McKelvey NSF CAREER Award Recipients

2022

• Michael Vahey
  NSF Division: MCB
  Title of Project: CAREER: Assembly and Function of Viral Immune Complexes
• Abhinav Jha
  NSF Division: ECCS
  Title of Project: CAREER: Developing a list-mode imaging paradigm

2020

• Song Hu
  NSF Division: CBET
  Title of Project: CAREER: Transforming Multi-parametric Photoacoustic Microscopy
• Jai Rudra
  NSF Division: CBET
  Title of Project: CAREER: Effects of Nanomaterial Chirality on Immune Cells and Innate Immunity

2018

• Princess Imoukhuede
  NSF Division: CBET
  Title of Project: CAREER: Identifying the role of cross-family signaling in angiogenesis

2015

• Baranidharan (Barani) Raman
  NSF Division: IIS
  Title of Project: CAREER: Neural Dynamics, Olfactory Coding and Behavior

2022

• Ning Zhang
  NSF Division: CNS
  Title of Project: CAREER: System Software Availability Foundations for Real-time Cyber-physical Systems

2021

• Ulugbek Kamilov
  NSF Division: CCF
  Title of Project: CAREER: Reconciling Model-Based and Learning-Based Imaging: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
• Alvitta Ottley
  NSF Division: IIS
  Title of Project: CAREER: Context-Aware Visual Analytics Systems: Evolving the One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Design and Evaluation

2020

• I-Ting Angelina Lee
  

  NSF Division: CCF
  Title of Project: CAREER: A Task-Parallel Platform for Interactive Applications

• Brendan Juba
  NSF Division: IIS
  Title of Project: CAREER: Relational generalization in integrated learning and reasoning

2019

• Roman Garnett
  NSF Division: IIS
  Title of Project: CAREER: Active Machine Learning for Automating Scientific Discovery

2018

• Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
  NSF Division: IIS
  Title of Project: CAREER: Adversarial Artificial Intelligence for Social Good

2017

• William Yeoh
  NSF Division: IIS
  Title of Project: CAREER: Decentralized Constraint-Based Optimization for Multi-Agent Planning and Coordination

2015

• Yasutaka Furukawa
  NSF Division: IIS
  Title of Project: CAREER: Structured Indoor Modeling

2013

• Sanmay Das
  

  NSF Division: IIS
  Title of Project: CAREER: The Dynamics of Collective Intelligence

2012

• Kunal Agrawal
  NSF Division: CCF
  Title of Project: CAREER: Provably Good Concurrency Platforms for Streaming Applications
• Kilian Weinberger
  NSF Division: IIS
  Title of Project: CAREER: New Directions for Metric Learning

2011

• Caitlin Kelleher
  NSF Division: IIS
  Title of Project: CAREER: Looking Glass: Leveraging Mentor Interactions to Create Personalized Programming Help for Independent Learners

2009

• Tao Ju
  

  NSF Division: IIS
  Title of Project: CAREER: Reconstructing Geometrically and Topologically Correct Models

2006

• Robert Pless
  NSF Division: IIS
  Title of Project: CAREER: Passive Vision — What Can Be Learned by a Stationary Observer

2005

• Christopher Gill
  NSF Division: CCF
  Title of Project: CAREER: Time and Event Based System Software Construction
• Chenyang Lu
  NSF Division: CNS
  Title of Project: CAREER:    Adaptive Quality of Service Control in Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems
• Aaron Stump
  NSF Division: CCF
  Title of Project: CAREER: Semantic Programming

2003

• Jeremy Buhler
  

  NSF Division: DBI
  Title of Project: CAREER: New Technologies for Biosequence Comparison

• Cindy Grimm
  

  NSF Division: CCF
  Title of Project: CAREER:  A Composition System for Computer Graphics

1998

• Eileen Kraemer
  

  NSF Division: CCF
  Title of Project: CAREER: An Infrastructure in Support of Configurable, Consistent, Interactive Computational Steering

1997

• Tuomas Sandholm
  NSF Division: IIS
  Title of Project: CAREER:  Coalition Formation Among Self-Interested Computationally Limited Agents

2023

• Xianglin Li*
  NSF Division: CBET
  Title of Project: CAREER: Pore-Scale Multiphase Mass Transfer in Porous Electrodes

2021

• Fangqiong Ling
  NSF Division: CBET
  Title of Project: CAREER: Wastewater Counts: Real-time de facto Population Estimation for Quantitative Wastewater-based Epidemiology
• Kimberly Parker
  NSF Division: CBET
  Title of Project: CAREER: Abiotic degradation of emerging RNA interference pesticides

2020

• Peng Bai
  NSF Division: CBET
  Title of Project: CAREER: Analytical Investigation of the Spatiotemporal Heterogeneities in Particulate Porous Electrodes toward Precision Electrochemical Kinetics

2019

• Elijah Thimsen
  NSF Division: CBET
  Title of Project: CAREER: Controlling Low Temperature Plasma Activation

