Recent Selected Research Awards

October 1, 2021 - December 30, 2021

Award Date Principal Investigator Department
 Award Title
 Sponsor
 Amount  
12/14/21 Matthew Knepley Computer Science and Engineering Development of Terrestrial Dynamical Cores for the E3SM to Simulate Water Cycle Battelle 157,221  
12/9/21 Shenqiang Ren Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering NextFlex PC 6.7: FHE Active Phased Array Antennas for 5G Communications Boeing Company 15,950  
12/1/21 Filip Stefanovic Biomedical Engineering SEPCORPS Model - SEParating CORtical and SPinal -level motor control responses using transcranial direct current stimulation and transcutaneous electrical stimulation National Science Foundation 291,062  
11/19/21 Shambhu Upadhyaya Computer Science and Engineering UB GenCyber CLEAR - Cybersecurity Learning, Education, Awareness and Readiness National Security Agency 126,577  
11/15/21 Hongyue Sun Industrial & Systems Engineering FMRG: Cyber: Cyber-Coordinated Analytical Framework for Multi-stage Distributed Future Manufacturing Systems National Science Foundation 2,333,085  
10/15/21 Nalini Ratha Computer Science and Engineering SUNY- IBM AI Collaborative Research Alliance: Machine Learning on Encrypted Data IBM Corp. and SUNY 100,000  
10/10/21 Matthew Knepley Computer Science and Engineering Extending PETSc's Composable Solvers University of Chicago Argonne LLC 103,314  
10/1/21 Yun Wu Biomedical Engineering Development of IpY for breast cancer therapy Concarlo Holdings LLC 17,416  
10/1/21 Wenyao Xu Computer Science and Engineering IRES Track I: International Research Experience for Students on Assistive Technology for Aging and Disability National Science Foundation 300,000  
10/1/21 Chunming Qiao Computer Science and Engineering Collaborative Research: CCRI: New: Medium: A Development and Experimental Environment for Privacy-preserving and Secure (DEEPSECURE) Machine Learning National Science Foundation 520,000  
10/1/21 Oliver Kennedy Computer Science and Engineering SCC-PG: A Sustainable and Connected Community-Scale Food System to Empower Consumers, Farmers, and Retailers National Science Foundation 150,000  
10/1/21 Shenqiang Ren Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Ultra-Light, inTegrated, Reliable, Aviation-class, Co-Optimized Motor & Power converter with Advanced Cooling Technology (ULTRA-COMPACT) Raytheon Technologies 50,000  
10/1/21 Sangwoo Shin Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Colloid dynamics in porous media induced by fluid flow and solute transport National Science Foundation 125,977  
10/1/21 Haiqing Lin Chemical & Biological Engineering Engineering-Scale Validation of Novel Algae CO2 Capture and Bio-products Technology Helios-NRG LLC 200,000  
10/1/21 Ian Bradley Civil Structural & Environmental Engineering Engineering-Scale Validation of Novel Algae CO2 Capture and Bioproducts Technology Helios-NRG LLC 201,070  

