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.

2016

December 2016

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November 2016

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October 2016

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
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

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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

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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

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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