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Recent Grants Awarded

NRT-AI: Convergent, Responsible, and Ethical AI Training Experience for Roboticists (CREATE Roboticists)

UT Austin PI: Junfeng Jiao
CO-PIs: Luis Sentis, Joydeep Biswas, Min Kyung Lee, Justin W Hart
Collaborating Institutions: UT School of Architecture, Computer Science, and the Information School
Funding Source: National Science Foundation NRT (National Traineeship Program)
Award: $3M

Machine Learning for Physics-based Systems: Optimal Approximations, Architectures, and Training

UT Austin PI: Karen Willcox
Collaborating Institutions: Carnegie Mellon University, Northwestern University, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Funding Source: AFOSR MURI
Award: $1.9M

National Science Foundation ASCENT Award (Addressing Systems Challenges through Engineering Teams)

UT Austin PI: Nanshu Lu
CO-PIs: Shaolan Li, Craig Rusin, Hongyu Miao, Jain Parag
Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Award: $1.5M

Wireless E-Tattoos for Digitizing Human Body

UT Austin PI: Nanshu Lu
Funding Source: Army Futures Command
Award: $1.5M

Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence

UT Austin PI: Jayant Sirohi
Funding Source: U.S. Army/Navy/NASA
Award: $1.1M

One World Terrain Augmentation for Next Generation Combat Vehicle Geospatial Reasoning and Dynamic Feature Extraction

UT Austin PI: Lori Magruder
Funding Source: Army Futures Command
Award: $1.2M

FAST: Full Airframe Sensing Technology for Hypersonic Aerodynamics Measurements

UT Austin PI: Noel Clemens
CO-PIs: Jayant Sirohi, Karen Willcox
Collaborating Institutions: Huston-Tillotson University, University of Michigan, University of Texas at San Antonio, Sandia National Laboratories, Lockheed Martin Corp.
Funding Source: NASA University Leadership Initiative
Award: $3.3M

Autonomous Aerial Cargo Operations at Scale

UT Austin PI: Ufuk Topcu
CO-PIs: John-Paul Clarke, Karen Willcox
Collaborating Institutions: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Lincoln Labs, Morgan State University and Cavan Solutions
Funding Source: NASA University Leadership Initiative
Award: $8M

RISE of the Machines: Robust, Interpretable, Scalable, Efficient Decision Support

UT Austin PI: Karen Willcox
Funding Source: Department of Energy (DOE)
Award: $4.4M (UT Share $1.2M)

 

Exascale Predictive Simulation of Inductively Coupled Plasma Torches

UT Austin PI: Bob Moser, George Biros
CO-PIs: Noel Clemens, Tinsley Oden, L.L. Raja, Philip Varghese, Karen Willcox
Funding Source: Department of Energy (DOE)
Award: $16.5M

Modeling of Europa’s Rarefied Exosphere and the Morphological Evolution of Europa’s Icy Surface

UT Austin PI: David Goldstein
CO-PIs: Philip Varghese, L. Trafton
Funding Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Award: $45K

Next-Generation Numerical Methods for High Fidelity Trajectory Generation of Hypersonic Vehicles

UT Austin PI: Maruthi Akella
Collaborating Institutions: Lead Institution: Penn State; Additional Collaborators: Texas A&M, Sandia National Laboratories
Funding Source: University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics (UCAH) program; DoD Joint Hypersonics Transition Office (JHTO)
Award: $1.5M (UT Share $450K)

Center for Automated Vehicles Research with Multimodal AssurEd Navigation (CARMEN)

UT Austin PI: Todd Humphreys
Collaborating Institutions: Lead Institution: Ohio State University and the University of California-Irvine
Funding Source: U.S. Department of Transportation
Award: $1.925M (UT Share $280K)

McDonald Geodetic Observatory

UT Austin PI: Srinivas Bettadpur
Funding Source: NGA University Research Initiative (NURI)
Award: $780K

Photoswitchable Polymers for 2-Step Dry Transfer of 2D Materials

UT Austin PI: Kenneth Liechti
CO-PIs: Zachariah Page
Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Award: $599K