July 1, 2021 - September 30, 2021

Award Date Principal Investigator Department
 Award Title
 Sponsor
 Amount
9/15/21 Chong Cheng Chemical & Biological Engineering Zwitterionic Dendrimer-modified PEG for Protein Conjugation National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering 433,902
9/1/21 John Crassidis Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Novel Navigation, Guidance and Attitude Estimation of Vehicles Moog Incorporated 153,594
9/1/21 Siwei Lyu Computer Science and Engineering NSF Convergence Accelerator Track F: A Disinformation Range to Improve User Awareness and Resilience to Online Disinformation National Science Foundation 750,000
9/1/21 Lora Cavuoto Industrial & Systems Engineering Surgical Simulator for Improving Skill Proficiency and Resilience Kitware Incorporated 487,812
9/1/21 Andrew Olewnik Engineering Education Collaborative Research: Research: Investigating Jonassen's Design Theory of Problem Solving in Support of Pedagogical Change in Introductory Aerospace Engineering National Science Foundation 250,198
9/1/21 Craig Snoeyink Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Electric-Field Induced Capillary Condensation American Chemical Society 110,000
9/1/21 Eleonora Botta Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Modeling, Design and Operation of Robotic Tether-Net Systems for Reliable Capture of Targets National Science Foundation 503,573
9/1/21 Haiqing Lin Chemical & Biological Engineering Tunable Two-Dimensional Porous Material/Polymer Composite Hollow Fiber Membranes for Advanced Water Resource Recovery US Department of Energy 50,960
9/1/21 Michel Bruneau Civil Structural & Environmental Engineering Bolted Splice Details for Composite Plate Shear Walls--Concrete Filled Charles Pankow Foundation 198,961
9/1/21 Minghui Zheng Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering CAREER: Facilitating Autonomy of Robots Through Learning-Based Control National Science Foundation 571,087
9/1/21 Qiaoqiang Gan Electrical Engineering Microscale concave interfaces for structural reflective coloration National Science Foundation 381,375
9/1/21 Erdem Sariyuce Computer Science and Engineering Collaborative Research: OAC Core: Fast Tools for Complex Event Detection over Bipartite Graph Streams National Science Foundation 250,000
9/1/21 Uttam Singisetti Electrical Engineering Develop Radiation hardened Diodes and MOSFETs Syrnatec Incorporated 30,000
9/1/21 Stelios Andreadis Chemical & Biological Engineering The use of fibrin hydrogels to promote salivary gland regeneration Curators of the University of Missouri 1,199,443
9/1/21 Shaofeng Zou Electrical Engineering CCSS: Collaborative Research: Quickest Threat Detection in Adversarial Sensor Networks National Science Foundation 217,000
8/30/21 Gang Wu Chemical & Biological Engineering SBIR: A compact energy efficient Oxygen generator for deployed military applications Bettergy Corporation 50,000
8/23/21 Haiqing Lin Chemical & Biological Engineering STTR: CO2-philic Block Copolymers with Intrinsic Microporosity for Post-combustion CO2 Capture Helios-NRG LLC 500,000
8/15/21 Bina Ramamurthy Computer Science and Engineering A Decentralized Governance Framework for Innovating Digital Manufacturing Using Blockchain Automation Alley 158,728
8/13/21 John Atkinson Civil Structural & Environmental Engineering Quantifying GHG Emissions for Waste-to-Energy Facilities Xcel Energy 70,000
8/6/21 David Doermann Computer Science and Engineering STTR: The Recovery of Legacy Engineering Data from Charts RJ Lee Group 225,000
8/1/21 Jiaoyan Li Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Multi-Scale Fluid-Solid Interactions in Architected and Natural Materials University of Utah 74,999
8/1/21 Nirupam Aich Civil Structural & Environmental Engineering Engineered Solutions for Prevention and Control of Eutrophication using Novel Biosorbents Florida Institute of Technology 135,000
8/1/21 John Crassidis Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Information Fusion for Space Cyber Resiliency US Air Force Office of Scientific Research 625,000
8/1/21 Adrienne Decker Engineering Education Collaborative Research: Expanding Subgoal Labels for Imperative Programming to Further Improve Student Learning Outcome National Science Foundation 198,205
8/1/21 Hongxin Hu Computer Science and Engineering S2OS: Enabling Infrastructure-Wide Programmable Security with SDI Vanguard Charitable 158,645
8/1/21 Vladimir Mitin Electrical Engineering Artificial Intelligence Driven Adaptive Sensors for Autonomous Object Recognition US Army Research Office 500,000
8/1/21 Bruce Pitman Materials Design and Innovation CDS&E: Collaborative Research: Surrogates and Reduced Order Modeling for High Dimensional Coupled Systems National Science Foundation 70,000
7/30/21 Lora Cavuoto Industrial & Systems Engineering Practical Fatigue Measurement Approaches for Use at Utility Job-sites: Field Demonstrations Electric Power Research Institute 36,685
7/24/21 Zhangyu Guan Electrical Engineering RFID Development International Imaging Materials Incorporated 79,658
7/19/21 Srirangaraj Setlur Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors Informed Address Test Deck US Postal Service 65,000
7/15/21 Baishakhi Mazumder Materials Design and Innovation Atomic Scale to Micro Scale Understanding of Low Temperature Degradation Mechanism in Zirconia-Based Ceramics National Science Foundation 516,594
7/14/21 Kenneth Joseph  Computer Science and Engineering Persuasion, Identity, & Morality in Social-Cyber Environments Carnegie Mellon University 500,000
7/12/21 Adel Sadek Civil Structural & Environmental Engineering Accelerating The Use Of Integrated Incident Management System (Iims) For Traffic Incident Data Collection And Management Rutgers University 1,159,714
7/5/21 Filippo Malandra Electrical Engineering CRII: CNS: IoT-aware Dynamic Spectrum Sharing in 5G C-RAN with Reinforcement Learning National Science Foundation 175,000
7/1/21 Hongyue Sun  Industrial & Systems Engineering Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Centers (T42) Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 11,739
7/1/21 Amit Goyal Chemical & Biological Engineering Defect-engineering to probe attainable flux-pinning in coated conductors US Navy Office of Naval Research 886,700
7/1/21 Mark Ehrensberger Biomedical Engineering UB CAT: Live Microbe Imaging and Computational Modeling of Antimicrobial Treatments Garwood Medical Devices LLC 52,010
7/1/21 Jonathan Lovell Biomedical Engineering UB CAT: Development of an peptide vaccine platform based on SNAP liposomes POP Biotechnologies Incorporated 100,000
7/1/21 Johannes Nitsche Chemical & Biological Engineering Collaborative Research: GOALI: High-Impact Multiscale Physicochemical Advancements for the Prediction of Transient Dermal Absorption National Science Foundation 114,321
7/1/21 Chunming Qiao Computer Science and Engineering PFI-TT: Crowdsourced Road Geometry Estimation using Smartphones National Science Foundation 250,000
7/1/21 Qiaoqiang Gan Electrical Engineering UB CAT: Live Rapid drug-abuse sensing using portable surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) chips Garwood Medical Devices LLC 30,000
7/1/21 Shenqiang Ren Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering High Temperature Conformal Hybrid Electronics on Flexible Ceramics NextFlex 59,594
7/1/21 Albert Titus Biomedical Engineering UB CAT: Wireless Biosensor System Version 1.0 Project Efferent Labs Incorporated 150,000
7/1/21 Uttam Singisetti Electrical Engineering Next generation ultrawide-bandgap electronics II VI Foundation 95,000
7/1/21 Ruogang Zhao Biomedical Engineering Modeling pulmonary fibrosis regulated by macrophage subtypes American Lung Association 75,000

