The Engineering Genesis Award for Multidisciplinary Research was presented to 26 Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) researchers and their teams during a virtual award ceremony on Dec. 15.
The award, which is presented to TEES researchers who have secured significant research grants of $1 million or more, were given to the following:
PI: Roozbeh Jafari, biomedical engineering.
- $12.3 million grant from the Department of Defense-Defense Threat Reduction Agency for “COVID-19: RATE-COVID: Rapid Analysis of Threat Exposure Operationalization.”
PI: Ranjana Mehta, industrial and systems engineering. Co-PI: Saurabh Biswas, biomedical engineering.
- $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation for “B2: Learning Environments with Augmentation and Robotics for Next-gen Emergency Responders.”
PI: Ankit Srivastava, materials science and engineering. Co-PIs: Patrick Shamberger, Ibrahim Karaman, Svetlana Sukhishvili, Raymundo Arroyave and Yu Xie, materials science and engineering; Alaa Mohamed Elwany, industrial and systems engineering; Mohammad Naraghi, aerospace engineering.
- $4.7 million grant from the Department of Defense-Army Research Laboratory for “Materials and Manufacturing Processes for the Army of the Future.”
PI: Le Xie, electrical and computer engineering. Co-PIs: Prasad Enjeti and P.R. Kumar, electrical and computer engineering.
- $4 million grant from the Department of Energy for “Secure Monitoring and Control of Solar Power Distribution System Through Dynamic Watermarking.”
PI: Pavel Tsvetkov, nuclear engineering. Co-PIs: Sean McDeavitt and Mark Kimber, nuclear engineering.
- $3.6 million grant from the Natura Resources LLC for “Research and Development Support for Molten Salt Research Reactor Licensure.”
PI: Roozbeh Jafari, biomedical engineering. Co-PIs: Jack Mortazavi, computer science and engineering; Melissa Grunlan, biomedical engineering; Thomas Ferris, industrial and systems engineering.
- $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for “An Unobtrusive Continuous Cuff-less Blood Pressure Monitor for Nocturnal Hypertension.”
PI: Zachary Grasley, civil and environmental engineering. Co-PI: Jeffrey Bullard, Dallas Little, Junuthula Reddy, Thomas Lacy, civil and environmental engineering; Arthur Schwab, soil and crop sciences.
- $2.8 million grant from the Department of Defense for “Concrete and Composites Experiments and Modeling for Army Applications.”
PI: Zheng O’Neill, mechanical engineering.
- $2.7 million grant from the Department of Defense-Washington for “Securing Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings through Cyber Defense and Resilient System.”
PI: Swaminathan Gopalswamy, mechanical engineering. Co-PIs: Swaroop Darbha and Sivakumar Rathinam, mechanical engineering; Dylan Shell and Zhangyang Wang, computer science and engineering; John Valasek, aerospace engineering; Gholamreza Langari, George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex.
- $2.5 million grant from the Department of Defense-Research Laboratory for “ARL: Air Ground Coordination.”
PI: James Wall, Texas A&M Center for Applied Technology (TCAT). Co-PIs: Keith Biggers, TCAT; John Walewski, civil and environmental engineering.
- $1.7 million grant from the Department of Energy for “Facility Data and Technology Integration.”
PI: Patrick Shamberger, materials science and engineering. Co-PI: Emily Pentzer and Svetlana Sukhishvili, materials science and engineering; Choongho Yu and Jonathan Felts, mechanical engineering; Charles Culp, College of Architecture.
- $1.5 million grant from the Department of Energy-Washington for “Salt Hydrate Eutectic Thermal Energy.”
PI: Mustafa Akbulut, chemical engineering. Co-PI: Joseph Kwon, chemical engineering.
- $1.5 million grant from the Department of Energy-Office of Fossil Energy for “Dynamic Binary Complexes as Super-Adjustable Viscosity Modifiers for Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids.”
PI: Samuel Noynaert, petroleum engineering. Co-PI: Fred Dupriest, petroleum engineering.
- $1.5 million grant from the Department of Energy for “Changing the Way Geothermal Wells are Drilled: Physics-Based Drilling Parameter Selection, Workflow Implementation and Training in Order to Reduce Non-Productive Time and Increase ROP.”
PI: Stephen Cambone, CRO. Co-PIs: Jeyavijayan Rajendran, electrical and computer engineering; Rainer Fink, Ana Goulart, Byul Hur and Wei Zhan, engineering technology and industrial distribution; Gholamreza Langari, CYBR.
- $1.5 million grant from the Department of Defense-Air Force-Research Laboratory for “Hardware Integrity Verification Utilizing Scanning Electron Microscopy.”
PI: Arum Han, electrical and computer engineering.
- $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for “Developing Extracellular Vesicle-based Therapeutics Against Pre-term Birth Through the Use of Maternal-Fetal Interface on a Chip.”
PI: Jim Morel, nuclear engineering. Co-PI: Raymundo Arroyave, materials science and engineering; Amine Benzerga, aerospace engineering; Jean-Luc Guermond and Bojan Popov, mathematics.
- $1.4 million grant from Department of Energy-National Nuclear Security Administration for “Collaborative Research and Development Supporting LLNL Missions.”
PI: Jim Morel, nuclear engineering. Co-PIs: Marvin Adams, Jean Ragusa and Mauricio Tano Retamales, nuclear engineering; Jean-Luc Guermond, mathematics.
- $1.4 million grant from the Department of Energy-National Nuclear Security Administration for “Collaborative Research and Development Supporting Stockpile Stewardship.”
PI: Mary McDougall, biomedical engineering. Co-PIs: Jim Ji, QEMG; Steven Wright, electrical and computer engineering; Peter Nghiem, veterinary integrative biosciences.
- $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for “Multi-coil Multi-nuclear Add-on System for Clinical Field Strength NMR-based Biomarker Detection for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.”
PI: Christopher Limbach, aerospace engineering. Co-PIs: Rodney Bowersox and Richard Miles, aerospace engineering.
- $1.2 million grant from the Department of Defense-Air Force-Office of Scientific Research for “Canonical Validation Experiments for Hypersonic Aerodynamics.”
PI: Yu Ding, industrial and systems engineering. Co-PIs: Jiang Hu and P.R. Kumar, electrical and computer engineering; Sarbajit Banerjee, chemical engineering.
- $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation for “CPS: Medium: Real-time Learning and Control of Stochastic Nanostructure Growth Process Through In Situ Dynamic Imaging.”
PI: Mahmoud El-Halwagi, chemical engineering. Co-PIs: Joseph Kwon, chemical engineering; Lucy Mar Camacho Chico, environmental engineering.
- $1.2 million grant from the Department of Energy for “Deploying Intensified, Automated, Mobile, Operable and Novel Designs “DIAMOND” for Treating Shale Gas Wastewater (10.8).”
PI: Amy Martin, civil and environmental engineering.
- $1.1 million grant from the Texas Department of Transportation for “Balanced Mix Design System for Superpave Hot-Mix Asphalt Mixtures with RAP.”
PI: Jack Mortazavi, computer science and engineering; Co-PI: Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, computer science and engineering.
- $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation for “SCH: INT: Personalized Models of Nutrition Intake from Continuous Glucose Monitors.”
PI: Danny Davis, public service and administration; Co-PIs: Stephen Cambone, CRO; William Norris, international affairs.
- $1.1 million grant from the Department of Defense-Office of Net Assessment for “Assessing Warfare in the Digital Age.”
PI: Mladen Kezunovic, electrical and computer engineering.
- $1 million grant from the Department of Energy-Washington for “Big Data Synchrophasor Monitoring and Analytics for Resiliency Tracking.”