
2019 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.
2019
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