2016

• Brent Williams
  NSF Division: CBET
  Title of Project: CAREER: Laboratory Studies on the Chemical Characterization of Atmospheric Emission Sources and their Oxidative Evolution using Novel Instrumentation
• Rajan Chakrabarty
  NSF Division: AGS
  Title of Project: CAREER: From Cradle to Grave: Radiative Properties of Biomass Burning Aerosols
• John Fortner
  NSF Division: CBET
  Title of Project: CAREER: Development and Application of Crumpled Graphene Oxide-Based Nanocomposites as a Platform Material for Advanced Water Treatment
• Fuzhong Zhang
  NSF Division: MCB
  Title of Project: CAREER: Synthetic Regulatory Systems for Dynamic Metabolic Pathways

2014

• Tae Seok Moon
  NSF Division: CBET
  Title of Project: CAREER: Engineering Biological Robustness through Synthetic Control

2011

• Young-Shin Jun

  NSF Division: EAR
  Title of Project: CAREER: Understanding CO2-Fluid-Mineral Interfacial Reactions for Sustainable Geologic CO2 Sequestration: An Integrated Research and Education Plan

2010

• Yinjie Tang
  NSF Division: MCB
  Title of Project: CAREER: Development of 13C-assisted Metabolic Flux Analysis Tools for Metabolic Engineering of Cyanobacteria

2006

• Daniel Giammar
  NSF Division: CBET
  Title of Project: CAREER:  Interfacial Reactions Affecting Heavy Metal Fate and Transport:  An Integrated Research and Education Plan

1999

• Radhakrishna Sureshkumar
  NSF Division: CBET
  Title of Project: CAREER: Stability and Dynamics of Mixed-Kinematic and  Non-Isothermal Viscoelastic Flows and Development of Internet-Ready Instruction Modules

2023

• Andrew Clark*
  NSF Division: CNS
  Title of Project: CAREER: Synthesis and Control of Cyber-Resilient CPS
• Xudong Chen*
  NSF Division: ECCS
  Title of Project: CAREER: Resilient and Scalable Framework for Control of Multi-agent Systems: Ensemble Control of Network Motifs

2021

• Ulugbek Kamilov
  NSF Division: CCF
  Title of Project: CAREER: Reconciling Model-Based and Learning-Based Imaging: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications

2020

• Xuan ‘Silvia’ Zhang
  NSF Division: CCF
  Title of Project: CAREER: Neural Network-Inspired Information Processing Beyond the Binary Digital Abstraction

2017

• ShiNung Ching
  NSF Division: CMMI
  Title of Project: CAREER: System Theoretic Methods for Understanding the Dynamics of Cognition
• Matthew Lew
  NSF Division: ECCS
  Title of Project: CAREER: Nanoscale sensing and imaging using computational single-molecule nanoscopy

2014

• Shantanu Chakrabartty
  NSF Division: CMMI
  Title of Project: CAREER:  Integrated Research and Education in Self-powered Micro-sensing for Embedded and Implantable Structural Health Monitoring

2013

• Jung-Tsung (J.T.) Shen
  NSF Division: ECCS
  Title of Project: CAREER: Extraordinary Enhancement of Optical Nonlinearity in Subwavelength Metal-Nonlinear Dielectric Gratings

2010

• Lan Yang
  NSF Division: ECCS
  Title of Project: CAREER: Real-Time Detection, Monitoring and Characterization of Single Nanoparticle/Bioaerosol Using On-Chip Resonators

2008

• Jr-Shin Li
  NSF Division: CMMI
  Title of Project: CAREER: Ensemble Control with Applications to Spectroscopy, Imaging, and Computation

1999

• Stefano Soatto
  NSF Division: IIS
  Title of Project: CAREER: Controllable Visual Cues: Analysis and Applications of Images as Sensory Signals in Complex Control Systems

1996

• Liyi Dai
  NSF Division: ECCS
  Title of Project: CAREER:  An Approach of Ordinal Comparison to the Design   and Optimization of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems

2021

• Patricia Weisensee
  NSF Division: CBET
  Title of Project: CAREER: Understanding thermal phase change processes in metal additive manufacturing
• Rohan Mishra
  NSF Division: DMR
  Title of Project: CAREER: Rational Design of Ferroelectric Semiconductors

2020

• John (Mark) Meacham
  NSF Division: CBET
  Title of Project: CAREER: Dynamic characterization of acoustofluidic devices using living probes
• Damena Agonafer
  NSF Division: CBET
  Title of Project: CAREER: Fundamental Transport Mechanisms of Evaporation From Non-Axisymmetric Droplets Confined on Hollow Micropillars Structures

2015

• Amit Pathak
  NSF Division: CMMI
  Title of Project: CAREER: History-Dependent Cell Motility in Heterogeneous Microenvironments

2013

• Srikanth Singamaneni
  NSF Division: CBET
  Title of Project: CAREER: Plasmonic Nanoclusters with Built-in Artificial Antibodies for Label-free Biosensing

2007

• Amy Shen
  NSF Division: CBET
  Title of Project: CAREER: Confinement and flow effects on synthesis of sol-gel materials

2005

• Kathy Flores
  NSF Division: DMR
  Title of Project: CAREER: Development of a Structurally Based Plastic Flow Model to Enhance the Utilization of Bulk Metallic Glasses

1996

• Philip Bayly
   NSF Division: CMMI
  Title of Project: CAREER:  Prediction and Control of Nonlinear Oscillations:  Application to Mechanical and Cardiac Dynamics