Young Investigator Awards
The Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program supports scientists and engineers who are in their first or second full-time academic appointment, and who show exceptional promise for doing creative research.
| Year | Professor | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Ashutosh Giri | Unraveling the Microscopic Dynamics of Coupled Energy States in Nanostructures |
| 2021 | Brennan Phillips | Ultralight, Economical, and Adaptable Solutions for Deep-Sea UUVs And Distributed Sensing Using Fiber-Optic Tethers |
| 2020 | Kaushallya (Kay) Adhikari | Information Theoretic Design of Sparse Arrays and Adaptive Algorithms to Maximize Detection in Real Sonar Systems |
| 2017 | Tao Wei | Sub-Terahertz-Range-Interrogated Fiber-Optic Systems for Distributed Sensing Applications |
CAREER Awards
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
| Project Start Date | Professor | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 1/01/2024 | Ryan Poling | |
| 07/01/2022 | Hui Lin | PARP: Mislead Physical-Disruption Attacks by Preemptive Anti-Reconnaissance for Power Grids Cyber-Physical Infrastructures |
| 04/01/2021 | Joseph Goodwill | Closing the Rural Water and Education Gap with a Simple Advanced Oxidation Process |
| 05/15/2020 | Bin Li* | Wireless Collaborative Mixed Reality Networking: Foundations and Algorithms for Joint Communication, Computation, and Learning |
| 07/01/2019 | Daniel Roxbury | Spectral imaging for sub-cellular nanometrology and nanotoxicology |
| 06/01/2019 | Yi Zheng* | Investigation of Nanoscale Radiative Heat Transfer for Enhanced Thermal Infrared Energy Conversion and Cooling |
| 06/01/2017 | Kunal Mankodiya | CPS: Internet of Wearable E-Textiles for Telemedicine |
| 05/01/2014 | Vinka Craver | Bacterial adaptation mechanism to chronic exposure to nanoparticles and its implications to nanomanufacturing and public health |
| 02/15/2012 | He Huang* | Understanding and Analyzing User-Prosthesis Interaction for Designing a Volitional Controller for Powered Lower Limb Prostheses |
| 04/01/2011 | Haibo He | AIS – An Integrated Optimization and Prediction Framework for Machine Intelligence based on Adaptive Dynamic Programming |
| 02/15/2011 | Geoffrey Bothun | Nanoparticle-Bacterial Membrane Interactions and their Role in Nanotoxicology |
| 02/01/2007 | Yan Sun | Building Trust in Distributed Networks: Theories, Architecture and Applications |
| 06/01/2005 | Frederick Vetter | Novel Engineering Analyses of Cardiac Hypertrophy |
| 02/01/2003 | David Chelidze | Phase Space Warping and Stochastic Interrogation: A New Paradigm for Damage Diagnosis and Prognosis |
*No longer at the University