2020 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.
2020
December 2020
Kevin Hamlen
Title: Extending Assurance of kernal Software to Instruction Level (EASIL)
Sponsor: Siege Technologies and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under Contract No. HR001121C0028
Amount: $170,000 for 14 months
Babak Fahimi
Title: SRA: Testing and Optimal Operation of a Switched Resistance Motor Drive with New Rotor Geometry
Sponsor: Turntide Technologies Inc.
Amount: $75,000
John Hansen
Title: Speech Diarization and Transcription for NASA HERA Audio
Sponsor: KBR Wyle Services, LLC
Amount: $75,000 for 11 months$75,000 for 11 months
Cong Liu
Title: Collaborative Research: CPS: Medium: Timeliness vs. Trustworthiness: Balancing Predictability and Security in Time-Sensitive CPS Design
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $239,897 for 3 years
Hongbing Lu
Title: Center for Micromorphic Multiphysics Porus and Particulate Materials Simulations with Exascale Computing Workflows
Sponsor: University of Colorado at Boulder
Amount: $80,000 for year 1; expected $720,000 for 5 years
Georgios Makris
Title: Machine Learning Solutions for Golden Chip-Free Hardware Trojan Detection based on Fusion of Electrical & Optical Measurements
Sponsor: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies
Amount: $200,000 for 9 months
Giacomo Valerio Iungo
Title: Notice of Award: CAREER: Scalar Transport in High Reynolds Number Boundary Layer with Heterogeneous Roughness and Source Fl ux: Modeling Marine Aerosol in Coastal Regions
Sponsor: National Science Foundation:
Amount: $502,482 for 5 years
November 2020
Babak Fahimi
Title: MRI: Development of Grand-Scale Atmospheric Imaging Apparatus (GAIA) for Field Characterization of Atmospheric Flows and Particle Transport
Sponsor: University of Minnesota:
Amount: $202,976 for 3 years
Jiyoung Kim
Title: Novel Organic-Inorganic Hybrid EUV Dry Resists Deposited by Molecular Atomic Layer Deposition (MALO)
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corporation
Amount: $83,125 for period 1; expected $249,375 for 3 years
David Schmidtke
Title: SPIRe: Development of Novel Recirculating Microfluidic Devices for Cardiovascular Research
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year
October 2020
Georgios Makris
Title: Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes using Advanced Commercial Capabilities (RAMP)
Sponsor: IBM
Amount: $143,576 for approximately 5 months
William Vandenberghe
Title: New Layered 2D Gate Dielectrics for Scaled BEOL Transistors
Sponsor: University of Notre Dame and Semiconductor Research Corporation
Amount: $56,249 for period 1; expected $143,750 for 3 years and 3 months
September 2020
Kanad Basu
Title: Vaccinating Integrated Circuits Interconnected with Attack-Immune Architecture
Sponsor: George Mason University
Amount: $5,199 for 6 months
Carlos Busso
Title: Endogenous Fluorescence Lifetime Endoscopy for Early Detection of Oral Cancer and Dysplasia
Sponsor: University of Oklahoma
Amount: $47,000 for year 1; expected $141,000 for 3 years
Kevin Hamlen
Title: STTR MORTIMER: Language Mechanisms and Tools for Run-Time Memory Access Policy Enforcement
Sponsor: Intelligent Automation, Inc.
Amount: $75,000 for 6 months
Jason Jue
Title: CNS Core: Small: Design and Evaluation of Methods for Supporting Resilient and High-Availability Elastic Network Slicing
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $449,651 for 3 years
Latifur Khan
Title: Detection of Advanced Persistent Threats Using Machine Learning Techniques
Sponsor: National Institute of Science and Technology
Amount: $64,719 for 1 year
Jiyoung Kim
Title: Low Temperature HZO Ferroelectric Technology for FEOL and BEOL Applications
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp.
Amount: $112,500 for period 1; expected $287,500 for approximately 3 years
Shashank Sirsi
Title: Service Agreement: Microbubble T-Cell Transfection Project
Sponsor: Lupagen, Inc.
