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Recent Grants Awarded

CAREER: Understanding Fracture Propagation in Soft Viscoelastic Materials from Slow to Ultra-high Strain Rates and at Different Temperatures

  • UT Austin PI: Jin Yang
  • Funding Source: National Science Foundation
  • Award: $650K
  • Award Date: June 1, 2025 over 5 years

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Characterization of Warpage in Advanced Packages with Organic Substrates

  • UT Austin PI: Rui Huang
  • CO-PIs: Kenneth M. Liechti
  • Funding Source: Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)
  • Award: $315K
  • Award Date: 1/1/25 - 12/31/27

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Model-directed Design of Vaginal Stents to Prevent Post-radiation Stenosis

  • UT Austin PI: Manuel Rausch, ASE/EM, UT Austin
  • CO-PIs: Julie Hakim, Baylor College of Medicine; Melissa Grunlan, Texas A&M University
  • Lead PI: Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez, BME, UT Austin
  • Funding Source: National Institutes of Health R01
  • Award: $2.9M
  • Award Date: 2025 over 5 years

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Advancing Interfacial Fracture Analysis in Semiconductor Packages through Integrated DIC Methods and Cohesive Zone Modeling

  • UT Austin PI: Jin Yang
  • Funding Source: Semiconductor Research Corporation
  • Award: $25K
  • Award Date: 11/2024

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Academic Development Fund

  • UT Austin PI: Jin Yang
  • Funding Source: Academic Development Fund, Cockrell School of Engineering
  • Award: $36,428
  • Award Date: 2024-25 Academic Year

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Lab2Mod: From Lab Bench Data to Reduced Models of Transition Dynamics in Turbulence by Reinforcement Learning

  • UT Austin PI: Fabrizio Bisetti
  • Collaborating Institutions: Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
  • Funding Source: DARPA
  • Award: $2M
  • Award Date: 7/25/2004 - 7/25/2006

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Uncertainty Propagation for Maneuvering Objects in Chaotic Systems

  • UT Austin PI: Brandon A. Jones
  • CO-PIs: Ryan P. Russell
  • Collaborating Institutions: University of Southern California, Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of New Mexico, the University of Texas at El Paso, Prairie View A&M University and the Southwest Research Institute
  • Funding Source: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • Award: $807,340
  • Award Date: 9/15/2024 - 9/14/2027

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Space Strategic Technical Institute for In-Space Operations (SSTI-ISO)

  • UT Austin PI: Maruthi Akella
  • CO-PIs: Luis Sentis, Mitch Pryor
  • Lead PI: Robert Amrose, Texas A&M
  • Collaborating Institutions: University of Southern California, Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of New Mexico, the University of Texas at El Paso, Prairie View A&M University and the Southwest Research Institute
  • Funding Source: U.S. Space Force
  • Award: $37.6M (UT Share $5.8M)
  • Award Date: 6/2024

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Air-Breathing Magneto-Deflagration Thruster for VLEO Satellite Propulsion

  • UT Austin PI: Thomas Underwood
  • Funding Source: DARPA
  • Award: $1M
  • Award Date: 3/15/2024

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Synergetic Plasma-Catalytic Design for Gas Abatement from Semiconductor Processes

  • UT Austin PI: Thomas Underwood
  • CO-PIs: C. Buddie Mullins and Graeme Henkelman, Dept. of Chemistry, UT Austin
  • Funding Source: Samsung Global Research Outreach (GRO)
  • Award: $150K
  • Award Date: 1/1/2024 - 12/31/2025

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Functionalizing Thermal Protection Systems with Active Metamaterials to Mitigate Radio-Frequency Blackout

  • UT Austin PI: Thomas Underwood
  • CO-PIs: Noel Clemens
  • Collaborating Institutions: William G. Fahrenholtz, Kristen M. Donnell, Jeremy Watts Institution: Missouri University of Science & Technology Name: Max Burnett Institution: Lockheed Martin
  • Funding Source: University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics
  • Award: $1.5 M
  • Award Date: 2/2024 to 2/2026

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Combining Satellite Geodesy with High-Precision Seismology to Advance Earthquake Hazard Characterization in the Walker Lane

  • UT Austin PI: Ann Chen
  • Collaborating Institutions: University of Nevada, Reno (PI Daniel Trugman)
  • Funding Source: NASA
  • Award: $620K (UT share $100K)
  • Award Date: 4/2024 - 3/2027

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Game Theoretic Models for Robust Cyber-Physical Interactions: Inference and Design under Uncertainty

  • UT Austin PI: David Fridovich-Keil
  • Funding Source: National Science Foundation CAREER
  • Award: $599,976
  • Award Date: 1/15/24 - 12/31/28

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SpaceCraft for Optical-based Position Estimation-1 (SCOPE-1) mission

  • UT Austin PI: Brandon Jones
  • CO-PIs: Renato Zanetti
  • Funding Source: NASA
  • Award: $1.9M
  • Award Date: 12/23

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Curtailing Unhealthy Impacts of Steel Production: DOE Earthshot Program

  • CO-PIs: Tan Bui-Thanh, L.L. Raja
  • Lead PI: Arizona State
  • Funding Source: Department of Energy
  • Award: $5M (UT Share $1.1M)
  • Award Date: 10/23

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