Dr. Michael Bartlett, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Bio-Inspired Distributed Sensing Networks for Wearable Situational Awareness Enhancement
Program Officer: Dr. Reginald Beach, Littoral Geosciences and Optics
Dr. David Burghoff, University of Notre Dame Frequency Comb Ptychoscopy: Imaging Beyond the Resolution-Delay Limit
Program Officer: Dr. Benjamin Conley, EO/IR Sensors and Sensor Processing
Dr. Xiang Chen, University of California, Los Angeles Knowledge Extraction from Human Interaction with AI
Program Officer: Dr. Jeffrey Morrison, Command Decision Making (CDM)
Dr. Alvin Cheung, University of California, Berkeley A Framework for Automatic Leveraging of Trusted Execution Environments
Program Officer: Dr. Sam Weber, Cyber Security and Complex Software Systems
Dr. Chelsea Finn, Stanford University Flexible Vision-Based Robotic Manipulation via Meta-Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning
Program Officer: Mr. Marc Steinberg, Science of Autonomy
Dr. Yao Fu, University of Cincinnati Microstructural Effects on the Environmental-Assisted Cracking of Advanced Manufactured Stainless Steels in Marine Environment
Program Officer: Dr. Airan Perez, Corrosion Control Science and Technology
Dr. Wei Gao, California Institute of Technology Investigation of Sweatomics in Stress Response Using Wearable Biosensors
Program Officer: Dr. Laura Kienker, Stress Response
Dr. Stephanie Gil, Harvard University Decision Making in Heterogenous Multi-Agent Systems with Misinformation and Sparse Communication
Program Officer: Mr. Marc Steinberg, Science of Autonomy
Dr. Ashutosh Giri, University of Rhode Island Unraveling the Microscopic Dynamics of Coupled Energy States in Nanostructures
Program Officer: Dr. Mark Spector, Thermal Sciences
Dr. Negin Golrezaei, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Utilizing Structures and Predictive Information in Online Optimization
Program Officer: Dr. David Phillips III, Mathematical and Resource Optimization
Dr. Grace Gu, University of California, Berkeley Machine Learning for Rational Design of Impact Resistant Composites
Program Officer: Dr. Anisur Rahman, Aerospace Structures and Materials
Dr. Carmen Guerra-Garcia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Transient Corona Discharges for Ignition and Flameholding in an Afterburner Environment
Program Officer: Dr. Steven Martens, Power, Propulsion and Thermal Management
Dr. Kentaro Hara, Stanford University Surface Breakdown and Plasma Formation in Cross-Field High Power Microwave Sources
Program Officer: Mr. Ryan Hoffman, Directed Energy Weapons: High Power Microwaves
Dr. Eric Jacques, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Spatiotemporal Characterization of Large-scale Detonation Based Combustion of Reactive Metal-Gas Mixtures
Program Officer: Dr. Chad Stoltz, Energetic Materials (EM)
Dr. Joseph Jewell, Purdue University Detailed Investigation of Hypersonic Instability, Breakdown, and Natural Transition Under Quiet Flow with Simulated Ablation-Gas I
Program Officer: Dr. Eric Marineau, Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics, High-Speed Propulsion and Materials
Dr. Rehan Kapadia, University of Southern California Direct Generation of Electromagnetic Radiation with a Compact, Air-Stable, Optically Modulated Electron Emitter
Program Officer: Mr. Ryan Hoffman, Directed Energy Weapons: High Power Microwaves
Dr. Jason Lee, Princeton University Foundations of Deep Learning: Stochastic Gradient Descent and Beyond
Program Officer: Dr. Predrag Neskovic, Mathematical Data Science
Dr. Eli Levenson-Falk, University of Southern California Creating an Open Quantum Systems Engineering Toolkit with Superconducting Qubits
Program Officer: Dr. Roberto Diener, Quantum Information Science
Dr. Sophia Merrifield, University of California San Diego Collaborative Sensing of the Ocean-Atmosphere Interface
Program Office: Dr. Daniel Eleuterio, Marine Meteorology and Space