Amount: $32,140 for 5 months
August 2020
Stephanie G. Adams
Title: CNS Core: EAGER: Building Leadership Capacity and Support for Women of Color Faculty
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $299,173 for 2 years
Leonidas Bleris
Title: Collaborative Research: Unraveling Extracellular MicroRNA Communication
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $623,679 for 4 years
Andrea Fumagalli
Title: Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: RUI: Optics Without Borders
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $299,954 for year 1; expected $377,300 for 3 years
Kevin Hamlen
Title: Formal Security Evaluation of Executing Untrusted Binaries on Embedded Processors
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year
Latifur Khan
Title: Collaborative Research: EAGER: SaTC-EDU: Secure and Privacy- Preserving Adaptive Artificial Intelligence Curriculum Development for Cybersecurity
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $239,855 for 2 years
Jiyoung Kim
Title: Development of Furnace Type ALD with Extremely High Throughput (100 wafers/batch) for Multi-Component materials for Next Generation Device Applications
Sponsor: YEST – Yes Technology
Amount: $120,000 for 9 months
Georgios Makris
Title: CAD Flow Development for Design Obfuscation through Post-Fabrication Transistor—Level Programming (TRAP)
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $100,000 for 1 year
Majid Minary
Title: Self-Sensing and Self-Healing Metal Matrix Composites
Sponsor: US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Amount: $479,779 for 4 years
Reza Moheimani
Title: STTR I: Atomically Precise Scanning Probe Based Analysis of Activated Dopants for 2D Micro Electronics
Sponsor: Zyvex Labs, LLC
Amount: $75,107 for 1 year
Sriraam Natarajan
Title: Machine Learning Approaches Towards Risk Assessment and Prediction of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes
Sponsor: lndiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis
Amount: $116,783 for year 1; expected $389,755 for 3 years
Aria Nosratinia
Title: Collaborative Research: CIF: Medium: Security through the Lens of Information Asymmetry: A Pragmatic Evolution of Goals and Models in Physical Layer Security
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $300,082 for 3 years
Kenneth O
Title: Ultra-Low Jitter Frequency Synthesizer
Sponsor: Inertialwave and US Air Force Research Laboratory Microelectronics Design and Prototyping Challenge under Subaward number FA8650-19-2-6983
Amount: $180,000 for 4 months
Benjamin Carrion Schaefer
Title: Embedded FPGA (eFPGA)
Sponsor: Inertialwave and US Air Force Research Laboratory Microelectronics Design and Prototyping Challenge under Subaward number FA8650-19-2-6983
Amount: $200,000 for 4 months
Shashank Sirsi
Title: Testing Agreement: Proof of concept pilot experiments to test the efficacy of using AMB Labs proprietary drug delivery platform to treat mice models of neuroblastoma using anticancer drugs
Sponsor: Advanced Microbubbles Laboratories LLC
Amount: $10,104 for 5 months
Shiyi Wei
Title: Collaborative Research: SHF: Small: An Automated Full-Lifecycle Approach for Improving the Development and Use of Static Analysis
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $249,944 for 3 years
Guoping Xiong
Title: Mechanisms of Plasma-Catalytic Petroleum Upgrading
Sponsor: American Chemical Society
Amount: $109,947 for 13 months
Jie Zhang
Title: Deep Learning-based Reliability and Resilience Enhancement of Future New Ships and Their Integration into Power Networks under Extreme Events
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Amount: $509,115 for 3 years
July 2020
Stephanie G. Adams
Title: Collaborative Research: Rising Doctoral Institute
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $473,883 for 5 years
Joseph Friedman
Title: Stochasticity, Polymorphism and Non-Volatility: Three Pillars of Security and Trust Intrinsic to Emerging Technologies
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year
Latifur Khan
Title: Research and Educational Activities at IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2020
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $25,000 for 1 year
Jiyoung Kim
Title: Development of Highly Reliable and Low Voltage Ferroelectric Thin Films, and Characterization and Reliability of Ferroelectric Capacitors and FeFETs
Sponsor: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Amount: $66,300 for 10 months
Jiyoung Kim
Title: SRA:Research with International Future Semiconductor Innovation and Commercialization
Sponsor: Inha University
Amount: $59,851 for 1 year and 3 months
Justin Koeln
Title: Scalable Assured Functional Tactical Energy Autonomy
Sponsor: SPG Institute, Inc.
