year

Yonas Tadesse
Title: Fellowship: Multi-layer novel morphing structure with high-performance embedded polymer artificial muscles for robotics and human performance
Sponsor: Toyato Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year

Walter Voit
Title: CENT-IQ: CAIQUE: Center for Applied AI at the IQ with UT Dallas Expertise
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $125,000 for 3 years

Rym Zalila-Wenkstern
Title: Digitizing Traffic Control Infrastructure for Autonomous Vehicles
Sponsor: Texas Dept. of Transportation
Amount: $101,153 for 2 years

Rym Zalila-Wenkstern
Title: CENT-IQ: Center for Smart and Connected Mobility
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $150,000 for 4 years

August 2021

Ovidiu Daescu
Title: IUCRC Membership Agreement
Sponsor: JD Finance America Corporation
Amount: $150,000 for 2 years

Ravi Prakash
Title: Collaborative Research: CCRI: Planning: InfraStructure for Photorealistic Image and Environment Synthesis (I-SPIES)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $9,160 for 1 years

Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Rapid Diagnostic Test for Respiratory Syncytial Virus by
Digital Nanobubbles
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $1,000,000 for 4 years

July 2021

Stephanie G. Adams
Title: Adaptation: Adapting Successful Practices to foster an Inclusive, Respectful, and Equitable Environment (ASPIRE²)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,000,000 for 3 years

Leonidas Bleris
Title: Collaborative Research: Genome Editing Approaches to Unravel MicroRNA Roles in Stochastic Multistable Networks
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $493,291 for approximately 5 years

Feng Chen
Title: Collaborative Research: III: Medium: MUDL: Multidimensional Uncertainty-Award Deep Learning Framework
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $120,278 for 1 year, expected $499,955 for 4 years

Yun Chiu
Title: SRA: High-Performance Low Power Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS} Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)
Sponsor: Nebula Microsystems, Inc.
Amount: $225,000 for 3 years

Stuart Cogan
Title: SRA: Flexible thin-film neural interface for stimulating deep brain regions
Sponsor: Braingrade GmbH
Amount: $89,723 for 6 months

Xianming Dai
Title: SPIRe: Engineered Surfaces For The Condensation Of Low Surface Tension Fluids
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $60,000 for 1 year

Serdar Erbatur
Title: Unification in Symbolic Methods for the Verification of Automatically Synthesized Cryptosystems
Sponsor: Clarkson University
Amount: $19,000 for 7 months

Xiaohu Guo
Title: SPIRe: Motion Capture Metric Development for the Study of Vocal Muscle Strain
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $60,000 for 1 year

John Hansen
Title: EAGER: Collaborative Research: Second Language Speech Production: Formulation of Object Speech Intelligibility Measures and Learner-specific Feedback
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $134,977 for 18 months

Fatemeh Hassanipour
Title: MCA: Physics-Informed and Geometry-Informed Machine Learning for Analysis of Multi-scale Distensible Biological Structures
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $360,517 for 3 years

Seth Hays
Title: Wireless Nerve Stimulation Device to Enhance Recovery After Stroke
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $3,408,782 for 3 years

Julia Hsu
Title: High-Speed Solution Printing and Photonic Curing of Transparent Electrodes on Plastics
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy
Amount: $813,345

Murat Kantarcioglu
Title: CICI: UCSS: Blockchain Based Assured Open Scientific Data Sharing and Governance
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $499,692 for approximately 3 years

Kenneth O
Title: SRA: Imaging Fur, Human Hair, and Adult and Nymph Ticks Using 140-280 Ghz Electromagnatic Waves
Sponsor: DiamondFox Enterprise
Amount: $28,183 for 5 months

Balakrishnan Prabhakaran
Title: Collaborative Adaptive Augmented Reality Environment (CAARE)
Sponsor: US Army Research Lab
Amount: $256,000 for 2 years

Manuel Quevedo
Title: PFI-TT: Scalable solid state neutron and gamma detectors for diverse industrial applications
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $249,392

Joshua Summers
Title: FMSG: Internet of People and Things – Bridging Manual to Semiautomated Processes through Cybermanufacturing Collaborative Intelligence
Sponsor: Clemson University
Amount: $65,001 for 1 Year, expected $130,000 for 2 years

Victor Varner
Title: UT Southwestern O’Brien Kidney Research Core Center
Sponsor: UT Southwestern Medical Center
Amount: $35,000 for 1 year

Eric Wong
Title: SRA: Security Vulnerability Assessment Framework for Defi Smart Contracts
Sponsor: RFCyber Corporation
Amount: $24,000 for 1 year

Guoping Xiong
Title: Designing and Processing Microstructurally Tailored Graphene Aerogels with an Understanding of Deformation and Failure Mechanisms
Sponsor: University of Nevada Reno
Amount: $221,315 for approximately 2 years

June 2021

Xianming Dai
Title: CAREER: Vapor-Liquid Separation for Sustainable Condensation Heat Transfer
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $409,827 for first 4years; expected $517,072 for 5 years

Kevin Hamlen
Title: STTR: Self-Healing Ship Systems
Sponsor: RAM Laboratories, Inc.
Amount: $48,477 for base period, option 1 $34,982

Kevin Hamlen
Title: Software Attack Surface Reduction On The Fly
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Amount: $75,000 for 1 year

Murat Kantarcioglu
Title: Multi-Round Deception Games
Sponsor: Washington University at St. Louis
Amount: $40,000 for 1 year

Guoping Xiong
Title: Collaborative Research: Understanding the Synergistic Effect of Graphene Plasmonics and Nanoscale Spatial Confinement on Solar-Driven Water Phase Change
Sponsor: University of Nevada Reno
Amount: $219,000 for 2 years 5 months

Guoping Xiong
Title: Collaborative Research: Chemically Modified, Plasma-Nanoengineering Graphene Nanopetals for Spontaneous, Self-Powered and Efficient Oil Contamination Remediation
Sponsor:
Amount: $209,000 for 2 years and 10 months

May 2021

Baowei Fei
Title: Virtual Biopsy with Tissue-Level accuracy in Glioma
Sponsor: UT Southwestern Medical Center
Amount: $174,963 for approximately 5 years

Baowei Fei
Title: Image-Guided Intravascular Robotic System for Mitral Valve Repair and Implants
Sponsor: Georgia Institute of Technology
Amount: $169,809 for 1 year

Matthew Gardner
Title: Multi-Physical Co-Design of Next Generation Axial Motors for Aerospace Applications
Sponsor: Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Amount: $55,304 for period 1; expected $368,902 for 3.5 years

Julia Hsu
Title: NSF-AFRL INTERN: Dilute-Donor Organic Solar Cells: Breaking the Fullerence Monopoly (Supplemental)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $44,899

Walter Voit
Title: Paired Brain and Spinal Cord Stimulation to Strengthen Spinal Sensorimotor Circuits
Sponsor: Columbia University
Amount: $63,113 for period 1; expected $315,565 for 5 years

Jie Zhang
Title: Learning on Graphs for Resilience Decision-Support in Real-World Networks
Sponsor: Office of Neval Research
Amount: $150,000 for 1 year; expected $808,762 for 4 years

Leonidas Bleris
Title: Aging and Error Correction in DNA Storage
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $40,000 for 1 year

April 2021

Leonidas Bleris
Title: SARS-CoV-2-viral RNAs as Unique Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets
Sponsor: UT Health Science Center at San Antonio
Amount: $48,314 for 1 year

Xianming Dai
Title: PREP: Sustainable Inhibition of Biofilm Formation on Quasi-Liquid Modified Catheters
Sponsor: University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $25,000 for 1 year

March 2021

Feng Chen
Title: Advancing the Knowledge about Software Vulnerability Analysis via Large-Scale Benchmarking
Sponsor: Washington State University
Amount: $51,797 for year 1; expected $265,697 for approximately 3 years

Zhenghong Gao
Title: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Therapy for ALS Enhanced by TJ-Targeted Barrier Modulation
Sponsor:Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program
Amount: $648,389 for 2 years

Qing Gu
Title: Robust, compact, on chip microlaser enabled by merging bound states in the continuum
Sponsor: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Amount: $88,735 for approximately 2 years

Tyler Summers
Title: CAREER: Data-Driven Control of Dynamical Networks:Robustness,Risk,and Network Architectures
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $370,638 for period 1; expected $500,000 for 5 years

February 2021

Bilal Akin
Title: IPA SRA: Electric Motor Fault Diagnostics
Sponsor: Toshiba International Corporation
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year

William Anderson
Title: Asynchronous-coupled Large-eddy Simulation of Langmuir
Turbulence and the Atmospheric Surface Layer
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $239,535 for 3 years

Kyeongjae Cho
Title: ASCENT: Applications and Systems Driven Center for Energy Efficient Integrated Nano Technologies (DSSP)
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corporation, JUMP and DARPA
Amount: $125,000 for 1 year

Ovidiu Daescu
Title: SRA: Drone-based System for Automatically Mapping a Warehouse and Tracking its Inventory
Sponsor: lnfoVision, Inc.
Amount: $54,990 for 6 months

Caroline Jones
Title: Microsystems to Decipher Leukocyte Decision-Making
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $348,887 for 10 months; expected $1,475,774 for 3 years and 10 months

Andrew Marshall
Title: STTR PhaseII: Modularized High Efficiency, Low Frequency
Vibration Energy Harvesting Power Supply System
Sponsor: Microsol Technologies
Amount: $200,000 for 11.5 months

Joseph Pancrazio
Title: Asynchronous-coupled Large-eddy Simulation of Langmuir
Turbulence and the Atmospheric Surface Layer
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $239,535 for 3 years

Joseph Pancrazio
Title: SRA: High Content Pain Circuit Cell Culture System
Sponsor: Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc.
Amount: $217,044 for year 1

Jean-Francoi Veyan
Title: STTR I: Infrared Chemical Sensor for Toxic Industrial Chemicals/Toxic Industrial Materials (TICs/TIMs) Filtration Performance Monitoring
Sponsor: Max-IR LABS, LLC
Amount: $50,000 for approximately 7 months

Shiyi Wei
Title: CAREER: Improving the Practicality of Configurable Static Analysis
Tools through Analysis, Testing, Refinement and Adaptation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $161,539 for period 1; expected $458,849 for
approximately 5 years

Eric Wong
Title: Collaborative Research: I/URC PhaseII: Security and Software
Engineering Research Center (S2ERC)
Sponsor: Ball State University
Amount: $81,900 for 4 months

Eric Wong
Title: REU Site: Software Safety and Reliability: Research, Practice, and
Innovation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $404,772 for 3 years

January 2021

Kanad Basu
Title: Machine Learning-based Efficient Atomic Layer Deposition
Sponsor: University of Central Florida and Semiconductor Research Corp
Amount: $27,540 for year 1; expected $85,644 for 3 years

Kevin Hamlen
Title: Information and Software Assurance: Dynamic Multi-Layer Multi- Stage Cognition-Inspired Active Cyber Deception
Sponsor: US Army Research Office
Amount: $100,000 for 5 months; expected $600,000 for 3 years

Kenneth Hoyt
Title: Multiparametric Ultrasound Imaging for Early Detection of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $437,873 for year 1; expected $1,650,462 for 4 years

Moon Kim
Title: Floating Gate Microscopy Development
Sponsor: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies
Amount: $150,000 for 9 months

Georgios Makris
Title: Al/ML Edge Hardware for Ultra-reliable Wireless Networks
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp.
Amount: $40,000 for 1 year; expected $120,000 for 3 years

Georgios Makris
Title: SRA: ML-Based PCM-Probe Test Correlation Analysis and Smart Dicer
Sponsor: NXP USA Inc.
Amount: $49,982 for 1 year

Shalini Prasad
Title: SRA: Investigation and Assessment of Food Contaminants in Sample Matrices without Need for Pre-processing
Sponsor: Sensorx Pty Ltd.
Amount: $220,000 for 2 years

