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Research Awards

Listed awards include research awards from various federal agencies, state agencies, industries and foundations. These awards have specific research requirements and are distinct from philanthropic gifts associated with capital campaigns, endowed scholarships, dean’s priority items or unrestricted gifts. Multiyear contract awards and grants are listed by the original award date, include the total expected award amount and may not reflect later changes such as funding cuts or transfers. Due to sponsor restrictions, some qualifying awards may not be listed.

Information regarding research awards including University-wide metrics and listings is available at the Office of Research and Innovation.

2023


December 2023

Kevin Hamlen

Kevin Hamlen

Title: STTR II: Robust Sandboxing and Lifting of ELF Binaries
Sponsor: Immunant, Inc./DARPA (140D04-23-C-0070)
Amount: $201,997 for approximately 16.5 months

Jiyoung Kim

Jiyoung Kim

Title: Angstrom Era Semiconductor Patterning Material Development Accelerator
Sponsor: Brookhaven National Lab
Amount: $249,521; expected $501,245 for approximately one year

Yaoyu Li

Yaoyu Li

Title: Controls Development of Multi-functional AHU
Sponsor: Oak Ridge National Lab
Amount: $59,933 for 11 months

Joseph Pancrazio

Joseph Pancrazio

Title: Brain Glucose Deficiency: Mechanisms and Modulation
Sponsor: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Amount: $730,272 for period one; expected $1,971,800.20 for approximately five years

Mario Rotea

Mario Rotea

Title: Center for Wind Energy
Sponsor: EERE
Amount: $1,600,000 for one year

Mohammad Saquib

Title: Advancing One Health Data Capture at the Point of Zoonotic Spillover in the Congo Basin Forest Perimeter
Sponsor: University of California, Davis
Amount: $84,240 for year one; expected $552,240


November 2023

Yaqing Jin

Yaqing Jin

Title: Collaborative Research: Aeolian Grain Entrainment Over Flexible Vegetation Canopies: Theoretical Models, Laboratory Experiments and Fieldwork
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $109,779 for one year; expected $335,876 for three years

Lawrence Overzet

Lawrence Overzet

Title: SBIR: Low Temperature Plasma Enhanced Processing for Microelectronics Manufacturing
Sponsor: Microsol Technologies, Inc.
Amount: $82,609 for one year

William Vandenberghe

William Vandenberghe

Title: Phononic Traveling Wave Parametric Amplification using Heterostructures of Highly Nonlinear Materials
Sponsor: Virginia Tech/DARPA (HR0011-24-9-0314)
Amount: $74,400 for period one; expected $320,000


October 2023

kevin brenner

Kevin Brenner

Title: Strain Effects in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Field-Effect Transistors
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $266,600 for two years

Stuart Cogan

Stuart Cogan

Title: Engineering the Neuronal Response to Electrical Microstimulation
Sponsor: University of Florida
Amount: $239,982 for year one; expected $914,860 for four years

Xianming Dai

Xianming Dai

Title: YIP: Designing Flow-Separation Evaporative Cooling for 3D Heterogenous Microsystems
Sponsor: DARPA
Amount: $250,000 for one year; expected $1,000,000 for three years

Matthew Gardner

Matthew Gardner

Title: SBIR: Scalable Magnetically Geared Actuator for Future Missions in Dusty & Extremely Cold Environments
Sponsor: Fluxworks, LLC
Amount: $34,316 for six months

Kangkook Jee

Title: CyberTraining: Pilot: CyberTraining for Space CI in Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $299,999 for two years

Jin Kim

Title: CRA: Development of Realtime Metaverse Testbed Environment for Haptic Interaction
Sponsor: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Amount: $96,340 for year one; expected $288,102 for three years (based on first year currency conversion)

Yaoyu Li

Yaoyu Li

Title: SRA: Development of a Numerical AE/DAE Solver Package for Thermal Systems
Sponsor: Rheem Manufacturing Company
Amount: $59,816 for one year

