DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA)

DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) is sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program aims to identify and engage rising research stars in junior faculty positions and introduce them to Department of Defense needs and DARPA's program development process.

The program focuses on untenured faculty, particularly those without prior DARPA funding, to develop the next generation of academic scientists, engineers, and mathematicians in key disciplines.

Department of War organization. Young Faculty Award (YFA) Young Faculty Award (YFA) The objective of the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program is to identify and engage researchers in junior faculty positions at U.S. academic and non-profit research institutions and expose them to national security needs and DARPA’s program development process.

The YFA program provides funding, mentoring and industry and national security contacts to awardees early in their careers so they may develop their research ideas in the context of national security needs. The long-term goal of the YFA program is to develop the next generation of academic scientists, engineers, and mathematicians who will focus a significant portion of their career on national security issues.

The annual research announcement seeking YFA applications is typically posted to the grants. gov and sam. gov websites between September and October.

YFA Awardees (2006 - 2026) Since the program’s inception in 2006, DARPA YFA has nurtured the careers of more than 500 researchers from universities and nonprofit institutions across the nation.

Principal Investigator Institution PM Mentor Title James Crawford Montana State University William Mounfield Rapid discovery of biomimetic metal-organic framework membranes Jordan Budhu Virginia Tech Jeff Zaleski Bioprinted Living Metamaterials: Engineered Organics and Light Matter Interactions Keren Lasker Scripps Research Institute Jeff Zaleski Programmable Condensate Reactors for Rapid Toxin Neutralization Mehdi Saligane Brown University Catherine Campbell CMOS-Addressable DNA Random Access Memory Or Katz Cornell University Roozbeh Jafari DUO-MAG: Dual-Species Optical Magnetometer for Unshielded Physiological Sensing Dayne Swearer Northwestern University Mike McDonald SPARK: Scattering, Plasma Absorption, and Radiation KnowledgeBase Hichem Guerboukha University of Missouri, Kansas City Carlo Scalo Classical and Quantum Optical Beams for Underwater Propagation Shafayat Hossain University Of California, Los Angeles Thomas Schenkel Relativistic Quantum Fields on a Chip: Finite- Time Detection and Vacuum Entanglement Harvesting in Topological Devices Yasser Khan University of Southern California Robin Bonomi ISF-Integrated Multimodal Patch for Stress Burden Estimation and Neural Damage Prediction Yilun Du Harvard University Yannis Kevrekidis An Information Theory Framework for Designing Agentic Systems Bhuwan Dhingra Duke University Matthew Marge Toward a Science of Verification for Measuring Human Effort in AI Systems Joseph Campbell Purdue University Howard Shrobe TUTOR: Textbook-to-Task Ontological Mahyar Fazlyab Johns Hopkins University Xenofon Koutsoukos Control-Theoretic Foundations for Safe and Controllable LLM Generation Malte Schwarzkopf Brown University Howie Shrobe Catalyzing Innovation in Code Analysis by Rethinking Compilers Rohan Paleja Purdue University Susmit Jha Formal Methods for Preventing Emergent Failure in AI Team Amir Asadi Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Julian McMorrow D3 Micropixel Metasurfaces for Lunar Charge Harvesting and Dust Neutralization Anish Thukral SRI International Thomas Schratwieser Dynamically Interfaced, High Loading Nanoplatelets in Multiphase Polymer Nanocomposite for Pliable Environmental Barrier Packaging (Dyna-EBP) Bin Liu University of California, Merced Huanan Zhang Emergent microfluidic architectures from symmetry-modulated vortices Joshua Tropp Texas Tech University System John M.

