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Recent Grants Awarded

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

Modeling and Experimental Measurements of Hypersonic Separation Events

UT Austin PI: Noel Clemens
Lead PI: UT San Antonio
Collaborating Institutions: University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Southwest Research Institute
Funding Source: University Consortium on Applied Hypersonics
Award: $1.5M (UT Share $340K)
Award Date: 10/21 - 9/24

Data Science Solutions for Improving Effectiveness of High Fidelity CFD in Propulsion

UT Austin PI: Karen Willcox
Funding Source: AFRL
Award: $538K
Award Date: 2/21 - 3-23

Ultra Efficient Multiscale Top-Down Optimization Crossing Continuum to Micromechanics for Nonlinear High-Temperature Applications

UT Austin PI: Karen Willcox
Collaborating Institutions: UC San Diego
Award: Full Award $738K (UT Share $371K)
Award Date: 08/21 - 7/24

Autonomous Threat Detection via Supervised Machine Learning

UT Austin PI: Renato Zanetti
Funding Source: AFRL
Award: $100K
Award Date: 9/21 - 11/22

Predictive Digital Twins at Scale for Space Systems

UT Austin PI: Karen Willcox
CO-PIs: Renato Zanetti
Funding Source: AFOSR
Award: $500K
Award Date: 12/21 - 11/24