Dr. Tanushree Mitra, University of Washington Influencing Communities and Narratives: New Techniques for Understanding Adversarial Influence Online
Program Officer: Dr. Rebecca Goolsby, Social Networks and Computational Social Science
Dr. Aeriel Murphy-Leonard, Ohio State University Systematic Study on Slip Activity and Plastic Strain Accumulation in Wire-Arc Additive Manufactured Nickel-Aluminum-Bronze Alloys
Program Officer: Dr. William Mullins, Computer-Aided Materials Design (CAMD)
Dr. Robert Nawrocki, Purdue University Flexible and Biocompatible, Organic Electronics Spiking Neuromorphic Computing
Program Officer: Dr. Thomas McKenna, Cognitive Science for Human Machine Teaming
Dr. Andy Nieto, Naval Post Graduate School Functionally Graded Cold Sprayed Hybrid Coatings for Multi-Material Structural Repair and Wear Protection
Program Officer: Dr. Anisur Rahman, Aerospace Structures and Materials
Dr. Derek Olson, Naval Postgraduate School The Structure of Complex Seafloor Environments: Acoustic Remote Sensing and Inference
Program Officer: Dr. Kyle Becker, Ocean Acoustics
Dr. Brennan Phillips, University of Rhode Island Ultralight, Economical, and Adaptable Solutions for Deep-Sea UUVs And Distributed Sensing Using Fiber-Optic Tethers Program Officer: Dr. Michael Traweek, Maritime Sensing
Dr. Brett Savoie, Purdue University Understanding the Atomic to Mesoscale Gap in Li-Ion Battery Failure with Reactive Coarse-Graining Methodologies
Program Officer: Dr. Michele Anderson, Electrochemical Materials
Dr. Theresa Saxton-Fox, University of Illinois Measurements of Turbulent Boundary Layers with Adverse Pressure Gradients and Curvature
Program Officer: Dr. Peter Chang, Hydrodynamics Related to Ships/Submarines
Dr. Leslie Schoop, Princeton University New Functionalities in New 2D Materials: Chemically Exfoliated 2D Crystals
Program Officer: Dr. Ian Appelbaum, Nanoscale Computing Devices and Systems
Dr. Jonathan Singer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Microporous Nanocomposite Multifunctional Carbon Fiber Composites
Program Officer: Dr. Anisur Rahman, Aerospace Structures and Materials
Dr. Zachary Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Molecularly Precise Gas Separations through Site-Specific Membrane Design
Program Officer: Dr. Sandra Chapman, Undersea Medicine & Performance
Dr. Somayeh Sojoudi, University of California, Berkeley High-performance Computational Methods for Nonlinear Machine Learning Problems
Program Officer: Dr. Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, Machine Learning, Reasoning and Intelligence
Dr. Mohamed Soliman, Oklahoma State University A Fragility-Based Approach Supporting Enhanced Resilience of Manned and Unmanned Surface Vessels Under Uncertain Demand
Program Officer: Dr. Paul Hess, Ship System Reliability and Resiliency
Dr. Qiming Wang, University of Southern California Harnessing Microorganisms to Synthesize Bionic Composites with Ordered Microstructures
Program Officer: Dr. Laura Kienker, Biomaterials and Bionanotechnology
Dr. Sihong Wang, University of Chicago Rubbery, Multimodal-Sensorized and Neuromorphic-Computing E-Skin for Intelligent Soft Robots
Program Officer: Dr. Thomas McKenna, Cognitive Science for Human Machine Teaming
Dr. Meagan Wengrove, Oregon State University Bottom-mounted Fiber-Optic Sensing of Nearshore Hydrodynamics
Program Officer: Dr. Fletcher Blackmon, Maritime Sensing
Dr. Sanfeng Wu, Princeton University Charge-Neutral Quantum Excitations and Devices Based on 2D Topological Crystals
Program Officer: Dr. Ian Appelbaum, Nanoscale Computing Devices and Systems
Dr. Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh, Arizona State University Distributed Millimeter-wave Cooperative Beam Forming Arrays
Program Officer: Dr. Tommy Willis, Precision Navigation and Timekeeping
Dr. Bo Zhen, University of Pennsylvania Nonlinear Topological Photonics
Program Officer: Dr. Antti Makinen, Nano-engineered Materials