Hoffman Nanoconfined Polycondensation of Sequence-Defined Conjugated Materials within Responsive Reticular Frameworks Matthew Crane Colorado School of Mines Jason Chou Vapor-deposited ferroelectric halide perovskites for efficient optical memory Shubhra Pasayat University of Wisconsin-Madison David Meyer High power III-Nitride Ultra-Violet-C Laser diodes 2025 Principal Investigator Institution PM Mentor Title Sebastian Kube University of Wisconsin Andrew Detor OxyBot: Autonomous Platform to Develop Oxidation-Resistant Alloys for Defense Applications 100x Faster Matthew Powell Palm Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Keith Whitener High entropy aqueous solutions for cryopreservation and beyond William Putnam University of California, Davis Tabitha Dodson Polaritoncatalyzed nuclear processes Renee Zhao Stanford University Yannis Kevrekidis SMART Spatiotemporal Metamaterials for AI guided wave Regulation via Thermal programming Sho Takatori Stanford University Yannis Kevrekidis Optogenetic control of programmable selfpropelled agents Tuba Yavuz University of Florida Steve Kuhn / Daniel Wallach Constraint-Guided Local Fuzzing of Binaries Bramwell Brizendine The University of Alabama in Huntsville Derek Bernsen BEAST Binary Emulation and Analysis Simulation Technology for Advanced Malware Analysis and Anti-Forensic Countermeasures Gioele Zardini Massachusetts Institute of Technology Yannis Kevrekidis / Erica Briscoe CHORDATE Categorical Hierarchical Optimization for Robust Design of Adaptive Technologies Yuxiong Wang University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Howard Shrobe Agentic Multimodal Video Understanding with Unified Reasoning, Perception, and Generation Andrea Bajcsy Carnegie Mellon University Matthew Marge Unifying Uncertainty and Safety for Embodied AI Agents Nicola Bezzo The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia Matthew Marge LLM Embodiment for Collaborative Autonomy Alexander Marder Johns Hopkins University Michael Lack ASSURE Avoiding Sophisticated Surveillance on User equipment through Real-time Evaluation Francesco Restuccia Northeastern University Nathaniel Bastian RADAR Resource Aware Dynamic Adaptation for Resilient DNNs in Low SWaP Tactical Systems Ryan Shandler Georgia Institute of Technology Victoria Romero Combating Downstream Information Confidence Effects (CoDICE) Arun Mannodi Kanakkithodi Purdue University Anna Tauke-Pedretti Accelerated Atomistic-Level Prediction of Material Synthesizability and Defect Behavior David Burghoff University of Texas at Austin Justin Cohen FLASHES Frequency Locked Arrays for Scalable High Energy Sources Robert Jacobberger The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Todd Bauer Epitaxy of Wafer-Scale, Single-Crystal Diamond on Non-Lattice-Matched Substrates Biswajit Ray Colorado State University Todd Bauer Passive Radiation Detector Utilizing 3D NAND Memory Gang Qiu University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Jeffrey Daulton / Yogendra Joshi Cooling-on-demand Using an Electron Hydrodynamic Refrigerator Christopher Anderson University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Jeffrey Daulton / Yogendra Joshi Efficient cryogenic optical interconnects with STO photonics Bruno Azeredo Arizona State University Christine Sanders Self-Disintegrating, Passive, Structural Elements with Biodegradability Jaime Cardenas University of Rochester Clark McGehee Weak Value Accelerometry for Next Generation PNT Tam Nguyen University of Maryland James Shoemaker Rapid Discovery of Very Faint Space Objects Nils Napp Cornell University Kevin Sloan Fast Multi Objective Optimization for Agile Systems Design Dazhong Wu University of Central Florida Michael Mulqueen Artificial Intelligence Enabled Affordable and Scalable Additive Manufacturing Part Qualification Aline Eid University of Michigan Michael McDonald / Paul Jaffe Fully Scalable mmWave Retrodirective Power Beaming Architecture 2024 Principal Investigator Institution PM Mentor Title Yang Lin University of Rhode Island Jeffrey Zaleski / Adam Willis Precision in Miniature: Revolutionizing MPS with Digital Acoustofluidics and Nanoscale 3D Printing Jinghua Li The Ohio State University Pedro Irazoqui / Adam Willis / Joeanna Arthur Spatially resolved, non-genetic optoelectronic modulation of neuronal activities with a monolithic photoelectrode Samuel Oliveira North Carolina A&T State University Tiffany Prest / Christopher Bettinger Spatial-temporal Dynamics for Predictive Multiscale Models of Multi-cellular Circuit Aashish Manglik University of California San Francisco Abhishek Singharoy / Michael Feasel Targeting allosteric sites for seek and destroy countermeasures for opioid poisoning Craig Wilen Yale University Tiffany Prest Rapid Identification of Viruses and Ligands (RIVAL) Laura Kim University of Florida Mukund Vengalattore Room-Temperature Strong Coupling in Intercalated 2D Plasmonic Systems Maria Sakovsky Stanford University Andrew Detor Embodied Structural Computing for Real-Time Stiffness Adaptation Yiyang Li University of Michigan Keith Whitener EMI-resilient nonvolatile memory using oxygen ion devices Jairo Alberto Diaz Amaya Rochester Institute of Technology Keith Whitener Osmotic Signalers for Functional Materials Alexandra Paterson University of Kentucky Keith Whitener / Susan Swithenbank Converting underwater noise pollution into electricity: Acoustic sensors to make informed decisions for unmanned underwater vehicles Saad Bhamla Georgia Tech Research Corporation Kevin Sloan / Susan Swithenbank Squid-Inspired Nozzles for Enhanced Efficiency and Thrust in Rotary Propulsors Stephanie Gil Harvard University Nathaniel Bastian Characterizing and Mitigating Adversarial Impacts on Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Mahdi Hosseini Northwestern University Sunil Bhave Coherent Levitation of Macroscopic Sensors Patricia Alves-Oliveira Regents of the University of Michigan Thomas Schenkel Authenticity Markers in Artist-Robot Interaction Haizhao Yang University of Maryland College Park Yannis Kevrekidis Theoretical and Algorithmic Foundation of Interpretable Reinforcement Learning for Intelligent Computation and Modeling Peng Bai University of Massachusetts