FY20 TIER 1 Award Recipients
25 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY20 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 18 different projects representing up to $900K dollars of investment in research.
- Physics-Informed Deep Learning for High-Resolution Climate Extremes Modeling
Rose Yu (Computer Science), Auroop Ganguly (Civil & Environmental Engineering) - Video Capture of CEO Behavior to Predict Firm Performance
John Bai (Finance), Rajesh Aggarwal (Finance), Raymond Fu (Electrical & Computer Engineering, Computer Science) - Augmented Product Design for Personalized Manufacturing
Mohsen Moghaddam (Mechanical & Industrial Engineering), Lu Wang (Computer Science) - Probing Opportunistic Pathogen Dynamics in the Drinking Water Microbiome
Ameet Pinto (Civil & Environmental Engineering), Aron Stubbins (Marine & Environmental Sciences/Chemistry/Civil & Environmental Engineering), Jeffrey Agar (Chemistry/Pharmaceutical Sciences) - Mentored Award: Engineering Novel Analgesics Inspired from the Gut Microbiome
Jiahe Li (Bioengineering), Kim Lewis (Biology) - Mentored award: Integrated tools to visualize and characterize modified RNAs in the brain
Sara Rouhanifard (Bioengineering), Meni Wanunu (Physics) - Application of Network Analyses and Machine/Deep Learning Approaches to Modern, Multi-omic Data
Steven Vollmer (Biology), Amy Mueller (Civil & Environmental Engineering/Marine & Environmental Sciences), Samuel Scarpino (Marine & Environmental Sciences/Physics - Employer-based approaches for targeting the opioid crisis in the construction industry
Jack Dennerlein (Physical Therapy), Christina Lee (Applied Psychology) - Mu-Opioid and CB1 receptor signaling interactions in pain perception
Leigh Plant (Pharmaceutical Sciences), Ryan Koppes (Chemical Engineering) - Physics-encoded Sparsity-promoted Deep Learning for Data-driven Discovery of Nonlinear Governing Laws
Hao Sun (Civil & Environmental Engineering), Ting Zhou (Mathematics) - Experiment-Theory feedback loop to rationally design high-performance organic aqueous flow batteries
Steven Lopez (Chemistry), Hongli Zhu (Mechanical & Industrial Engineering) - Mentored Award: Urban Form Impact: Humans, Environments, Equity
Sara Jensen Carr (Architecture), Jane Cephas (Architecture), Geoff Boeing (Public Policy & Urban Affairs), Peter Furth (Civil & Environmental Engineering), Sharon Harlan (Health Sciences/Sociology & Anthropology) - Cognitive construals of urban waterways: Enhancing environmental awareness to promote resilience
Daniel Adams (Architecture), John Coley (Psychology), Brian Helmuth (Marine & Environmental Sciences/Public Policy & Urban Affairs) - Plants, microbes, and their interactions as determinants of carbon processing
Jennifer Bowen (Marine & Environmental Sciences), Aron Stubbins (Marine & Environmental Sciences/Chemistry/Civil & Environmental Engineering), Randall Hughes (Marine & Environmental Sciences) - Extracellular determinants of airway hyper-reactivity in Asthma
Hari Parameswaran (Bioengineering), Erin Cram (Biology) - High-throughput microscopy platform for accelerating regeneration neuroscience
Samuel Chung (Bioengineering), Armen Stepanyants (Physics) - Modeling and Evaluation of Interdependencies in Platform-based Systems
Babak Heydari (Mechanical & Industrial Engineering), Rashmi Dyal-Chand (Law), Yakov Bart (Marketing), Hilary Robinson (Law/Sociology & Anthropology), Daniel O’Brien (Public Policy & Urban Affairs/Criminology & Criminal Justice) - Machine Learning Enabled Bottom Up Multiscale Computational Modeling of Ceramic Matrix Composites Under Extreme Conditions
Yang Liu (Mechanical & Industrial Engineering), Alain Karma (Physics), Deniz Erdogmus (Electrical & Computer Engineering)