Arif Malik

Arif Malik

Title: SRA: Modeling Tools and Knowledge to Improve Stability of Gas Pressure Regulators
Sponsor: Emerson
Amount: $156,149 for one year

Siavash Pourkamali

Siavash Pourkamali

Title: SRA: Microfabricated Silicon Structure Prototyping
Sponsor: MicroVision, Inc.
Amount: $47,937 for six months

Ana Hernandez Reynoso

Ana Hernandez Reynoso

Title: Targeted Neuroplasticity via Vagus Nerve Stimulation to Improve Urinary Dysfunction after Spinal Cord Injury
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $108,847 for period one; expected $217,694 for approximately two years

Kamil Sarac

Kamil Sarac

Title: DoD Cyber Scholarship Program at UTD
Sponsor: National Security Agency
Amount: $702,905.79 for 15 months

Benjamin Carrion Schaefer

Benjamin Carrion Schaefer

Title: Collaborative Research: DESC: Type I: SEEDED: Sustainability-aware Reliable and Reusable AI Hardware Design
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $259,741 for approximately three years

Bhavani Thuraisingam

Bhavani Thuraisingham

Title: National Center for Transportation Cyber Security and Resiliency (TraCR)
Sponsor: Clemson University
Amount: $350,000 for one year

Eric Wong

Eric Wong

Title: SRA: Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection Based on Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithm and Static Analysis
Sponsor: RFCyber Corp.
Amount: $30,000 for one year


September 2023

Ilan Buzzetti

Title: CSGrad4US – Buzzetti
Sponsor: Computing Research Association
Amount: $159,000 for four years

Shuang Cui

Shuang Cui

Title: ECO-CBET: GOALI: Condensing Water from the Air for Building Dehumidification and Decarbonization using Thermo-responsive Desiccants
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,669,674 for four years

ShengwangDu

Shengwang Du

Title: QuSec-TAQS: Nanodiamond Quantum Sensing for Four-Dimensional Live-Cell Imaging
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $2,000,000 for four years

Bingzhe Li

Title: Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Small: Efficient Ways to Enlarge Practical DNA Storage Capacity by Integrating Bio-Computer Technologies
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $283,362 for year one and 10 months

You Li

Title: Vector Flow Velocity Imaging of Human Placenta using Angle-resolved Ultrasound and Deep Learning
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $248,826 for first year; expected $741,899 for three years

Zhenpeng Qin

Zhenpeng Qin

Title: Intramedullary Spinal Tumor Model and Treatment
Sponsor: CDMRP
Amount: $156,000 for one year

Kianoosh Yousefi

Title: Collaborative Research: Evaluating and Parameterizing Wind Stress Over Ocean Surface Waves Using Integrated High-Resolution Imaging and Numerical Simulations
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $323,315 for three years


August 2023

Kanad Basu

Kanad Basu

Title: P20_2023 Scalable Security Verification Framework for Digital and Analog/Mixed-Signal System-on-Chips
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $60,000 for one year

kangkook jee

Kangkook Jee

Title: EAGER: Privacy Preserving Synthetic Graph Generation for System Provenance
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $123,198 for year one; expected $250,003 for two years

Georgios Makris

Georgios Makris

Title:  P6-2023 Wafer-Level Provenance Attestation: Machine Learning to the Rescue
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $75,000 for one year

Benjamin Carrion Schaefer

Benjamin Carrion Schaefer

Title:  P7-2023 Investigating the Weaknesses of IP Protection through eFPGA-based Hardware Redaction
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $65,000 for one year

carl sechen

Carl Sechen

Title:  P8-2023 Cost-Effective IC Redaction through a CMOS/MRAM Transistor-Level Programmable Fabric
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $100,000 for one year

Waseem Abbas

Title:  Collaborative Research: Network Control Systems Science for Graph Machine Learning
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $240,417 for 3 years

Feng Chen

Feng Chen

Title:  Hidden Activity Signal and Trajectory Anomaly Characterization
Sponsor: Kitware Inc.
Amount: $102,823 for first increment; expected $302,420