Dong Qian
Title: SRA: Using Laser Shock Peening to Improve the Mechanical Properties of Tool Steel
Sponsor: BeamTech Optronics Co. Ltd.
Amount: $16,000 for 6 months

Joshua Summers
Title: Collaborative Research: Creativity in Teams: Identifying the Role of Meetings in Fostering Effective Cognitive and Social Processes in Teams
Sponsor: Clemson University
Amount: $39,000 for 7 months; expected $117,000 for 2 years and 7 months

Bhavani Thuraisingham
Title: From Device to Cloud: An End-to-End Framework for Trusted Edge Computing for lloT Security
Sponsor: Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Amount: $60,154 for 9 months

Jie Zhang
Title: Machine Learning-based Real-Time Optimal Switchings of Reconfigurable Microgrids
Sponsor: US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Amount: $104,173 .11 for 1 year

December 2020

Kevin Hamlen
Title: Extending Assurance of kernal Software to Instruction Level (EASIL)
Sponsor: Siege Technologies and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under Contract No. HR001121C0028
Amount: $170,000 for 14 months

Babak Fahimi
Title: SRA: Testing and Optimal Operation of a Switched Resistance Motor Drive with New Rotor Geometry
Sponsor: Turntide Technologies Inc.
Amount: $75,000

John Hansen
Title: Speech Diarization and Transcription for NASA HERA Audio
Sponsor: KBR Wyle Services, LLC
Amount: $75,000 for 11 months$75,000 for 11 months

Cong Liu
Title: Collaborative Research: CPS: Medium: Timeliness vs. Trustworthiness: Balancing Predictability and Security in Time-Sensitive CPS Design
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $239,897 for 3 years

Hongbing Lu
Title: Center for Micromorphic Multiphysics Porus and Particulate Materials Simulations with Exascale Computing Workflows
Sponsor: University of Colorado at Boulder
Amount: $80,000 for year 1; expected $720,000 for 5 years

Georgios Makris
Title: Machine Learning Solutions for Golden Chip-Free Hardware Trojan Detection based on Fusion of Electrical & Optical Measurements
Sponsor: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies
Amount: $200,000 for 9 months

Giacomo Valerio Iungo
Title: Notice of Award: CAREER: Scalar Transport in High Reynolds Number Boundary Layer with Heterogeneous Roughness and Source Fl ux: Modeling Marine Aerosol in Coastal Regions
Sponsor: National Science Foundation:
Amount: $502,482 for 5 years

November 2020

Babak Fahimi
Title: MRI: Development of Grand-Scale Atmospheric Imaging Apparatus (GAIA) for Field Characterization of Atmospheric Flows and Particle Transport
Sponsor: University of Minnesota:
Amount: $202,976 for 3 years

Jiyoung Kim
Title: Novel Organic-Inorganic Hybrid EUV Dry Resists Deposited by Molecular Atomic Layer Deposition (MALO)
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corporation
Amount: $83,125 for period 1; expected $249,375 for 3 years

David Schmidtke
Title: SPIRe: Development of Novel Recirculating Microfluidic Devices for Cardiovascular Research
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year

October 2020

Georgios Makris
Title: Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes using Advanced Commercial Capabilities (RAMP)
Sponsor: IBM
Amount: $143,576 for approximately 5 months

William Vandenberghe
Title: New Layered 2D Gate Dielectrics for Scaled BEOL Transistors
Sponsor: University of Notre Dame and Semiconductor Research Corporation
Amount: $56,249 for period 1; expected $143,750 for 3 years and 3 months

September 2020

Kanad Basu
Title: Vaccinating Integrated Circuits Interconnected with Attack-Immune Architecture
Sponsor: George Mason University
Amount: $5,199 for 6 months

Carlos Busso
Title: Endogenous Fluorescence Lifetime Endoscopy for Early Detection of Oral Cancer and Dysplasia
Sponsor: University of Oklahoma
Amount: $47,000 for year 1; expected $141,000 for 3 years

Kevin Hamlen
Title: STTR MORTIMER: Language Mechanisms and Tools for Run-Time Memory Access Policy Enforcement
Sponsor: Intelligent Automation, Inc.
Amount: $75,000 for 6 months

Jason Jue
Title: CNS Core: Small: Design and Evaluation of Methods for Supporting Resilient and High-Availability Elastic Network Slicing
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $449,651 for 3 years

Latifur Khan
Title: Detection of Advanced Persistent Threats Using Machine Learning Techniques
Sponsor: National Institute of Science and Technology
Amount: $64,719 for 1 year

Jiyoung Kim
Title: Low Temperature HZO Ferroelectric Technology for FEOL and BEOL Applications
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp.
Amount: $112,500 for period 1; expected $287,500 for approximately 3 years

Shashank Sirsi
Title: Service Agreement: Microbubble T-Cell Transfection Project
Sponsor: Lupagen, Inc.
Amount: $32,140 for 5 months

August 2020

Stephanie G. Adams
Title: CNS Core: EAGER: Building Leadership Capacity and Support for Women of Color Faculty
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $299,173 for 2 years

Leonidas Bleris
Title: Collaborative Research: Unraveling Extracellular MicroRNA Communication
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $623,679 for 4 years

Andrea Fumagalli
Title: Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: RUI: Optics Without Borders
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $299,954 for year 1; expected $377,300 for 3 years

Kevin Hamlen
Title: Formal Security Evaluation of Executing Untrusted Binaries on Embedded Processors
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year

Latifur Khan
Title: Collaborative Research: EAGER: SaTC-EDU: Secure and Privacy- Preserving Adaptive Artiﬁcial Intelligence Curriculum Development for Cybersecurity
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $239,855 for 2 years

Jiyoung Kim
Title: Development of Furnace Type ALD with Extremely High Throughput (100 wafers/batch) for Multi-Component materials for Next Generation Device Applications
Sponsor: YEST – Yes Technology
Amount: $120,000 for 9 months

Georgios Makris
Title: CAD Flow Development for Design Obfuscation through Post-Fabrication Transistor—Level Programming (TRAP)
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $100,000 for 1 year

Majid Minary
Title: Self-Sensing and Self-Healing Metal Matrix Composites
Sponsor: US Air Force Ofﬁce of Scientiﬁc Research
Amount: $479,779 for 4 years

Reza Moheimani
Title: STTR I: Atomically Precise Scanning Probe Based Analysis of Activated Dopants for 2D Micro Electronics
Sponsor: Zyvex Labs, LLC
Amount: $75,107 for 1 year

Sriraam Natarajan
Title: Machine Learning Approaches Towards Risk Assessment and Prediction of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes
Sponsor: lndiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis
Amount: $116,783 for year 1; expected $389,755 for 3 years

Aria Nosratinia
Title: Collaborative Research: CIF: Medium: Security through the Lens of Information Asymmetry: A Pragmatic Evolution of Goals and Models in Physical Layer Security
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $300,082 for 3 years

Kenneth O
Title: Ultra-Low Jitter Frequency Synthesizer
Sponsor: Inertialwave and US Air Force Research Laboratory Microelectronics Design and Prototyping Challenge under Subaward number FA8650-19-2-6983
Amount: $180,000 for 4 months

Benjamin Carrion Schaefer
Title: Embedded FPGA (eFPGA)
Sponsor: Inertialwave and US Air Force Research Laboratory Microelectronics Design and Prototyping Challenge under Subaward number FA8650-19-2-6983
Amount: $200,000 for 4 months

Shashank Sirsi
Title: Testing Agreement: Proof of concept pilot experiments to test the efﬁcacy of using AMB Labs proprietary drug delivery platform to treat mice models of neuroblastoma using anticancer drugs
Sponsor: Advanced Microbubbles Laboratories LLC
Amount: $10,104 for 5 months

Shiyi Wei
Title: Collaborative Research: SHF: Small: An Automated Full-Lifecycle Approach for Improving the Development and Use of Static Analysis
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $249,944 for 3 years

Guoping Xiong
Title: Mechanisms of Plasma-Catalytic Petroleum Upgrading
Sponsor: American Chemical Society
Amount: $109,947 for 13 months

Jie Zhang
Title: Deep Learning-based Reliability and Resilience Enhancement of Future New Ships and Their Integration into Power Networks under Extreme Events
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Amount: $509,115 for 3 years

July 2020

Stephanie G. Adams
Title: Collaborative Research: Rising Doctoral Institute
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $473,883 for 5 years

Joseph Friedman
Title: Stochasticity, Polymorphism and Non-Volatility: Three Pillars of Security and Trust Intrinsic to Emerging Technologies
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year

Latifur Khan
Title: Research and Educational Activities at IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2020
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $25,000 for 1 year

Jiyoung Kim
Title: Development of Highly Reliable and Low Voltage Ferroelectric Thin Films, and Characterization and Reliability of Ferroelectric Capacitors and FeFETs
Sponsor: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Amount: $66,300 for 10 months

Jiyoung Kim
Title: SRA:Research with International Future Semiconductor Innovation and Commercialization
Sponsor: Inha University
Amount: $59,851 for 1 year and 3 months

Justin Koeln
Title: Scalable Assured Functional Tactical Energy Autonomy
Sponsor: SPG Institute, Inc.
Amount: $416,000 for 2 years

Hongbing Lu
Title: Hydroformed Low-impedance Bellows for JLEIC
Sponsor: Bailey Tool and Manufacturing
Amount: $45,000 for 9 months

Georgio Makris
Title: Design Obfuscation and Performance Locking Solutions for Analog/RF ICs
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $75,000 for 1 year

Andrian Marcus
Title: Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: Bug Report Management 2.0
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $201,882 for year 1; $408,677 for 3 years

Rodrigo Bernal Montoya
Title: EAGER: Nanoscale Elastocaloric Effect in Phase-Change Nanowires for Solid-State Cooling
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $99,995 for 1 year

Aria Nosratinia
Title: CIF: Small: Community Detection Meets Non-Graph Data: Principles and Applications
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $449,410 for 3 years

Siavash Pourkamali
Title: STTR Phase I: Long Stroke Micromachined Arrayed Cell Electrostatic Actuators for Highly Integrated Micro-Positioning
Sponsor: Silicon DynamiX, Inc.
Amount: $87,409 for 1 years

June 2020

Carlos Busso
Title: CCRI: Medium: MSP-Podcast: Creating The Largest Speech Emotional Database By Leveraging Existing Naturalistic Recordings
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,075,386 for 3 years

D. Todd Griffith
Title: Upscale: 20MW Floating Offshore Wind
Sponsor: Institute for Energy Technology
Amount: $100,121 for 4 years

Xiaohu Guo
Title: OAC Core: Small: Open-Source Robust 4D Reconstruction Framework for Real-Time Dynamic Human Capture
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $499,997 for 3 years

Gopal Gupta
Title: Consistent Logical Automated Reasoning for Integrated System Software Assurance (CLARISSA)
Sponsor: Honewell, DARPA
Amount: $682,374 for approximately 4 years

John Hansen
Title: CCRI: Medium: Developing a Multi-Channel Naturalistic Audio Corpora for the Natural Language Processing Research Community
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,211,500 for 3 years

Yang Hu
Title: CAREER: Rethinking the Architectures and Systems for Autonomous Driving Infrastructure
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $508,339

Giacomo Valerio Iungo
Title: WindFluX Lab Participation in the AWAKEN Project
Sponsor: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, Managing and Operating Contractor for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the US Dept of Energy
Amount: $35,290

Moon Kim
Title: A General and Robust Route to Highly Diverse Hollow Nanostructures with New Properties
Sponsor: University of Central Florida
Amount: $114,687

Stephen Levene
Title: MEGA: Development of a UT Dallas Initiative for Physical Genomics and Inherited-disease Research
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $100,000

Sriraam Natarajan
Title: Human Guided Unified Learning of Tractable Deep Probabilistic Models
Sponsor: US Army Research Office
Amount: $75,000 for period 1; expected $375,449 for 3 years

