2018 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.
2018
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
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
Baowei Fei
Title: Molecular Imaging Directed, 3D Ultrasound-Guided, Biopsy System
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $141,187 for 15 months
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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