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NSF program CAREER: FACULTY EARLY CAR DEV (104500): 390 awards, $185.9M to 152 organizations
390 NSF awards ($185.9M) under the program element CAREER: FACULTY EARLY CAR DEV (104500) to 152 organizations, fiscal years 2022 to 2026, read 2026-11-03.
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- Program element code
- 104500
- Directorate
- Directorate for Engineering
- Division
- Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation
Awards
390 awards in the window.
| Award | Agency | Institute or division | Fiscal year | Amount in window | Start | End | Principal investigator | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAREER: Charting the Cosmic Dawn with Next Generation 21cm Arrays | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $993,364 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Daniel C Jacobs | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Searching For Biosignatures in Exoplanet Atmospheres | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $967,705 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Ji Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mass Measurements in the Galaxy | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $885,271 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Adam G Ginsburg | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: GLOW: The Long-Term Histories of Geologically Active Solar System Moons from Isotope Geochemistry | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $853,152 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2028 | Katherine de Kleer | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Studying Galaxies Across Human and Cosmic History | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $845,486 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Rachel Bezanson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: RACING -- Resolving the Activity Cycle In the Nearest Galaxies | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2024 | $821,724 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2029 | Elisabeth A Mills | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Performance through Curvature – An Integrated Computational and Experimental Study of the Mechanics of 3D Self-Architected Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $764,893 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2028 | Carlos M Portela | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Improving Prosthesis Usability through Enhanced Touch Feedback and Intelligent Control | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $762,255 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Jeremy D Brown | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding Joining Mechanisms in Dissimilar Metal Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $755,668 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Somayeh Pasebani | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $749,885 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2028 | Amy E Reines | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: How does external photoevaporation shape planets? | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2024 | $745,504 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Megan Reiter | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Toward Lifelong Safety of Autonomous Systems in Uncertain and Interactive Environments | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $744,123 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Changliu Liu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Creating Tough, Sustainable Materials Using Fracture Size-Effects and Architecture | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $735,670 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Lucas R Meza | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Dynamics of Holographic Acoustic Lenses for Nonlinear Ultrasound Focusing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $727,516 | February 15, 2022 | January 31, 2028 | Shima Shahab | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Highly Underactuated Lower-Body Exoskeletons and the Dynamics of Walking | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $727,501 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Alan Asbeck | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Towards the Creation of a Dynamic Modeling Framework to Generate New Knowledge About Swimming Biological Systems | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $724,026 | March 1, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Kenneth Shorter | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: New Foundations for Multi-Fidelity Prediction, Estimation, and Learning Under Uncertainty in Dynamical Systems | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $721,021 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2028 | Alex Gorodetsky | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding the Origins of Mechanical Hysteresis and Functional Fatigue in Martensitic Phase Transforming Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $719,755 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Ashley Bucsek | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding the Dynamic Mechanical Adaptations of Bone Tissue at Small Length Scales | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $719,538 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2029 | Ottman A Tertuliano | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding the Nature of Dark Energy with the Young Supernova Experiment and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $717,600 | August 15, 2023 | July 31, 2028 | Gautham Narayan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Lifting the Veil on the Cosmochemical Cycle of Organic Matter and the Diffuse Interstellar Bands Using Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry and Cryogenic Ion Electronic Spectroscopy | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2026 | $715,349 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2031 | Jordy Bouwman | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Closing the Loop between Learning and Communication for Assistive Robot Arms | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $713,424 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Dylan P Losey | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Bridging the Global Gap on Understanding Downburst Impacts on Buildings: Field Data-Modeling Research and Education for More Resilient Communities | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $708,644 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Amal Elawady | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Stereochemical Biomimicry for Sustainability | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $698,187 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Konrad Krakowiak | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Nonlinear Resonances of Highly Damped, Soft Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $697,643 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Mehmet Kurt | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Extrusion-based Additive Manufacturing of Sustainable Thermoplastics via Enzyme Encapsulation and Microfluidic Structuring of Hierarchical Composites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $697,158 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Cecily A Ryan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Shining STARs Amidst the Turbulence | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $697,118 | June 15, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Cara D Battersby | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechano-Metabolic Control of Electrical Remodeling of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Engineered Heart Muscle | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $695,746 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2029 | Nathaniel Huebsch | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manufacturing of Solid Particle-Liquid Metal Mixtures for Soft Robotics and Stretchable Electronics | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $691,771 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Eric Markvicka | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Detailed Look into the Lives of Red Supergiants with Optical Interferometry | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $685,415 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2030 | Ryan Norris | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Establishing Coherent Frameworks for Massive Galaxy Formation and Inclusive Astronomy | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $682,938 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2028 | Katherine E Whitaker | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Studying Tendon Cell Mechanobiology in the Native Tissue Environment | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $677,682 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Spencer Szczesny | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Unraveling Mechanisms of Mechanical Degeneration in Elastin | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $677,533 | August 15, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Anna Tarakanova | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Antiquity-Inspired Novel Stratlingite-Based Cementitious Binder (StraCem): A Lesson from Ancient and Modern Civilizations | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $674,756 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Monday U Okoronkwo | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Data to Models (D2M), A Domain-Guided Translation of Sensor Data to Analytical Structural Models | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $674,582 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Rodrigo Sarlo | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Strengthening US Infrastructure and Communities through Science-Informed Disaster Policy and Engineering Civic Engagement | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $674,281 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Allison C Reilly | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Enabling Human-Aware and Responsive Automation through Cognitive State Modeling and Estimation | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $673,782 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Neera Jain | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Bayesian Symmetry-Respecting Machine Learning Framework for Predicting Electronic Structures in Materials Design | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2025 | $669,490 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2030 | Susanta Ghosh | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Vimentin Intermediate Filaments | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $668,729 | March 1, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Alison E Patteson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Automated Reasoning to Advance Chemical Theory | NSF | Chemistry Section | 2023 | $665,209 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Tyler R Josephson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: New Polarizations of Elastic Waves in Architected Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $662,943 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Pai Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Laser-Induced Graphene with On-Demand Morphology and Chemistry Control for Scalable Flexible Device Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $662,734 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Mostafa Bedewy | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manufacturing of Continuous Network Graphene-Copper Composites for Ultrahigh Electrical Conductivity | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $660,150 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2029 | Wonmo Kang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Additively Manufactured Nanomaterial Layers with Submicron Structures | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $659,644 | November 1, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | Kenan Song | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Toward RIPEST Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing (PAM): A Cyber-Physical System of Novel Dual-wavelength Photoinhibition aided PAM | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $657,610 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Xiayun Zhao | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Unraveling Oxygen Electrode Delamination Mechanisms in Reversible Solid Oxide Cells for Robust Hydrogen Production | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $656,831 | October 1, 2024 | May 31, 2029 | Xinfang Jin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: An Integrated Computational and Experimental Framework to Understand Deformation and Failure of Porous Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $655,719 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Yashar Mehmani | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Data-Enabled Neural Multi-Step Predictive Control (DeMuSPc): a Learning-Based Predictive and Adaptive Control Approach for Complex Nonlinear Systems | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $655,248 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2029 | Marzia Cescon | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding Strain and Strain Relaxation Mechanisms in Complex Two-Dimensional Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $650,707 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Yimo Han | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Non-Local Metamaterials and Metasurfaces for Next Generation Non-Reciprocal Acoustic Devices | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $650,081 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2029 | Christopher Sugino | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Toward Geomimetic Concretes | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $650,000 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Mohammad Javad Abdolhosseini Qomi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Solvent-Free Synthesis of Polymeric Nanostructures with Targeted Properties | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $649,997 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Rong Yang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Acoustic Vortex Robots for Contactless 6-Degrees-of-Freedom Object Manipulation | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $649,888 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Zhenhua Tian | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanics of Biological Motor Control: Assembly, Maturation, and Repair at the Neuromuscular Interface | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $649,659 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Ritu Raman | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Enabling High-throughput Creep Testing of Advanced Materials through in-situ Micromechanics and Mesoscale Modeling | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $649,207 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Giacomo Po | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Performance-Based Fire Design for Cold-Formed Steel Structures | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $649,034 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2028 | Thomas Gernay | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding Bond Formation, Microstructural Development and Mechanical Properties in Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing – A Unified Experimental and Numerical Approach | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $648,748 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2027 | Mostafa Hassani | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Novel Electrically-assisted Multimaterial Printing Approach for Scalable Additive Manufacturing of Bioinspired Heterogeneous Materials Architectures | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $648,734 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Xiangjia Li | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Unraveling Oxygen Electrode Delamination Mechanisms in Reversible Solid Oxide Cells for Robust Hydrogen Production | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $648,431 | April 1, 2024 | November 30, 2024 | Xinfang Jin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Additive Manufacturing of Polymer Composites via in-situ Polymerization | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $647,188 | November 1, 2024 | April 30, 2028 | Mostafa Yourdkhani | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Liquid-Phase Processing of Fiber-Based Electronic and Photonic Materials and Devices | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $646,338 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2027 | Alexander Gumennik | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Constraining the Role of Environment in Galaxy Evolution | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2026 | $645,382 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2031 | Michael V Maseda | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Holistic Framework for Designing Multifunctional Materials and Structures Using Computational Optimization Methods | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $643,180 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2028 | Ahmad