Amherst Yannis Kevrekidis Deep Learning for Discovering Optimal, Synthesizable Inorganic Porous Materials Shaofeng Zou Arizona State University Nathaniel Bastian/ Alvaro Velasquez Continual Reinforcement Learning: Forgetting, Generalization and Robustness Jia (Kevin) Liu Ohio State University Nathaniel Bastian/ Alvaro Velasquez Decentralized Sequential Decision Making in the Data-Limited Regime: A Self-Supervised Pretrained Foundation Model Approach Christopher De Sa Cornell University Nathaniel Bastian/ Alvaro Velasquez Decentralized Online Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Compressed Models Frederic Sala University of Wisconsin Nathaniel Bastian/ Alvaro Velasquez Active Adaptation for Decentralized Foundation Models Rose Yu University of California San Diego Erica Briscoe Grounding LLMs with Physical Laws Thirimadura Charith Mendis University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Howard Shrobe Language and Hardware Adaptive Representations and Techniques for Compiling Heterogeneous Workloads Priyanka Raina Stanford University Howard Shrobe A Fast Design Space Exploration Framework and Compiler for Heterogeneous Systems with Neural Network Accelerators Ellie Pavlick Brown University Matthew Marge Discovering and Controlling Emergent Symbolic Mechanisms in Neural Networks Mushuang Liu University of Missouri Victoria Romero Towards Adaptable and Socially Intelligent Reinforcement Learning Amir Arbabi University of Massachusetts, Amherst Anna Tauke-Pedretti Metalens-Imaged Optical Coupler Arrays Scott Cushing California Institute of Technology Justin Cohen Cascaded Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Photonic Circuits Create Entangled Photon Triplets Carter Yagemann Ohio State University Shauna Sweet / Lok Yan End-to-End Modeling and Mitigation of Fault Injection Attacks Ognjen Ilic University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Justin Cohen / Yogendra Joshi University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Ultralightweight Nanophotonic Radiators for Adaptive and High-Power Heat Rejection Jonathan Singer Rutgers University Hunter Martin Formable Ordered Microcomposite Energetics Christopher Limbach University of Michigan Steven Chambers/ Michael Nayak View-Obstructed Delivery of Lunar Power by Optomechanically Guided Beams Savio Poovathingal University of Kentucky Martiqua Post / Sarah Popkin Gas-surface scattering dynamics in very low Earth orbit Steven Berg Rutgers University Martiqua Post / Sarah Popkin Data Driven Engineering for VLEO Spacecraft Aerodynamic Performance Enhancement 2023 Principal Investigator Institution PM Mentor Title Weinan Xu University of Akron Catherine Campbell Hierarchical Biocomposites with Exceptional Thermal Conductivity from Synergistic Microbial Biosynthesis Ryan Truby Northwestern University Catherine Campbell Biocompatible Soft Batteries via Bundles of Axon-Inspired, Ionogel Composite Fibers Aaron Morris University of Michigan Christopher Bettinger Implantable Tissues with Engineered Cells to Detect and Fight Sepsis Joerg Werner Boston University William Mounfield / Leonard Tender Ultrathin Sorbent Coatings with Bio-inspired Multi-ligand Binding Sites for Energy-efficient Capture and Release of Carbon Dioxide Timothy Balmer Arizona State University Roozbeh Jafari The Role of Descending Auditory Signals in Neuronal Hyperactivity and Tinnitus Hongyu Zhou University of Tennessee, Knoxville Tiffany Prest Moss-Embedded Living Building Materials for Acre-scale Landscape Cooling Andrew Gross University of South Carolina Andrew Detor Extraction of many Material Properties from Analysis of a few data rich experiments Ian McCue Northwestern University Andrew Detor Learning Material Properties Through High-Speed Image Acquisition During Subtractive Machining Justin Little University of Washington Tiffany Prest / Michael Nayak Power Extraction from Mini-Magnetosphere Polarization Fields Mattias Fitzpatrick Dartmouth Mukund Vengalattore Non-Reciprocal Lattices of High-Q Microwave cavities for Enhanced Magnetometry Rahim Esfandyarpour University of California, Irvine Sunil Bhave Wireless, self-powered, triboelectric-nanogenerator-resonance force sensing array Talia Ringer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Nathaniel Bastian / Alvaro Velasquez Relation Learning for Proof Automation - PRICELESS Priyadarshini Panda Yale University Howard Shrobe μMAS: Micro-Macro Hardware-Algorithm Architecture Search for Edge Efficiency Aatmesh Shrivastava Northeastern University Howard Shrobe Nano-Watt Power Machine-Learning Hardware using Precision Analog Computing Elias Bareinboim Columbia University Howard Shrobe Causal Reinforcement Learning (CRL): Decisions, Explanations, and Generalizations Shon Cook SRI International Nathaniel Bastian / John-Francis Mergen Vehicular Reconfiguration and Rapid Repairs for Remote, Outlying Operations using ML (VRRRROOM) Maria Gorlatova Duke University Matthew Wilding Runtime Identification of Detrimental Augmented Reality (AR) Experiences through AR-specific Quality of Experience (QoE) Modeling and Monitoring Ethan Secor Iowa State University Julian McMorrow Aerosol Jet Printing of Bespoke Low-Loss Electronics with Nanocomposite Dielectrics Alireza Marandi California Institute of Technology Justin Cohen Few-optical-cycle nonlinear nanophotonic circuits Kiyoul Yang Harvard University Justin Cohen Integrated femtosecond pulse synthesizer Matt Eichenfield University of Arizona Justin Cohen Reconfigurable Single Chip Radio Frequency Signal Processor Architecture Search for Edge Efficiency Siddhartha Ghosh Northeastern University Justin Cohen Compound Semiconductor on Piezoelectric Strongly Confined Microacoustic Integrated Circuits (COSMIC) for RF Signal Processing Mengjie Yu University of Southern California Justin Cohen On-chip electrical synthesis of few-cycle light via optical frequency comb William Renninger University of Rochester Justin Cohen Contact-free travelling-wave Optomechanics for Acoustic Material Spectroscopy Zhiting Tian Cornell University Jeffrey Daulton / Yogendra Joshi / Thomas Kazior Transient Nanoscale Temperature Mapping of Active RF Devices Yuzhe Xiao University of North Texas Thomas