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Collaborative Research: Research: Understanding and Improving Design Activity Engagement in the Engineering Capstone Experience
This project will focus on improving the ways that engineering students and professionals learn to design solutions that benefit a wide range of people who use these solutions. Eng...
Collaborative Research: Evolving thicker skin: Understanding how adaptations to a universal trade-off dictate the climate vulnerability and ecology of an imperiled vertebrate clade
Climate change is pushing many organisms towards their limits, forcing species to move, evolve, or risk extinction. Frogs are among the most vulnerable species on the planet with r...
Micro-pHAT: A re-envisioned sensor design for measuring seawater pH and Total Alkalinity in situ
The oceans play an integral role in the global carbon cycle and increased carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere have resulted in ocean warming and ocean acidification with cas...
Collaborative Research: SaTC: EDU: Dual-track Role-based Learning for Cybersecurity Analysts and Engineers for Effective Defense Operation with Data Analytics
Cybersecurity defense operations (cyber-ops) are in dire need of effective and expedited learning programs for practicing professionals to infuse data analytics (i.e., data science...
CRII: SCH: RUI: Development of Hybrid EEG-fNIRS Neuroimaging Headband for Neurofeedback
This project aims to develop a neuroimaging headband for neurofeedback, which will be a non-invasive and drug-free approach to empower individuals for cognitive enhancement and ass...
HyperTran: High-Performance Transient Stability Simulation of Power Systems on Modern Parallel Computing Hardware
Computer simulation is a widely used but computationally intensive method for predicting the transient stability of power systems following large disturbances. Currently, simulatio...
ECR DBER DCL: Investigating Undergraduate Chemistry Students’ Reasoning and Conceptual Change Related to Graphs of Particulate-Level Variability
A key learning outcome in undergraduate chemistry courses is the ability to understand and predict the behavior of atoms and molecules. The types, amounts, and other characteristic...
Collaborative Research: Research Infrastructure: CCRI: New: Distributed Space and Terrestrial Networking Infrastructure for Multi-Constellation Coexistence
This collaborative project brings together investigators from Virginia Tech, George Mason University, and the University of Surrey to develop a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) platform...
Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Small: Model, Design, and Implement Entanglement Routing Protocols for Quantum Networks
The recently released "A Strategic Vision for America’s Quantum Networks" driven by the National Quantum Initiative Act addressed the importance of quantum networks on fu...
Revisiting Compaction of Granular Soil: Insights from Particle Kinematics
Research funded by this award aims to enhance current understanding of the compaction of granular soils, a critical construction process for many civil infrastructure systems. Comp...
Collaborative Research: Expedite CSI Processing with Lightweight AI in Massive MIMO Communication Systems
Next generation wireless communications will need to support heterogeneous devices with different capabilities on communications, computations, and power to deliver applications wi...
Collaborative Research: Ionospheric Density Response to American Solar Eclipses Using Coordinated Radio Observations with Modeling Support
Solar eclipses are unique celestial phenomena that offer excellent opportunity to explore the impacts of reduced solar flux on the ionosphere. As the moon’s shadow sweeps across th...
NSF-SNSF: Rapid Beamforming for Massive MIMO using Machine Learning on RF-only and Multi-modal Sensor Data
Massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (mMIMO) antenna systems will be an important technology for future mobile telecommunication networks to meet high data transfer rates, assure...
FET: Small: AlignMEM: Fast and Efficient DNA Sequence Alignment in Non-Volatile Magnetic RAM
The state-of-the-art DNA sequencing technologies could generate Terabytes of DNA sequence data in a single run, and their throughput is expected to increase 3-5 times each year in...
CICI: UCSS: Confidential Computing in Reproducible Collaborative Workflows
Data-intensive scientific research projects often involve multiple collaborative parties. Some parties may demand confidential processing of their sensitive assets to protect intel...
ERI: Towards Data-driven Learning and Control of Building HVAC Systems
Buildings account for about 40% of the total annual energy consumption in the U.S., of which about 44% is for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Indirectly...
Collaborative Research: SCH: Multimodal Algorithms for Motor Imitation Assessment in Children with Autism
Approximately 1 in 54 children in the US is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Given its high prevalence, there is a need for an automatic and scalable method to inform...
ERI: Progressive Formation and Collapse Mechanisms of Sinkholes Caused by Defective Buried Pipes
This Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) award supports research that aims to understand why and how sinkholes form above defective buried pipes. Sinkholes induced by defective b...
Collaborative Research: Exploring How Undergraduate Learning of Multifactorial Genetics Affects Belief in Genetic Determinism
With support from the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program, this project aims to serve the national interest in high quality STEM teaching by examining how to teach g...
Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Small: Understanding and Taming Deterministic Model Bit Flip attacks in Deep Neural Networks
Deep neural network (DNN) is widely deployed for a variety of decision-making tasks such as access control, medical diagnostics, and autonomous driving. Compromise of DNN models ca...