KJ Cho

KJ Cho

Title:  SRA: Material Design of Performance and Reliability Boosters for Amorphous Oxide Semiconductor (AOS) Thin Film Transistors (TFTs)
Sponsor: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Amount: $120,000 for year 1; expected $360,000 for 3 years

KJ Cho

KJ Cho

Title:  SCI: UTD Center for Energy Storage Research (ESR)
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $400,000 for years 1 and 2; expected $700,000 for 4 years

Massimo Fischetti

Massimo Fischetti

Title:  Radiation Effect in Electronic Materials, Circuits, Devices, and Systems: Theoretical Study of Electronic Transport and Thermalization
Sponsor: US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Amount: $169,995 for year 1; expected $524,986 for 3 years

Zygmunt Haas

Title:  Collaborative Research: EAGER: Reliable Monitoring and Predictive Modeling for Safer Future Smart Transportation Structures
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $29,999 for 1 year

Seth Hays

Title:  Targeted Plasticity Therapy for the Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Sponsor: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program
Amount: $2,317,051 for 2 years

Yaqing Jin

Yaqing Jin

Title:  Riblet Treatments on Energy Production and Loads of Turbines
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts Lowell
Amount: $65,663 for 1 year

Jiyoung Kim

Title:  CeRAM ALO sub-contract in support of AFRL FA8650-22-F-5402
Sponsor: Cerfe Labs Inc.
Amount: $40,000 for 1 year

Rodrigo Bernal Montoya

Rodrigo Bernal Montoya

Title:  CAREER: Revealing the Atomistic Fundamentals of Probabilistic Strength Distributions in Nanomaterials via High-Throughput Experimentation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $624,884 for 5 years

Kenneth O

Kenneth O

Title: SRA: Improving the Contrast between Pig Skins and Ticks
Sponsor: Diamond Fox Enterprises, LLC
Amount: $18,982 for 5 months

Dong Qian

Dong Qian

Title: Data-Driven Curing Cycle Optimization in Wind Blade Manufacturing
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts Lowell
Amount: $63,019 for 1 year

Ill Ryu

Title: SRA: Predictable Multi-scale Modeling of Plasticity and Failure in Hybrid Solder Joints During Thermal Cycles
Sponsor: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Amount: $79,977 for 1 year

David Schmidtke

David Schmidtke

Title: PREP: Neutrophil Dysfunction in Ventricular Assist Device Patients
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $25,000 for 1 year

Eric Wong

Eric Wong

Title: Collaborative Research: Conference: Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure Workshop: Building High-Performance, Ethical and Secured Geospatial Software
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $24,925 for approximately 1 year

Yu Xiang

Title: A Unified Framework for Multi-Hand Grasp Planning and Grasp Transfer of Unknown Objects
Sponsor: Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC
Amount: $100,000 for 1 year


July 2023

Bilal Akin

Bilal Akin

Title:  IPA SRA: Auto-tuning of Sponsor Induction Motor Drives
Sponsor: Toshiba International Corp.
Amount: $50,000 for 11 months

Feng Chen

Feng Chen

Title: ATD: Sparse and Localized Graph Convolutional Networks for Anomaly Detection and Active Learning
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $100,000 for 3 years

Xianming Dai

Xianming Dai

Title: Durable Fluid-like Surface for Sustainable Biofilm Inhibition
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $78,000 for year 1; expected $156,000 for 2 years

Xianming Dai

Xianming Dai

Title: CoBRA: Digital Diagnostics of Respiratory Syncytial Virus
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $125,000 for 1 year

Dave Dingal

Title: SEED: SPIRe: Rational Design and Evaluation of New Proteases Targeting Amyloid Beta
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $60,000 for 1 year

Dave Dingal

Title: Natural and Synthetic Mechanisms of Ligand Formation
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $311,600 for year 1; expected $1,857,600 for 5 years

