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2017 Young Investigator Award Recipients
- Dr. Koray Aydin, Northwestern University
Active Nanophotonics in the Flatland with Novel Hybrid Metasurfaces
Program Officer: Dr. Brian Bennett, Electromagnetic Materials
- Dr. Yimon Aye, Cornell University
Gene Activation by Innate Nucleophilicity (GAIN): Enabling Precision Stress Defense on Demand
Program Officer: Lt. Brian Andrews-Shigaki, Basic Biomedical
- Dr. Dhruv Batra, Georgia Institute of Technology
Explainable and Trustworthy Intelligent Systems
Program Officer: Dr. Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, Machine Learning, Reasoning and Intelligence
- Dr. Wenshan Cai, Georgia Institute of Technology
Hot-Carrier-Induced Nonlinear Optical Processes in Photonic Metamaterials
Program Officer: Dr. Mark Spector, Ship Systems and Engineering Research
- Dr. Tzahi Cohen-Karni, Carnegie Mellon University
Three-Dimensional -3D- Nanosensors Array For Measurement of the Electrical Activity of Microscale Human Brain Tissue
Program Officer: Dr. Laura Kienker, Biomaterials and Bionanotechnology
- Dr. Cory Dean, Columbia University
Designer 2D Bandstructures by Superlattice Patterning of Layered Materials
Program Officer: Dr. Chagaan Baatar, Nanoscale Computing Devices and Systems
- Dr. Kelly Dorgan, Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium; University of South Alabama
Impacts of Infauna on Acoustic and Geotechnical Properties of Sediments
Program Officer: Dr. Kyle Becker, Ocean, Atmosphere and Space Research Division
- Dr. Julian Norato Escobar, University of Connecticut
Computational Synthesis of Composable-Material Structures from Manufacturing-Friendly Primitives
Program Officer: Mr. William Nickerson, Airframe Structures and Materials
- Dr. Sergey Frolov, University of Pittsburgh
Semiconductor Nanowire-Based Quantum Emulators
Program Officer: Dr. Chagaan Baatar, Nanoscale Computing Devices and Systems
- Dr. Dennice Gayme, Johns Hopkins University
A Restricted Nonlinear (RNL) Framework for Navy Vessel Boundary Layers: Exploiting Reduced Order Modeling to Inform New Drag Reduction Strategies
Program Officer: Dr. Thomas Fu, Ship Systems and Engineering Research
- Dr. Geoffrey Hollinger, Oregon State University
Information-Aware Decision Making in Teams of Autonomous Vehicles and Humans
Program Officer: Dr. Marc Steinberg, Science of Autonomy
- Dr. Josh Kacher, Georgia Institute of Technology
Correlating Microstructure to Corrosion Susceptibility using a Multiscale Electron Microscopy Approach
Program Officer: Dr. Airan Perez, Corrosion Control
- Dr. Boubacar Kante, University of California San Diego
High-Power Bound state In the Continuum Laser
Program Officer: Mr. Peter Morrison, Aerospace Science Research
- Dr. Sertac Karaman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vision-based Agile Autonomous Navigation in Contested Environments using High-Performance Embedded Computing
Program Officer: Dr. Marc Steinberg, Science of Autonomy
- Dr. Rebecca Kramer, Yale University
Morphing Limbs with Distributed Actuation, Sensing and Variable Stiffness for Turtle- and Tortoise-Inspired Amphibious Locomotion
Program Officer: Dr. Thomas McKenna, Bio-Inspired Autonomous Systems
- Dr. Leslie Lamberson, Drexel University
Dynamic Fatigue and Fracture of Woven Polymer Matrix Composites Under Combined Mechanical-Environmental Loading
Program Officer: Mr. William Nickerson, Airframe Structures and Materials
- Dr. Megan Leftwich, George Washington University
Sea Lion Swimming: A Model for Efficient, Hydrodynamically Quiet Propulsion
