2017 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.
2017
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 of NCM 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 of Bi(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 of B-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 Institute 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 Shape-Changing 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 Research: 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