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Recent Grants Awarded

GCR: Community-Embedded Robotics: Understanding Sociotechnical Interactions with Long-term Autonomous Deployments

UT Austin PI: Luis Sentis
CO-PIs: Joydeep Biswas, Justin Hart, Elliott Hauser, Keri Stephens
Collaborating Institutions: UT Austin: Dept. of Computer Science, Moody School of Communication, School of Information
Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Award: $3.6M
Award Date: 01/01/23 for 5 years

Tricuspid Valve Maladaptation: Its Stimuli, its Effect on Valve Function, and its Response to Therapy

UT Austin PI: Manuel Rausch
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health
Award: $3.9M
Award Date: 6/22 - 5/27

Ammonia Reforming to Hydrogen using Non-Equilibrium Plasma Discharges

UT Austin PI: Fabrizio Bisetti
CO-PIs: Thomas Underwood
Funding Source: Energy Institute: Energy Seeds Grant Program
Award Date: 2022-23

Interaction-aware Planning and Control for Robotic Navigation in the Crowd

UT Austin PI: David Fridovich-Keil
Collaborating Institutions: Negar Mehr, Aerospace Engineering, UIUC
Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Award: $447K
Award Date: 9/22, 3 years

Adaptive Two-level Task Assignment for Human-agent Teams in Dynamic and Adversarial Environments

UT Austin PI: Efstathios Bakolas
Funding Source: Army Research Laboratory
Award: $165,035
Award Date: 06/22-06/23

Enhanced Biomechanical Modeling of the Breast for Women's Health

UT Austin PI: Michael Sacks
CO-PIs: K. Ravi-Chandar, Greg Reece, Alejandro Contreras, Jason Stafford
Lead PI: Kristy Brock
Collaborating Institutions: UT Biomedical, UT MD Anderson
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health, R01
Award: $3.7M
Award Date: 2/21 for 5 Years

Information Theoretic Detection and Tracking for Rapid IOD

UT Austin PI: Brandon A. Jones
Funding Source: Universities Space Research Association (USRA), in conjunction with the U.S. Space Force (USSF) and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
Award: $350K
Award Date: 4/22 - 8/24

Perceptive Whole-body Legged Manipulation in Unstructured Natural Environments

UT Austin PI: Luis Sentis
CO-PIs: Yuke Zhu
Funding Source: Office of Naval Research
Award: $782K
Award Date: 5/22 - 4/25

Patient-specific Computational Models to Forecast Prostate Cancer Growth

UT Austin PI: Thomas J.R. Hughes
CO-PIs: Aradhana M. Venkatesan
Collaborating Institutions: MD Anderson Cancer Center
Funding Source: Oden Institute, MD Anderson, TACC Pilot Project Program
Award: $50K (UT Share $25K)
Award Date: 9/1/2021 – 8/31/2022

A Spaceborne Observatory Spanning Highly Active Subduction Zones in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea

UT Austin PI: Ann Chen
CO-PIs: Luc Lavier and Laura Wallace
Collaborating Institutions: University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
Funding Source: NASA
Award: $551K
Award Date: 2/22 - 2/25

Inferring the Micro-Mechanics of Embedded Fiber Networks by Leveraging Limited Imaging Data

UT Austin PI: Manuel Rausch
Collaborating Institutions: Boston University
Award: UT Share $285K
Award Date: 1/22 - 12/24

Human-Specific Prediction, Training, and Visualization Tools for the Tricuspid Valve from Existing Data

UT Austin PI: Manuel Rausch
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health
Award: $270K
Award Date: 1/22 - 12/24

Satellite Evaluation of Relative Pose Estimation of Non-cooperative Target (SERPENT)

UT Austin PI: Brandon Jones
CO-PIs: Maruthi Akella
Collaborating Institutions: Center for Space Research
Funding Source: AFRL and Utah State University (Space Dynamics Laboratory)
Award: $220K
Award Date: 1/22

Quantum Gravity Gradiometry In Hybrid Architectures with Satellite-to-Satellite Tracking for Spaceborne Earth System Mass Change Measurements

UT Austin PI: Srinivas Bettadpur
CO-PIs: Efstathios Bakolas
Funding Source: Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Award: $730K ($320K UT Share)
Award Date: 6/22 for 18 mos.

Characterization of Interfacial Adhesion under Cyclic Loading

UT Austin PI: Rui Huang
CO-PIs: Kenneth M. Liechti
Funding Source: Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)
Award: $270K
Award Date: 1/22