Research
Research
Recent Grants Awarded
Quantum Pathways Institute
- UT Austin PI: Srinivas Bettadpur
- CO-PIs: Seth Bank, Dan Wasserman, Ufuk Topçu
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Funding Source: Oden Institute, MD Anderson, TACC Pilot Project Program
- Award: $50K (UT Share $25K)
- Award Date: 9/1/2021 – 8/31/2022
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