April 1, 2021 - June 30, 2021

Award Date Principal Investigator Department
 Award Title
 Sponsor   Amount
6/8/21 Ian Bradley Civil Structural & Environmental Engineering C19: Wastewater Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 and Variants of Concern in Erie County Erie County 177,884
6/7/21 Eleonora Botta Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering CRII: RI: Robotic cable-based de-tumbling of demised spacecraft National Science Foundation 175,000
6/1/21 Adrienne Decker Engineering Education STEM: Advancing the Computational Thinking of Undergraduate Students in Intermediate Computer Science Courses National Science Foundation 300,000
6/1/21 Souma Chowdhury Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering CAREER: Automated Design of Decentralized Robust and Explainable Swarm Systems (ADDRESS) National Science Foundation 500,000
6/1/21 Shaofeng Zou Electrical Engineering Collaborative Research: CIF: Medium: Emerging Directions in Robust Learning and Inference National Science Foundation 374,720
6/1/21 Hongxin Hu Computer Science and Engineering Collaborative Research: EAGER: SaTC-EDU: Learning Platform and Education Curriculum for Artificial Intelligence-Driven Socially-Relevant Cybersecurity National Science Foundation 70,000
5/19/21 Uttam Singisetti Electrical Engineering SBIR: High-Voltage Gallium Oxide Devices for Space Power Electronics Power Electronics CFD Research Corporation 30,000
5/17/21 Souma Chowdhury Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Learning on Graphs for Resilience Decision-Support in Real-World Networks University of Texas at Dallas 94,955
5/15/21 Jun Xia Biomedical Engineering Development of photoacoustic tomography for non-invasive, label-free imaging of tissue perfusion in chronic wounds National Inst of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering 1,643,693
5/15/21 Qiaoqiang Gan Electrical Engineering I-Corps: Radiative cooling technology for commercial applications of irrigation water recycling National Science Foundation 50,000
5/1/21 Yun Wu Biomedical Engineering Companion biomarker development of TF-antigen assay Health Research Inc 28,000
4/28/21 Lora Cavuoto Industrial & Systems Engineering Ergonomics Analysis and Solutions Design, Flour Rev .1 General Mills Operations Incorporated 21,286
4/28/21 Lora Cavuoto Industrial & Systems Engineering Ergonomics Analysis and Solutions Design, Cereal Rev .1 General Mills Operations Incorporated 33,998
4/15/21 Jian-Ping Zheng Electrical Engineering Investigation of energy density limitation for lithium sulfur batteries National Science Foundation 211,439
4/1/21 Hongxin Hu Computer Science and Engineering Collaborative Research: CICI: Secure and Resilient Architecture: SciGuard: Building a Security Architecture for Science DMZ Based on SDN and NFV Technologies National Science Foundation 35,088
4/1/21 Panagiotis Anastasopoulos Civil Structural & Environmental Engineering I-Corps: Risk Analysis System for Collision Avoidance with Wildlife National Science Foundation 50,000
4/1/21 Filippo Malandra Electrical Engineering OVERCOME21: CBRS Deployment in the Fruit Belt Neighborhood in Buffalo, NY US Ignite 22,936
4/1/21 Changyou Chen Computer Science and Engineering Scaling Up Human-Action Analysis Systems Amazon.com Services LLC 57,000
3/29/21 Jun Hwan Choi Electrical Engineering Design and Modeling 1D and 2D Passive/Active Frequency Scanning Metamaterial Antennas and Antenna Arrays Operating in W-band - Phase IV NXP USA Incorporated 100,000
3/22/21 Srirangaraj Setlur Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors Package RECO R2 Image Truthing US Postal Service 83,460