Najafi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Efficient and Scalable Deployment Automation for Quantum-Centric Computing | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2025 | $641,778 | June 1, 2025 | May 31, 2030 | Weiwen Jiang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Nudging and Leveraging the Onset of Buckling in Architected Materials for Performance Gains | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $641,398 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | David Restrepo | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding Microstructure Evolution and Mechanical Properties of High-rate Additively Deposited Nickel-based Superalloy to Enable Future Clean-energy Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $641,328 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Jonah Klemm-Toole | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manufacturing of Mesoporous Carbons by Direct Pyrolysis of Plastic Waste for Water Remediation | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $639,637 | March 1, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Zhe Qiang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Fundamental properties of young and pre-main-sequence stars | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $634,970 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2027 | Andrew Mann | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Physics-Reinforced Data-Driven Prognostics and Co-Design for Marine Hydrokinetic Energy Systems | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $634,514 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Yufei Tang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Direct Tests of Black Hole Accretion Rate Prescriptions | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $631,159 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2028 | Anne M Medling | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Modeling the Loosening of Bolted Joints due to Nonlinear Dynamics of Structural Assemblies | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $631,070 | October 1, 2024 | October 31, 2028 | Keegan J Moore | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Coupled Phenomena Resilience and Dynamics in Bentonite Barriers | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $626,540 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Kristin M Sample-Lord | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Next-Generation Surgical Robots for Energy-based Surgery | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $625,663 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2028 | Loris Fichera | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Revealing the Atomistic Fundamentals of Probabilistic Strength Distributions in Nanomaterials via High-Throughput Experimentation | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $624,884 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2028 | Rodrigo Bernal | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Fast-Rate Manufacturing of Thermoplastic Polymer Composites with Tailored Microstructure and Performance | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $623,128 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Amir Asadi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Using Physics-Based Machine Learning to Reconcile the Crack Tip with the Plastic Zone during Fracture of Metals | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $622,248 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2028 | Ryan B Sills | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Uncovering the links between outer giant planets and their inner systems | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $621,104 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2030 | Diana Dragomir | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Graded and Reliable Aerosol Deposition for Electronics (GRADE): Understanding Multi-Material Aerosol Jet Printing with In-Line Mixing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $621,008 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Ethan B Secor | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Additive Manufacturing of Structural Battery Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $620,013 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Xiangyang Dong | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: From Fields to Decisions: Planning and Sensing for Cooperative Teams of Air and Ground Robots in Precision Agriculture | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $618,201 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2031 | Parikshit Maini | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Advancing Laser Powder Bed Fusion with Non-Spherical Powder | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $618,137 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Amir Mostafaei | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Elucidating the Synergistic Effects of Composition, Porosity and Structural Rigidity on Mechanics of Metallic Organic Frameworks | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $616,685 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Christian G Hoover | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Extending Human Dexterity Through Hand-Held Continuum Robots | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $616,000 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2027 | Tania Morimoto | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Advancing Autonomy for Soft Tissue Robotic Surgery and Interventions | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $615,936 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Axel Krieger | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Achieving Resilience in Brittle Materials Through Bio-inspired Nested Cylindrical Structures | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $615,796 | August 15, 2022 | July 31, 2028 | Fariborz Tavangarian | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Goal-Oriented Variable Transformations for Efficient Reduced-Order and Data-Driven Modeling | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $614,435 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2028 | Boris Kramer | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Multiscale Mechanics of Bio-based, Reprocessable, Recyclable and Mechanically Robust Polymer Composites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $613,771 | October 1, 2022 | April 30, 2028 | Ning Zhang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Towards Hierarchical and Provably Safe Control for Learning-Enabled Autonomous Systems | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $613,643 | March 1, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Xiangru Xu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Characterization of Vocal Fold Vascular Lesions Biomechanics using Computational Modeling | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $611,658 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Rana Zakerzadeh | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Interactive Decision-making and Resilient Planning for Safe Legged Locomotion and Navigation. | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $611,383 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Ye Zhao | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Nucleosynthesis in Degenerate Stars | NSF | Division Of Astronomical Sciences | 2022 | $610,363 | July 15, 2022 | August 31, 2024 | Evan N Kirby | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Real-Time, Selective Gas Sensing in Complex Gas Compositions by Molecular Sieving via Robust Two-Dimensional Heterostructures | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $610,004 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Kevin M Daniels | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manufacturing Cofacially Aligned Nanolayered Architectures through Electrostatic Levitation: Fundamental Research with Integrated Education | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $610,000 | March 15, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Ying Zhong | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Improving Road Safety and Supporting Infrastructure through Responsible Use of Driving Data | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $609,280 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | Daniel Vignon | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: An Integrated Experimental and Numerical Vulnerability Assessment of Aging Housing Infrastructure and Communities | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $608,512 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Maria Koliou | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Bicrystallography-informed Mechanics of Two-dimensional Heterointerfaces | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $607,792 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Nikhil Chandra Admal | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manufacturing Soft Functional Composites through Mechanically Induced Assembly of Liquid Microstructures in Elastic Films | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $606,600 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Michael D Bartlett | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Biomechanical Regulation of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $606,511 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2028 | Shue Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Liquid Metal Processing of Magnesium Composites for Microstructure Refinement | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $606,413 | March 15, 2022 | February 29, 2028 | Mehdi Razavi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Exploring the dark sector with state-of-the-art galaxy surveys | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $605,057 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2030 | Jonathan Blazek | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Novel Powder-Bed Ceramic Additive Manufacturing Assisted with Water-Based Inks, Layerwise Uniaxial Compression and Temperate Heating for Selective Particle Fusion | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $603,512 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2028 | Xuan Song | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Exploiting Time Dependent Behavior and Structure in Developing Programmable Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $601,818 | February 15, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | James M Gibert | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Soft Robotic Fingertips with High-Resolution, Calibrated Shape and Force Sensing for Dexterous Manipulation | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $600,000 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Monroe D Kennedy | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Textile-Based Wearable Robots with Integrated Fluidic Logic | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $600,000 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Daniel J Preston | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Insect-scale Flapping-Wing Micro Aerial Robots Capable of Self-powered Hover and Agile Maneuvering | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $600,000 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2028 | Yufeng Chen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manipulation of Novel Objects via Non-Smooth Implicit Learning | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $600,000 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2028 | Michael Posa | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Towards a Fundamental Understanding of Interface Strain-Driven Pseudomorphic Phase Transformation in Multilayered Nanocomposites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $600,000 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Siddhartha Pathak | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Decoding The Spatiotemporal Evolution of Soil Gradation under Severe Loadings: A New Paradigm for Stability Assessment of Critical Geo-Structures | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $599,873 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2028 | Yida Zhang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Efficient and Scalable Large Foundational Model Training on Supercomputers for Science | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2024 | $599,707 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Zhao Zhang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Nonlinear Model Reduction Framework for Oscillatory Systems and Associated Data-Driven Inference Strategies | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $599,017 | March 1, 2022 | February 29, 2028 | Dan D Wilson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding Processing-Structure-Property Relationships in Co-Axial Wire-Feed, Powder-Feed Laser Directed Energy Deposition | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $598,650 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Amrita Basak | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Towards Next-Generation Human-in-the-Loop and Human-over-the-Loop Computer Architecture Performance Analysis Infrastructure | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2025 | $598,555 | April 1, 2025 | March 31, 2030 | Yifan Sun | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Accelerating Real-time Hybrid Physical-Numerical Simulations in Natural Hazards Engineering with a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-driven Paradigm | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $598,450 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2027 | Barbara G Simpson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Pushing the frontiers of galaxy evolution modeling with multi-scale and empirically-constrained hydrodynamic simulations | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $598,336 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2030 | Daniel Anglés-Alcázar | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Safe Continuum Robot Inside Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $598,223 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2029 | Yue Chen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Algorithmic Foundations for Demand-Responsive Transit Systems - Creating More Equitable and Sustainable Cities through Better Transit | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $598,119 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Samitha Samaranayake | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Phase Control in Synthetic Two-Dimensional Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $597,821 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Zakaria Y Al Balushi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Fire Resistant Geopolymer Materials for Resilient Structures in Wildfire Prone Regions | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $597,738 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2031 | Maryam Hojati | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: GLOW: Linking the atmospheric and bulk compositions of rocky exoplanets: Constraints from meteorite outgassing analyses | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $596,622 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2028 | Myriam Telus | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Simultaneous and Independent Control of Nanostructured Objects Through the Use of Coupled External Electric Fields | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $596,608 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Kaiyan Yu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Reliable Superinsulated Building Envelopes via Predictive Multiphysics Modeling | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $595,593 | February 15, 2022 | January 31, 2028 | Danial Faghihi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Multiscale Mechanics of Mycelium for Lightweight, Strong, and Sustainable Composites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $595,245 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Zhao Qin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Static, Dynamic and Kinematic Analysis and Optimization of Tensegrity Structures through Cellular Morphogenesis | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $589,845 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2028 | Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Multi-scale Manufacturing of Porous Carbon Nanostructures | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $589,755 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2029 | Pei Dong | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Open-source Probabilistic AI Infrastructure for Dynamic Cascading Disaster Impacts Modeling and Assessment | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2025 | $589,274 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2029 | SUSU XU | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Biomechanics of Leader Cells | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $588,255 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2028 | Priscilla Hwang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Hurricane Surge, Wave, and Debris-induced Forces in Non-stationary Urban Shorelines | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $586,625 | January 1, 2027 | December 31, 2031 | Sabarethinam Kameshwar | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Engineering-Centric Thunderstorm Hazard and Loading Characterization | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $585,924 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Franklin Lombardo | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Shales as Barriers for Fluid Flow in Geoenergy Projects | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $585,883 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2028 | Roman Y Makhnenko | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Characterization of Turbulence in Urban Environments for Wind Hazard Mitigation | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $585,000 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Marco G Giometto | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: In-situ Hybrid Layerwise Rolling and Sealing in Laser Powder-bed Fusion Manufacturing of Tungsten: Fundamental Processing Mechanisms and Transition Temperature Controls | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $582,358 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Nora S Ameri | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Towards the Next Generation of Data-Driven and Performance-Based Multiscale Procedures in Mining Geotechnics | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $581,865 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Jorge Macedo | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Synthesizing Neuroimaging and Data Driven Approaches to Discover Inspirational Examples in Design | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $580,515 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2027 | Kosa Goucher-Lambert | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Machine Learning for Data-Driven Fault-Tolerant Control of Complex Systems | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $580,453 | November 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Yuncheng Du | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Development of Novel High-Performance Carbon Sink Concrete Materials Using Sustainable Multifunctional Hybrid Additives | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $579,448 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Mehdi Khanzadeh Moradllo | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The Research of Noise-Aware Scheduling for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Systems | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2023 | $578,627 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Qiang Guan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Locality-First Strategy for Developing Efficient Concurrent and Parallel Data Structures | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2026 | $578,471 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2031 | Helen Xu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Sparse Linear Algebra as a Scalable Computational Paradigm | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2026 | $577,684 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2031 | Giulia Guidi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: High-Resolution Hybrid Printing of Wearable Heaters with Shape-Changeable Structures | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $576,559 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Yiwei Han | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Biomechanics of Tension-Induced Lung Tissue Fracture and Subsequent Pulmonary Air Leak | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $576,065 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2027 | Jinho Kim | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Machine Learned Coarse-grained Modeling for Mechanics of Thermoplastic Elastomers | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $575,380 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2027 | Ying Li | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Dynamics of Extreme Locomotion in Biological and Bioinspired Systems: The Effect of Elasticity on Mobility and Mechanical Power Flow | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $575,193 | January 1, 2022 | April 30, 2026 | Aimy Wissa | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Design Under Uncertainty in Combinatorially Expanding Spaces | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $574,200 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2028 | Ramin Bostanabad | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Learning and Leveraging Conventions in the Design of an Adaptive Haptic Shared Control for Steering a Semi-Automated Vehicle | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $571,306 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Amirhossein Ghasemi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Transformative Understanding of Rainfall-Triggered Landslides with Vegetation Effects from a Climate Change Perspective: Initiation and Consequences | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $570,960 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2029 | Alba Yerro Colom | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Task-Invariant Customization Framework for Lower-Limb Exoskeletons to Assist Volitional Human Motion | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $570,938 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Ge Lv | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Biomechanical Characterization of Periventricular White Matter and its Age-related Degeneration | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $570,574 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2029 | Johannes Weickenmeier | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Optimizing Healthcare Operations through Incentive Mechanism Design | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $568,619 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2029 | Sait Tunc | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Catastrophic Rare Events: Theory of Heavy Tails and Applications | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $568,493 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2027 | Chang-Han Rhee | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Cyberinfrastructure Enabled Hybrid Spatial Decision Support System for Improving Coastal Resilience to Flood Risks | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2024 | $568,302 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2029 | Zhe Zhang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Role for Mechanics in Regulating Cellular Crosstalk within Intervertebral Joints of the Spine | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $568,096 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2028 | Devina Walter | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Multiscale Mechanics of Bio-based, Reprocessable, Recyclable and Mechanically Robust Polymer Composites | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $567,771 | September 1, 2022 | November 30, 2022 | Ning Zhang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Viscosity-tunable Photopolymers with Metal Powder Mixtures for Cost-effective, High-speed and Large-area Metal Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $567,121 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Haseung Chung | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: LungEx for Probing Multiscale Mechanobiology of Pulmonary Respiration-Circulation Coupling in Real-Time | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $566,473 | August 15, 2023 | July 31, 2028 | Hadi Tavakoli Nia | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Multiscale Probabilistic Characterization of Seismic Site Response in Highly Uncertain Environments | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $566,155 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Ashly Cabas | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Electro-Mechanical Behaviors of Soft Conductive Composites Embedded with Liquid Metal Fiber Networks | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $565,337 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Pu Zhang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Adaptive Modular Circuit Metamaterials (AMCMs) for Scalable and Secured Computation System Designs | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $565,091 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | Qianyun Zhang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Scalable Lamination Printing of Near Atomically Thin Electronic Materials with Mechanical Stretchability | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $562,713 | January 15, 2022 | December 31, 2027 | Yeonwoong Jung | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: AI-based Interactive and Adaptive Robotic Teaching Systems for Personalized, Curriculum-Based Human Motor Skill Training | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $562,580 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | Chao