Jacopo Ferruzzi

Jacopo Ferruzzi

Title: CoBRA: Disrupted Mechanical Homeostasis as a Driver of Early Onset Colorectal Cancer
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $125,000 for 1 year

John Hansen

Title: Collaborative Research: Social-Emotional Analysis of the Language Environment (SEAL): Key Word and Phrase Spotting in Early Childhood Care Settings
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $61,126 for approximately 1 year

Caroline Jones

Caroline Jones

Title: CAREER: A Systems Approach to Create Multiplexed Microfluidics to Study Human Immune Cell Dynamics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $410,527 for first increment; expected $520,663 for 5 years

Jin Ryong Kim

Title: CRA: Testing High-Performance Multiverse Platform and Services for Sharing Senses and Experiences
Sponsor: Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute
Amount: $37,800 for 9 months (based on current conversion, amount may change slightly)

Jin Ryong Kim

Title: SEED: SPIRe: Tangible Data Interaction in lmmersive Analytics for Scientific Acceleration
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $58,400 for 1 year

Kristin Miller

Title: CoBRA: Determining the Key Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Pelvic Floor Structural Integrity in Pre- and Post-Menopausal Women
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $125,000 for 1 year

Rodrigo Bernal Montoya

Rodrigo Bernal Montoya

Title: SEED: SPIRe: Thermosalient Molecular Crystals for Novel Soft Actuators
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $60,000 for 1 year

Joseph Friedman

Joseph Pancrazio

Title: Deploying lntracortical Electrode Arrays to Record and Stimulate in a Tissue Volume
Sponsor: Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Amount: $81,061 for period 1; expected $799,874 for 4 years and 10 months

Tyler Summers

Title: Control, Estimation, and Learning in Multi-Team Dynamic Network Games with Asymmetric Information
Sponsor: US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Amount: $441,000 for 3 years

Guoping Xiong

Guoping Xiong

Title: Tailoring Quasi-Solid-State “Water-in-Swelling-Clay” Electrolytes for High­Voltage, Durable Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $587,580 for 3 years


June 2023

Gopal Gupta

Gopal Gupta

Title: IPA SRA: Design and Implementation of a Smart Pavement Management System
Sponsor: Central Nippon Expressway Co. Ltd.
Amount: $85,819 for 7.5 months


May 2023

Shuang Cui

Title: Sus SPIRe: Transforming Wood Waste into Sustainable Building Materials using Carbon-Negative Binders
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $60,000 for 1 year

Yichen Ding

Title: Volumetric Imaging and Computation to Characterize Cardiac / Electromechanical Coupling
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $383,914 for year 1; expected $1,883,456 for approximately 5 years

Dave Dingal

Title: NFRS: Experimental and Predictive Models to Determine Protease Specificity
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $25,000 for 1 year

Emily Fox

Title: Collaborative Research: AF: Small: Shape Matching in a Messy World Using Frechet Distance
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $398,189 for 3 years

Mona Ghassemi

Title: High Power Density Cost-effective MC DC Aircraft Cable
Sponsor: US Dept. of Energy
Amount: $881,731 for 2 years

Mona Ghassemi

Title: TCI: Nanodielectric Fluids Using a Multi-Nanoparticle System for Two-Phase Heat Transfer in 3D Heterogeneous Microsystems
Sponsor: US Dept. of Energy
Amount: $881,731 for 2 years

Kevin Hamlen

Title: STTR II: High Assurance Information Segregation Solution (HAISS) for Real Time Embedded Systems
Sponsor: Trusted Science and Technology, Inc.
Amount: $175,000 for approximately 2 years

John Hansen

Title: Leveraging Natural Language Processing for Reverberant Speech Enhancement in Cochlear Implants
Sponsor: Duke University
Amount: $46,800 for approximately 1 year