Kazior Exploring thermal properties of nanoscale wide bandgap semiconductors via ultrafast thermal-emission spectroscopy Mohsen Imani University of California, Irvine Todd Bauer Hyperdimensional Computing for Robust and Efficient Cognitive Learning Xianming Dai University of Texas at Dallas Jeffrey Daulton / Yogendra Joshi Designing Flow-Separation Evaporative Cooling for 3D Heterogeneous Microsystems Patrick McCormick University of Kansas / Frank Robey Enabling Spectrally Aware Cognitive RF Sensing Adam Webb Michigan Technological University Nathaniel Bastian / Frank Robey Shared Spectrum Target Detection and Track Estimation (STARDATE) 2022 Principal Investigator Institution PM Mentor Title Jerzy Szablowski Rice University Linda Chrisey Therapeutics for Rapid Cold Adaptation - Beyond the Natural Human Capability Congrui Grace Jin University Nebraska-Lincoln Matthew Pava Creating a Synthetic Lichen Yun Chen Johns Hopkins University Matthew Pava Fibrosis, Inflammation, Revascularization, and Migration (FIRM) Modulation for Muscle Regeneration Shelly Zhang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Roozbeh Jafari Wireless Magnetic Robot for Precise Hierarchical Control of Next-Generation Mechanotherapy for Tissue Regeneration and Injury Repair Hang Yu Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Andrew Detor Autonomous Solid-State Additive Repair of Aerospace Grade Aluminum Through In Situ Laser Acoustic Resonance Spectroscopic Measurement of Interface Strength Owen Miller Yale University Jinendra Ranka Fundamental limits to electromagnetic nonreciprocity via generalized conservation laws Farnaz Niroui Massachusetts Institute of Technology Keith Whitener Mechanical Neuromorhpic Metamaterials for Multifunctional Nanosystems Maxim Shcherbakov University of California, Irvine Mukund Vengalattore Strongly Correlated Material Systems and Sensors Yan Shoshitaishvili Arizona State University Derek Bernsen Shining Light on Occluded Vulnerabilities Yinzhi Cao Johns Hopkins University Derek Bernsen Abstract Modeling of Control- and Data-flow Guards of Inactive Vulnerabilities via Symbolic Object Graph Ankur Mehta University of California, Los Angeles Howard Shrobe Printable Mechanical Autonomy Dorsa Sadigh Stanford University Matthew Marge Learning and Influencing Conventions in Human-Machine Collaboration Mohsen Lesani University of California, Riverside Matthew Wilding Information and Vulnerability Flow Type Systems Amir Houmansadr University of Massachusetts Amherst Mike Lack Towards Theoretical Foundations for Information Controls Syed Rafiul Hussain Pennsylvania State University Tejas Patel Automated Reasoning and Repairing Framework for Systematic Assurance of 5G RAN Systems Ying Wang Stevens Institute of Technology Tejas Patel 5G Causality, Formal Reasoning and Resilience Cody Buntain University of Maryland College Park Victoria Romero M3I – Maps, Models, and Metrics for Influence Efforts by State/Non-State Actors Tim Horn North Carolina State University Andrew Detor Electron Interactions with Microstructures and Defects During Additive Manufacturing Yanghyo Kim Stevens Institute of Technology Jason Woo Energy-Efficient and MIMO Approaches on Millimeter-Wave Dielectric Fibers and Wireless Interconnects for Space Missions Timothy Koeth University of Maryland, College Park Michael Sangillo A Project to Catechize Dielectric Charging (ACDC) Gregory Falco Cornell University Greg Kuperman Orbital Resilient Blockchain Interagent Transaction Service (ORBITS) Architecture: a Resilient, Zero-Trust Architecture for Hosted Payloads and Space Infrastructure as a Service John Lipor Portland State Katherine Woolfe Information-Driven Sensor Management via Nonparametric Divergence Estimation Florian Meyer University of California, San Diego Katherine Woolfe Active Planning for Geoacoustic Inversion Christopher Brinton Purdue University Tamer Rafaei / Nicholas Chang FL-NTN: Fog Learning Orchestration of Heterogeneous Model Training across Hybrid Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Network Systems John Hwang University of California, San Diego Paul Jaffe / John "Venkman" Casey Large-scale multidisciplinary design optimization of power-beaming-enabled air platforms Amrita Basak Pennsylvania State University Salvatore Buccellato Enabling Fabrication of Large-Scale IN625 Parts Using Multi-Laser Powder Bed Fusion Byron Boots University of Washington Stuart Young Efficient, Agile, Decentralized Autonomy via Composable Policies Giuseppe Loianno New York University Stuart Young Integrated Visual Perception, Learning, and Control for Super Autonomous Robots 2021 Principal Investigator Institution PM Mentor Title Scott Medina The Pennsylvania State University Christopher Bettinger Enhancing the Ambient Stability of Biologics through Fluorous Dispersion Johnatan Aljadeff University of California San Diego Gopal Sarma Electrical coupling between sensory receptor neurons: a shortcut mechanism for swift execution of a motor program Achuta Kadambi The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles JP Chretien MMHEALTH: Multimodal Health Sensing to Identify COVID-19 Signatures Todd Gaines Colorado State University Kristen Jordan RNA-targeting to control invasive plant species Deva Chan Purdue University Lenny Tender Microbiome Regulation of Glycosaminoglycan in the Synovial Joint Jie Fu University of Florida Jinendra Ranka Game-Theoretic Reasoning and Synthesis of Defense with Strategic Deception and Counter-Deception Katerina Fragkiadaki Carnegie Mellon University Lael Rudd From 3D Perception to Spatial Intelligence: Self-supervising Hierarchical Neural 3D Perceptual Simulators for Transfering Learned Physics and Policies across Views, Objects, Scenes and Tasks Jason Lo The University Corporation at CSUN Lael Rudd A homological approach to machine reasoning Ayaskanta Sahu New York University Mukund Vengalattore Exploiting strong coupling between colloidal quantum dots and avalanche amorphous-selenium for high performance hybrid mid-wave infrared sensors and detectors Jie Gao Missouri University of Science and Technology Rohith Chandrasekar Upconversion photoluminescence from 2D materials with strain-enabled broadband operation Thomas J.

