Kanad Basu
Title: P11_2021: Scalable Security Verification Framework for Digital and Analog/Mixed-Signal System-on-Chips
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year and 7 months

Joseph Friedman
Title: P12_2021: Stochasticity, Polymorphism and Non-Volatility: Three Pillars of Security and Trust Intrinsic to Emerging Technologies (C)
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year and 7 months

Todd Griffith
Title: SRA: Innovation with Thermoplastics in Future Wind Turbine Blades (Phase 1)
Sponsor: CREADIS, Inc.
Amount: $8,151 for approximately 2 months

Kevin Hamlen
Title: P15_2021: Formal Security Evaluation of Executing Untrusted Binaries on Embedded Processors (C)
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year and 7 months

Dongsheng Brian Ma
Title: P10_2021: On-Chip Parallel-Processing RSSM Switching Power Regulator for EM/Power Side-Channel Security
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $80,000 for 1 year and 7 months

Georgios Makris
Title: P14_2021: Design Obfuscation and Performance Locking Solutions for Analog/RF ICs
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $75,000 for 1 year and 7 months

Georgios Makris
Title: P13_2021: CAD Flow Development for Design Obfuscation through Post-Fabrication Transistor-Level Programming (TRAP) (C)
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati
Amount: $125,000 for 1 year and 7 months

Reza Moheimani
Title: STTR II: Atomically Precise Scanning Probe Based Analysis of Activated Dopants for 2D Micro Electronics
Sponsor: Zyvex Labs, LLC
Amount: $256,992 for 1 year

Kenneth O
Title: SBIR: F2-14652 – CeRAM at Radio Frequencies
Sponsor: Cerfe Labs, Inc.
Amount: $117,997 for 1 year

Manuel Quevedo-Lopez
Title: IPA SRA: X-ray sensors and systems based on thin films materials
and devices
Sponsor: EMP Technology Solutions, Inc.
Amount: $227,323 for 1 year

Chadwin Young
Title: SBIR II: CeRAM at Radio Frequencies
Sponsor: Cerfe Labs, Inc.
Amount: $166,386 for 1 year

Babak Fahimi
Title: SRA: Electric Motor Design Trade-Offs
Sponsor: Dana Ltd.
Amount: $132,00 for 3 months

Babak Fahimi
Title: 30kW Automotive Drive Design (Hardware) and Software Development (Task Orders 1 and 2)
Sponsor: R&D Dynamics Corporation
Amount: $125,000 for 7 months

Vibhav Gogate
Title: Neuro-Symbolic Dynamic Probabilistic Models: A Unifying Representation and Reasoning Tool for PTG
Sponsor: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Amount: $2,331,192 for phase 1; expected $4,908,187 for 2 phases

Julia Hsu
Title: Carbon-free Sol-gel Precursors for Metal Oxide EUV Resist
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corporation
Amount: $90,000 for 1 year; expected $270,000 for 3 years

Justin Ruths
Title: SPIRe: Inferring Effective Connectivity of Sparsely Sampled
Neuronal Networks
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $60,000 for 1 year

Amy Walker
Title: Next Generation Area Selective Deposition Reactive SAMs and Photochemical CVD
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corporation
Amount: $45,000 for 1 year; expected $135,000 for 3 years

Naofal Al-Dhahir
Title: IPA SRA: Secure Federated Edge Intelligence Framework for AI-driven 6G Applications
Sponsor: Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Amount: $100,440 for 3 years

Stuart Cogan
Title: Regenerative Utlramicroelectrode Arrays for Sensory-motor
Specific Interfacing
Sponsor: University of Houston
Amount: $101,736 for 1 year; expected $535,142 for 5 years

Massimo Fischetti
Title: Radiation Effect in Electronic Materials, Circuits, Devices and Systems: Theoretical Study of Electronic Transport and Thermalization
Sponsor: US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Amount: $170,000 for 2 years

Kevin Hamlen
Title: PRISM: Proof-driven Refinement of Infrastructure Software Modules
Sponsor: Georgia Institute of Technology
Amount: $219,969.61 for period 1; expected $549,906.74

