Active ECE Research Grants

Principal Investigator: Gina Adam
Award: “EigenArch: A Low Rank Hardware Machine Learning Accelerator”
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Budget: $299,958

Award: “CRII: FET: Embedded neuromorphic circuits for real-time closed-loop biosensor data processing”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $174,995

Principal Investigator: Payman Dehghanian
Award: “Smart Measurement Units for Online Situational Awareness in Power Grids”
Sponsor: Department of Energy
Budget: $50,000

Award: “SCC-PG Improving Low Income Households Access to Energy in Washington DC”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $35,124

Award: “NNA Track 2: Collaborative Research: Foundations for Improving Resilience in the Energy Sector against Wildfire on Alaskan Lands (FIREWALL)”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $74,631

Principal Investigator: Tarek El-Ghazawi
Award: “RAISE: The Reconfigurable Optical Computer (ROC)”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $467,848

Award: “E2CDA: Collaborative Proposal: Nanophotonic-enabled Optical Neuromorphic Computing on Silicon”
Sponsor: SRC
Budget: $98,603

Award: “E2CDA: Collaborative Proposal: Nanophotonic-enabled Optical Neuromorphic Computing on Silicon”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $267,711

Award: “RANC: A Residue Arithmetic Nanophotonic Computer”
Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Budget: $164,291

Award: “IDIEA-DC: An Infrastructure for Distributed Intelligence Experimentation and Architectures in the Digital Continuum: from IoTs to the Cloud”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $299,905

Principal Investigator: Howie Huang
Award: “SHF: Small: Accelerating Graph Traversal on GPUs”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $449,929

Award: “IO-Centric Computer System for Graph Analytics”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $350,000

Award: “Graph Learning System for Automated Threat Detection”
Sponsor: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Budget: $994,644

Award: “High-Performance Graph Algorithms on Near-Memory Processing Architecture”
Sponsor: Booz Allen Hamilton
Budget: $98,106

Award: “I-Corps: Machine Learning Based Graph Analytics for Cyber Security Applications”
Sponsor: U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
Budget: $70,000

Principal Investigator: Mahdi Imani
Award: “CRII: III: Informative Bayesian Learning and Data Gathering Through Expert-Acquired Data”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $175,000

Principal Investigator: Tian Lan
Award: “DIALECT: Communication Protocols Customization via Feature DIAgnosis, Lacing, Elimination, Cross-grafting, and Trimming”
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Budget: $1,363,229

Award: “Rethinking Erasure Codes for Cloud Storage: A Novel Framework for Latency, Reliability, and Resource Optimization”
Sponsor: Cisco Systems
Budget: $150,466

Award: “SIFT: Scheduling Interactive Flows to Tame Performance Tails”
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Budget: $140,000

Award: “I-Corp: A Data-Driven Cloud Optimization Tool”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $50,000

Principal Investigator: Roger Lang
Award: “Dielectric Constant Measurement for Remote Sensing of Seawater Salinity”
Sponsor: NASA-Goddard
Budget: $470,707

Award: “P/L Passive Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture”
Sponsor: NASA-Goddard
Budget: $148,001

Award: “Forest Modelling for Mountain Communications”
Sponsor: U.S. Army Research Development & Engineering Command
Budget: $230,000

Principal Investigator: Ahmed Louri
Award: “SHF: Medium: Collaborative Research: Scaling On-chip Networks to 1000-core Systems using Heterogeneous Emerging Interconnect Technologies”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $480,000

Award: “SHF: Medium: Collaborative Research: Machine Learning Enabled Network-on-Chip Architectures for Optimized Energy, Performance and Reliability”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $449,955

Award: “SHF: Small: Collaborative Research: An Integrated Framework for System-Level Approximate Computing”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $225,000

Award: “SHF: Medium: Collaborative Research: Photonic Neural Network Accelerators for Energy-efficient Heterogeneous Multicore Architectures”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $600,000

Award: “Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: Neural-Network-based Stochastic Computing Architectures with applications to Machine Learning”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $261,166

Principal Investigator: David Nagel
Award: “Semiconductor Device Technology for Space and Terrestrial Applications”
Sponsor: Naval Research Laboratory
Budget: $839,950

Award: “Replication of the LENR Experiments by Michael Staker”
Sponsor: Tuckerman & Associates
Budget: $80,000

Principal Investigator: Volker Sorger
Award: “RAISE: The Reconfigurable Optical Computer (ROC)”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $432,133

Award: “E2CDA: Collaborative Proposal: Nanophotonic-enabled Optical Neuromorphic Computing on Silicon&rdquo:
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $285,186

Award: “High-Performance Graph Algorithms on Near-Memory Processing Architecture”
Sponsor: Booz Allen Hamilton<
Budget: $154,300

Award: “Toward Ultra-Dense Integrated Plasmonic Circuits - Phase II”
Sponsor: Omega Optics
Budget: $210,425

Award: “Photonic Convolutional Processor for Network Edge-Computing”
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Budget: $1,909,258

Award: “RANC: A Residue Arithmetic Nanophotonic Computer”
Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Budget: $150,294

Award: “Fourier Optics Multiplication Accelerator for Convolutional Neural Networks and Cryptographic Applications”
Sponsor: U.S. Army Research Development & Engineering Command
Budget: $774,358

Award: “Center for Energy-efficient Optical Interconnects and Computing”
Sponsor: University of Texas at Austin
Budget: $213,511div>

Award: “All-optical and Electro-optic Nonlinearity for Photonic Artificial Neural Networks Towards Instantaneous Decision Making”
Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Budget: $196,925

Award: “Monolithically-Integrated 2D-Materials Photonics: Scalable and Foundry-Near Processes and Device Concepts”
Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Budget: $106,348

Principal Investigator: Suresh Subramaniam
Award: “NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Ultrascale WDM-based Datacenter Networks: Architecture Design and Control Algorithms”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $250,000

Award: “NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Design and Provisioning for Inter-Datacenter Multigranular Flexible Optical Networks”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $307,795

Award: “NeTS: JUNO2: Resilience in Next-Generation Intelligent Optical Networks”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $384,056

Principal Investigator: Guru Venkataramani
Award: “A Server-Network Cooperative Approach for Datacenter Energy Optimization”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $527,172

Principal Investigator: Mona Zaghloul
Award: “Ambulatory Sensor Arrays for Real-Life Monitoring of Pediatric Patients with Asthma”
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Budget: $664,722

Award: “EAGER: Enhancement of Piezoelectric Properties in two-dimensional materials and its application”
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Budget: $150,000

Award: “A Smartphone-based Direct Virus Sensing System for SARS-CoV-2”
Sponsor: Hoth Therapeutics
Budget: $294,749