Kempa Johns Hopkins University William Carter Multifunctional Exoskeletons from Robust and Responsive 2D Molecular Frameworks Rachel Cummings Columbia University Daniel Wallach Guarding Against User Misperceptions of Differential Privacy Hao Zhang Colorado School of Mines John-Francis Mergen Autonomous Group Introspective Learning and coopEitition (AGILE) for Cross-Capability Multi-Robot Adaptation Paul Gazzillo University of Central Florida Mark Flood Tracking Corporate Relationships at Scale Georgios Portokalidis Stevens Institute of Technology Sergey Bratus Effective Software Monitoring Leveraging Hardware Debugging Extensions Mark Finlayson Florida International University Victoria Romero Computational Narrative Representations for Information Operations Tingyi Gu University of Delaware Anna Tauke-Pedretti Chiral exceptional point manifested active tuning in intergrated photonics Kai Ni Rochester Institute of Technology Jason Woo A Material-Device-Circuit Co-Design of Reliable and Logic-Compatible Hfo2 based Ferroelectric FET Asif Islam Khan Georgia Institute of Technology Jason Woo Engineering the gate-dielectric stack in ferroelectric field-effect transistors Elaheh Ahmadi University of Michigan Thomas Kazior GaN/ Ga2O3 wafer-Bonded Aperture VErtical Transistor (BAVET) for RF applications Najme Ebrahimi University of Florida Thomas Kazior Miniaturized and Power-Efficient MMW Arrays with Precise Electrical and Thermal Optimization for Future Low Cost Standardization Aaswath Pattabhi Raman University of California, Los Angeles Yogi Joshi Compact Efficient Cryogenic Electroluminescent Coolers Michael Haberman The Univ.

