FY21 TIER 1 Award Recipients
Congratulations to the 19 COE faculty and affiliates who were recipients of FY21 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 13 different projects.
- Modulation of Organismic Resilience by the Microbiome
Javier Apfeld (Biology), Erel Levine (Bioengineering) - Mentored Award: Novel methods to quantify the affective impact of virtual reality for motor skill learning
Danielle Levac (Physical Therapy), Karen Quigley (Psychology), Lisa Barrett (Psychology), Sarah Ostadabbas (Electrical and Computer Engineering) - Understanding the therapeutic modulation of the cancer cell responses to microbial-based cancer therapies via single cell lab on a chip approach.
Tania Konry (Pharmaceutical Sciences), Jiahe Li (Bioengineering) - Quantum Machine Learning
Pau Closas (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Adrian Feiguin (Physics) - Microfluidic Droplet-Based Screening for the Directed Evolution of Materials
Neel Joshi (Chemistry), Sara Hashmi (Chemical Engineering) - Mentored Award: Understanding Compliance with AI Advise for the Design of Better Human-Machine Hybrids
Yael Karlinsky Shichor (Marketing), Casper Harteveld (Art+Design) - Towards a digital biomarker of cognitive health – unobtrusive and continuous monitoring of cognitive changes using smartphone data
Sumientra Rampersad (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Misha Pavel (Computer Science/Health Sciences) - Community Resilience in Extreme Temperatures: Solutions for citizens, government, and utilities through big data and community engagement
Michael Kane (Civil and Environmental Engineering), David Fannon (Architecture/Civil and Environmental Engineering), Michelle Laboy (Architecture) - Chemical tools to track RNA in living cells and organisms
Sara Rouhanifard (Bioengineering), James Monaghan (Biology) - Enabling Secure Localization for Autonomous Cyber-physical Systems
Aanjhan Ranganathan (Computer Science), Pau Closas (Electrical and Computer Engineering) - Optimizing Criminal Justice Responses to the Business of Labor Trafficking
Shawn Bhimani (Supply Chain and Information Management), Amy Farrell (Criminology and Criminal Justice), Kayse Maass (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering) - Mentored Award: Industrial AI-Assisted Synthesis of 2D Quantum Materials
Xiaoning Jin (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering), Swastik Kar (Physics) - Physical Mechanisms of Collective Epithelial Motility
Max Bi (Physics), Herbert Levine (Bioengineering/Physics)