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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

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


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

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

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

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

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


November 2020

Babak Fahimi

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

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

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

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

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

Kanad Basu
Title: Vaccinating Integrated Circuits Interconnected with Attack-Immune Architecture
Sponsor: George Mason University
Amount: $5,199 for 6 months

Carlos Busso

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

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

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

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

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

Shashank Sirsi
Title: Service Agreement: Microbubble T-Cell Transfection Project
Sponsor: Lupagen, Inc.
Amount: $32,140 for 5 months


August 2020

Stephanie G. Adams

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

Leonidas Bleris
Title: Collaborative Research: Unraveling Extracellular MicroRNA Communication
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $623,679 for 4 years

Andrea Fumagalli


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

Kenneth O


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


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


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


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


Guoping Xiong

Title: Mechanisms of Plasma-Catalytic Petroleum Upgrading
Sponsor: American Chemical Society
Amount: $109,947 for 13 months


July 2020

Stephanie G. Adams


Stephanie G. Adams

Title: Collaborative Research: Rising Doctoral Institute
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $473,883 for 5 years

Joseph Friedman


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


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


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


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


Justin Koeln

Title: Scalable Assured Functional Tactical Energy Autonomy
Sponsor: SPG Institute, Inc.
Amount: $416,000 for 2 years

Hongbing Lu


Hongbing Lu

Title: Hydroformed Low-impedance Bellows for JLEIC
Sponsor: Bailey Tool and Manufacturing
Amount: $45,000 for 9 months

Georgios Makris


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


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


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


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


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
Carlos Busso


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

Todd Griffith


D. Todd Griffith

Title: Upscale: 20MW Floating Offshore Wind
Sponsor: Institute for Energy Technology
Amount: $100,121 for 4 years

Xiaohu Guo


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


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


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


Yang Hu

Title: CAREER: Rethinking the Architectures and Systems for Autonomous Driving Infrastructure
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $508,339

Giacomo Valerio Iungo


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


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


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


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


Girgis Obaid

Title: Molecular Imaging-directed Bioengineering of Nanoconjugates as Adaptable Tumor Targeting Platforms
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $722,223

Shalini Prasad


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


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


Hejian Xiong

Title: Highly Photosensitive Phospholipid Nanovesicles for Near Infrared Light-triggered Local Anesthesia
Sponsor: Phospholipid Research Center
Amount: $73,829

Lingming Zhang


Lingming Zhang

Title: CAREER: Maximal and Scalable Unified Debugging for the JVM Ecosystem
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $519,819


May 2020

Murat Kantarcioglu


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


Shalini Prasad

Title: SRA: Design of sensors for gas phase detection of selected VOCs
Sponsor: NanoBio Detection Systems
Amount: $1,683,000

Zhenpeng Qin


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


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


Todd Griffith

Title: A Low-Cost Floating Offshore Vertical Axis Wind System
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy
Amount: $3,300,000

Qing Gu


Qing Gu

Title: CAREER: Environmentally Stable Electrically Pumped Perovskite Laser
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $500,000

Robert Wallace


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


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


Andrew Marshall

Title: Modularized High Efficiency, Low Frequency Vibration Energy Harvesting Power Supply System
Sponsor: Microsol Technologies Inc.
Amount: $30,000

Seung Mun You


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


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


Rod Wetterskog

Title: Localization of a Single Sound Source
Sponsor: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Amount: $20,251


February 2020

Carlos Busso


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


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


Murat Kantarcioglu

Title: FAI: Categorizing, Measuring, and Mitigating Algorithmic Fairness
Sponsor: Purdue University
Amount: $19,710 for 1 year

Georgios Makris


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


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


Stephanie G. Adams

Title: Dissertation Institute
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $510,391 for 27 months

Carlos Busso


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


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


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


Hlaing Minn

Title: Research Study on Channel Characteristics of Emerging Wireless Assistive Applications
Sponsor: DOCOMO Innovations, Inc.
Amount: $30,000

Shalini Prasad


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


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


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

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