of Texas at Austin, DBA Applied Res. Lab Hunter Martin Acoustic and vibration sensing metamaterials enabled by electro momentum coupling Grace X.

Gu The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley Hunter Martin Piezoelectric metamaterials with engineered electro momentum coupling Arka Majumdar University of Washington Justin Cohen / Robert Saperstein Optically rewritable photonic integrated circuits based on phase change materials Liang Feng University of Pennsylvania Justin Cohen / Robert Saperstein Programmable lithography-free integrated photonics for signal control and networking Sashank Narain University of Massachusetts Lowell Nicholas Chang Secure privacy preserving access to networks with ML (SpanML) Caterina Lamuta University of Iowa CDR Kyle Woerner Cephalopods-inspired Self-morphing Stretchable Soft Skin from Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles Stuart Laurence University of Maryland Lt.

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Josh Stults Free-flight force and moment measurement in hypersonic impulse facilities using multi camera telecentric visualization and massively parallel scene reconstruction Ifana Mahbub University of North Texas Paul Jaffe Next generation of wireless power transfer network of Unmanned Aircraft System using electromechanical beamforming Suo Yang University of Minnesota Richard Wlezien Hypersonic Sonic Boom Theory based on Line-Distributed Energy Impulse Source: Lift, Shape, and Thermochemistry Steven A.

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Miller University of Florida Board of Trustees Richard Wlezien Analytical Prediction of Near-Field Hypersonic Aerodynamics 2020 Principal Investigator Institution PM Mentor Title Warda Ashraf The University of Texas at Arlington Catherine Campbell Recreated Roman concrete (RRC) using alkali-activated Calcined Clay Daniel Kulp The Wistar Institute Kristen Jordan A machine learning algorithm to accelerate development of in vivo DNA-vectored antibody countermeasures for the warfighter Mehdi Javanmard Rutgers University Leonard Tender Lab-on-a-Microparticle: Injectable Wirelessly Powered Label-free Nanowell Sensors for In Vivo Quantification of Protein and Small Molecules Mark Blenner Clemson University Linda Chrisey Embedding bio-sentinels in the indoor microbiome to remediate airborne threats Ishan Chattopadhyay The University of Chicago Bartlett Russell Quantification of Cognitive Dissonance via Recursive Decision Forests Andrew Schwartz Stony Brook University Bartlett Russell DiReCCT Dissonance: Quantifying Relations in Human Beliefs using Deep Learning and Computational Linguistics.