Stefano Leonardi
Title: Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Grain Shape Effect on Munition Mobility
Sponsor: University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez campus
Amount: $191,816 for approximately 4 years and 5 months

Hlaing Minn
Title: SRA: Research Study on Enhancing Sensing Capabilities for Network as a Sensor (NaaS)
Sponsor: DOCOMO Innovations, Inc.
Amount: $50,000 for approximately 5 months

Alexander Murphy
Title: Engineering Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Sponsor: American Society for Engineering Education
Amount: $259,000 for 2 years

Shalini Prasad
Title: IPA SRA: Exploring Soil Parameters through Electrochemistry Towards Assessment of Soil Health
Sponsor: Soil in Formation
Amount: $640,040 for 2 years

Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Magnetomechanical Modulation of Blood-brain Barrier Permeability
Sponsor: CPRIT
Amount: $250,000 for 2 years

Feng Chen
Title: IPA SRA: A Prototype Machine Learning System for Load and Price Forecasting and Bid Optimization for the ERCOT Market
Sponsor: Rayburn Country Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Amount: $280,956 for 1 year

Shuang Cui
Title: Phase-change Thermal Energy Storage from Biodegradable
Wood-based Materials
Sponsor: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, Managing and Operating Contractor for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the US Dept.
of Energy
Amount: $65,000 for 1 year

Doug DeGroot
Title: CENT-IQ: The Center for Applied AI & Machine Learning
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $125,000 for 5 years

Baowei Fei
Title: CENT-IQ: The Center for Imaging and Surgical Innovation
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $125,000 for 3 years

Giacomo Valerio Iungo
Title: Technical Support for the American Wake Experiment (AWAKEN) Project
Sponsor: Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC, Managing and Operating Contractor for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the U.S. Dept. Of Energy
Amount: $58,650 for 1 year

Rishabh Iyer
Title: Collaborative Research: RI: Medium: Submodular Information Function with Application to Machine Learning
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $599,594 for approximately 3 years

Jeong-Bong Lee
Title: Realtime Greenhouse Emission Monitoring Sensor Development
Sponsor: The US Dept. of Agriculture
Amount: $83,309 for 1 year

Tien Nguyen
Title: Human-in-the-Loop XAI-enabled Vulnerability Detection, Investigation and Mitigation
Sponsor: National Security Agency
Amount: $239,870.05 for period 1; expected $491,485.86 for approximately
3 years and 3 months

Tien Nguyen
Title: Collaborative Research: CCRI: ENS: Boa 2.0: Enhancing Infrastructure for Studying Software and its Evaluation on a Large Scale
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $448,168 for 3 years

Dong Qian
Title: Development and Validation of a Virtual Laparoscopic Hiatal Hernia Simulator (VLaHHS)
Sponsor: University of the Southwest
Amount: $54,290 for 1 year; expected $109,290 for 2 years

Shashank Sirsi
Title: IPA SRA: 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
Amount: $99,474 for 1 year

Yonas Tadesse
Title: Fellowship: Multi-layer novel morphing structure with high-performance embedded polymer artificial muscles for robotics and human performance
Sponsor: Toyato Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year

Walter Voit
Title: CENT-IQ: CAIQUE: Center for Applied AI at the IQ with UT Dallas Expertise
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $125,000 for 3 years

Rym Zalila-Wenkstern
Title: Digitizing Traffic Control Infrastructure for Autonomous Vehicles
Sponsor: Texas Dept. of Transportation
Amount: $101,153 for 2 years

Rym Zalila-Wenkstern
Title: CENT-IQ: Center for Smart and Connected Mobility
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $150,000 for 4 years

Ovidiu Daescu
Title: IUCRC Membership Agreement
Sponsor: JD Finance America Corporation
Amount: $150,000 for 2 years

Ravi Prakash
Title: Collaborative Research: CCRI: Planning: InfraStructure for Photorealistic Image and Environment Synthesis (I-SPIES)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $9,160 for 1 years