Girgis Obaid
Title: Molecular Imaging-directed Bioengineering of Nanoconjugates as Adaptable Tumor Targeting Platforms
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $722,223

Shalini Prasad
Title: IPA SRA: Soil Sensor Project Phase I: Electrochemical evaluation of soil as a solid electrolyte for measurement of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil inorganic carbon (SIC)
Sponsor: Soil Data Ltd.
Amount: $388,518 for 1 year

Amy Walker
Title: SBIR: Real-time Nitrogen Sensor for Wastewater Treatment Optimization
Sponsor: Max-IR Labs, LLC
Amount: $100,000 for 2 years

Hejian Xiong
Title: Highly Photosensitive Phospholipid Nanovesicles for Near Infrared Light-triggered Local Anesthesia
Sponsor: Phospholipid Research Center
Amount: $73,829

Lingming Zhang
Title: CAREER: Maximal and Scalable Unified Debugging for the JVM Ecosystem
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $519,819

May 2020

Murat Kantarcioglu
Title: RAPID: Collaborative: A Privacy Risk Assessment Framework for Person-Level Data Sharing During Pandemics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $99,925

Shalini Prasad
Title: SRA: Design of sensors for gas phase detection of selected VOCs
Sponsor: NanoBio Detection Systems
Amount: $1,683,000

Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Rapid Diagnostic Test for Respiratory Syncytial Virus by Digital Nanobubbles
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $2,516,426

April 2020

Ann Majewicz Fey
Title: Workshop on Women in Medical Robotics; Atlanta, Georgia; April 22-24, 2020
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $16,450

Todd Griffith
Title: A Low-Cost Floating Offshore Vertical Axis Wind System
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy
Amount: $3,300,000

Qing Gu
Title: CAREER: Environmentally Stable Electrically Pumped Perovskite Laser
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $500,000

Robert Wallace
Title: Collaborative Research: Atomically Thin Topological Insulators via Confinement Heteroepitaxy
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $300,000 for 3 years

March 2020

Naofal Al-Dhahir
Title: STTR I: A Self-Learning Approach for In-Vehicle Driver and Passenger Monitoring Through a Sensor Fusion Approach
Sponsor: Edgetensor Technologies Inc.
Amount: $80,000

Andrew Marshall
Title: Modularized High Efficiency, Low Frequency Vibration Energy Harvesting Power Supply System
Sponsor: Microsol Technologies Inc.
Amount: $30,000

Seung Mun You
Title: Design and Manufacturing Technologies for a Thin Thermal Ground Plane
Sponsor: Korea Institute of Machinery and Materia
Amount: $191,814

Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Ultrasensitive and Rapid Diagnosis of Influenza by Digital Nanobubbles on a Microwell Array Platform
Sponsor: Congressional Directed Medical Research
Amount: $293,492

Rod Wetterskog
Title: Localization of a Single Sound Source
Sponsor: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Amount: $20,251

February 2020

Carlos Busso
Title: SRA – Driving Anomaly Detection Based On Multi-Modal Fusion Of Driver Behavioral Signals And External Scene Information
Sponsor: Honda Research Institute USA Inc.
Amount: $97,227

Feng Chen
Title: SRA: Advanced Analytics & Deep Learning for the Power Generation and Distribution Industry (Phase I)
Sponsor: Vistra Corporate Services Co.
Amount: $330,864

Murat Kantarcioglu
Title: FAI: Categorizing, Measuring, and Mitigating Algorithmic Fairness
Sponsor: Purdue University
Amount: $19,710 for 1 year

Georgios Makris
Title: Imaging-Based Usage Analysis and Key Extraction from Analog Floating-Gate Transistors
Sponsor: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
Amount: $149,999 for approximately 7.5 months

Lingming Zhang
Title: CAREER: Maximal and Scalable Unified Debugging for the JVM Ecosystem
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $94,106 for year 1; $519,819 for 5 years

January 2020

Stephanie G. Adams
Title: Dissertation Institute
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $510,391 for 27 months

Carlos Busso
Title: SCH: INT: Collaborative Research: Passive Sensing of Social Isolation and Loneliness: A Digital Phenotyping Approach
Sponsor: Boston University
Amount: $52,043 for period 1; $184,945 for approximately 4 years

Baowei Fei
Title: SEED: Workshop: Biomedical Imaging and Data Science for Surgical Innovation
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $9,000

Latifur Khan
Title: SATC: EDU: Curriculum Development for Secure Blockchain Technologies
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $499,595

Majid Minary
Title: SBIR Phase II: An Innovative Additive Manufacturing Technology for High Density Interconnects
Sponsor: nanoRANCH-UHV Technologies, Inc.
Amount: $255,481 for 2 years

Hlaing Minn
Title: Research Study on Channel Characteristics of Emerging Wireless Assistive Applications
Sponsor: DOCOMO Innovations, Inc.
Amount: $30,000

Shalini Prasad
Title: Pilot study of CLASP: Noninvasive Passive Eccrine Sweat Platform for Tracking IBD Flares
Sponsor: Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation
Amount: $200,000

Mario Rotea
Title: Phase II IUCRC UT Dallas: Center for Wind Energy Science, Technology and Research (WindSTAR)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $101,421 for year 1

Shashank Sirsi
Title: SRA: Testing of Novel Lipidized Chemotherapeutics in Xenograft Mouse Model
Sponsor: New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
Amount: $20,000 for approximately 1 year

December 2019

Stephanie G. Adams
Title: Academic Career Enhancement for Underrepresented Faculty in Engineering
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $142,688 for 1 year

Feng Chen
Title: CAREER: SPARK: A Theoretical Framework for Discovering Complex Patterns in Big Attributed Networks
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $181,187 transferred amount; expected total of $512,067.

November 2019

Kanad Basu
Title: Effective In-field Testing and Diagnosis for Improvement of Functional Safety
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corporation
Amount: $74,970 for 1 year; expected $224,970 for 3 years.

Bryan Black
Title: SRA: The effects of Electrical Stimulation on Chemokine-Sensitized Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons in Vitro
Sponsor: Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc.
Amount: $31,400 for 1 year

Feng Chen
Title: III: Small: Collaborative Research: A Novel Paradigm for Detecting Complex Anomalous Patterns in Multi-modal, Heterogeneous, and High-dimensional Multi-source Data Sets
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $205,904 for 2 years

Kevin Hamlen
Title: STTR: High Assurance Information Segregation Solution (HAISS)
Sponsor: Trusted Science & Technology, Inc.
Amount: $45,000 for 7 months

Shuang Hao
Title: Adaptive Defense against Stealthy Resource-Intensive DoS Attacks
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Amount: $197,040 for 2 years

Jiyoung Kim
Title: Investigation on Negative Capacitance Field Effect Transistors (NC-FETs) with Ferroelectric HfZrO2 Gate Stack
Sponsor: Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
Amount: $150,000 for 1 year

October 2019

Bryan Black
Title: hiPSC-based DRG Tissue Mimics on Multi-well Microelectrode Arrays as a Tissue Chip Model of Acute and Chronic Nociception
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $849,217

Ding-Zhu Du
Title: III: Small: Collaborative Research: Stream-based Active Mining at Scale: Non-Linear Non-Submodular Maximization
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $250,000 for 3 years

Joseph Friedman
Title: Reservoir Computing with Nanomagnets and Magnetic Skyrmions
Sponsor: Griffiss Institute Air Force under MOU FA8750-15-3-6000
Amount: $7,446 for 3.5 months

Kenneth Hoyt
Title: Monitoring Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy of Breast Cancer using 3D Subharmonic Aided Pressure Estimation
Sponsor: Thomas Jefferson University
Amount: $25,049 for period 1; expected $796,999 for approximately 5 years

Sriraam Natarajan
Title: Science Genome: A Scholarly Graph Embedding Framework to Uncover the Fundamental Dynamics of Scientific Enterprise
Sponsor: Indiana University
Amount: $100,000 for 1 year; expected $500,000 for 5 years

Shalini Prasad
Title: IPA SRA: Investigation of the Utilization of Electrochemical Approaches to Trace Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds
Sponsor: NanoBio Detection Systems LLC
Amount: $989,000 for 1 year

September 2019

Stuart Cogan
Title: Development and Translation of Novel SiC/Parylene Encapsulation Thin Films for Chronic Auditory Nerve Implant Electrodes
Sponsor: Blackrock Microsystems LLC
Amount: $31,914 for approximately 1 year

Baowei Fei
Title: Smart Surgical Microscope Powered by AI Technology and Hyperspectral Imaging
Sponsor: CPRIT
Amount: $914,433 for year 1; expected $1,592,405 for 3 years

Baowei Fei
Title: STAN-CT: Standardization and Normalization of CT Images for Lung Cancer Patients
Sponsor: University of Kentucky
Amount: $30,881 for 1 year

Nicholas Fey
Title: NRI: INT: COLLAB: Muscle Ultrasound Sensing for Intuitive Control of Robotic Leg Prostheses
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $578,233 for 4 years

Murat Kantarcioglu
Title: Multi-round Deception Games
Sponsor: Washington University in St. Louis
Amount: $25,000 for 8 months

Jiyoung Kim
Title: MRI: Acquisition of Plasma Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition (PEALD) for Extremely Conformal Deposition of Metal and Nitride Films on 3D-Nanostructure Devices
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $274,995 for 2 years

Georgios Makris
Title: Phase I IUCRC University of Texas at Dallas: Center for Hardware and Embedded System Security and Trust (CHEST)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $750,000 for 5 years

Reza Moheimani
Title: STTR II: High-speed Platform for Highly Parallel STM Lithography and Hierarchical Assembly
Sponsor: Zyvex Labs LLC
Amount: : $236,744 for year 1; expected total of $499,931 for 2 years

Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Development of New Photo-releasable Neuropeptide Nano-vesicles for Studying Modulation in the Brain
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $2,399,777 for 1 year

Benjamin Carrion Schaefer
Title: Nerve Agent Detection Using a Compact Infrared Sensor
Sponsor: NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme under project SPS G5640
Amount: $21,462 for 3 years

Tyler Summers
Title: Scalable/Secure Cooperative Algorithms and Framework for Extremely High Penetration Solar Integration (SolarExPert)
Sponsor: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, managing and operating contractor for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the US Dept of Energy
Amount: $49,404 for year 1

Taylor Ware
Title: Shape-Morphing Living Composites
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $462,234 for 3 years

Jie Zhang
Title: Multi-Timescale Nuclear-Renewable Hybrid Energy Systems Operations to Improve Electricity System Resilience, Reliability, and Economic Efficiency
Sponsor: US Dept. of Energy
Amount: $777,482 for 3 years

August 2019

Kyeongjae Cho
Title: Electronic and Optical Properties of 2D materials with Varying Stacking and Orientation
Sponsor: Korea Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute
Amount: $20,000 for 6 months

Xianming Dai
Title: A Self-Cleaning Coating
Sponsor: Nanjing Nano New Material Technology Institute
Amount: $85,000 for 1 year

John Hansen
Title: Workshops on NASA Apollo Mission Audio as a Community Research Resource
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $30,906 for 8 months

John Hansen
Title: Collaborative Research: CSL-MultiAD: Assessing Collaborative STEM Leaming through Rich Information Flow based on Multi-Sensor Audio Diarization
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $450,000 for 3 years

Julia Hsu
Title: Dilute-Donor Organic Solar Cells: Breaking the Fullerene Monopoly
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $415,922 for 3 years

Latifur Khan
Title: SATC: EDU: Curriculum Development for Secure Blockchain Technologies
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $499,595 for 3 years

Jiyoung Kim
Title: SRA: Study on ALD HZO-based AFE Dielectrics for the next generation of DRAM Capacitors
Sponsor: SK Hynix, Inc.
Amount: $300,000 for 2 years

Andrian Marcus
Title: SHF: Small: Automated Fine-Grained Requirements Traceability
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $444,956 for 3 years