Jiang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Next Generation Online Resource Allocation | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $562,234 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Rajan Udwani | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding and Quantifying System-level Seismic Performance for the Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures with Highly Ductile Concrete Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $559,998 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Matthew J Bandelt | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Scalable Open-Source Platform for Real-World Fluid-Structure Interaction Challenges | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2025 | $559,751 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2030 | Angelantonio Tafuni | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Problem Partitioning and Division of Labor for Human-Computer Collaboration in Engineering Design | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $557,806 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2029 | Alparslan E Bayrak | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Spatial Quantification of Fundamental Mechanisms that Initiate Post-Wildfire Wetting-Induced Shallow Landslides | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $556,172 | October 1, 2022 | May 31, 2024 | Idil D Akin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Spatial Quantification of Fundamental Mechanisms that Initiate Post-Wildfire Wetting-Induced Shallow Landslides | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $556,172 | October 1, 2023 | May 31, 2027 | Idil D Akin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Advanced and Uncertainty-Informed Site Investigation | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $555,746 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2029 | Diane Moug | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Cyberinfrastructure for Printable Multifunctional Microstructural Materials | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2024 | $553,654 | May 15, 2024 | April 30, 2029 | Azadeh Sheidaei | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Micromechanics and Metabolic Properties of Living Interfacial Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $553,156 | October 1, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | Tagbo H Niepa | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: CAS- Climate: Improving the Participation of Diverse Residential Buildings in Demand Side Management | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $551,076 | August 15, 2022 | November 30, 2027 | Kristen Cetin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Advancing Disease Modeling for Decision Making in Healthcare | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $550,781 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2028 | Sze-chuan Suen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding the Exceptional Near-Field Auditory System of the Aye-Aye, One of the Most Unusual Primates in the World | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $550,752 | January 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Ehsan Dehghan-Niri | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Addressing Flood Justice and Equity Impacts of Adaptation and Urban Expansion with Satellite Observations | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $550,254 | September 1, 2024 | April 18, 2025 | Beth Tellman | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding the Fundamental Dynamics of Angular Momentum Carrying Acoustic Wave Propagation | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $550,104 | January 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Chengzhi Shi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The Effects of Spatiotemporal Storm Surge Clusters on Coastal Flood Risk | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $550,000 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2027 | Thomas Wahl | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Elucidating the Interaction(s) Between Bacteria and Archaea in a Biocathode | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $550,000 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Christine M Dykstra | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Ultrafast Laser Manufacturing of Polymer-Derived Ceramics for High-Performance Ceramic Composite Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $550,000 | October 1, 2026 | September 30, 2031 | Heng Zuo | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Advancing the Printability of Aluminum Alloys via In-situ Alloying and Hybrid Processing Strategies | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $550,000 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2031 | Sougata Roy | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Time-Sensitive Large Model Training Platform for Dynamic Data Analytics | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2025 | $549,999 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2030 | Tong Shu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: From Underground to Space: An AI Infrastructure for Multiscale 3D Crop Modeling and Assessment | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2026 | $549,928 | October 1, 2026 | May 31, 2029 | Guoyu Lu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Investigating Iterative Interrelations in Socio-Environmental Processes to Improve Climate Change Attribution Research | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $549,889 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Kevin T Smiley | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A scalable multiscale modeling framework to explore soot formation in reacting flows | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2022 | $549,699 | May 15, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Somesh P Roy | nsf.gov |
| Career: Dynamics of coalescence and mixing during droplet impact on liquid films | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $549,610 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Abhishek Saha | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Monitoring Chronic Impacts of Nuisance Floods to Enable Incremental Adaptation Against Sea Level Rise | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $549,146 | August 15, 2023 | July 31, 2028 | Hamed Moftakhari | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Improving Bicycling Safety by Developing a Research Framework for Studying Driver-Bicyclist Interactions | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $549,037 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Fred Feng | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Fusing Meta-Learning Systems and Field Observations to Enhance the Simulation of Extreme Winds and their Impact on Civil Infrastructure | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $548,702 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2029 | Pedro L Fernandez-Caban | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanical Modeling of Living Building Materials for Structural Applications | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $548,298 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Mija H Hubler | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The Foundations of Ellipsoid Synthesis Theory | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $547,966 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Mark M Plecnik | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Unfolding the Cortex: Biomechanics-informed Analysis of Cortical Thickness | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $547,505 | March 1, 2022 | February 29, 2028 | Maria A Holland | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Cyberinfrastructure for the Computation and Collaboration Needs of Emerging Technologies Research | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2025 | $547,484 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2029 | David Andrew B Hyde | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanics of Active Polymers and Morphing Structures: Determine the Role of Molecular Interactions and Stiffness Heterogeneity in Reversible Shape Morphing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $546,813 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Xueju Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Evolution of Collective Disaster Memory: A Dynamic Behavioral and Systems Analysis toward Community Resilience | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $546,668 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | David Jae Hoon Yu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Organic Structure and Interphase Engineering for Fast-Charging, High-Temperature and Sustainable