Research
Research
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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