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2019 Young Investigator Award Recipients
- Dr. Fadel Adib, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wireless Communication Through the Water-Air Interface
Program Officer: Dr. Santanu Das, Communications and Networking
- Dr. Firooz Aflatouni, University of Pennsylvania
Deep Networks with Ultra-Fast Photonic Training for Instantaneous Direct Image Classification
Program Officer: Dr. Kevin Leonard, EO/IR Sensors and Sensor Processing
- Dr. Christos Argyropoulos, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Theoretically Modeling the High Thermal Emission/Formation Dynamics of Femtosecond Laser Functionalized Surfaces to Optimize Surfaces
Program Officer: Ms. Sarwat Chappell, Sea Platforms and Weapons
- Dr. D. Kwabena Bediako, University of California, Berkeley
Van der Waals Engineering for Electrochemically Tunable Quantum Materials
Program Officer: Dr. Chagaan Baatar, Nanoscale Computing Devices and Systems
- Dr. Christoph Brehm, University of Kentucky
Numerical Investigations of Particle Interactions with Navy Relevant High-Speed Flows
Program Officer: Dr. Eric Marineau, Aerodynamics and Hypersonics
- Dr. Jesse Capecelatro, University of Michigan
High-Fidelity Modeling of Particulate Transport and Deposition in Extreme Environments
Program Officer: Dr. Steven Martens, Turbine Engine Technology
- Dr. Kathryn Daltorio, Case Western Reserve University
Control of Crab-Like Robots for Amphibious Terrain
Program Officer: Dr. Thomas McKenna, Bio-Inspired Autonomous Systems
- Dr. Letian Dou, Purdue University
Molecular Engineering of Highly-Stable High-Performance Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells
Program Officer: Mr. Billy Short, Manufacturing, Maintenance and Logistics
- Dr. John Duchi, Stanford University
Practical Optimality Guarantees in Estimation and Learning
Program Officer: Dr. Predrag Neskovic, Mathematical Data Science
- Dr. Imraan Faruque, Oklahoma State University
Insect Group/Swarm Behaviors and their Relation to Individual Feedback Models
Program Officer: Dr. Marc Steinberg, Science of Autonomy
- Dr. Yier Jin, University of Florida
On-Chip Intelligent Sensor Based Real-Time Analog Trojan Detection Framework for Microprocessor Trustworthiness
Program Officer: Dr. Sukarno Mertoguno, Cyber Security and Complex Software Systems
- Dr. Amin Karbasi, Yale University
Robust and Interactive Information Gathering in Dynamic Environments
Program Officer: Dr. Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, Machine Learning, Reasoning and Intelligence
- Dr. Zak Kassas, University of California, Riverside
I Hear, Therefore I Know Where I Am: Exploiting Signals of Opportunity for Robust and Accurate Navigation in GPS-Denied Environments
Program Officer: Dr. Richard Willis, Precision Navigation and Timekeeping
- Dr. Na Li, Harvard University
Real-Time Distributed Coordination of Multi-Agent Systems Under Limited Communication
Program Officer: Dr. Marc Steinberg, Science of Autonomy
- Dr. Song Lin, Cornell University
Amping Up the Synthesis of Energetic Materials Using Electricity: Electrochemical Methods for the Installation of N-containing Explosophores
Program Officer: Dr. Chad Stoltz, Energetic Materials
- Dr. Jian Liu, University of Tennessee
Complex Oxide Heterostructures for Novel Topological Superconducting States
Program Officer: Dr. Brian Bennett, Information, Cyber and Spectrum Superiority
- Dr. Jarad Mason, Harvard University
Porous Metal-Organic Liquids as a New Platform for Investigating Gas-Liquid Interactions
Program Officer: Dr. Sandra Chapman, Undersea Medicine
- Dr. Piya Pal, University of California, San Diego
New Unified Framework for Super-Resolution Imaging with Prior Information
Program Officer: Dr. John Tague, Undersea Signal Processing
- Dr. James Pikul, University of Pennsylvania
Understanding Electrochemically Induced Surface Evolution and Transport at Metal-Hydrogel Interfaces for Metal-Air Scavenger Power
Program Office: Mr. Billy Short, Manufacturing, Maintenance and Logistics
- Dr. David Poerschke, University of Minnesota
Surface Phenomena in Refractory Multi-Principle Element Alloys
Program Office: Dr. Dave Shifler, Mission Capable, Persistent and Survivable Naval Platforms
- Dr. Pavana Prabhakar, University of Wisconsin
Metastable Sandwich Composites for Impact and Fatigue Damage Tolerance in Extreme Conditions
Program Officer: Mr. William Nickerson, Airframe Structures and Materials
- Dr. Edmon Perkins, Auburn University
Topological Optimization of Nonlinear and Stochastic Oscillators
Program Officer: Dr. Michael Shlesinger, Non-linear Physics
- Dr. Carlo Scalo, Purdue University
Reynolds-Averaged Modeling and Real-Gas Effects in Hypersonic Turbulent Boundary Layers
Program Officer: Dr. Eric Marineau, Aviation, Force Projection and Integrated Defense
- Dr. Maryam Shanechi, University of Southern California
Uncovering Multiscale Neural Network Dynamics Underlying Reach-to-Grasp Movements
Program Officer: Dr. Thomas McKenna, Bio-Inspired Autonomous Systems
- Dr. Venkat Viswanathan, Carnegie Mellon University
Towards a Comprehensive Understanding through Coupled Theoretical-Experimental Analysis of Dendrite Nucleation and Mitigation in Current and Next-Generation Li-Ion Battery Anodes
Program Officer: Dr. Michele Anderson, Electrochemical Materials
- Dr. Shannon Yee, Georgia Institute of Technology
Switchable Organic Thermal Elements
Program Officer: Dr. Mark Spector, Ship Systems and Engineering Research
- Dr. Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Rational Design and Additive Manufacturing of 3D Piezoelectrics with Arbitrary Anisotropy for Maritime Self-Sensing Structures
Program Officer: Mr. Michael Wardlaw, Maritime Sensing
- Dr. Daniel Zitterbart, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Development of Next Generation Automatic Surface Whale Detection System for Marine Mammal Mitigation and Distribution Estimation
Program Officer: Dr. Michael Weise, Marine Mammals and Biology