Siavash Pourkamali
Title: Collaborative Research: Micro-ElectroMechanical Neural Integrated Sensing and Computing Units for Wearable Device Applications
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $155,505 for approximately 3 years

Siavash Pourkamali
Title: EAGER: Phononic Amplification for Active Filtering at Radio Frequency
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $129,205 for approximately 18 months

Siavash Pourkamali
Title: Development of a Miniaturized Electronic Biosensing Platform
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $349,999 for 3 years

Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Optical Control of Protein Activity in Live Cells by Plasmon Assisted Light Inactivation
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $382,500 for year 1; expected $1,912,500 for 5 years

Tyler Summers
Title: Verifiable Hierarchical Sensing, Planning, and Control
Sponsor: US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Amount: $150,287 for year 1; expected $454,300 for 3 years

Kui Tan
Title: Understanding and Tailoring Diffusion and Co-Absorption Inside the Confined Pores of Metal-Organic Frameworks
Sponsor: Wake Forest University
Amount: $144,836 for period 1; expected $384,965 for approximately 3 years

Amy Walker
Title: LSAMP BD: University of Texas at Dallas University of Texas System LSAMP
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,075,000 for 2 years

Taylor Ware
Title: Liquid Crystal Elastomer as a Dynamic Treatment of Incontinence in Women
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $193,820 for year l; expected $620,648 for 2 years 9

July 2019

Xianming Dai
Title: Water-harvesting and Self-cleaning Air/liquid Independent Surfaces
Sponsor: US Army Research Office
Amount: $359,997 for 3 years

Qing Gu
Title: YIP: Optoelectrics: Ultrafast Directly Modulated NanoLED for On-chip Optical Interconnect
Sponsor: US Army Research Office
Amount: $40,000 for period 1; expected #356,866 for 3 years

Gopal Gupta
Title: RI: Small: Inducing Answer Set Programs to Provide Accurate and Concise Explanation of Machine-learned Models
Sponsor: National Science Foundtion
Amount: $450,000 for approximately 3 years

Kenneth Hoyt
Title: Endothelial Estrogen Receptor Alpha and Cardiometabolic Disease
Sponsor: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Amount: $26,293 for 11 months; expected $108,371 for 3 years and 11 months

Jeong-Bong Lee
Title: Collaborative Research: Liquid Metal Tuned Flexible Metasurfaces
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $274,999 for 3 years

Arif Malik
Title: Student Support: 2020 Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference and 48th North American Manufacturing Research Conference; Cincinnati, Ohio; June 22-26, 2020
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $49,920 for 1 year

Mijad Minary
Title: Low-cost Manufacturing of Bioinspired Damage – Tolerant Ceramic Composites
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $372,775 for approximately 3 years

Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Optically Modulation of Blood-Brain Barrier Tight Junctions by Molecular Hypothermia #19CSL0134770004
Sponsor: American Heart Association
Amount: $750,000 for 3 years

Kamil Sarac
Title:UTD SFS Renewal: Enriching Technical Program Offerigns for SFS Scholarship Program at UTD
Sponsor:National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,465,997 for yer 1; expected $4,014,883

William Vandenberghe
Title: Collaborative Research: Defect Immune, Topologically Protected Devices for Ultra-Low Power Electronics
Sponsor: University of Notre Dame
Amount: $145,505 for period 1; expected $220,000 for approximately 3 years

June 2019

William Anderson
Title: Wall Turbulence Response to Large-scale Surface Heterogeneity: Physics-based Wall Models Derived from Coordinated Experiments and Simulations
Sponsor: US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Amount: $788,280 for 3 years

Xianming Dai
Title: EAGER: Experimental Study of Condensation Enhancement on Durable Slippery Surfaces
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $170,000 for 2 years

Joseph Friedman
Title: FET: Small: Collaborative Research: Integrated Spintronic Synapses and Neurons for Neuromorphic Computing Circuits – I(SNC)^2
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $191,118 for 3 years

Qing Gu
Title: Super-resolution Chemical Imaging Microscopy with Perovskite Gain-assisted Hyperbolic Metamaterials
Sponsor: The Welch Foundation
Amount: $65,000 for year 1; expected $195,000 for 3 years

Georgios Makris
Title: Study on Imaging-Based Extraction of Charge-Based Keys from Analog Floating-Gate Transistors
Sponsor: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
Amount: $25,000 for approximately 3 months

Hlaing Minn
Title: CIF: Small: A New Paradigm for Non-Geosynchronous Satellite Communications and Radio Astronomy Systems
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $394,815 for 3 years

Danieli Rodrigues
Title: CoBRA: A Novel Immune-interactive Surface Coating Approach to Induce Implant Osseointegration in Diabetic Conditions
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $250,000 for 2 years

David Schmidtke
Title: Regulation of Corneal Keratocyte Differentiation through the Integration of Biochemical, Biomedical and Topographic Cues
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $381,599 for year 1; expected $1,854,995 for 5 years

Shashank Sirsi
Title: Testing ExEm Foam Kit
Sponsor: Giskit, B.V.
Amount: #13,932 for 3.5 months

Mark Spong
Title: GOALI: Adaptive Control of Inkject Printing on 3D Curved Surfaces
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Arlington
Amount: $49,697 for 1 year

Yonas Tadesse
Title: MEDUSAE: Tactically Relevant Jellyfish-Inspired Profiling Float
Sponsor: Boston Engineering Corp.
Amount: $30,000 for approximately 4 months

May 2019

Alexandra Arteaga
Title: Understanding The Impact of Diabetes on Implant Performance: A Retrieval Study
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $38,616 for year 1; expected $154,464 for 4 years

Leonidas Bleris
Title: SPIRe: STUDS: Secure, Trusted, and Unclonable DNA Storage
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $100,000

Qing Gu
Title: SPIRe: Lossless Hyperbolic Metameterials: Fundamentals and Applications
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $100,000

Gopal Gupta
Title: I-Corps: An AI-based Physician Advisory System for Disease Management
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $50,000 for 6 months

Rashaunda Henderson
Title: Study of Nanowires (non-magnetic and magnetic) in via Technology for Interconnects at mm-wave to sub-millimeter wave frequencies
Sponsor: University of Minnesota
Amount: $67,211 for 3 years

Murat Kantarcioglu
Title: CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Security vs. Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems
Sponsor: University of California Santa Cruz
Amount: $272,149 for 2 years and 9 months

Golden Kumar
Title: CAREER: Understanding of Intrinsic Size-Effects in Deformation of Metallic Glasses
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $410,859 for approximately 3 years and 5 months

Majid Minary
Title: SRA: Scalable Additive Manufacturing Technology for Large Area Printed Circuit Boards
Sponsor: nanoRANCH-UHV Technologies, Inc.
Amount: $48,027 for approximately 13 months

Reza Moheimani
Title: SCI: Center for Atomically Precise Fabrication of Solid-State Quantum Devices
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $700,000 for 4 years

Tien Nguyen
Title: Adding C Configurable Code Parsing to Boa Large-scale Mining Infrastructure
Sponsor: Iowa State University
Amount: $93,623 for 1 year and 5 months

Tien Nguyen
Title: Statistical Generation of API Specifications from Code
Sponsor: Iowa State University
Amount: $48,225 for 6 months

Mario Rotea
Title: SCI: Texas Wind Energy Center
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $700,000

Lakshman Tamil
Title: Shape Memory Polymer Thin Film Transistors
Sponsor: Qualia, Inc.
Amount: $30,600 for 1 year

Murat Torlak
Title: SpecEES: Unified System Architecture for Energy Efficient Cognitive Radios
Sponsor: Research Foundation State University of New York, Albany
Amount: $250,000 for approximately 2 years

Taylor Ware
Title: SBIR: Low-cost Polymer Films for Foldable Cover Lenses Used in Flexible Displays
Sponsor: ARES Materials, Inc.
Amount: $199,993 for approximately 2 years

April 2019

Joseph S. Friedman
Title: Workshop: Texas Symposium on Computing with Emerging Technologies (ComET)
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $7,000 for 2 years

Todd Griffith
Title: Active Aerodynamic Load Control for Wind Turbines
Sponsor: Aquanis, Inc.
Amount: $918,077 for period 1; expected $1,296,148 for 3 years

Justin Koeln
Title: CRII: CPS: Hierarchical Control for Constrained Multi-timescale Energy Management
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $174,341 for 2 years

Majid Minary
Title: SRA: 3D Printing of Copper Micro-pillars for Solder Bumps
Sponsor: nanoRANCH-UHV Technologies, Inc.
Amount: $12,041 for 1 month

Joseph Pancrazio
Title: Characterizing and Mitigating the Role of Oxidative Damage in Microelectrode Failure
Sponsor: Case Western Reserve University
Amount: $270,238 for year I; expected $1,249,813 for 5 years

Shalini Prasad
Title: PA SRA: Investigation of the Utilization of Electrochemical Approaches to Fentanyl Detection
Sponsor: NanoBio Detection Systems LLC
Amount: $504,163 for 1 year

Zhenpeng Qin
Title: CAREER: Investigating Brain Tumor Drug Delivery by Optical Modulation of Blood-brain Barrier using Plasmonic Nanobubbles
Sponsor: CPRIT
Amount: $900,000 for 3 years

Shashank Sirsi
Title: Development of Novel Acoustic Clusters for Improving Combinatorial Neuroblastoma Therapy
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $383,925 for year 1; expected $1,813,014 for approximately 5 years

March 2019

Ann Majewiez Fey
Title: CAREER: Human-Centric Control for Teleoperated Surgical Robots
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $500,000 for 5 years

Seth Hays
Title: Wireless Nerve Stimulation Device to Enhance Recovery After Stroke
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $1,421,366 for approximately 2 years

Kevin Hamlen
Title: GAMEPLAY: Graph Analysis for Mechanized Exploit generation and Patching Leveraging human Assistance for Improved Yield
Sponsor: University of Chicago
Amount: $84,000 for 4.5 months, expected $821,957 for 3.5 years

February 2019

Xianming Dai
Title: A New Method for Thermal Management of Smartphones
Sponsor: Nanjing Bready Electronic Co., Ltd.
Amount: $158,803 for 2 years

Kenneth Hoyt
Title: 3D Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging for Cancer Detection and Treatment Monitoring
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $1,358,874 expected for 3 years, 10 months

Golden Kumar
Title: Manufacturing of Metal Nanostructures by Tensile Deformation of Liquid Metal Arrays
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $202,568 for 1 year and 9.5 months

Shalini Prasad
Title: SRA: Design of Volatile Organic Compounds Sensors for Gas Phase and Solid Detection for Threat Reduction
Sponsor: NanoBio Detection Systems
Amount: $750,466 for 1 year

Eric Wong
Title: SRA: Testing IOS/Android Applications
Sponsor: Alkami Technology, Inc
Amount: $25,000 for 1 year

January 2019

Robert Gregg
Title: NRI: Decentralized Feedback Control Design for Cooperative Robotic Walking with Application to Powered Prosthetic Legs
Sponsor: Virginia Tech
Amount: $110,001 for year 1

Kevin Hamlen
Title: Bottom-Up Formal Methods Validation of seL4 Microkernel Software
Sponsor: Intelligent Automation, Inc.
Amount: $70,000 for 9 months

Julia Hsu
Title: Higher Throughput, Lower Cost Processing of Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells by Photonic Curing
Sponsor: US Dept. of Energy
Amount: $200,000 for 1.5 years

Andrew Marshall
Title: Vital Sign Monitoring for Interstage Patients
Sponsor: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Amount: $2,500 for 9 months

Mehrdad Nourani
Title: Machine Learning Techniques for Histopathology Image Analysis
Sponsor: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Amount: $35,960 for 1 year