Zhenpeng Qin
Title: Rapid Diagnostic Test for Respiratory Syncytial Virus by
Digital Nanobubbles
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $1,000,000 for 4 years

Stephanie G. Adams
Title: Adaptation: Adapting Successful Practices to foster an Inclusive, Respectful, and Equitable Environment (ASPIRE²)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,000,000 for 3 years

Leonidas Bleris
Title: Collaborative Research: Genome Editing Approaches to Unravel MicroRNA Roles in Stochastic Multistable Networks
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $493,291 for approximately 5 years

Feng Chen
Title: Collaborative Research: III: Medium: MUDL: Multidimensional Uncertainty-Award Deep Learning Framework
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $120,278 for 1 year, expected $499,955 for 4 years

Yun Chiu
Title: SRA: High-Performance Low Power Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS} Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)
Sponsor: Nebula Microsystems, Inc.
Amount: $225,000 for 3 years

Stuart Cogan
Title: SRA: Flexible thin-film neural interface for stimulating deep brain regions
Sponsor: Braingrade GmbH
Amount: $89,723 for 6 months

Xianming Dai
Title: SPIRe: Engineered Surfaces For The Condensation Of Low Surface Tension Fluids
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $60,000 for 1 year

Serdar Erbatur
Title: Unification in Symbolic Methods for the Verification of Automatically Synthesized Cryptosystems
Sponsor: Clarkson University
Amount: $19,000 for 7 months

Xiaohu Guo
Title: SPIRe: Motion Capture Metric Development for the Study of Vocal Muscle Strain
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $60,000 for 1 year

John Hansen
Title: EAGER: Collaborative Research: Second Language Speech Production: Formulation of Object Speech Intelligibility Measures and Learner-specific Feedback
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $134,977 for 18 months

Fatemeh Hassanipour
Title: MCA: Physics-Informed and Geometry-Informed Machine Learning for Analysis of Multi-scale Distensible Biological Structures
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $360,517 for 3 years

Seth Hays
Title: Wireless Nerve Stimulation Device to Enhance Recovery After Stroke
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $3,408,782 for 3 years

Julia Hsu
Title: High-Speed Solution Printing and Photonic Curing of Transparent Electrodes on Plastics
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy
Amount: $813,345

Murat Kantarcioglu
Title: CICI: UCSS: Blockchain Based Assured Open Scientific Data Sharing and Governance
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $499,692 for approximately 3 years

Kenneth O
Title: SRA: Imaging Fur, Human Hair, and Adult and Nymph Ticks Using 140-280 Ghz Electromagnatic Waves
Sponsor: DiamondFox Enterprise
Amount: $28,183 for 5 months

Balakrishnan Prabhakaran
Title: Collaborative Adaptive Augmented Reality Environment (CAARE)
Sponsor: US Army Research Lab
Amount: $256,000 for 2 years

Manuel Quevedo
Title: PFI-TT: Scalable solid state neutron and gamma detectors for diverse industrial applications
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $249,392

Joshua Summers
Title: FMSG: Internet of People and Things – Bridging Manual to Semiautomated Processes through Cybermanufacturing Collaborative Intelligence
Sponsor: Clemson University
Amount: $65,001 for 1 Year, expected $130,000 for 2 years

Victor Varner
Title: UT Southwestern O’Brien Kidney Research Core Center
Sponsor: UT Southwestern Medical Center
Amount: $35,000 for 1 year

Eric Wong
Title: SRA: Security Vulnerability Assessment Framework for Defi Smart Contracts
Sponsor: RFCyber Corporation
Amount: $24,000 for 1 year

Guoping Xiong
Title: Designing and Processing Microstructurally Tailored Graphene Aerogels with an Understanding of Deformation and Failure Mechanisms
Sponsor: University of Nevada Reno
Amount: $221,315 for approximately 2 years

Xianming Dai
Title: CAREER: Vapor-Liquid Separation for Sustainable Condensation Heat Transfer
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $409,827 for first 4years; expected $517,072 for 5 years