Program Officer: Dr. Robert Brizzolara, Biologically Inspired Underwater Propulsion
- Dr. Kelly Lombardo, University Of Connecticut
Advancements in the Predictions of Littoral Quasi-linear Mesoscale Convective Systems
Program Officer: Dr. Ronald Ferek, Marine Meteorology and Atmospheric Effects
- Dr. Andrew Lucas, University of California San Diego
The Impact of Internal Wave and Sub-Mesoscale Variability on Diurnal Cycling and Air-Sea Interactions
Program Officer: Dr. Terri Paluszkiewicz, Physical Oceanography
- Dr. Maiken Mikkelsen, Duke University
Metasurface-Based Perfect Absorbers for Robust and Adaptable Coatings
Program Officer: Dr. Antti Makinen, Nanomaterials
- Dr. Nenad Miljkovic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Durable Multi-Functional Surfaces for Low and High Surface Tension Fluid Phase Change Heat Transfer
Program Officer: Dr. Mark Spector, Ship Systems and Engineering Research
- Dr. Tae Seok Moon, Washington University in St. Louis
Engineering Probiotics to Manipulate Neurotransmitters
Program Officer: Dr. Linda Chrisey, Synthetic Biology
- Dr. SungWoo Nam, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Energy Harvesting, Structural Monitoring Sensor Based on Corrugated Atomically-thin Semiconductors
Program Officer: Dr. Ignacio Perez, Non-Destructive Evaluation and Prognostics: Advanced Sensors and Technologies
- Dr. Michael O'Neil, New York University
Toward Real-Time Electromagnetics Design: Fast, Accurate, and Robust Integral Equation-Based Solvers
Program Officer: Dr. Reza Malek-Madani, Applied and Computational Analysis
- Dr. Shayan Oveis Gharan, University Of Washington
Applications of Algebraic Techniques in Algorithm Design
Program Officer: Dr. Donald Wagner, Mathematics, Computer and Information Sciences
- Dr. Miroslav Pajic, Duke University
Design of High-Assurance Cyber-Physical Systems
Program Officer: Dr. Sukarno Mertoguno, Cyber Security and Complex Software Systems
- Dr. Marco Pavone, Stanford University
Proactive Decision Making for Autonomous Systems: a Formal Methods Approach
Program Officer: Dr. Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, Machine Learning, Reasoning and Intelligence
- Dr. Pavithra Prabhakar, Kansas State University
Formal Synthesis of Robust, Optimal Controllers for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Program Officer: Dr. Marc Steinberg, Science of Autonomy
- Dr. Peter Rakich, Yale University
New Regimes of Classical and Quantum Phonon Dynamics: From Precision Time-Keeping to Quantum Information Processing
Program Officer: Dr. Richard Willis, Atomic, Molecular & Quantum Physics
- Dr. Padmini Rangamani, University Of California, San Diego
Non Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Biological Membranes
Program Officer: Dr. William D'Angelo, Undersea Medicine
- Dr. Kaushik Sengupta, Princeton University
Bit-to-THz: Universally Programmable THz Surfaces with Sub-wavelength Field and Response Synthesis
Program Officer: Dr. Daniel Purdy, Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and Combating Terrorism Department
- Dr. Robert Shepherd, Cornell University
Electrohydraulic Exoskeletons with Haptic Sensation Powered/Cooled by Robot Blood€
Program Officer: Mr. Jeffrey Bradel, Maneuver Thrust Area
- Dr. Tao Wei, University of Rhode Island
Sub-Terahertz-Range-Interrogated Fiber-Optic Systems for Distributed Sensing Applications
Program Officer: Mr. Michael Wardlaw, Maritime Sensing
- Dr. Yuebing Zheng, University of Texas at Austin
Reconfigurable Multiband Metasurfaces and Devices with Atomic-Layer Materials
Program Officer: Dr. Brian Bennett, Electromagnetic Materials