Shalini Prasad
Title: SRA: The Role of Hydrophobic Surfaces and Combined Nano- and Micro-porosity of Composite Membranes in Achieving Affinity Biosensing
Sponsor: W.L. Gore and Associates, Inc.
Amount: $250,000 for 1 year

Victor Varner
Title: Mechanical Control of Cell Proliferation and Branching Morphogenesis in the Embryonic Lung
Sponsor: National Institute of Health
Amount: $380,504 for year 1; expected $1,903,149 for 5 years

Jie Zhang
Title: A Hybrid Approach to SCOPF Using Cross-Entropy
Sponsor: US Dept. of Energy
Amount: $75,000 for year 1

December 2018

William Anderson
Title: NSF BSF: The Effect of Spanwise Landscape Heterogeneities on the Hydrological Cycle in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $194,617 for approximately 3 years

Murat Kantarcioglu
Title: DEPICT: Deep-Packet Intelligence for Industrial Control System
Sponsor: US Dept. of Homeland Security
Amount: $250,000 for 4 years

Shalini Prasad
Title: SRA – Temperature-Cycling Characterization using Electrichemical Impedance Spectroscopy
Sponsor: Texas Instruments
Amount: $360,000 for 4 years

Bao Tran
Title: SRA: Development and Maintenance of TL9000 and BPC Computer System
Sponsor: Telecommunications Industry Association
Amount: $1,547,003 for 3 years

November 2018

Qing Gu
Title: STTR: Midwave Infared (MWIR) Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCL) Thermal Monitoring
Sponsor: Max-IR Labs, LLC
Amount: $225,000 for 2 years and 3 months

Shalini Prasad
Title: Point of Need Sensors for Biomaker Diagnostics
Sponsor: EnLiSense
Amount: $157,263 for 1.5 years

Manuel Quevedo
Title: Radiation Background Characterization for Enhanced Anomaly Detection
Sponsor: Southern Methodist University
Amount: $149,461 for year 1; expected $748,490 for 5 years

October 2018

Kenneth Hoyt
Title: Small Animal Imaging Core Facility for Cancer Research at UT Dallas
Sponsor: CPRIT
Amount: $3,580,949 for 5 years

Murat Kantarcioglu
Title: MRI: Development of an Instrament for Secure Cyber Physical Systems Analytics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $601,797 for 3 years

Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Molecular Opening of the Blood-Brain Barrier by Molecular Hypothermia
Sponsor: CPRIT
Amount: $200,000 for 2 years

Mario Romero-Ortega
Title: Neuromodulation of Individual Pelvic Floor Muscle Activity in Urinary Incontinence
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $560,406 for year 1; expected $2,683,060 for 5 years

Justin Ruths
Title: Attack Detection for Hybrid Cyber-Physical System
Sponsor: ConTex
Amount: $33,600 for year 1

Taylor Ware
Title: LCE-LM Composites for Soft-Matter Embodied Intelligence
Sponsor: Carnegie Mellon University
Amount: $45,000 for year 1; expected $90,000 for 2 years

Jie Zhang
Title: Coordinated Ramping Product and Regulation Reserve Procurements in CAISO and MISO using Multi-Scale Probabilistic Solar Power Forecasts
Sponsor: John Hopkins University
Amount: $77,325 for year 1, expected $180,000 for 3 years

September 2018

Carlos Busso
Title: SRA: Driver Anomaly Detection Based on Driver/ Vehicle Sensor Signals
Sponsor: Honda Research Institute USA, Inc.
Amount: $86,079.64 for 1 year

Alvaro Cardenas
Title: CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Security vs. Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $634,818 for 3 years

Cogan
Stuart Cogan
Title: Scalable Electrode Technology for High Resolution Chronic Recording of Brain
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $656,076 for year 1; expected $3,112,193 for 5 years

Fei
Baowei Fei
Title: Molecular Imaging Directed, 3D Ultrasound-Guided, Biopsy System
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $141,187 for 15 months

Gregg
Robert Gregg
Title: NRI: FND: COLLAB: Optimal Design of Robust Compliant Actuators for Ubiquitous Co-Robots
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $431,244 for approximately 3 years

Kim
Jiyoung Kim
Title: Investigation on Negative Capacitance Field Effect Transistors (NC-FETs) with Ferroelectric HfZrO2 Gate Stack
Sponsor: Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
Amount: $150,000 for year 1

Marcus
Andrian Marcus
Title: EAGER: Automatic Identification of Bug Description Elements
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $200,000 for 1 year

Yonas Tadesse
Title: MEDUSAE: Tactically Relevant Jellyfish-Inspired Profiling Float
Sponsor: Boston Engineering Corp.
Amount: $38,000 for 3.5 months

Taylor Ware
Title: SBIR: Mechanically and Chemically Robust Packaging for Next Generation of Neural Interfaces
Sponsor: Qualia, Inc. and DARPA
Amount: $248,064 for 1 year; $647,865 for 3 years

Jie Zhang
Title: SUMMER-GO: Support for Solar Uncertainty Management and Mitigation for Exceptional Reliability in Grid Operations
Sponsor: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, manager and operator of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Amount: $45,062 for year 1; expected $135,500 for 3 years

Lingming Zhang
Title: SHF: Medium: Collaborative Research: Enhancing Continuous Integration Testing for the Open-Source Ecosystem
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $177,235 for year 1; expected $362,997 for 4 years

August 2018

Carlos Busso
Title: CRI: CI-P: Creating the Largest Speech Emotional Database by Leveraging Existing Naturalistic Recordings
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $99,390 for 1.5 years

Fahimi
Babak Fahimi
Title: Workshop on Future Trends and Opportunities for Power Electronics in an Electrified Transportation Industry
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $49,000 for 1 year

Robert Gregg
Title: Controlling Locomotion over Continuously Varying Activities for Agile Powered Prosthetic Legs
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $474,602 for year 1; expected $2,227,090 for 5 years

Zygmunt Haas
Title: Exploiting Spatio-temporal Locality Information for Optimal Physical-layer Security
Sponsor: US Army Research Lab
Amount: $60,000 for 9 months

Zygmunt Haas
Title: NeTS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Passive Network of Tags for Smart Spaces
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $40,993 for year 1; expected project total of $199,999 for 4 years

Murat Kantarcioglu
Title: ARO Workshop: Adversarial Machine Learning: An Interdisciplinary Approach-Workshop
Sponsor: US Army Research Office; #W911NF-18-1-0388
Amount: $25,000 for 1 year

Murat Kantarcioglu
Title: Robust Machine Learning for Cyber Operations
Sponsor: National Security Agency; #H98230-18-1-0337
Amount: $248,187 for 1 year

Latifur Khan
Title: Big Data Driven Advanced Data Science Course Curriculum Development
Sponsor: National Security Agency; #H98230-18-1-0332
Amount: $230,789 for 1 year

Jiyoung Kim
Title: Ultra-Steep Threshold Switching Selectors for High-Density Memory Applications
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp.
Amount: $88,000 for year 1; expected project total of $264,000 for 3 years

Georgios Makris
Title: ECLIPSE: Efficient Cross-Layered IP Protection Scheme
Sponsor: University of California San Diego, Air Force Research Lab and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); #FA8650-18-1-7827
Amount: $48,207; expected project total of $155,283 for 2 years

Majid Minary
Title: SBIR: Low Temperature In Space Additive Manufacturing of Metals and Alloys for NASA Missions
Sponsor: nanoRANCH-UHV Technologies, Inc.
Amount: $40,078 for 6 months

Reza Moheimani
Title: A Platform Technology for High-throughput Atomically Precise Manufacturing: Mechatronics at the Atomic Scale
Sponsor: US Dept. of Energy
Amount: $2,229,238 for 3 years

Reza Moheimani
Title: High-Speed Platform for Highly Parallel STM Lithography and Hierarchical Assembly
Sponsor: Zyvex Labs LLC
Amount: $89,917 for 1 year

Sriraam Natarajan
Title: EAGER: Collaborative Research: An Unified Learnable Roadmap for Sequential Decision Making in Relational Domains
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $98,522 for 2 years

Sriraam Natarajan
Title: Efficient Learning with Human-in-the-Loop in Structured, Noisy and Temporal Domains
Sponsor: US Air Force Office of Scientific Research; #FA9550-18-1-0462
Amount: $95,443 for year 1; expected project total of $286,329 for 3 years

Mario Romero-Ortega
Title: Miniature Wireless Neuromodulation for the Treatment of Hypertension
Sponsor: American Heart Association; #18CSA33990385
Amount: $237,616 for year 1; expected project total of $749,657

Mario Rotea
Title: EAGER: Real-Time: Decision and Control of Complex Engineered Systems Enabled by Machine Learning and High-Performance Computing
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $299,941 for 2 years

Kamil Sarac
Title: SFS Capacity Building in Security of Software Defined Networks
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount : $497,000 for 3 years

Shiyi Wei
Title: SHF: Small: Collaborative Research: Static Analysis Infrastructure for Variability-Aware Bug Detection and Translation of Highly-Configurable Software Systems
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $241,319 for 3 years

Eric Wong
Title: Phase II IUCRC University of Texas at Dallas: Center for Security and Software Engineering(S2ERC)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $100,000 for year 1; expected project total of $200,000 for 2 years

July 2018

Bryan
Bryan Black
Title: SBIR: Dynamically Softening Implantable Microelectrode Arrays
Sponsor: Qualia, Inc.
Amount: $45,684 for approximately 1 year

Alvaro Cardenas
Title: Improving the Resiliency of the Texas Power Grid
Sponsor: University of Texas System
Amount: $75,000 for year 1

Cho KJ
Kyeongjae Cho
Title: CRA: Study on Electronic Properties of bi(tri)-layer Graphene and Other 2D Materials(MoS2WS2) with Varying Stacking and Orientation
Sponsor: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea
Amount: $20,000 for 6 months

Fei
Baowei Fei
Title: Academic-Industrial Partnership for Translation of PET/TRUS Guided Intervention
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $168,985 for 8 months; expected total of $1,516,946 for 3 years and 8 months

Todd Griffith
Title: EN-MAE 50 MW Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotors for Wind Energy
Sponsor: University of Virginia
Amount: $229,965.81 for approximately year 1 and 5 months

Yang Hu
Title: SPX: Collaborative Research: Enabling Efficient Computer Architectural and System Support for Next-Generation Network Function Virtualization
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $460,039 for 4 years

Stefano Leonardi
Title: EAGER: Establishing a Numerical Framework for Multi-scale Simulations of Wildfire Spread and Smoke Dispersion
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $90,054 for approximately year 1

Arif Malik
Title: GOALI: Improved Tool-Path Design to Reduce Assembly Costs of High-Speed-Machined Wrought and Additive Metal Parts
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $458,364 for approximately 3 years

Carl Sechen
Title: OpenROAD: Foundations and Realization of Open, Accessible Design
Sponsor: University of California San Diego
Amount: $327,812 for year 1; expected total of $927,452 for 3 years

June 2018

Fei
Baowei Fei
Title: Image-guided Intravascular Robotic System for Mitral Valve Repair and Implants
Sponsor: Georgia Institute of Technology
Amount: $212,335 for year 1; expected total of $823,117 for 4 years

John Hansen
Title: Intrinsic Voice Variability Factors and Speaker Recognition: Detection and Assessment
Sponsor: SRI International
Amount: $149,485 for base period; expected total of $229,240 approximately 1 year

Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Digital Nanobubble Biosensor for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Detection
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $247,250 for year 1; expected total of $443,000 for 2 years

Benjamin Raichel
Title: CAREER: AF: Giving Form to Data with a Geometric Scaffold
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $71,962 for year 1; expected total of $497,046 for 5 years

Bhavani Thuraisingham
Title: A Secure Data Processing Infrastructure for Research and Education in loT, SCADA and SGX Systems
Sponsor: US Army Research Office
Amount: $250,000 for 1 year

Taylor Ware
Title: Liquid Crystal Elastomer Linear Actuators
Sponsor: Leggett & Platt, Inc.
Amount: $29,641 for task 1; expected total of $105,000 for 4 tasks