Wei Li

Title: Printing Functionally Gradient Cylinder with Mechanical Properties Gradient
Sponsor: Sandia National Labs
Amount: $43,659 for approximately 6 months

lfana Mahbub

Title: TCI: Resilient Intelligent Secured Electromagnetic Spectrum Sensing Systems (RISES3) for the Next-Generation of Electronic Warfare
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $40,000 for 1 year

Kristin Miller

Title: Elastic Fiber Regeneration Potential During Postpartum Healing
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $40,000 for 1 year

Theodore Moise

Title: North Texas Semiconductor Workforce Development Consortium
Sponsor: US Dept. of Education
Amount: $3,000,000 for 3 years

Sriraam Natarajan

Title: Human-aware Probabilistic Logic Approach for Learning with Less Labels from Multimodal Data to Model Credibility
Sponsor: US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Amount: $314,923 for 3 years

Shalini Prasad

Title: IBD AWARE: A Wearable Action For Real-Time Elevations In IBD Markers
Sponsor: EnLiSense LLC
Amount: $78,994 for 1 year

Manuel Quevedo

Title: TCI: Germanium Telluride Chalcogenide Switches for RF Applications
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $40,000 for 1 year

Dong Qian

Dong Qian

Title: SBIR: Development of Data-driven Digital-twin Software DD-Cure for Carbon Fiber Composite Curing
Sponsor: GrapheneTX
Amount: $S5S,579 for 15 months

Ill Ryu

Title: Multiscale Defect Dynamics Model for the Mechanical Cold Trimming Process
Sponsor: Sungkyunkwan University Korea
Amount: $14,000 for 8 months

Kaveh Shamsi

Title: Low-Cost Automated Integrated Circuit Analysis through Al-assisted Laser­Scanning-Microscopy
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Amount: $120,000 for 1 year

Wei Yang

Title: Collaborative Research: CCRI: Planning-C: An Infrastructure and Dataset for Research in Android Testing & Analysis
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $32,924 for approximately 1.5 years

Kianoosh Yousefi

Title: Sus SPIRE: Impact of Harvesting Energy from the Ocean on the Upper Ocean Circulation and Ecosystem Structures
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $60,000 for 1 year


April 2023

KJ Cho 

Title: Machine Learning Methods for Predictive Atomic and Electronic Structures of Nanostructure Interfaces for THz Device Simulations with DFT Accuracy
Sponsor: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Agreement No. RH00112390075
Amount: $498,832 for Phase 1; expected $995,707 for 2 Phases

Jin Kim 

Title: CRA: A Perception Study on Wavelength/Phase Control and Test Spatial Pattern Formation for Ultrasound Haptic Display
Sponsor: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Amount: : $75,063.80 for year 1; expected $151,063.80 for 2 years -estimated based on 1st year currency conversion

Hongbing Lu 

Title: STTR I: Soft and Flexible Aerogel Earplugs for Sound Insulation
Sponsor: Oto-Biomechanics, LLC
Amount: : $83,750 for approximately 1 year

Benjamin Raichel 

Title: Travel: Student Travel Grant for 2023 Computational Geometry Week
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: : $15,000

Eric Wong 

Title: SRA: Combinatorial Design-Based Testing Framework for GPS Navigation Software
Sponsor: lnfoGation Corp.
Amount: : $25,000 for 1 year


March 2023

Stuart Cogan

Stuart Cogan
Title: Regenerative Micro-Electrode Peripheral Nerve Interface for Optimized Proprioceptive and Cutaneous Specific Interfacing
Sponsor: University of Houston
Amount: $46,086 for year 1; expected $213,660 for 5 years

Babak Fahimi

Babak Fahimi
Title: IPA SRA: Development of Two Power Electronic Inverter System and Control Algorithm for Sensorless Control of Submersible Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors
Sponsor: Henry Pump LLC
Amount: $160,000 for 9 months

Xiaohu Guo

Xiaohu Guo
Title: IPA SRA: Improving Object Recognition for Touchless Self-Checkout System
Sponsor: Digit7 Corporation
Amount: $96,410 for 6 months