Pierluigi Nuzzo University of Southern California Jinendra Ranka Scalable Exploration of AI-Enabled, Reliable, and Cost- Effective Architectures (SEARCH) Edmon Perkins North Carolina State University Vishnu Sundaresan Flexible Reservoir Computing Tensegrity Robots Jordan Raney University of Pennsylvania Vishnu Sundaresan Distributed intelligence in kirigami-inspired flexible architectures Meredith Silberstein Cornell University Vishnu Sundaresan Theory and Realization of Bioinspired Polyelectrolyte-Based Soft Matter Circuits Hang Ren Miami University William Carter Nanoscale revelation of the nucleation of corrosion Florian Schaub Regents of the University of Michigan Joshua Baron Enabling Comparative Analysis of Privacy Expectation-Risk Misalignments in Exposure-sensitive Populations Michelle Mazurek University of Maryland Joshua Baron Generalizing to Understudied Populations Through the Lens of Key Privacy Challenges James Fairbanks Georgia Tech Research Institute Joshua Elliott Model Aware Computing with Scientific Categories Benjamin Gyori President and Fellows of Harvard College Joshua Elliott Collaborative scientific discovery with semantically linked machine-built models Julian Rrushi Oakland University Tejas Patel A Quest for the Physics of Cyberspace Wenjuan Zhu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Benjamin Griffin Advanced Tandem Gate Dielectrics for High-Temperature Electronics Jon Ihlefeld University of Virginia Benjamin Griffin Resilient epitaxial gate oxides for high performing Yahya Tousi Regents of the University of Minnesota James Wilson Wideband and interference-resilient mixed mode time transfer for distributed radios Quntao Zhuang Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona Joe Altepeter Distributed quantum sensor networks enhanced by quantum error correction Justin Metcalf The University of Oklahoma Thomas Rondeau Defining the Utility of the Electromagnetic Spectrum David Hill SRI International Jeffrey Maas 2D Electron Gas Geometric Diode Rectenna Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh Arizona State University Jeffrey Maas Novel Analog Wireless Synchronizing Scheme for Extremely Low Latency Time Transfer Phili Muscarella SRI International John Waterston Floating Integrated Through-the-Sensor Simulation (FITS) Kaixuan Ni University of California, San Diego Mark Wrobel Single-electron Sensitive Liquid Xenon Detector for Reactor Antineutrino Monitoring Prasanna Balachandran University of Virginia William Carter Accelerated Design of Ultra Low Density High Entropy Alloys for Extreme Environments using Artificial Intelligence and Density Functional Theory Jay McMahon The Regents of the University of Colorado Ana Saplan Soft-robotic, Propellant-Free Servicers for LEO Spacecraft Richard Linares Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ana Saplan A Paradigm Shift in the Space Enterprise via Servicing for LEO Mega Constellations Chloe Dedic The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia Sarah Popkin Spatially-Resolved Measurement of Temperature and Species to Investigate Fuel/Air Mixing and Flame Stability in a Partially-Premixed Scramjet Combustor 2019 Principal Investigator Institution PM Mentor Title Colleen Doherty North Carolina State University Blake Bextine Strategic Design and Development of a Plant Bio‐mining System to Sustainably Harvest Rare Earth Elements from Domestic U.S. Sources Parijat Bhatnagar SRI International Eric Van Gieson Remote Regulation of Cellular Medicine with Extracorporeal Devices Yu Yao Arizona State University Lori Adornato Underwater Polarization Navigation Based on Chip-integrated Full-stokes Polarization Imaging System Keriann Backus University of California, Los Angeles Tristan McClure-Begley Covalent Modulators of Proteostasis Nick Vamivakas University of Rochester Joseph Altepeter Quantum Concepts in Classical Optics Denys Bondar Tulane University Joseph Altepeter Quantum Reservoir Engineering Inspired Classical Optical Technology Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon University of Utah Mark Wrobel Smart City Threat Detection Using Integrated Chemical Sensing and Machine Learning Corie Cobb University of Washington William Carter Additive Manufacturing for High-Energy-and-Power Multi-Functional 3D Batteries Tudor Dumitras University of Maryland Joshua Baron Transferable Factors of Updating Behavior for Predicting Vulnerability of Patching and Exploitation Simon Garnier New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Joshua Elliott Ant Colonies as an Animal Model to Understand the Economic, Environmental and Conflictive Drivers of Mass Migrations Walter Lasecki University of Michigan Joshua Elliott Hybrid Intelligent Agents for Deploying Robust AI Systems Matthew Hicks Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Keith Rebello / Lok Yan Digital Techniques for Exposing and Eliminating Information Hidden in SRAM’s Analog Domain Omar Haider Chowdhury University of Iowa Raymond Richards A Principled Approach to Identifying Cellular Network Attacks Jeff Huang Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Sergey Bratus SmartScript: A Learning-based Approach to Static Type and Semantic Inconsistency Analysis of Dynamic Scripts (and Other Semi-Structured Code) Jeehwan Kim Massachusetts Institute of Technology Whitney Mason/ Anna Tauke-Pedretti Dislocation-free heteroepitaxy of IR devices by remote epitaxy Amir Safavi-Naeini Stanford University Gordon Keeler A General and Ultra high-performance Platform for Nonlinear Photonics Qing Li Carnegie Mellon University Gordon Keeler Visible and mid-infrared frequency comb generation in wide-bandgap photonic materials Chung-Tse Michael Wu Rutgers University James Wilson Metamaterial Integrated Ultra-Broadband Antenna Array with Embedded Reconfigurable Non-Foster Circuits Roozbeh Tabrizian University of Florida Timothy Hancock Ferroelectrically Transduced Ge Nano-Fin Bulk Acoustic Resonators for Chip-Scale Instinctually Adaptive RF Spectral Processing Loai Salem University of California Santa Barbara Timothy Hancock Fully-Integrated Tunable N-Path Frequency-Selective Limiters for Self-Adaptive Interference Suppression Jason Kawasaki University of Wisconsin Madison Whitney Mason Mismatched epitaxy of infrared device materials using graphene-mediated lateral overgrowth Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng UCLA William Carter Additive Manufacturing (AM) of Highly Responsive Piezoelectric Materials with 3D Addressable Electrode Interfaces and Strain Amplifications Reginald F.