Eric Wong
Title: Testing OIS/Android Applications
Sponsor: Alkami Technology, Inc.
Amount: $10,000 for approximately 7 months

May 2018

John Hansen
Title: CCI-Mobile: Signal Processing Advancements for Cochlear Implant Users in Naturalistic Environments
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $669,815 for year 1; expected project total of $3,178,594 for 5 years

Nasser Kehtarnavaz
Title: Deep Learning for Recognition Tasks in Computer Vision Systems
Sponsor: Elbit Systems of America, LLC
Amount: $100,000 for 1 year

Georgios Makris
Title: Hardware Trojans in Analog/Mixed-Signal ICs: Risks & Remedies
Sponsor: Wyle Labs
Amount: $50,000 for 6 months; expected project total of $499,993 approximately 4 years

Rodrigo Bernal Montoya
Title: Understanding the Effect of Ordered Twinning on Electromigration Failure in Advanced Metallic Interconnects
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $386,998 for 3 years

Robert Rennaker
Title: Enhancing Recovery after Chronic Bilateral Cervical Spinal Cord Injury with Targeted Plasticity Therapy
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $334,688 for year 1; expected project total of $1,673,440 for 5 years

Jun Wang
Title: An Optimizer-Simulator for Phonosurgery
Sponsor: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Amount: $23,310 for 8 months

April 2018

Kyeongjae Cho
Title: DFT Modeling Study of Li-Air Batter Electrode Materials
Sponsor: Dongguk University-Seoul
Amount: $174,074 for year 1; expected total of $272,629 for 1 year and 5 months

Kyeongjae Cho
Title: Applications and Systems Driven Center for Energy-efficient Integrated NanoTechnologies (ASCENT)
Sponsor: University of Notre Dame
Amount: $200,000 for year 1; expected total of $1,000,000 for 5 years

Babak Fahimi
Title: Mitigation of Acoustic Noise Vibration in a Switched Reluctance Motor Drive
Sponsor: Software Motor Corporation
Amount: $60,000 for 7 months

Todd Griffith
Title: Dynamic Modeling for Wave Energy Convertor (WEC) Devices
Sponsor: Sandia National Labs
Amount: $75,000 for approximately 11 months

Georgis Makris
Title: Planning IUCRC University of Texas at Dallas: Center for Hardware and Embedded System Security and Trust (CHEST)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $15,000 for 1 year

Kenneth O
Title: ComSenTer: A Center for Converged TeraHertz Communications and Sensing
Sponsor: University of California Santa Barbara
Amount: $317,248 for year 1; expected total of $1,586,251 for 4 years

William Vandenberghe
Title: Performing Ultra-Low-Power Matrix-Vector Multiplications using Topological-Insulators
Sponsor: Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Amount: $100,000 for year 1; expected total of $300,000 for 3 years

Taylor Ware
Title: CAREER: Designing Microscale, Shape-Morphing Liquid Crystal Elastomers as Tissue Adhesives
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $100,000 for year 1; expected total of $499,949 for 5 years

Jie Zhang
Title: Technical Wind Power Forecasting Support II
Sponsor: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
Amount: $175,000 for year 1

March 2018

Yves Chabal
Title: STTR: Development of Low-cost Optical Sensor for Nitrate Detection in Agricultural Soils and Environmental Waters
Sponsor: Max-IR Labs, LLC
Amount: $68,000 for approximately 9 months

Ann Majewicz Fey
Title: Adaptively Intuitive Human-in-the-Loop Control Algorithms for Surgical Training
Sponsor: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Amount: $70,002 for 7 months

Heather Hayenga
Title: A Computational Model of the G&R during Atherosclerosis: Integrating Mechanics and Biology
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $365,010 for year 1; expected total of $1,865,860 for 5 years

Heather Hayenga
Title: SBIR: AWARE (A Wearable Awareness with Real-Time Exposure)
Sponsor: EnLiSense, LLC
Amount: $68,663 for year 1

Stephen Levene
Title: Benchmark Circular DNAs for NGS Standardization and Bias Assessment
Sponsor: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Amount: $99,831 for 1 year

Hongbing Lu
Title: MRI: Acquisition of a 4D Microtomography Apparatus for Nano/Microstructured Materials and In-Situ Nano/Micromechanics Research
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $ 618,479 for 2 years

Sriraam Natarajan
Title: Cognitively Coherent Human Computer Communication
Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Amount: $103,411 for year 1; expected total of $296,878 for approximately 3 years

Kenneth O
Title: TxACE Task 2810
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp.
Amount: $870,000 for year 1; expected total of $2,610,000 for 3 years

Marco Tacca
Title: Develop Data Assimilation from Autonomously Deployed Systems with Physics Based Modeling and Simulations Tools
Sponsor: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Amount: $19,125 for approximately 5 months

Robert Wallace
Title: New Materials for Logic, Memory, and InTerconnectS
Sponsor: Purdue University
Amount: $436,250 for year 1; expected total of $1,336,250 for 3 years

Eric Wong
Title: REU Site: Software Safety and Reliability: Research and Application
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $359,994 for 3 years

Jie Zhang
Title: Hierarchy-based Disaggregate Forecasting Using Deep Machine Learning in Power System Time Series
Sponsor: International Institute of Forecasters
Amount: $5,000 for 2 years

January 2018

Wonjae Choi
Title: Application of Superhydrophobic Surfaces for Auto-Industries
Sponsor: Ford Motor Co.
Amount: $23,113.71 for 4 months

Jiyoung Kim
Title: In-situ Electrical Characterization of the Dielectric Deposition Process of T1O2-HfO2 Grown by Atomic Partial Layer Disposition
Sponsor: ConTex (University of Texas System and CONACYT)
Amount: $54,654

Cong Liu
Title: CAREER: D3: Addressing Emerging Data-Induced Challenges in Embedded and Real-Time Systems
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $128,824 for year 1; expected total of $538,366 for 5 years

Danieli Rodrigues
Title: SRA: Evaluation of Dental Cements in Simulated Oral Environments
Sponsor: Doxa Dental
Amount: $32,231 for year 1

Shashank Sirsi
Title: SRA: Testing ExEm Foam Kit and Foam Prepared with Said Kit
Sponsor: Giskit, B.V.
Amount: $49,921 for 4 months

Lingming Zhang
Title: Automatic Inference of Application Reputation via PageRank on System Monitoring Data
Sponsor: Case Western Reserve University
Amount: $42,500 for 11 months

December 2017

Sriraam Natarajan
Title: SCH: EXP: Intelligent Clinical Decision Support with Probabilistic and Temporal EHR Modeling
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $127,346

Eric Wong
Title: SRA: Genetic Algorithm-based Test Generation for Software Product Line
Sponsor: Antares International LTD
Amount: $60,000 for approximately 14 months

November 2017

Alvaro Cardenas
Title: Student Travel and Student PC Meeting Support for IEEE S&P 2018
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $45,000 for 2 years

Yves Chabal
Title: SRA: ALD Coatings and SAM Layers
Sponsor: Zyvex Labs LLC
Amount: $46,510 for 6 months

Yves Chabal
Title: Thermal Monitoring of Quantum Cascade Lasers Using Scanning Near-Field Infrared Radiometry with Sub-Wavelength Resolution
Sponsor: Max-IR Labs, LLC
Amount: $45,000 for approximately 9 months

Jiyoung Kim
Title: Growth of Graphene, Graphite and BN on Dielectrics and Metals for Thermal Dissipation Applications
Sponsor: Texas Instruments
Amount: $80,000 for year 1; expected project total of$160,000 for 2 years

Georgios Makris
Title: Adaptive Trimming and Testing of Analog/RF Integrated Circuits (ICs)
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp
Amount: $16,500 for 5 months; expected project total of $150,000 for 3 years

Sriraam Natarajan
Title: Machine Learning for Identifying Adverse Drug Events
Sponsor: University of Wisconsin at Madison
Amount: $91,049 for 11 months

Aria Nosratinia
Title: CIF: Small: Covariance Arbitrage: Unlocking the Full Value of Correlation Diversity in Multiuser Wireless Networks
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $399,318 for approximately 3 years

Nathaniel Pickle
Title: SRA: Biomedical Measurements Accuracy Testing
Sponsor: Physmodo
Amount: $15,453 for 6 months

Manuel Quevedo-Lopez
Title: Single Crystal and Thin Film Hybrid Perovskite Materials for Optoelectronic Applications
Sponsor: US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, FA9550-18-1-0019
Amount: $124,937 for year 1; expected project total of $324,844 for 3 years

October 2017

Sergey Bereg
Title: AF: Small: Topological Approximation Techniques in Computational Geometry
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $302,454 for approximately 3 years

Alvaro Cardenas
Title: Ne TS: Small: Collaborative Research: Measurement and Modeling of Industrial Control Networks
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $249,319 for 3 years

Kyeongjae Cho
Title: World Class 300 (WC300): Development ofNCM Cathode Material with High Power Density based on High BET for xEV
Sponsor: L&F Co., Ltd.
Amount: $35,280 for 10 months

Kyeongjae Cho
Title: CRA: Study on Electronic Properties ofBi(tri)-layer Graphene with Varying Stacking and Orientation
Sponsor: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Amount: $20,000 for 4 months

Wooyeol Choi
Title: 0.41-THz CMOS-based Short-Range Imager for Industrial Applications
Sponsor: Texas Instruments
Amount: $43,875 for year 1; expected project total of $229,865 for 5 years

Kevin Hamlen
Title: Second Workshop on Forming an Ecosystem around Software Transfonnation
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Amount: $5,000 for 3 months

Rashaunda Henderson
Title: Packaging and Material Spectroscopy to Support Terahertz Microsystems
Sponsor: Texas Instruments
Amount: $33,032 for year 1; expected project total of $118,128 for 4 years

Latifur Khan
Title: CyberSecurity Curricula Development
Sponsor: National Security Agency
Amount: $237,088 for 1 year

Kenneth O
Title: Infrared Detection Using Structures in Foundry CMOS
Sponsor: Texas Instruments
Amount: $23,409 for year I; expected project total of $93,636 for 4 years

Shashank Sirsi
Title: Eliminating ex-Vivo Manipulation and Viral Transfection ofT-Cells in CAR-T Cell Immunotherapy ofB-Cell Malignancies Using Ultrasound-Based Gene Delivery
Sponsor: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Amount: $23,971 for 1 year; expected total of$47,942 for2 years

Murat Torlak
Title: Advanced Algorithms for TeraHertz Sensing and Recognition
Sponsor: Texas Instruments
Amount: $41,501 for year 1; expected project total of $171,799 for 4 years

September 2017

Bilal Akin
Title: Acquisition of Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (SAM) and Decapsulator for WBG (GaN/SiC) Degradation Monitoring
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Amount: $241,175 for 1 year

Alvaro Cardenas
Title: Robotic Manufacturing Cyber Security and PLC Programming for TE Testbed
Sponsor: National hlstitute of Standards and Technology
Amount: $208,554 for 2 years

Ann Majewicz Fey
Title: Towards Automated Coaching of Surgical Style: Mapping Semantic Descriptors to Quality of Movement
Sponsor: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
Amount: $49,830 for I year

Robert Gregg
Title: NRI: FND: COLLAB: An Open-Source Robotic Leg Platform that Lowers the Barrier for Advanced Prosthetics Research
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $193,000 for 3 years

Kevin Hamlen
Title: Final Second: Feature Identification, Neutralization, and Automated de-Layering for Securing Code on Demand
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Amount: $1,716,769 for approximately 3 years

Robert Wallace
Title: Nitridation of High-k Dielectric Nanofilms as a Barrier to Indium and Gallium Diffusion in InGaAs-based MOS Devices
Sponsor: ConTex
Amount: $63,750 for 2 years