Jiyoung Kim

Jiyoung Kim
Title: Normal-incidence Mirror for Narrow-band X-ray Imaging of Circumgalactic Medium
Sponsor: NASA
Amount: $200,302 for 2 years

Yaoyu Li

Yaoyu Li
Title: SRA: Data-driven Modeling and Analytics-based Control Performance Assessment, Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Building HVAC Systems
Sponsor: Precision Building Controls LLC
Amount: $26,706 for 6.5 months

Yue Zhou

Yue Zhou
Title: Understanding the Oil-water Stability and Separation in Inhomogeneous Porous Media
Sponsor: University of Texas at Arlington / American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
Amount: $14,529 for 1 year


February 2023

Bilal Akin

Bilal Akin
Title: Task 3160.020 Transient Reliability and Condition Monitoring of GaN HEMTs
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp.
Amount: $84,280 for year 1; expected $253,628 for 3 years

Leonidas Bleris

Leonidas Bleris
Title: EAGER: PUF-based Probe Design for Secure Access to DNA Storage
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $300,000 for approximately 2 years

lfana Mahbub

lfana Mahbub
Title: Next Generation of Wireless Power Transfer Network of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) using Electromechanical Beamforming
Sponsor: DARPA
Amount: $250,010 for 1 year; expected $500,001

Kenneth O

Kenneth O
Title: TxACE Task 3160
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp.
Amount: $1,864,731 for first year; expected $5,594,978 for 3 years

Shalini Prasad

Shalini Prasad
Title: Austere Environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes (ACESO): Optimization of READ Point-of-Care Diagnostic Platform
Sponsor: Henry M. Jackson Foundation
Amount: $677,148 for 1 year and 9 months

Benjamin Raichel

Benjamin Raichel
Title: SEED: Workshop: Symposium on Computation Geometry s
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $15,000 for 5 months


January 2023

Bilal Akin

Bilal Akin
Title: IPA SRA: Advanced Control Techniques for AC Motor Drives
Sponsor: Lennox Industries, Inc.
Amount: $81,117 for 1 year

Kanad Basu

Kanad Basu
Title: Improving Fault Injection-based Functional Safety Evaluation using Machine Learning
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp.
Amount: $81,050 for year 1; expected $249,836 for 3 years

KJ Cho

KJ Cho
Title: Applications and Systems driven Center for Energy-Efficient Integrated NanoTechnologies (ASCENT)
Sponsor: University of Notre Dame
Amount: $125,000 for year 1

Matthew Gardner

Matthew Gardner
Title: SBIR: Ultra-Reliable Magnetic Gear Integrated Motor-Generator for Extended Range and Reduced Maintenance of Electric Transportation Air & Ground Vehicles
Sponsor: Fluxworks, LLC
Amount: $30,000 for 8.5 months

Mona Ghassemi

Mona Ghassemi
Title: Unconventional High Surge Impedance Loading Transmission Linefrom Wide Bandgap Power Electronics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $285,368 for 25 months

Jiyoung Kim

Jiyoung Kim
Title: SRA: Atomic layer deposition (ALD) of In based nitride channel layer for 3-D stacked device applications
Sponsor: SK Hynix
Amount: $300,000 for 3 years

Manuel Quevedo

Manuel Quevedo
Title: SBIR P-II: Atomically Precise Manipulation of Silicon-Aluminum Interfaces for Improving Energy Performances in Microelectronic Devices
Sponsor: 3D Epitaxial Technologies LLC
Amount: $98,768 for year 1; expected $199,563 for 2 years

Rym Zalila-Wenkstern

Rym Zalila-Wenkstern
Title: SRA: Distributed Agent-based Traffic Lights Autonomous Traffic System
Sponsor: City of Richardson
Amount: $145,117 for approximately 1 year

Yue Zhou

Yue Zhou
Title: Collaborative Research: Understanding and Tailoring the Anode-Electrolyte lnterfacial Layers on the Stabilization of Lithium Metal Electrode
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $124,827 for 14 months

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