CAREER Awards

Principal Investigator

Start Date

Amount

Title

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Vaishali Sharda

2024

$509,619

CAREER: CAS-Climate: Multiscale Data and Model Synthesis Informed Approach for Assessing Climate Resilience of Crop Production Systems

Chemical Engineering

Won Min Park

2023

$550,000

CAREER: Modular Protein Origami to Build Genetically Programmable Biomaterials

Ryan Hansen

2020

$555,166

CAREER: Understanding bacteria encapsulation, proliferation and release in photodegradable hydrogel materials

Placidus Amama

2017

$520,000

CAREER: Rational Design of Efficient Carbon Nanotube-Supported Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysts for Air Purification

Civil Engineering

Jeongdae Im

2022

$614,274

CAREER: Mechanisms and control of nitrous oxide emissions from forage conservation

Alok Bhandari*

1999

$222,000

CAREER: Engineered Humification Processes: An Innovative Approach to Remediate Hazardous Waste Sites

Computer Science

Pavithra Prabhakar

2016

$466,681

CAREER: Robust Verification of Cyber-Physical Systems

Eugene Vasserman

2013

$499,020

CAREER: Safety and security for next-generation world-scale real-time medical systems

Robby

2007

$400,000

CAREER: A Formal, Integrated Analysis Framework for Contract-based Reasoning of Strong Properties of Open Systems

Scott DeLoach

2004

$450,000

CAREER: Autonomous Reorganization of Cooperative Robotic Teams for Robustness

Daniel Andresen

2001

$222,570

CAREER: DESPOT: Enhanced Dynamic Process Management for Beowulf Clusters on the Grid

John Hatcliff

1998

$130,700

CAREER: A Partial Evaluation Tool Set for Automatically Customizing Adaptable Software

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Xiaolong Guo

2024

$490,120

CAREER: When Learning Meets Reasoning: Mitigating Security Risks with Large Language Models and Causality Inference

Hongyu Wu

2022

$500,000

CAREER: Towards attack-resilient cyber-physical smart grids: moving target defense for data integrity attack detection, identification and mitigation

Behrooz Mirafzal

2014

$400,000

CAREER:Toward Grid-Interactive Converters with Diagnostic, Remedial, and Lifetime Prognostic Features for the Next Generation of Power Grids

Steven Warren

2001

$381,000

CAREER: Beyond Telemedicine: Realizing a Proactive Home Health Care Delivery Model Through Research and Education in Plug-and-Play Components and Novel Sensors

William Kuhn*

1999

$227,447

CAREER: Combining Research and Education in Developing Fully Integrated Wireless Transceivers

Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Suprem Das

2022

$500,000

CAREER: Rational Design of One-Dimensional Contacts to Two-Dimensional Atomically Thin Heterostructure for High-Performance and Low Noise Field Effect Transistors and Biosensors

Jessica Heier Stamm

2017

$500,000

CAREER: Measuring the Impact of Public Health Supply Chain Coordination Structures on the Effectiveness of Disaster Preparedness and Response

Shuting Lei

2002

$399,000

CAREER: Design and Development of Novel Responsive Cutting Tools for Laser-Assisted Machining and Diagnosis of Structural Ceramics: A Research Integrated Education Career Landscape

Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering

Raj Kumar Pal

2023

$504,341

CAREER: Guiding and Confining Nonlinear Elastic Waves in Moiré Metastructures

Melanie Derby

2017

$500,000

CAREER: Altering Transient Soil Evaporation Mechanisms through Hydrophobicity

Gurpreet Singh

2015

$500,000

CAREER: Scalable liquid exfoliation processing of ultrathin two-dimensional metal dichalcogenides nanosheets for energy storage devices

* indicates emeritus or deceased faculty