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2018 Young Investigator Award Recipients
- Dr. Amy Clarke, Colorado School of Mines
In-situ Studies of Strain Rate Effects on Phase Transformations and Microstructural Evolution in Beta-Titanium and Multi-Principal Element Alloys
Program Officer: Dr. David Shifler, Propulsion Materials
- Dr. Stuart Craig, University of Arizona
Secondary Instability of Hypersonic Crossflow Vortices
Program Officer: Dr. Eric Marineau, Aerodynamics and Hypersonics
- Dr. Stefano Ermon, Stanford University
Learning with Domain Knowledge: An Implicit Probabilistic Models Approach
Program Officer: Dr. Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, Machine Learning, Reasoning and Intelligence
- Dr. Hanwei Gao, Florida State University
Two-Dimensional Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskites as Photoactive Semiconductors
Program Officer: Dr. Brian Bennett, Electromagnetic Materials
- Dr. Lisa Giocomo, Stanford University
Principals of Cue Integration for Accurate Position Estimates across Contexts
Program Officer: Dr. Thomas McKenna, Bio-Inspired Autonomous Systems
- Dr. Abhinav Gupta, Carnegie Mellon University
Knowledge Graphs for Planning Perception
Program Officer: Dr. Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, Machine Learning, Reasoning and Intelligence
- Dr. Michael Haberman, University of Texas at Austin
Acoustic Wave Redirection and Sensing using Bianisotropic Acoustic Metamaterial
Program Officer: Ms. Deborah Nalchajian, Ship Systems and Engineering Research
- Dr. Douglas Hunsaker, Utah State University
Control of Tailless Morphing Aircraft
Program Officer: Dr. Brian Holm-Hansen, Aviation Technology
- Dr. Omer Inan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Wearable Assessment of Warfighter Blood Volume Status using Graph Mining Algorithms
Program Officer: Dr. Timothy Bentley, Basic Biomedical: Blast and Traumatic Brain Injury
- Dr. Chanh Kieu, Indiana University
Quantifying the Practical Predictability of Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecasts
Program Officer: Dr. Ronald Ferek, Marine Meteorology and Space
- Dr. Heather Kulik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adaptive-Resolution Chemical Discovery Strategies for Precise and Fast Computer-Aided Transition Metal Complex Design
Program Officer: Dr. Kenny Lipkowitz, Computer-Aided Materials Design
- Dr. Andy Lemmon, University of Alabama
Semi-Taps: Suppression of Electro-Magnetic-Interference through Advanced Packaging of Semiconductors
Program Officer: Mr. Lynn Petersen, Ship Systems and Engineering Research
- Dr. Hao Li, University of Southern California
Complete Human Digitization and Unconstrained Performance Capture
Program Officer: Dr. Peter Squire, Human Performance Training and Education
- Dr. Kin Fai Mak, Cornell University
Superconductivity in Two-Dimensional Atomic Crystals
Program Officer: Chagaan Baatar, Nanoscale Computing Devices and Systems
- Dr. Benedetto Marelli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Epitaxial Growth of Structural Proteins into Hierarchical Mesostructured Materials
Program Officer: Dr. Laura Kienker, Biomaterials and Bionanotechnology
- Dr. Rahul Mazumder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Combinatorial Statistical Inference with Mathematical Optimization
Program Officer: Dr. Predrag Neskovic, Mathematical Data Science
- Dr. Ryan McBride, University of Michigan
High-Power Microwave Generation by Compact Linear Transformer Driver Technology
Program Officer: Mr. Ryan Hoffman, Directed Energy & High Power Microwave
- Dr. Prateek Mittal, Princeton University
Synergistic Integration of Statistical and Logic-Based Reasoning for Adversarial Learning Mechanisms
Program Officer: Dr. Sukarno Mertoguno, Cyber Security and Complex Software Systems
- Dr. Ankur Moitra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
An Algorithmic Theory of Robustness
Program Officer: Dr. Predrag Neskovic, Mathematical Data Science
- Dr. Necmiye Ozay, University of Michigan
Correct-by-Construction Control with Non-Asymptotic Learning, Estimation and Detection in-the-Loop
Program Officer: Dr. Marc Steinberg, Science of Autonomy
- Dr. Mikael Rechtsman, Pennsylvania State University
Topological Protection in Time-Reversal Invariant Photonic Devices
Program Officer: Dr. Antti Makinen, Nanomaterials
- Dr. Chad Risko, University of Kentucky
Decoding Nucleation and Growth in Organic Semiconductor Films
Program Officer: Dr. Paul Armistead, Polymeric Organic Materials
- Dr. Andre Schleife, University of Illinois
Developing a First-Principles Model of Hot-Electron-Mediated Diffusion
Program Officer: Dr. Kenny Lipkowitz, Computer-Aided Materials Design
Program Officer: Dr. Antti Makinen, Nanomaterials
- Dr. Nina Stark, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Geotechnical Soil Characterization from Remote Sensing for the Assessment of Coastline Strength, Stability and Trafficability
Program Officer: Dr. Reginald Beach, Littoral Geosciences and Optics
- Dr. Cemal Tasan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tracking Hydrogen: A Multi-Scale Experimental-Computational Study of Hydrogen Influence on Dislocations, Plasticity, Damage
Program Officer: Dr. William Mullins, Structural Materials
- Dr. Zhiting Tian, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Enhancing Thermal Transport at Solid-Solid Interfaces
Program Officer: Dr. Mark Spector, Ship Systems and Engineering Research
- Dr. Mehran Tehrani, University of New Mexico
Next Generation Electrical Wires for Navy Applications
Program Officer: Dr. Scott Coombe, Ship Systems and Engineering Research
- Dr. Michael Tolley, University of California San Diego
Crab-Inspired Amphibious Legged Robots with Variable Stiffness Shells for Morphological Adaptation
Program Officer: Dr. Thomas McKenna, Bio-Inspired Autonomous Systems
- Dr. Gregory Valiant, Stanford University
Getting More from Less: Optimal Estimation and Learning, for Sparse, High Dimensional, or Untrusted Data
Program Officer: Dr. Predrag Neskovic, Mathematical Data Science
- Dr. Ram Vasudevan, University of Michigan
Real-Time Certified, Safe Control Synthesis for Autonomous Systems
Program Officer: Dr. Thomas Fu, Ship Systems and Engineering Research
- Dr. Caglar Yardim, Ohio State University
Multiple Grazing Angle Electromagnetic Propagation and Scattering in Non-Standard Atmosphere
Program Officer: Dr. Daniel Eleuterio, Marine Meteorology and Space
- Dr. Cunjiang Yu, University of Houston
Cephalopod Inspired Camouflage Skins: Adaptive Color Changing, Pattern Tuning, and Texture Morphing
Program Officer: Dr. Michael Qin, Hybrid Complex Warfare – Robotics and Autonomy
