Mingchen Gao
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Year joined UB: 2017
Award amount: $578,519
Award year: 2023
"Deploying Transferable Medical Imaging Diagnosis System in Diverse Environments"
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22 of our early career faculty members have received national awards in the past 5 years.
Prathima Nalam
Department: Materials Design and Innovation
Year joined UB: 2017
Award amount: $667,017
Award year: 2023
"Understanding 2D confinement driven phase transitions of non-polar liquids"
A. Erdem Sariyuce
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Year joined UB: 2017
Award amount: $555,821
Award year: 2023
"Temporal Network Analysis: Models, Algorithms, and Applications"
Sangwoo Shin
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Year joined UB: 2021
Award amount: $500,000
Award year: 2023
"Phoretic Transport of Membrane-Bound Biological Colloids in Complex Environments"
Ziming Zhao
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Year joined UB: 2020
Award amount: $564,748
Award year: 2023
"SaTC: Rethinking Trusted Execution Environments for Embedded and IoT Systems"
Nirupam Aich
Department: Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Year joined UB: 2016
Award amount: $500,000
Award year: 2022
"3D Printed Carbon-Metal Nanohybrid Aerogels for Highly Efficient Adsorptive/Catalytic Removal of PFASs"
Kenny Joseph
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Year joined UB: 2018
Award amount: $574,710
Award year: 2022
"Promoting Equal Opportunities through Measurement, Simulation, and Education"
Danial Faghihi
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Year joined UB: 2019
Award amount: $595,593
Award year: 2022
"Reliable Superinsulated Building Envelopes via Predictive Multiphysics Modeling"
Baishakhi Mazumder
Department: Materials Design and Innovation
Year joined UB: 2017
Award amount: $642,450
Award year: 2022
"Atomic scale understanding of the doping incorporation and transport properties in ultrawide band gap semiconductors"
Minghui Zheng
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Year joined UB: 2017
Award amount: $571,087
Award year: 2021
"Facilitating Autonomy of Robots Through Learning-Based Control"
Souma Chowdhury
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Year joined UB: 2016
Award amount: $500,000
Award year: 2021
"Automated Design of Decentralized Robust and Explainable Swarm Systems"
Frank Lagor
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Year joined UB: 2018
Award amount: $450,000
Award year: 2020
Towards Real-Time, 3D Coherent Structure Estimation for Flow Over Finite Wings
Huamin Li
Department: Electrical Engineering
Year joined UB: 2017
Award amount: $500,000
Award year: 2020
Investigating novel quantum nanoelectronic devices that can operate with faster switching speeds and less energy consumption.
Ashlee Ford Versypt
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Year joined UB: 2020
Award amount: $550,000
Award year: 2019
Multiscale modeling of a virtual kidney during the onset and progression of diabetic kidney disease.
Hongxin Hu
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Year joined UB: 2020
Award amount: $500,000
Award year: 2019
Towards elastic security with safe and efficient network security function virtualization.
Peter Liu
Department: Electrical Engineering
Year joined UB: 2017
Award amount: $500,661
Award year: 2019
Combining the advantages of the emerging field of graphene plasmonics and the relatively mature platform of semiconductor heterostructures to develop new types of compact, tunable, cost-effective and versatile devices that emit light in the terahertz to mid-infrared spectral region.
Karthik Dantu
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Year joined UB: 2013
Award amount: $549,369
Award year: 2019
This research will develop computing solutions between the cloud and edge/mobile devices to enable more complex visual sensing on mobile/wearable devices for applications in augmented reality, virtual reality, face recognition, activity recognition and others.
Shi Li
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Year joined UB: 2015
Award amount: $500,034
Award year: 2019
Leveraging cutting-edge techniques in mathematical programming to advance our understanding of scheduling dependent tasks over a collection of machines.
Mostafa Nouh
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Year joined UB: 2015
Award amount: $500,000
Award year: 2019
Tailoring the properties of metamaterials to fundamentally alter the way in which mechanical vibrations propagate a structural medium, so that they can be guided or steered to less vulnerable regions, forced to travel in one direction, or simply absorbed.
Ifeoma Nwogu
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Year joined UB: 2021
Award amount: $524,692
Award year: 2019
A Computational Approach to the Study of Behavior and Social Interactions
Jaroslaw Zola
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Year joined UB: 2014
Award amount: $487,569
Award year: 2019
Introducing a parallel framework of fundamental operations, like data management or scheduling of computations, to accelerate learning of probabilistic graphical models (PGMs).
Chi Zhou
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Year joined UB: 2013
Award amount: $500,000
Award year: 2019
Investigating a freeze nano 3D printing (FNP) approach through selectively freezing and in situ ice-templating of nanomaterials to fabricate multiscale, multifunctional porous structures.
Here at UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, we are attracting some of the world's brightest young researchers to the Buffalo Niagara region. Our national award-winning junior faculty are among the most promising and talented researchers in the country.
With recognition from highly competitive federal research programs such as the National Science Foundation CAREER Award Program and the Department of Defense Young Investigator Programs, they are building a foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.
What is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award?
The CAREER Award is the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award in support of junior faculty. The awards are given to outstanding scientists who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research, education, and the integration of education and research.
The award comes with a federal grant for research and education activities for five consecutive years. The National Science Foundation (NSF) grants these awards once a year. The reviewing, award and selection process is one of the most competitive within the NSF.
What are Department of Defense Young Investigator Program Awards?
The Department of Defense offers early career research awards through the Air Force, Army and Navy. Known as the Young Investigator Program (YIP), the awards support academic scientists who have received a PhD or equivalent degree within the last five years and who show exceptional promise for doing creative research.
