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Recent Grants Awarded

Quantum Pathways Institute

UT Austin PI: Srinivas Bettadpur
CO-PIs: Seth Bank, Dan Wasserman, Ufuk Topçu
Collaborating Institutions: UT (CSR, MRC, and Oden Institute); CU Boulder; UC Santa Barbara; Caltech; NIST
Funding Source: NASA STMD (Space Technology Mission Directorate)
Award: $15M for 5 years
Award Date: Begins Nov. 2023

InSAR surface deformation mapping over West Texas

UT Austin PI: Ann Chen
Collaborating Institutions: UT Bureau of Economic Geology Center for Integrated Seismicity Research
Funding Source: Industry sponsors
Award: $69K
Award Date: 01/2023- 12/2023

Carbon Negative Reaction-Driven Cracking For Enhanced Mineral Recovery: In-Situ Test At A Ni-Co-PGE Deposit

UT Austin PI: Estibalitz Ukar
CO-PIs: Alexandros Savvaidis, Jean-Philippe Nicot, András FALL, Julia Gale, Katherine D. Romanak, Nicola Tisato, Marc Hesse, Ann Chen, Nicolas Espinoza, Silviu Livescu, Peter Kelemen, James Andrew M. Leong, Jacob A. Tielke, Christine McCarthy, Anna Harrison, Arthur Stokreef
Collaborating Institutions: Columbia University and Canada Nickel Company
Funding Source: Dept. of Energy
Award: $6.3M (UT Share $5.57M)
Award Date: 01/2023- 12/2025

Studying Transport-induced Blood Clot Embolization as a Fluid-Structure Interaction Phenomenon

UT Austin PI: Manuel Rausch
Funding Source: DURIP, Office of Naval Research
Award: $543K
Award Date: 01/01/2023 - 12/01/2023

Characterization of interfacial adhesion over small surface areas

UT Austin PI: Kenneth M. Liechti
CO-PIs: Rui Huang
Funding Source: Semiconductor Research Corporation
Award: $285K
Award Date: 01/01/2023 for 3 years

Mechanics of Multilayered van der Waals Materials and Heterostructures

UT Austin PI: Rui Huang
CO-PIs: Kenneth M. Liechti
Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Award: $653,097
Award Date: 01/01/2023 for 3 years

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