Kevin Hamlen
Title: STTR: Self-Healing Ship Systems
Sponsor: RAM Laboratories, Inc.
Amount: $48,477 for base period, option 1 $34,982

Kevin Hamlen
Title: Software Attack Surface Reduction On The Fly
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Amount: $75,000 for 1 year

Murat Kantarcioglu
Title: Multi-Round Deception Games
Sponsor: Washington University at St. Louis
Amount: $40,000 for 1 year

Guoping Xiong
Title: Collaborative Research: Understanding the Synergistic Effect of Graphene Plasmonics and Nanoscale Spatial Confinement on Solar-Driven Water Phase Change
Sponsor: University of Nevada Reno
Amount: $219,000 for 2 years 5 months

Guoping Xiong
Title: Collaborative Research: Chemically Modified, Plasma-Nanoengineering Graphene Nanopetals for Spontaneous, Self-Powered and Efficient Oil Contamination Remediation
Sponsor:
Amount: $209,000 for 2 years and 10 months

Baowei Fei
Title: Virtual Biopsy with Tissue-Level accuracy in Glioma
Sponsor: UT Southwestern Medical Center
Amount: $174,963 for approximately 5 years

Baowei Fei
Title: Image-Guided Intravascular Robotic System for Mitral Valve Repair and Implants
Sponsor: Georgia Institute of Technology
Amount: $169,809 for 1 year

Matthew Gardner
Title: Multi-Physical Co-Design of Next Generation Axial Motors for Aerospace Applications
Sponsor: Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Amount: $55,304 for period 1; expected $368,902 for 3.5 years

Julia Hsu
Title: NSF-AFRL INTERN: Dilute-Donor Organic Solar Cells: Breaking the Fullerence Monopoly (Supplemental)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $44,899

Walter Voit
Title: Paired Brain and Spinal Cord Stimulation to Strengthen Spinal Sensorimotor Circuits
Sponsor: Columbia University
Amount: $63,113 for period 1; expected $315,565 for 5 years

Jie Zhang
Title: Learning on Graphs for Resilience Decision-Support in Real-World Networks
Sponsor: Office of Neval Research
Amount: $150,000 for 1 year; expected $808,762 for 4 years

Leonidas Bleris
Title: Aging and Error Correction in DNA Storage
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $40,000 for 1 year

Leonidas Bleris
Title: SARS-CoV-2-viral RNAs as Unique Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets
Sponsor: UT Health Science Center at San Antonio
Amount: $48,314 for 1 year

Xianming Dai
Title: PREP: Sustainable Inhibition of Biofilm Formation on Quasi-Liquid Modified Catheters
Sponsor: University of Texas at Dallas
Amount: $25,000 for 1 year

Feng Chen
Title: Advancing the Knowledge about Software Vulnerability Analysis via Large-Scale Benchmarking
Sponsor: Washington State University
Amount: $51,797 for year 1; expected $265,697 for approximately 3 years

Zhenghong Gao
Title: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Therapy for ALS Enhanced by TJ-Targeted Barrier Modulation
Sponsor:Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program
Amount: $648,389 for 2 years

Qing Gu
Title: Robust, compact, on chip microlaser enabled by merging bound states in the continuum
Sponsor: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Amount: $88,735 for approximately 2 years

Tyler Summers
Title: CAREER: Data-Driven Control of Dynamical Networks:Robustness,Risk,and Network Architectures
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $370,638 for period 1; expected $500,000 for 5 years

Bilal Akin
Title: IPA SRA: Electric Motor Fault Diagnostics
Sponsor: Toshiba International Corporation
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year

William Anderson
Title: Asynchronous-coupled Large-eddy Simulation of Langmuir
Turbulence and the Atmospheric Surface Layer
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $239,535 for 3 years

Kyeongjae Cho
Title: ASCENT: Applications and Systems Driven Center for Energy Efficient Integrated Nano Technologies (DSSP)
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corporation, JUMP and DARPA
Amount: $125,000 for 1 year