Taylor Ware
Title: Collaborative Research: Microfabrication and Self~Assembly of ShapewChanging Hydrogels with Chromonic Liquid Crystalline Order
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $175,711 for 3 years

August 2017

Bilal Akin
Title: Fault Characterization and Degradation Monitoring of SiC Devices
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp
Amount: $23,250 for 5 months; expected project total of $167,400 for 3 years

Carlos Busso
Title: RI: Small: Integrative, Semantic-aware, Speech-driven Models for Believable Conversational Agents with Meaningful Behaviors
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $494,116 3 years

Kyeongjae Cho
Title: Ab Initio Study on Graphene Edge/Super Conductor Contact Interfaces
Sponsor: US Army Research Office
Amount: $60,000 for 1 year

Nicholas Gans
Title: Time-Invariant, Multi-Objective Extremum Seeking Control for Model-Free AutoTuning of Powered Prosthetic Legs
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $373,483 for 3 years

Lev Gelb
Title: CDS&E: Resolving Nonlinearity in Thin Film Chemical Analysis: Roughening, Matrix Effects and Chemical Damage
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $345,000 for 3 years

Gopal Gupta
Title: RI: SMALL: Efficient Implementations of Goal-Directed Solvers for Answer Set Programming
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $420,000 for 3 years

Fatemeh Hassanipour
Title: Acquisition of a Rheometer for Human Milk Study
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $95,300 for 1 year

Giacomo Valerio Iungo
Title: Genesis and Dynamics of Very-large-scale Motions in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer and their Interactions with Utility-scale Wind Turbines
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $241,175 for 3 years

Murat Kantarcioglu
Title: Data Analytics for Cyber Security: Defeating the Active Adversaries
Sponsor: US Army Research Office; W911NF-17-1-0356
Amount: $135,097 for 5 months; expected project total of $470,000 for 3 years

Gil Lee
Title: High Performance Micro-supercapacitor on a Chip Based on a Hierarchial Network of Nitrogen Doped Carbon Nanotube Sheets Supported by MnO₂
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp
Amount: $33,719 for 5 months; expected project total of $174,435 for 3 years

Zhiqiang Lin
Title: SDI-CSCS: Collaborative Research: S2OS Enabling Infrastructure-wide Programmable Security with SDI
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $133,809 for year 1; expected project total of $400,000 for 3 years

Dongsheng Ma
Title: Gate Driving Techniques and Circuits for Automotive-Use GaN Power Circuits
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp
Amount: $25,000 for 5 months; expected project total of $180t000 for 3 years

Majid Minary
Title: GOALI: Additive Manufacturing of Nano-twinned Metals via Localized Pulsed Electrodeposition (L-PED)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $364,211 for 3 years

Won Namgoong
Title: CDS&E: Resolving Nonlinearity in Thin Film Chemical Analysis: Roughening, Matrix Effects and Chemical DamageSpecEES: Unified System Architecture for Energy Efficient Cognitive Radios
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $650,000 for almost 3 years

Kenneth O
Title: Reduction of Low Frequency Noise Impact in Nano-Scale CMOS Circuits
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp
Amount: $14,296 for 5 months; expected project total of$156,840 for 4 years

Dong Qian
Title: Biomechanics Of Noncollagenous Osteocalcin/Osteopontin Protein Complex In Bone
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $359,657 for 3 years

Tyler Summers
Title: Collaborative Research: Selecting Sensors and Actuators for Topologically Evolving Networked Dynamical Systems: Battling Contamination in Water Networks
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $150,001 for 3 years

Bhavani Thuraisingham
Title: Secure and Privacy Preserving Big Data Analytics Curriculum Development
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $499,992 for 3 years

Mark Torlak
Title: Novel Super-Resolution and MIMO Techniwues for Automotive and Emerging Radar Applications
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp
Amount: $24,000 for 5 months; expected project total of $179,679 for 3 years

William Vandenberghe
Title: CDS&E – ECCS: Plane-wave Electronic TRAnsport (PETRA)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $375,000 3 years

Taylor Ware
Title: Designing Microstructure in Ordered Polymer Actuators
Sponsor: US Air Force Office of Scientific Research; FA9550-17-1-0328
Amount: $119,983 for year 1; project expected total of $359,941 for 3 years

Wei Li Wu
Title: EAGER: Harnessing the Power of Graph Data Analytics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $150,000 for 2 years

July 2017

Robert Gregg
Title: CAREER: Recovering and Enhancing Natural Locomotion in Changing Conditions with Powered Lower-Limb Prostheses and Orthoses
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $500,000 for 5 years

Latifur Khan
Title: Collaborative Resarch: ATD: Statistical Detection of New Patterns and Potential Threats in Geospatial Sequences of Social and Political Events
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $100,000 for 4 years

Walter Hu
Title: Partial Support for Student Attendance of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, July 25-28, 2017, Pittsburgh, PA
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $15,000 for 5.5 months

Jeong-Bong (JB) Lee
Title: Collaborative Research: Wireless-Powered Implantable Bone Intramedullary Fluid Modulator for the Treatment of Osteoporosis and Fracture Repair
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $250,000 for 3 years

Hongbing Lu
Title: SRA: Meshfree Simulations of Structural Dynamic Responses
Sponsor: Shanghai Suochen Information Technology Ltd.
Amount: $151,248 for 2 years

Georgios Makris
Title: Student Travel Support for 2017 IEEE VLSI Test Symposium
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $12,000 for 6 months

Aria Nosratinia
Title: Multi-Level Coding in Multi-Node Networks: A Pragmatic Approach to Cpacity Limits
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $330,000 for 3 years

Balakrishnan Prabhakaran
Title: Robustness Studies on 3D Camera Data
Sponsor: US Army Research Office; W911NF-17-1-0299
Amount: $41,000 for 5 months; expected project total of $359,737 for 3 years

Manuel Quevedo-Lopez
Title: Portable Neutron Detector Implementing PIN detectors and Application Specific Circuitry (ASIC)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $199,261 for approximately 1 year and 5.5 months

Danieli Rodrigues
Title: Multifunctional Ionic Liquids Coatings for Dental Implant Surfaces
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $363,375 for year 1; expected project total of $1,816,876 for 5 years

Amy Walker
Title: In Situ Growth and Placement of Nanostructures by Solution-Based Processing
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $431,165 for 3 years

Taylor Ware
Title: Collaborative Research: Passive RFID Real-Time Temperature-Sensing Based on Programmable Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $209,615 for 3 years

June 2017

Alvaro Cardenas
Title: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy and IEEE Computer Society Security and Privacy Workshops
Sponsor: US Army Research Office
Amount: $20,000 for 1 year

Dongsheng Ma
Title: SHF: Medium: Collaborative Research: Machine Learning Enabled Network-on-Chip Architectures for Optimized Energy, Performance and Reliability
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $81,067 for 1 year; expected project total of $250,000 for 3 years

Majid Minary
Title: SBIR: A Scalable Additive Manufacturing Technology for Large Area Printed Circuit Boards
Sponsor: UHV Technologies, Inc.
Amount: $48,016 for 9 months

May 2017

Stuart Cogan
Title: Clinical Testing of an Intracortical Visual Prosthesis System
Sponsor: Illinois Institute of Technology
Amount: $305,787 for 1 year; expected project total of $830,526 for 4 years and 9 months

Vibhav Gogate
Title: Tractable Probabilistic Logic Models: A New, Deep Explainable Representation
Sponsor: DARPA
Amount: $588,631; expected project total of $4,309,551 for 4 years

S.M. You
Title: Development of Two-Phase Plane for Molten Corium Debris Cooling Enhancement
Sponsor: Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
Amount: $216,000 for 2 years and 9 months

April 2017

Nicholas Gans
Title: Distributed Control and Vision-Based Estimation for UAS Autonomy
Sponsor: US Air Force Research Lab
Amount: $75,000 for approximately 2 years

Hongbing Lu
Title: Collaborative Research: Nonlinear Mechanical Spectroscopy of Glassy Polymers to Probe Viscoelastic Constitutive Behavior
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $207,330 for 3 years

Vincent Ng
Title: Second Workshop on Coreference Resolution Beyond OntoNotes
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $8,000 for approximately 1 year

Joseph Pancrazio
Title: SBIR: Soft Bio-Interfaces for Physiological Sensing and Modulation
Sponsor: Qualia, Inc.n
Amount: $199,610 for 2 years

Jeyavijayan Rajendran
Title: CAREER: Towards Provably-Secure Design of Integrated Circuits
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $87,462 for 1 year; expected total of $499,999 for 5 years

March 2017

Alvaro Cardenas
Title: Data-Driven Reconfiguration of Dynamical Systems Under Attack
Sponsor: US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, FA9550-17-1-0135
Amount: $80,000 for 1 year

Vibhav Gogate
Title: CAREER: Fast, Accurate Estimation and Prediction using Markov Logic
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $110,827 for 1 year; expected project total of $549,996 for 5 years

Hongbing Lu
Title: SRA: A Manufacturing Process for Organic Aerogels
Sponsor: Nanjing Nashitech New Materials Co., Ltd.
Amount: $98,981 for 1 year

Balakrishna Prabhakaran
Title: MRI: Development of a Cloud Based Instrument for Heterogeneous Biomedical Body Sensor Systems
Sponsor: California State University, Fresno Foundation
Amount: $25,501 for 1 year; expected project total of $74,589 for 3 years

Chadwin Young
Title: CAREER: Fundamental Electronic Device Performance and Reliability Investigation on Chalcogenide- and Oxide-based N- and P-type Materials for Large Area/Flexible Electronics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $500,000 for 5 years

February 2017

Leonidas Bleris
Title: San Antonio Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Biology of Aging
Sponsor: University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Amount: $45,882 for 9.5 months

Babak Fahimi
Title: SRA: HET 85kW Prototype Project: Build & Test Motor and Controller
Sponsor: Linear Labs
Amount: $200,000 for approximately 8 months

Moon Kim
Title: Improving Reliability and Reducing Cost in CdTe Photovoltaics via Grain Boundary Engineering
Sponsor: University of Illinois
Amount: $65,000 for 1 year; expected total of $195,000 for 3 years

Tyler Summers
Title: Research Topic 11: YIP: Quantifying network controllability and observability using optimal control and estimation metrics
Sponsor: US Army Research Office
Amount: $120,000 for year 1; expected project total of $351,568 for 3 years

January 2017

Heather Hayenga
Title: Predicting Arterial Changes During Atherogenesis: An Agent Based Modeling Approach
Sponsor: American Heart Association
Amount: $77,000 for year 1; expected project total of $231,000 for 3 years

Kenneth Hoyt
Title: Noninvasive Pressure Estimation in Breast Cancer using Ultrasound
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $199,665 for 11.5 months; expected project total of $366,053 for 1 year and 11.5 months

Jiyoung Kim
Title: SRA: Research of HfZrO2 ferroelectric thin films for potential memory applications
Sponsor: Texas Instruments
Amount: $135,000 for 1 year

Tien Nguyen
Title: NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Translational Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems (TANMS)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $286,724 for 14 months

Tien Nguyen
Title: SHF: Small: Build Code Maintenance and Detecting, Testing, Locating Configuration and Build Errors
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $166,644 for 14 months

Tien Nguyen
Title: SHF: Large: Collaborative Research: Exploiting the Naturalness of Software
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $260,709 for 1 year

December 2016

Orlando Auciello
Title: SBIR: Thin Film High-k Dielectric Semiconductor Materials
Sponsor: Microsol Technologies, Inc.
Amount: $29,414 for 6 months

Alvaro Cardenas
Title: Student Travel Support for IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $45,000 for 9 months

Jiyoung Kim
Title: SRA: PECVD growth of graphene/graphite and BN for thermal dissipation applications
Sponsor: Texas Instruments
Amount: $80,000 for 1 year

Eric Wong
Title: Combinatorial Branch Testing: An Innovative White-Box-based Combinational Testing
Sponsor: Mooctest Inc.
Amount: $60,000 for 14.5 months

