Dr. Elias Bareinboim, Columbia University Causal Reinforcement Learning – Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
Program Officer: Dr. Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, Machine Learning, Reasoning and Intelligence
Dr. Christopher Brinton, Purdue University Distributed Intelligence Optimization under Interference in Heterogeneous Resource-Constrained Wireless Systems
Program Officer: Dr. Trevor Snow, Electronic Warfare
Dr. Kerem Camsari, University of California, Santa Barbara Scalable Probabilistic Computers for Optimization and Quantum Simulation
Program Officer: Dr. Ian Appelbaum, Nanoscale Computing Devices and Systems
Dr. Jacob Covey, University of Illinois Probing Quantum Criticality of a Measurement-Induced Phase Transition with Alkaline Earth Rydberg Atoms
Program Officer: Dr. Roberto Diener, Quantum Information Science
Dr. Morteza Derakhti, University of Washington High-Resolution SPH Simulations of Rocky Shores: Understanding and Modeling of Sub-grid Scale Processes in Wave and Hydrodynamic Forecast Models
Program Officer: Dr. Reginald Beach, Coastal Geosciences
Dr. Lauren Garten, Georgia Institute of Technology Piezoelectric Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalysts Using Hexagonal Nickelates
Program Officer: Dr. Wallace Smith, Acoustic Transduction Materials and Devices
Dr. Matthew Hale, University Of Florida High-Performance Autonomous Behaviors for Next-Generation Naval Systems in Communication-Denied Environments
Program Officer: Ms. Christine Buzzell, Cooperative Autonomous Swarm Technology (CAST)
Dr. Sylvia Herbert, University of California, San Diego Constructing and Adapting Control Barrier Functions for Guaranteed Safe Control of Autonomous Systems using Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability
Program Officer: Mr. Marc Steinberg, Science of Autonomy
Dr. Justin Koeln, University of Texas at Dallas Hierarchical Nonlinear Control of Integrated Propulsion, Power, and Thermal Management Systems for Naval Aircraft
Program Officer: Dr. Steven Martens, Power, Propulsion and Thermal Management
Dr. Christian Kroer, Columbia University Fast Iterative Methods for Large-Scale Game-Theoretic Problems and Beyond
Program Officer: Dr. David Phillips, Mathematical and Resource Optimization
Dr. Aditya Kunjapur, University of Delaware Programming Synthetic Auxotrophs to Depend On Breakdown Products of Biodegradable Polymers
Program Officer: Dr. Kristy Hentchel, Synthetic Biology for Naval Applications
Dr. Bolin Liao, University of California, Santa Barbara Solid-State Thermal Switching by Controlling Soft Phonons and Crystal Symmetry
Program Officer: Dr. Mark Spector, Thermal Science and Engineering
Dr. Francesco Monticone, Cornell University Nonreciprocal Nonmagnetic Thermal Photonics
Program Officer: Dr. Meredith Hutchinson, Advanced Naval Platforms
Dr. Atieh Moridi, Cornell University Grand Alloys-A New Strategy for Alloy Design by Combination of Complementary Alloys of a Single Family
Program Officer: Dr. Jennifer Wolk, Materials & Processes for Additive Manufacturing
Dr. Xin Ning, Pennsylvania State University Ultralight, Bio-inspired Skeletal-Neuro-Muscular Materials for Intelligent and Modular Morphable Wings
Program Officer: Dr. Anisur Rahman, Aerospace Structures and Materials
Dr. Brian Odegaard, University of Florida How Attention and Metacognitive Biases Influence Perceptual Decision-Making in Peripheral Vision
Program Officer: Ms. Natalie Steinhauser, Cognitive Neuroscience of Perception and Attention
Dr. Guido Pagano, Rice University Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulation of Open Quantum Systems
Program Officer: Dr. Roberto Diener, Quantum Information Science
Dr. Jeyavijayan Rajendran, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Steel Wool: Next-Generation Hardware Fuzzers
Program Officer: Dr. Daniel Koller, Cyber Security and Complex Software Systems
Dr. Dorsa Sadigh, Stanford University Learning, Leveraging, and Influencing Representations for Interactive Autonomy
Program Officer: Mr. Marc Steinberg, Science of Autonomy
Dr. Umberto Saetti, Auburn University Linearized High-Fidelity Aeromechanics for Extended Reality Simulation and Control of Shipboard Interactions
Program Officer: Dr. Brian Holm-Hansen, Flight Dynamics and Control
Dr. Kimberly See, California Institute of Technology Anion Redox in Metal Sulfide Cathodes for Na-Ion Batteries
Program Officer: Dr. Joseph Parker, Expeditionary Energy
Dr. Banafsheh Seyed-Aghazadeh, University of Massachusetts Fluid-Structure Interactions in Highly Flexible Wings; Experimental campaigns and Development of a Fully-Coupled Reduced-Order Model
Program Officer: Dr. David Gonzalez, Aerodynamics
Dr. Chengzhi Shi, Georgia Institute of Technology High-speed Underwater Wireless Communication using Acoustic Angular Momentum Multiplexing
Program Officer: Dr. Fletcher Blackmon, Maritime Sensing
Dr. Charles Shields, University of Colorado Mapping Immune Cell Responses to High Pressures in Decompression Illness
Program Officer: Dr. Sandra Chapman, Undersea Medicine and Performance
Dr. John Swoboda, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Enabling Volumetric Ionospheric Imaging Using Vector Sensor Ionosondes
Program Officer Dr. Daniel Eleuterio, Marine Meteorology and Space
Dr. Ryan Truby, Northwestern University Self-Sensing, Optoelectronic Artificial Muscle Tissues for Energy Efficient Locomotion in Soft Machines
Program Officer: Dr. Thomas McKenna, Bio-Inspired Autonomous Systems
Dr. Haizhao Yang, Purdue University Flow-Induced Mathematical Theory for Deep Learning: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice
Program Officer: Dr. Reza Malek-Madani, Applied and Computational Analysis
Dr. Suo Yang, University of Minnesota Physics-Based Modeling of Multicomponent Transcritical Phase Change and Spray Breakup in High-Pressure Liquid-Fueled Combustors
Program Officer: Dr. Steven Martens, Power, Propulsion and Thermal Management
Dr. Yue Zhou, South Dakota State University Development of Structural Batteries with Improved Multifunctional Efficiency for Aerospace Applications
Program Officer: Dr. Anisur Rahman, Aerospace Structures and Materials