Ovidiu Daescu
Title: SRA: Drone-based System for Automatically Mapping a Warehouse and Tracking its Inventory
Sponsor: lnfoVision, Inc.
Amount: $54,990 for 6 months

Caroline Jones
Title: Microsystems to Decipher Leukocyte Decision-Making
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $348,887 for 10 months; expected $1,475,774 for 3 years and 10 months

Andrew Marshall
Title: STTR PhaseII: Modularized High Efficiency, Low Frequency
Vibration Energy Harvesting Power Supply System
Sponsor: Microsol Technologies
Amount: $200,000 for 11.5 months

Joseph Pancrazio
Title: Asynchronous-coupled Large-eddy Simulation of Langmuir
Turbulence and the Atmospheric Surface Layer
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $239,535 for 3 years

Joseph Pancrazio
Title: SRA: High Content Pain Circuit Cell Culture System
Sponsor: Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc.
Amount: $217,044 for year 1

Jean-Francoi Veyan
Title: STTR I: Infrared Chemical Sensor for Toxic Industrial Chemicals/Toxic Industrial Materials (TICs/TIMs) Filtration Performance Monitoring
Sponsor: Max-IR LABS, LLC
Amount: $50,000 for approximately 7 months

Shiyi Wei
Title: CAREER: Improving the Practicality of Configurable Static Analysis Tools through Analysis, Testing, Refinement and Adaptation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $161,539 for period 1; expected $458,849 for
approximately 5 years

Eric Wong
Title: Collaborative Research: I/URC PhaseII: Security and Software
Engineering Research Center (S2ERC)
Sponsor: Ball State University
Amount: $81,900 for 4 months

Eric Wong
Title: REU Site: Software Safety and Reliability: Research, Practice, and
Innovation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $404,772 for 3 years

Kanad Basu
Title: Machine Learning-based Efficient Atomic Layer Deposition
Sponsor: University of Central Florida and Semiconductor Research Corp
Amount: $27,540 for year 1; expected $85,644 for 3 years

Kevin Hamlen
Title: Information and Software Assurance: Dynamic Multi-Layer Multi- Stage Cognition-Inspired Active Cyber Deception
Sponsor: US Army Research Office
Amount: $100,000 for 5 months; expected $600,000 for 3 years

Kenneth Hoyt
Title: Multiparametric Ultrasound Imaging for Early Detection of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $437,873 for year 1; expected $1,650,462 for 4 years

Moon Kim
Title: Floating Gate Microscopy Development
Sponsor: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies
Amount: $150,000 for 9 months

Georgios Makris
Title: Al/ML Edge Hardware for Ultra-reliable Wireless Networks
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corp.
Amount: $40,000 for 1 year; expected $120,000 for 3 years

Georgios Makris
Title: SRA: ML-Based PCM-Probe Test Correlation Analysis and Smart Dicer
Sponsor: NXP USA Inc.
Amount: $49,982 for 1 year

Shalini Prasad
Title: SRA: Investigation and Assessment of Food Contaminants in Sample Matrices without Need for Pre-processing
Sponsor: Sensorx Pty Ltd.
Amount: $220,000 for 2 years

Dong Qian
Title: SRA: Using Laser Shock Peening to Improve the Mechanical Properties of Tool Steel
Sponsor: BeamTech Optronics Co. Ltd.
Amount: $16,000 for 6 months

Joshua Summers
Title: Collaborative Research: Creativity in Teams: Identifying the Role of Meetings in Fostering Effective Cognitive and Social Processes in Teams
Sponsor: Clemson University
Amount: $39,000 for 7 months; expected $117,000 for 2 years and 7 months

Bhavani Thuraisingham
Title: From Device to Cloud: An End-to-End Framework for Trusted Edge Computing for lloT Security
Sponsor: Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Amount: $60,154 for 9 months

Jie Zhang
Title: Machine Learning-based Real-Time Optimal Switchings of Reconfigurable Microgrids
Sponsor: US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Amount: $104,173 .11 for 1 year