Hamilton Pennsylvania State University William Carter Additive Manufacturing of Functional Hierarchical Shape Memory Alloys Vishal Saxena University of Delaware Gordon Keeler Silicon Photonics enabled Reconfigurable Optical Analog Processor Abhijit Mahalanobis University Central Florida Jiangying Zhou Minimum L1 norm specialist networks for learning sparse active pathways Luat Vuong University of California, Riverside Jiangying Zhou Rapid and Robust Processing in Spatially-multiplexed Optical Systems: Leveraging Lattice Defects for Pyramid Learning Takashi Tanaka University of Texas at Austin Jiangying Zhou Rationally Inattentive Predictive Vision via Directed Information Regularization Ting-Yen Shih University of Idaho Rohith Chandrasekar A Machine Learning Approach to Automated Non Foster Circuit Synthesis Koki Ho Georgia Technical Research Corporation Ana Saplan Time-expanded Space Logistics Network Modeling and Optimization for On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing Fabio Semperlotti Purdue University Joshua Stults A variable and multi-fractional order computational mechanics framework: Simulation, optimization, and monitoring of hypersonic structures in a multi-physics environment.

Kourosh Shoele Florida State University Nathan Greiner Environment Informed Vibration Based Health Monitoring Technique 2018 Principal Investigator Institution PM Mentor Title Andrea L'Afflitto University of Oklahoma Phillip Root A bio-inspired approach to fly undetected in cluttered environments Chuanhua Duan Boston University Paul Sheehan Replicating Neurotransmission Using 3D Nanofluidic Devices with Nanoparticle Blockage Enabled Voltage Gated Nanopore Arrays Daniele Schiavazzi University of Notre Dame Peter Erbland Unified Bayesian Networks for Uncertain Inputs and Partial Model Ensembles Ehsan Elhamifar Northeastern University Jennifer Roberts RAISS: Robust, Adaptive, Interactive and Scalable Summarization for Big Data Elizabeth Sattely Stanford University Blake Bextine Engineering a Plant Chassis for Rapid and Scalable Production of Small Molecule Therapeutics Evgueni Filipov University of Michigan Ronald Polcawich Functional Small Scale Actuation with Origami Inspired Assemblages Haori Yang Oregon State University Mark Wrobel Nanocrystalline Semiconductors for Radiation Detection Heather Kulik Massachusetts Institute of Technology Anne Fischer Adaptive-focus topological features for machine-learning-driven discovery of 2D coordination polymers Hua Wang Georgia Institute of Technology Timothy Hancock MAXIMA: Multi-Mode Hybrid Power Amplifier with EXtreme Instantaneous Bandwitdth and Recursive Scalable Marchand-Doherty Load ModulAtion Network Hun-Seok Kim University of Michigan Neil Fox / Michael Fiddy Hyper‐Dimensional Modulation for Robust Low‐Latency Low‐Power IoT Networks Hyung Bae Howard University Hava Siegelmann / Michael Fiddy Polymer based replicated multi-modal fiber Bragg grating (FBG) for Fentanyl detection Jeremy Munday University of Maryland Michael Fiddy Engineering the Quantum Vacuum Jonathan Klamkin University of California, Santa Barbara Gordon Keeler Attojoule Sources for Photonic Integrated Circuits (ASPIC) Juejun Hu Massachusetts Institute of Technology Gordon Keeler Reconfigurable Energy-efficient Chip-scale Optical Network: Beyond the Classical Figure-of-merit (RECONFig) Seth Caliga SRI International John Burke / Thomas Ehrenreich Integrated Magnetic BEC Formation and Loading of an Optical Waveguide Trap for Atomic Inertial Sensing Kaushik Sengupta Princeton University Timothy Hancock Generalized Assymetrical Multi-port mm-Wave Power Amplifier Architecture for Simultaneous Frequency and Back-off Re-configurability Mac Schwager Stanford University Paul Zablocky Decentralized Tactical Modular Teaming for Real-World UAS Networks Markita Landry University of California, Berkeley Alfred Emondi Brain Chemical Signaling: A New Input Signal for Brain-Computer Interfaces Mayar Eftekhar Arizona State University Fotis Barlos Horizontal Coordination in Disaster Relief Operations: Incentives and Mechanisms Mercedeh Khajavikhan University of Central Florida Joseph Altepeter Topological Phenomena in Active Photonic 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