January 1, 2021 - March 31, 2021

Award Date Principal Investigator Department Award Title Sponsor Amount    
3/21/21 John Crassidis Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Advanced Satellite Navigation Receiver (ASNR), Time-Space- Position Information (TSPI) Project Dynetics Incorported 152,973    
3/15/21 Yun Wu Biomedical Engineering UB CAT: Dose/Frequency analysis in vitro Concarlo Holdings LLC 28,914    
3/15/21 Wenyao Xu Computer Science and Engineering REU Site: Frontier Technologies for Biometrics and Authentication National Science Foundation 393,599    
3/15/21 Ravi Ranade Civil Structural & Environmental Engineering Constitutive Material Model Prototype for High-Velocity Kinetic Impact IS4S 33,458    
3/11/21 Gang Wu Chemical & Biological Engineering LANL-UB collaboration on fuel cell catalyst development Triad National Security LLC 183,116    
2/15/21 Ciprian Ionita Biomedical Engineering C19: I-Corps: Artificial Intelligence Quantitative Angiographic System To Guide Endovascular Procedures National Science Foundation 50,000    
2/11/21 Jung Hun Seo Materials Design and Innovation Beam-wave Interaction Structures for THz GaN High Power Amplifiers Michigan State University 46,054    
2/4/21  Jiaoyan Li Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) Model Development and Application to High-Solid Slurry (HSS) Systems Battelle Energy Alliance LLC 50,000    
2/1/21 Jonathan Lovell Biomedical Engineering UB CAT: Development of an peptide vaccine platform based on SNAP liposomes POP Biotechnologies Incorporated 100,000    
2/1/21 Weihang Wang Computer Science and Engineering CAREER: Cross-Boundary Program Analyses for Web Applications National Science Foundation 500,000    
1/19/21 Adel Sadek Civil Structural & Environmental Engineering Complete Trip Deployment in Buffalo ICF Incorporated 410,934    
1/15/21 John Atkinson Civil Structural & Environmental Engineering Ecoverde Organics - Evaluation of Biochar as a Method to Valorize Food Waste Rochester Institute of Technology 13,853    
1/12/21 Gang Wu Chemical & Biological Engineering Design, Fabrication and Evaluation of High-Temperature Electrolyzers for Hydrogen Generation Battelle Energy Alliance LLC 62,000    
1/2/21 Deborah Chung Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering STTR: Self-powering Carbon Fiber Structure for Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) Aircraft Koo and Associates International LLC 89,995    
1/1/21 Uttam Singisetti Electrical Engineering High Speed Ultrawidebandgap Gallium Oxide Transistors Semiconductor Research Corporation 262,500    
1/1/21 Paul DesJardin Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Simulation-Driven Design Optimization and Automation for Cordwood-Fueled Room Heaters Ohio State University 20,001    
1/1/21 Miao Yu Chemical & Biological Engineering Direct Air Capture Using Trapped Small Amines in Hierarchical Nanoporous Capsules on Porous Electrospun Fibers US Department of Energy 800,000    
1/1/21 Miao Yu Chemical & Biological Engineering Bench-scale Development of a Transformational Graphene Oxide-based Membrane Process for Post-combustion CO2 Capture Gas Technology Institute 94,568    
1/1/21 Miao Yu Chemical & Biological Engineering Dehydration Membrane Reactor for Direct Production of Dimethyl Carbonate (DMC) from CO2 and H2 Gas Technology Institute 38,411    
1/1/21 Haiqing Lin Chemical & Biological Engineering PFI-TT: Development of Polymeric Organosilica Membranes for Hydrogen Purification at 100 - 300 oC National Science Foundation 249,998    
1/1/21 Miao Yu Chemical & Biological Engineering Transformational Molecular Layer Deposition Tailor-made Size-Sieving Sorbents for Post-Combustion CO2 Capture Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 58,352    
1/1/21 Kang Sun Civil Structural & Environmental Engineering The 'System of Systems' Solutions for Commercial Field-Level Quantification University of Illinois Urbana Champaign 168,500    
1/1/21 Kenneth Joseph Computer Science and Engineering Co-creating an ethical framework for social media use in prevention trials University of British Columbia 20,006