Amount: $416,000 for 2 years
Hongbing Lu
Title: Hydroformed Low-impedance Bellows for JLEIC
Sponsor: Bailey Tool and Manufacturing
Amount: $45,000 for 9 months
Georgio Makris
Title: Design Obfuscation and Performance Locking Solutions for Analog/RF ICs
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $75,000 for 1 year
Andrian Marcus
Title: Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: Bug Report Management 2.0
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $201,882 for year 1; $408,677 for 3 years
Rodrigo Bernal Montoya
Title: EAGER: Nanoscale Elastocaloric Effect in Phase-Change Nanowires for Solid-State Cooling
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $99,995 for 1 year
Aria Nosratinia
Title: CIF: Small: Community Detection Meets Non-Graph Data: Principles and Applications
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $449,410 for 3 years
Siavash Pourkamali
Title: STTR Phase I: Long Stroke Micromachined Arrayed Cell Electrostatic Actuators for Highly Integrated Micro-Positioning
Sponsor: Silicon DynamiX, Inc.
Amount: $87,409 for 1 years
June 2020
Carlos Busso
Title: CCRI: Medium: MSP-Podcast: Creating The Largest Speech Emotional Database By Leveraging Existing Naturalistic Recordings
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,075,386 for 3 years
D. Todd Griffith
Title: Upscale: 20MW Floating Offshore Wind
Sponsor: Institute for Energy Technology
Amount: $100,121 for 4 years
Xiaohu Guo
Title: OAC Core: Small: Open-Source Robust 4D Reconstruction Framework for Real-Time Dynamic Human Capture
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $499,997 for 3 years
Gopal Gupta
Title: Consistent Logical Automated Reasoning for Integrated System Software Assurance (CLARISSA)
Sponsor: Honewell, DARPA
Amount: $682,374 for approximately 4 years
John Hansen
Title: CCRI: Medium: Developing a Multi-Channel Naturalistic Audio Corpora for the Natural Language Processing Research Community
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,211,500 for 3 years
Yang Hu
Title: CAREER: Rethinking the Architectures and Systems for Autonomous Driving Infrastructure
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $508,339
Giacomo Valerio Iungo
Title: WindFluX Lab Participation in the AWAKEN Project
Sponsor: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, Managing and Operating Contractor for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the US Dept of Energy
Amount: $35,290
Moon Kim
Title: A General and Robust Route to Highly Diverse Hollow Nanostructures with New Properties
Sponsor: University of Central Florida
Amount: $114,687
Stephen Levene
Title: MEGA: Development of a UT Dallas Initiative for Physical Genomics and Inherited-disease Research
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $100,000
Sriraam Natarajan
Title: Human Guided Unified Learning of Tractable Deep Probabilistic Models
Sponsor: US Army Research Office
Amount: $75,000 for period 1; expected $375,449 for 3 years
Girgis Obaid
Title: Molecular Imaging-directed Bioengineering of Nanoconjugates as Adaptable Tumor Targeting Platforms
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $722,223
Shalini Prasad
Title: IPA SRA: Soil Sensor Project Phase I: Electrochemical evaluation of soil as a solid electrolyte for measurement of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil inorganic carbon (SIC)
Sponsor: Soil Data Ltd.
