Posts in Author: Jasmine Clark

April 30th, 2021

Research 411 Talk Show: Wind Turbines

Research 411 Microphone

Interested in wind turbine design? How about energy conservation? Harnessing the power of the wind, one large scale wind turbine has the ability to produce enough power to operate thousands of homes. Learn how wind turbines are developed and how they are reliable, cost-effective, clean, and a renewable source of electricity at this interactive #UTDResearchImpact​ …read more

April 29th, 2021

Dr. Jason Jue Secures Nearly $450,000 From The NSF

Dr. Jason Jue

Dr. Jason Jue received $449,651 from the National Science Foundation for his research project: CNS Core: Small: Design and Evaluation of Methods for Supporting Resilient and High-Availability Elastic Network Slicing. Dr. Jue’s research focuses on developing methods and techniques for maintaining high availability and diverse service requirements for elastic network slices in 5G networks. As …read more

April 29th, 2021

Dr. Minary Receives Grant from AFOSR for Nearly $480,000

Dr. Majid Minary

The US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) awarded Dr. Majid Minary $479,779 for his research project: Self-Sensing and Self-Healing Metal Matrix Composites. Dr. Minary’s research will focus on demonstrating mechanisms for low-temperature, low-cost, and low-energy self-healing metal-matrix composites (MMCs). Dr. Minary hopes the desired MMC will be able to detect crack formation in …read more

April 9th, 2021

Broader Impacts Series: How Can You Cultivate Research Proposal Growth?

Broader Impacts: Taking research beyond the walls of the lab

During this seminar, Michelle Rogers, NSF Program Officer and Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, will discuss new developments such as broadening participation plans, how to formulate them as an integral part of a successful proposal, and share ways PIs address broader impacts. Michelle RogersProgram OfficerDivision of Computer and Network SystemsDirectorate for Computer …read more

April 6th, 2021

Dr. Xiaohu Guo’s Nearly $500,000 Award From NSF

Dr. Xiaohu Guo

Computer Science professor, Dr. Xiaohu Guo, received $499,997 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research project, OAC Core: Small: Open-Source Robust 4D Reconstruction Framework for Real-Time Dynamic Human Capture. The project focuses on the modeling of topological changes in dynamic scenes and the robust tracking of moving surfaces. Dr. Guo’s goal is to …read more

April 6th, 2021

Kyle Fox Receives $586,654 From NSF

Kyle Fox

Dr. Kyle Fox was awarded $586,654 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research project, Exploiting Topology in Graph Algorithm Design. Dr. Fox’s research focuses on understanding the role topology can take both in performing fast computations on graphs and explaining what graph properties are necessary for these fast computations. The goal of the …read more

March 29th, 2021

Research 411 Talk Show: Propaganda Then and Fake News Now

Research 411 Microphone

Interact with prominent faculty researchers as they share their #UTDResearchImpact​ during this talk show! How did the United States weaponize information to secure Latin American support during World War II? What can those strategies tell us about the nature of propaganda campaigns in the age of “fake news?” Dr. Monica Rankin and her research assistant, …read more

March 23rd, 2021

University of Colorado at Boulder Awards Dr. Hongbing Lu $720,000

Dr. Hongbing Lu

Dr. Hongbing Lu received $720,000 from the University of Colorado at Boulder for his research on the Center for Micromorphic Multiphysics Porus and Particulate Materials Simulations with Exascale Computing Workflows. The project focuses on characterizing materials of significant importance identified in the project at different scales. Dr. Lu and his team will conduct a Split …read more

March 23rd, 2021

Dr. Chuanwei Zhang Receives $640,000 Grant from US Air Force

Dr. Chuanwei Zhang

Dr. Chuanwei Zhang received $640,087 from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for his research on Quantum Simulation, Computation, and Metrology with Ultracold Atoms. Dr. Zhang’s goal is to foster the development of quantum technologies with ultracold atoms by envisioning new device concepts, developing controlling tools, and designing quantum matter with desired properties.