November 2016

Yves Chabal
Title: Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry
Sponsor: Oregon State University
Amount: $149,999 for approximately 1 year; projected total of $225,000 for approximately 2 years

Babak Fahimi
Title: SRA: HET 85kW Prototype Project
Sponsor: Linear Labs
Amount: $147,500 for 5 months

Robert Gregg
Title: NRI: Decentralized Feedback Control Design for Cooperative Robotic Walking with Application to Powered Prosthetic Legs
Sponsor: San Diego State University Research Foundation
Amount: $75,536 for year 1; projected total of $245,730 for 3 years

Georgios Makris
Title: Post-Silicon Layout Sensitivity Mining: A Pathway to Defect-Driven Test Quality and Yield Improvement
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp.
Amount: $75,547 for year 1; projected total of $267,000 for 3 years

Danieli Rodrigues
Title: Cytotoxicity of Dental Cements in Multiple Simulated Oral Environments
Sponsor: Doxa Dental
Amount: $11,029 for 7 months

October 2016

Ron Bose
Title: SRA: Data Analytics
Sponsor: Sabre Holdings Corp.
Amount: $80,000 for 8 months

Nicholas Gans
Title: SRA: Vision-based Controllers to Interface with AUV Autopilots
Sponsor: Kasling Aircraft Co.
Amount: $8,098 for approximately 5 months

Gil Lee
Title: Joint R&D Program Agreement: International Collaboration on Sustainable Energy Security Cutting Edge Research: Development of Lithium-Air Battery with Wh/kg for Energy Storage System
Sponsor: Dongguk University – Seoul
Amount: $147,827 for 7 months; expected project total of $739,130 for 3 years

Hongbing Lu
Title: Digital Image Correlation for Surface Profile and Deformation Measurements
Sponsor: Speckle Track LLC
Amount: $88,556 for 2 years

Siavash Pourkamali
Title: Ultra-Low Power Inertial MEMS for Pervasive Wearable Computing
Sponsor: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
Amount: $173,940 for approximately 2 years

Siavash Pourkamali
Title: Fabrication and Characterization of Silicon NEMS Resonators
Sponsor: Zyvex Labs, LLC
Amount: $43,693 for 1 year

September 2016

Yves Chabal
Title: Characterization of Novel Photoresists
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp.
Amount: $140,000 for year 1; expected project total of $580,000 for 3 years

Giacomo Valerio Iungo
Title: Wind Sensing Experiment
Sponsor: University of Texas at Austin
Amount: $50,000 for approximately 1 year

Vincent Ng
Title: EMNLP 2016 Student Scholarship Program
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $7,500 for 1 year

Jeyavijayan Rajendran
Title: STARSS: Small: Collaborative: Physical Design for Secure Split Manufacturing of ICs
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $153,333 for 3 years

Jeyavijayan Rajendran
Title: Physical design techniques for secure split manufacturing of ICs
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp.
Amount: $76,668 for 3 years

August 2016

Zhiqiang Lin
Title: CI-P: Collaborative: A Community-Driven Open Research Infrastructure for Intel SGX
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year

Zhiqiang Lin
Title: EDU: Collaborative: Using Virtual Machine Introspection for Deep Cyber Security Education
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $149,913 for 2 years

Zhenpeng Qin
Title: NCS-FO: Sub-millisecond Optically-triggered Compound Release to Study Real-time Brain Activity and Behavior
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $800,000 for 4 years

David Schmidtke
Title: The Role of Spatial Protein Presentation in Kidney Epithelial Cell Tubule Formation
Sponsor: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Amount: $35,000 for 1 year

JULY 2016

William Anderson
Title: Collaborative Research: Coordinated Experiments and Simulations of Near-Surface Turbulent Flow over Barchan Dunes: Informing Models of Dune Migration and Interaction
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $152,754 for 3 years

Stuart Cogan
Title: DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
Sponsor: Platform Technology for Sensory, Motor and Affective Disorders TBI Model
Amount: $761,020 for 20 months

Babak Fahimi
Title: Modeling and Mitigation of Acoustic Noise in Switched Reluctance Motor Drives Using Mechanical Impulse Response
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $328,085 for 3 years

Yaoyu Li
Title: EAGER: Connecting Smart Communities with Intelligent Transportation Systems – Energy Management of Predictive Occupancy Information
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $150,000 for 2 years

Hongbing Lu
Title: SNM: Scalable Nanomanufacturing of Carbon Nanotube Sheet Wrapped Carbon Fibers for Low Density and High Strength Composites
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,250,000 for 3 years

Majid Minary
Title: In situ Nanomechanics Instrumentation for Bioinspired Multifunctional Aerospace Materials
Sponsor: U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, FA9550-16-1-0302
Amount: $161,920 for 2 years

Neeraj Mittal
Title: CSR: Small: Design and Optimization of Scalable Concurrent Data Structures for Multi-Core Systems
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $301,856 for 3 year

Issa Panahi
Title: Smartphone-Based Open Research Platform for Hearing Improvement Studies
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $383,531 for year 1; projected total $1,859,430 for 5 years

Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Optical Opening of Blood-Brain Barrier for Brain Tumor Drug Delivery by Plasmonic Nanobubbles
Sponsor: CPRIT (Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas)
Amount: $200,000 for 2 years

Mario Romero-Ortega
Title: Neurointerfacing of Motor and Sensory Submodalities Through Molecular Guidance
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $403,8844 for 11.5 months

Eric Wong
Title: University of Texas at Dallas Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Joining S2ERC
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $15,000 for 11.5 months

Jie Zhang
Title: Technical Wind Power Forecasting Support
Sponsor: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
Amount: $143,983 for approximately 8 months

JUNE 2016

Naofal Al-Dhahir
Title: Integration of Power Conversion, Energy Management, and Communications Techniques for Electric Vehicles in the Smart Grid
Sponsor: Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation) Grant No. NPRP-8-627-2-260
Amount: $270,504 for 3 years

Seth Hays
Title: Evaluation of the Neuromodulatory Mechanisms of Vagus Nerve Stimulation to Improve Motor Rehabilitation After Stroke
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $334,688 for year 1; expected project total of $1,673,440 for 5 years

Zhiqiang Lin
Title: TWC: Medium: Collaborative: Systems, Tools, and Techniques for Executing, Managing, and Securing SGX Programs
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $528,223 for 4 years

Georgios Makris
Title: Student Travel Support for 2016 IEEE VLSI Test Symposium
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $12,000 for 1 year

Mario Romero-Ortega
Title: SBIR I: Evaluation of Sustained 3D Growth Factor Gradients for Nerve Repair
Sponsor: TissueGen, Inc.
Amount: $89,945 for year

Lingming Zhang
Title: CRII: SHF: Machine-Learning-Based Test Effectiveness Prediction
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $174,150 for approximately 2 years

MAY 2016

Yvo Desmedt
Title: Efficiently Reliable and Privacy Preserving Cloud Data Storage
Sponsor: Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation, No. 8-2158-1-423)
Amount: $121,840 for 3 years

Babak Fahimi
Title: STEP/FEEDER: Strategic Expansion to Achieve GEARED Goals
Sponsor: University of Central Florida (Ref No. 16226104-01)
Amount: $59,529 for 15 months, expected project total of $156,000 for 3 years

Nicholas Gans
Title: GOALI: Adaptive Control of inkjet Printing on 3D Curved Surfaces
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $294,452 for 3 years

John Hansen
Title: Speaker Variability – Advancements in Automatic Detection and Knowledge Integration for Speaker Verification in Naturalistic Enviromnents
Sponsor: West Virginia University
Amount: $202,264 for 1 year and 8 months

Seth Hays
Title: Evaluation of a Novel Therapeutic Intervention to Improve Motor Function in Rett Syndrome
Sponsor: Intl Rett Syndrome Foundation
Amount: $59,529 for 15 months, expected project total of $145,104 for 2 years

Walter Hu
Title: Nanowire Quantum Effect Devices for Field Effect Single-molecule DNA Sequencing
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount : $410,000 for 3 years

Kamil Sarac
Title: 2016 GenCyber Program
Sponsor: National Security Agency
Amount : $99,641.79 for 1 year

Amy Walker
Title: Collaborative Research: Photolytic CVD Processes for Thermally Sensitive Substrates
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $282,620 for 3 years

APRIL 2016

Alvaro Cardenas
Title: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy and IEEE Computer Society Security and Privacy Workshops
Sponsor: US Army Research Office
Amount: $20,000 for 1 year and 6 months

John Hansen
Title: Race to the Top
Sponsor: University of Kentucky
Amount: $10,000 for approximately 5 months

Kenneth Hoyt
Title: Developing and Translating Ultrasound and Nanotechnology to Enhance Cancer Imaging and Targeted Therapy
Sponsor: UT Southwestern Medical Center
Amount: $138,950 for 1 year

Kenneth Hoyt

Kenneth Hoyt
Title: Molecular Ultrasound Imaging of Cancer Response to Antiangiogenic Therapy
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $138,882 for 2 months; expected project total of $618,402 for 3 years and 2 months

Benjamin Raichel
Title: CRII: AF: Breaking Barriers for Geometric Data
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $161,277 for 2 years and 6 months

David Schmidtke
Title: Altered Neutrophil Function in Ventricular Assist Devices
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $223,395 for 1 year; expected project total of $401,039 for 2 years

Tyler Summers
Title: CRII: CPS: Designing Resilient Strategies and Information Structures for Team Games in Cyber-physical Networks
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $167,591 for 2 years

Jie Zhang
Title: Watt-sun: A Multi-scale, Multi-Model, Machine-Leaming Solar Forecasting Technology
Sponsor: National Renewable Energy Lab
Amount: $30,000 for approximately 5 months

MARCH 2016

Alvaro Cardenas
Title: The Role of ICS Testbeds in Security Experiments
Sponsor: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Amount: $149,642 for 1 year

Yonas Tadesse
Title: SBJR: iGrab Innovative Glove for Rehabilitation and Assistance using Biomimicry
Sponsor: Lynntech Inc.
Amount : $183,106.10 for 1 year; expected total of $205,000 for 2 years with option for $37,679 in additional funds

FEBRUARY 2016

Walter Hu
Title: Smart Water Monitoring IoT Solution Based on Nanosensor and Mobile Internet (Phase I)of Cyber-Physical Systems
Sponsor: Cetetek Technology, Inc
Amount: $30,600 for 1 year

Hoi Lee
Title: Integrated Circuit (IC) Development for Sinusoidal/non-sinusoidal Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting
Sponsor: Hanyang University
Amount: $15,000 for 1 year, expected project total of $45,000 for 3 years

Ryan McMahan
Title: CAREER: Leveraging the Virtualness of Virtual Reality for More-Effective Training
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $118,538 for 1 year; projected total of $544,188 for 5 years

JANUARY 2016

Alvaro Cardenas
Title: CAREER: Practical Control Engineering Principles to Improve the Security and Privacy of Cyber-Physical Systems
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $116,739 for 1 year; projected total of $516,620 for 5 years

Matthew Goeckner
Title: Center for Laser & Plasma Advanced Manufacturing
Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Amount: $35,000 for 1 year; expected project total of $70,000 for approximately 3 years

Hlaing Minn
Title: A New Paradigm for Spectrum Sharing Between Wireless Communications and Radio Astronomy
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $596,737 for 2 years

Murat Torlak
Title: Collaborative Research: Radio Frequency Interference Aware Radio Astronomy Systems
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $334,937 for 2 years

DECEMBER 2015

Hongbing Lu
Title: Modeling and Characterization of Sheet Metal Forming
Sponsor: Tranter Inc.
Amount: $81,356 for 1 year; expected project total of $121,476 for 2 years

Shalini Prasad
Title: Performance of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Gas Sensors
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp.
Amount: $74,647 for 8 months; project expected total of $163,940 for 3 years