Amount: $388,518 for 1 year
Amy Walker
Title: SBIR: Real-time Nitrogen Sensor for Wastewater Treatment Optimization
Sponsor: Max-IR Labs, LLC
Amount: $100,000 for 2 years
Hejian Xiong
Title: Highly Photosensitive Phospholipid Nanovesicles for Near Infrared Light-triggered Local Anesthesia
Sponsor: Phospholipid Research Center
Amount: $73,829
Lingming Zhang
Title: CAREER: Maximal and Scalable Unified Debugging for the JVM Ecosystem
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $519,819
May 2020
Murat Kantarcioglu
Title: RAPID: Collaborative: A Privacy Risk Assessment Framework for Person-Level Data Sharing During Pandemics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $99,925
Shalini Prasad
Title: SRA: Design of sensors for gas phase detection of selected VOCs
Sponsor: NanoBio Detection Systems
Amount: $1,683,000
Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Rapid Diagnostic Test for Respiratory Syncytial Virus by Digital Nanobubbles
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $2,516,426
April 2020
Ann Majewicz Fey
Title: Workshop on Women in Medical Robotics; Atlanta, Georgia; April 22-24, 2020
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $16,450
Todd Griffith
Title: A Low-Cost Floating Offshore Vertical Axis Wind System
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy
Amount: $3,300,000
Qing Gu
Title: CAREER: Environmentally Stable Electrically Pumped Perovskite Laser
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $500,000
Robert Wallace
Title: Collaborative Research: Atomically Thin Topological Insulators via Confinement Heteroepitaxy
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $300,000 for 3 years
March 2020
Naofal Al-Dhahir
Title: STTR I: A Self-Learning Approach for In-Vehicle Driver and Passenger Monitoring Through a Sensor Fusion Approach
Sponsor: Edgetensor Technologies Inc.
Amount: $80,000
Andrew Marshall
Title: Modularized High Efficiency, Low Frequency Vibration Energy Harvesting Power Supply System
Sponsor: Microsol Technologies Inc.
Amount: $30,000
Seung Mun You
Title: Design and Manufacturing Technologies for a Thin Thermal Ground Plane
Sponsor: Korea Institute of Machinery and Materia
Amount: $191,814
Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Ultrasensitive and Rapid Diagnosis of Influenza by Digital Nanobubbles on a Microwell Array Platform
Sponsor: Congressional Directed Medical Research
Amount: $293,492
Rod Wetterskog
Title: Localization of a Single Sound Source
Sponsor: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Amount: $20,251
February 2020
Carlos Busso
Title: SRA – Driving Anomaly Detection Based On Multi-Modal Fusion Of Driver Behavioral Signals And External Scene Information
Sponsor: Honda Research Institute USA Inc.
Amount: $97,227
Feng Chen
Title: SRA: Advanced Analytics & Deep Learning for the Power Generation and Distribution Industry (Phase I)
Sponsor: Vistra Corporate Services Co.
Amount: $330,864
Murat Kantarcioglu
Title: FAI: Categorizing, Measuring, and Mitigating Algorithmic Fairness
Sponsor: Purdue University
Amount: $19,710 for 1 year
Georgios Makris
Title: Imaging-Based Usage Analysis and Key Extraction from Analog Floating-Gate Transistors
Sponsor: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
Amount: $149,999 for approximately 7.5 months
Lingming Zhang
Title: CAREER: Maximal and Scalable Unified Debugging for the JVM Ecosystem
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $94,106 for year 1; $519,819 for 5 years
January 2020
Stephanie G. Adams
Title: Dissertation Institute
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $510,391 for 27 months
Carlos Busso
Title: SCH: INT: Collaborative Research: Passive Sensing of Social Isolation and Loneliness: A Digital Phenotyping Approach
Sponsor: Boston University
Amount: $52,043 for period 1; $184,945 for approximately 4 years
Baowei Fei
Title: SEED: Workshop: Biomedical Imaging and Data Science for Surgical Innovation
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $9,000
Latifur Khan
Title: SATC: EDU: Curriculum Development for Secure Blockchain Technologies
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $499,595
Majid Minary
Title: SBIR Phase II: An Innovative Additive Manufacturing Technology for High Density Interconnects
Sponsor: nanoRANCH-UHV Technologies, Inc.
Amount: $255,481 for 2 years
Hlaing Minn
Title: Research Study on Channel Characteristics of Emerging Wireless Assistive Applications
Sponsor: DOCOMO Innovations, Inc.
Amount: $30,000
Shalini Prasad
Title: Pilot study of CLASP: Noninvasive Passive Eccrine Sweat Platform for Tracking IBD Flares
Sponsor: Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation
Amount: $200,000
Mario Rotea
Title: Phase II IUCRC UT Dallas: Center for Wind Energy Science, Technology and Research (WindSTAR)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $101,421 for year 1
Shashank Sirsi
Title: SRA: Testing of Novel Lipidized Chemotherapeutics in Xenograft Mouse Model
Sponsor: New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
Amount: $20,000 for approximately 1 year