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2022 Young Investigator Award Recipients
- Dr. Elias Bareinboim, Columbia University
Causal Reinforcement Learning – Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
Program Officer: Dr. Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, Machine Learning, Reasoning and Intelligence
- Dr. Christopher Brinton, Purdue University
Distributed Intelligence Optimization under Interference in Heterogeneous Resource-Constrained Wireless Systems
Program Officer: Dr. Trevor Snow, Electronic Warfare
- Dr. Kerem Camsari, University of California, Santa Barbara
Scalable Probabilistic Computers for Optimization and Quantum Simulation
Program Officer: Dr. Ian Appelbaum, Nanoscale Computing Devices and Systems
- Dr. Jacob Covey, University of Illinois
Probing Quantum Criticality of a Measurement-Induced Phase Transition with Alkaline Earth Rydberg Atoms
Program Officer: Dr. Roberto Diener, Quantum Information Science
- Dr. Morteza Derakhti, University of Washington
High-Resolution SPH Simulations of Rocky Shores: Understanding and Modeling of Sub-grid Scale Processes in Wave and Hydrodynamic Forecast Models
Program Officer: Dr. Reginald Beach, Coastal Geosciences
- Dr. Soheil Feizi, University of Maryland
Understanding Foundations of Robust Learning
Program Officer: Dr. Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, Machine Learning, Reasoning and Intelligence
- Dr. Lauren Garten, Georgia Institute of Technology
Piezoelectric Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalysts Using Hexagonal Nickelates
Program Officer: Dr. Wallace Smith, Acoustic Transduction Materials and Devices
- Dr. Matthew Hale, University Of Florida
High-Performance Autonomous Behaviors for Next-Generation Naval Systems in Communication-Denied Environments
Program Officer: Ms. Christine Buzzell, Cooperative Autonomous Swarm Technology (CAST)
- Dr. Sylvia Herbert, University of California, San Diego
Constructing and Adapting Control Barrier Functions for Guaranteed Safe Control of Autonomous Systems using Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability
Program Officer: Mr. Marc Steinberg, Science of Autonomy
- Dr. Justin Koeln, University of Texas at Dallas
Hierarchical Nonlinear Control of Integrated Propulsion, Power, and Thermal Management Systems for Naval Aircraft
Program Officer: Dr. Steven Martens, Power, Propulsion and Thermal Management
- Dr. Christian Kroer, Columbia University
Fast Iterative Methods for Large-Scale Game-Theoretic Problems and Beyond
Program Officer: Dr. David Phillips, Mathematical and Resource Optimization
- Dr. Aditya Kunjapur, University of Delaware
Programming Synthetic Auxotrophs to Depend On Breakdown Products of Biodegradable Polymers
Program Officer: Dr. Kristy Hentchel, Synthetic Biology for Naval Applications
- Dr. Bolin Liao, University of California, Santa Barbara
Solid-State Thermal Switching by Controlling Soft Phonons and Crystal Symmetry
Program Officer: Dr. Mark Spector, Thermal Science and Engineering
- Dr. Peter McMahon, Cornell University
Superconducting Electronics Neural Networks for Wideband RF Signal Processing
Program Officer: Dr. Deborah Van Vechten, Cryogenically Enabled Electronics Technologies for Mixed Signal Systems
- Dr. Francesco Monticone, Cornell University
Nonreciprocal Nonmagnetic Thermal Photonics
Program Officer: Dr. Meredith Hutchinson, Advanced Naval Platforms
- Dr. Atieh Moridi, Cornell University
Grand Alloys-A New Strategy for Alloy Design by Combination of Complementary Alloys of a Single Family
Program Officer: Dr. Jennifer Wolk, Materials & Processes for Additive Manufacturing
- Dr. Xin Ning, Pennsylvania State University
Ultralight, Bio-inspired Skeletal-Neuro-Muscular Materials for Intelligent and Modular Morphable Wings
Program Officer: Dr. Anisur Rahman, Aerospace Structures and Materials
- Dr. Brian Odegaard, University of Florida
How Attention and Metacognitive Biases Influence Perceptual Decision-Making in Peripheral Vision
Program Officer: Ms. Natalie Steinhauser, Cognitive Neuroscience of Perception and Attention
- Dr. Guido Pagano, Rice University
Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulation of Open Quantum Systems
Program Officer: Dr. Roberto Diener, Quantum Information Science
- Dr. Jeyavijayan Rajendran, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
Steel Wool: Next-Generation Hardware Fuzzers
Program Officer: Dr. Daniel Koller, Cyber Security and Complex Software Systems
- Dr. Dorsa Sadigh, Stanford University
Learning, Leveraging, and Influencing Representations for Interactive Autonomy
Program Officer: Mr. Marc Steinberg, Science of Autonomy
- Dr. Umberto Saetti, Auburn University
Linearized High-Fidelity Aeromechanics for Extended Reality Simulation and Control of Shipboard Interactions
Program Officer: Dr. Brian Holm-Hansen, Flight Dynamics and Control
- Dr. Kimberly See, California Institute of Technology
Anion Redox in Metal Sulfide Cathodes for Na-Ion Batteries
Program Officer: Dr. Joseph Parker, Expeditionary Energy
- Dr. Banafsheh Seyed-Aghazadeh, University of Massachusetts
Fluid-Structure Interactions in Highly Flexible Wings; Experimental campaigns and Development of a Fully-Coupled Reduced-Order Model
Program Officer: Dr. David Gonzalez, Aerodynamics
- Dr. Chengzhi Shi, Georgia Institute of Technology
High-speed Underwater Wireless Communication using Acoustic Angular Momentum Multiplexing
Program Officer: Dr. Fletcher Blackmon, Maritime Sensing
- Dr. Charles Shields, University of Colorado
Mapping Immune Cell Responses to High Pressures in Decompression Illness
Program Officer: Dr. Sandra Chapman, Undersea Medicine and Performance
- Dr. John Swoboda, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Enabling Volumetric Ionospheric Imaging Using Vector Sensor Ionosondes
Program Officer Dr. Daniel Eleuterio, Marine Meteorology and Space
- Dr. Ryan Truby, Northwestern University
Self-Sensing, Optoelectronic Artificial Muscle Tissues for Energy Efficient Locomotion in Soft Machines
Program Officer: Dr. Thomas McKenna, Bio-Inspired Autonomous Systems
- Dr. Haizhao Yang, Purdue University
Flow-Induced Mathematical Theory for Deep Learning: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice
Program Officer: Dr. Reza Malek-Madani, Applied and Computational Analysis
- Dr. Suo Yang, University of Minnesota
Physics-Based Modeling of Multicomponent Transcritical Phase Change and Spray Breakup in High-Pressure Liquid-Fueled Combustors
Program Officer: Dr. Steven Martens, Power, Propulsion and Thermal Management
- Dr. Matthew Zahr, University of Notre Dame
Improved Simulation of Internal and External Hypersonic Flows using High-Order Implicit Shock Tracking
Program Officer: Dr. Eric Marineau, Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics, High-Speed Propulsion and Materials
- Dr. Yue Zhou, South Dakota State University
Development of Structural Batteries with Improved Multifunctional Efficiency for Aerospace Applications
Program Officer: Dr. Anisur Rahman, Aerospace Structures and Materials
