Recent Grants Awarded

  • Lead PI: Ufuk Topcu, Renato Zanetti
  • Collaborating Institutions: UT Austin, University of Washington, Texas A&M University and the University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Funding Source: Create the Future Independent Research Effort (CFIRE) program and sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
  • Award: $4M
  • Award Date: 9/23

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  • CO-PIs: Moriba Jah, Brandon Jones, Ryan Russell
  • Lead PI: Marcus Holzinger, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Collaborating Institutions: CU Boulder, Purdue, Georgia Tech, Texas A&M, University of Texas Austin, and the University at Buffalo as well as an industry advisory board of 11 aerospace firms.
  • Funding Source: U.S. Space Force (USSF)
  • Award: $5M
  • Award Date: 10/23 for 5 years

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  • UT Austin PI: Tan Bui-Thanh
  • Funding Source: National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyber Infrastructure, the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences' Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Fusion Energy Sciences program with Los Alamos National Lab, and the Oakridge National Lab
  • Award: Three grants total more than $1M
  • Award Date: 2023 (various dates)

These grants will support the development of scientific machine learning models that take into account uncertainty and use underlying governing mathematical models to fill in data gaps, the same way our brains do. The result is the ability to use limited information and physics laws to create machine learning models that are able to do as much or even faster than real-time processing and predicting than models that rely on only the governing physics or that are purely data-driven. Learn more.

  • UT Austin PI: Maruthi Akella
  • Lead PI: Kathleen Howell, Purdue University
  • Collaborating Institutions: Purdue University, Pennsylvania State University, Georgia Tech
  • Funding Source: AFOSR
  • Award: $4.5M
  • Award Date: 7/23

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  • UT Austin PI: Shaolie Hossain
  • CO-PIs: Thomas J.R. Hughes
  • Funding Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Award: $437,058
  • Award Date: 9/1/23 to 8/31/25

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  • UT Austin PI: Tan Bui-Thanh
  • Collaborating Institutions: Los Alamos National Lab, University of Florida, and Penn State
  • Funding Source: Department of Energy
  • Award: $3.3M (UT Share $510K)
  • Award Date: 09/01/23 - 08/31/26

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  • UT Austin PI: Jin Yang
  • Funding Source: Haythornthwaite Foundation
  • Award: $20K
  • Award Date: Nov. 2022

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  • UT Austin PI: Jin Yang
  • Collaborating Institutions: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Brown University, School of Engineering
  • Funding Source: National Science Foundation
  • Award: $919,670 (UT Share $194,800)
  • Award Date: 6/1/23 for 3 years

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  • UT Austin PI: Maruthi Akella
  • Collaborating Institutions: Purdue University (overall lead), Georgia Tech, Penn State
  • Funding Source: AFOSR: FY23 FY24 Create the Future Independent Research Effort (CFIRE) program in Astrodynamics
  • Award: $4.5M (UT Share $775K)
  • Award Date: 9/1/23 for 3 years

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  • Lead PI: Philip L. Varghese
  • Funding Source: Office of Naval Research
  • Award: $529,280
  • Award Date: 7/1/23 - 06/30/26

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  • UT Austin PI: Luis Sentis
  • CO-PIs: Peter Stone, Ann Majewicz Fey, Ashish Deshpande, Joydeep Biswas
  • Funding Source: Sony Corporation
  • Award: $1.3M
  • Award Date: 6/23 - 6/26

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  • UT Austin PI: Leszek F. Demkowicz
  • Collaborating Institutions: University of South Carolina
  • Funding Source: National Science Foundation
  • Award: $1.2M (UT Share $300K)
  • Award Date: 9/23 - 8/26

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  • UT Austin PI: Leszek F. Demkowicz
  • Collaborating Institutions: Portland State University
  • Funding Source: AFOSR
  • Award: $ 730K (UT Share $ 364,500K)
  • Award Date: 5/23 - 6/26

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  • 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

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  • 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: 1/23 - 12/23

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