Batteries | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $546,366 | March 15, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Chao Luo | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Three-dimensional Nanoscale Device Fabrication via Molecular Programming and DNA-based Self-assembly | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $545,430 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Grigory Tikhomirov | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Investigating the Molecular Corking Effect for Potential Hydrogen Storage | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $544,892 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2028 | Scott M Simpson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Microstructural Engineering of Solid Composite Electrolytes through Process Manipulation | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $544,743 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2028 | Jena M McCollum | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Curing-Induced Microcracking in Thermoset Composites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $544,364 | October 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Marianna Maiaru | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Vascularization in Cardiac Fibrosis Models | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $543,138 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Perla Ayala | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Enhancing Hurricane Resistance of Building Exteriors (Envelopes) under Urban Development in a Changing Climate | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $542,947 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Yanlin Guo | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Virtual physiology of human tumor tissue for malignancy quantification | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2024 | $541,942 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2029 | Mahsa Dabaghmeshin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Micromechanics and Metabolic Properties of Living Interfacial Materials | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $541,588 | February 1, 2022 | March 31, 2024 | Tagbo H Niepa | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Resilient Engineering Systems Design Via Early-Stage Bio-Inspiration | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $540,163 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2029 | Astrid Layton | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Equitable Adaptation to Drinking Water Salinization from Seawater Intrusion with Smart Water Portfolios | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $539,435 | January 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Allison Lassiter | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Leading to Accelerated Discoveries in High-Throughput Ultrafast Laser-Driven Processing of High Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $539,124 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2028 | Ritesh Sachan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Physics Regularized Machine Learning Theory: Modeling Stochastic Traffic Flow Patterns for Smart Mobility Systems | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $538,633 | August 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Xianfeng Yang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Quorum enhanced sustainable treatment of nitrogen (QuEST-N) | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $537,906 | October 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Jeseth Delgado Vela | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Reconfigurable Infrastructure and Scalable Execution for Advanced Air Mobility (RISE-AAM) | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $537,847 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Zhenbo Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Bridging the Gap between Deterministic and Stochastic Structures for Mixed Stochasticity System Design | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $536,740 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Hongyi Xu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Building the U.S. Workforce for Multimessenger Astrophysics via Foundational AI and Next-Generation GW Observatories | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2026 | $536,597 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2031 | Karan Jani | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanical Metamaterial Electronics: Theory, Design and Applications | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $535,120 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Amir Alavi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Unveiling the icy landscape of planet formation | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2026 | $533,998 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2031 | Jennifer Bergner | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Structural Estimation and Optimization for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes and Markov Games | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $533,718 | October 1, 2024 | March 31, 2028 | Yanling Chang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: All-Scale Continuum Models to Enable Load Path-Specific Material Design | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $533,432 | March 1, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Justin Wilkerson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Advancing Equity in Selection Problems Through Bias-Aware Optimization | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $531,915 | June 1, 2023 | April 25, 2025 | Swati Gupta | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Efficient and Equitable Housing Allocation | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $530,121 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Nick Arnosti | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Transformable and Reconfigurable Soft Robots | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $529,999 | January 15, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Isuru S Godage | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Processing Intrinsically Conductive Polymers for Fibers via Side-by-Side Spinning | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $528,627 | March 15, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Hang Liu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: How Does the Heart Contract? A Microstructure-Based Approach to Understand Cardiac Function and Dysfunction | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $528,469 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Luigi E Perotti | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Marketplace Design for Freight Transportation and Logistics Platforms | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $528,190 | January 15, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | He Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Hybrid Filtering and Robust Control Framework for Legged Robot Locomotion on Dynamic Rigid Surfaces | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $526,975 | October 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Yan Gu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mixing and Oscillations in Novae | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $526,813 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | William M Wolf | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The Formation and Disruption of Resonant Chains | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $525,733 | June 15, 2025 | May 31, 2030 | Fei Dai | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Building long-term climate resilience in 21st-century regional urban land systems through integrated data-driven research and education | NSF | Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences | 2023 | $524,464 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Jing Gao | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanobiology of Load-bearing Interfaces | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $523,303 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Roberto C Andresen Eguiluz | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Bolstering Food System Resilience to Reduce the Human Impacts of Disasters | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $521,938 | October 15, 2021 | August 31, 2027 | Lauren Clay | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Towards Watersheds as Water Treatment Plants through Advances in Distributed Sensing and Control | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $519,052 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2029 | Matthew D Bartos | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Additive Manufacturing with Acoustically Assembled Multi-Scale Composite Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $518,834 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2028 | Tyler R Ray | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mapping binary evolution across the Milky Way with Gaia | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2026 | $518,349 | June 1, 2026 | May 31, 2031 | Kareem J El-Badry | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Pathways of Microplastics Creation: Multi-physics Study of Macroplastic Fragmentation, Foliation, and Fibration | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $516,621 | May 1, 2022 | October 31, 2022 | Maryam Shakiba | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Pathways of Microplastics Creation: Multi-physics Study of Macroplastic Fragmentation, Foliation, and Fibration | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $516,621 | September 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Maryam Shakiba | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: An AI-Driven Simulation Framework for Human Autonomy Planning, Adaptive Control, and Immersive Virtual Reality Training | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $516,081 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | Seunghan Lee | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Scientific Investigation of Motor Learning to Improve Gait Rehabilitation in Individuals with Neuromuscular Dysfunction | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $513,501 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Kristin Morgan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Navigating Thermodynamic Landscapes for Phase Equilibria Predictions using Molecular Modeling and Machine Learning | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $510,796 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Yamil J Colon | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Human Factors and Task Scheduling for Multi-Human Multi-Robot Collaborative Manufacturing in Industry 5.0 Contexts | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $510,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2029 | Weitian Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Resilient and Efficient Automatic Control in Energy Infrastructure: An Expert-Guided Policy Optimization Framework | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $508,455 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2029 | Chaoyue Zhao | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: CAS- Climate: Engineering greenhouse gas-sequestering infrastructure materials through integrated life cycle and material performance analysis | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $508,304 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Sabbie Miller | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Towards realistic halo-scale constraints on the nature of dark matter and gravity | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2024 | $508,212 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2029 | Benedikt Diemer | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Targeted Catalytic Reduction of Persistent Organohalogens in Wastewater using a Novel V2C MXene-Imprinted Polymer Composite | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $508,000 | May 15, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Jessica R Ray | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Synergistic physics-based and deep learning cardiovascular flow modeling | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2023 | $507,642 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2027 | Amirhossein Arzani | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Thermomechanical Response and Fatigue Performance of Surface Layers Engineered by Finish Machining: In-situ Characterization and Digital Process Twin | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $507,288 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Julius M Schoop | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Methods for Data-Driven Service Engineering | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $506,494 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Harsha Honnappa | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Purposeful Tissue-Engineered Skeletal Muscle: Advancing Research and Education | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $505,754 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2027 | Chris Rathbone | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Linking Mechanical Forces and Energy Flow in Collective Cell Migration | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $504,665 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | Jian Zhang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Intelligent Biomarker Analysis based on Wearable Distributed Computing | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2025 | $503,930 | April 1, 2025 | March 31, 2030 | Juan F Patarroyo | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding Dynamic Recrystallization Mechanisms in Hybrid In-situ Rolled Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $503,613 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Shunyu Liu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Untangling the physics of the magnetic, multi-phase interstellar medium | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $502,990 | June 1, 2025 | May 31, 2030 | Susan E Clark | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Expanding the Photo-Manufacturing Toolbox to Enable Production of Bio-sourced Multi-scaled Biomimicking Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $500,076 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Kristan S Worthington | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Interfacial Engineering and Additive Printing of Flexible Thermoelectric Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $500,007 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Deepa Madan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: From the Cloud to the Crowd: An Enabling Solution for the Internet of Federated Things | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $500,000 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2027 | Raed Al Kontar | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Machine-centered Cyberinfrastructure for Panoramic Video Analytics in Science and Engineering Monitoring | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2022 | $500,000 | June 15, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Zhisheng Yan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manufacturing Semiconducting Nanoparticles at the Aerosol/Vapor-Phase Interface | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $500,000 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Julio M D'Arcy | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding the Deformability of Biological Filaments from their Atomistic Level Details | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $500,000 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2027 | Sachin Goyal | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Risk-Based Methods for Robust, Adaptive, and Equitable Flood Risk Management in a Changing Climate | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $500,000 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2028 | David R Johnson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Atmospheric-Pressure Manufacturing of Nanocrystalline Diamonds by Plasma-Assisted Flat Flame Vapor Deposition | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $500,000 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Lili Cai | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Data Valuation in the Wild: Theories, Algorithms, and Applications | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2023 | $499,999 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Ruoxi Jia | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Realizing Alternative Cements with Chemical Kinetics: Tuned Mechanical–Chemical Properties of Cementitious Magnesium Silicate Hydrates by Multi-Scale Synthetic Control | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $499,870 | July 1, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Erika La Plante | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Enabling Progressive Data Analytics for High Performance Computing: Algorithms and System Support | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2022 | $499,748 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2027 | Qing Liu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Domain-aware Statistical Learning | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $498,690 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Xiao Liu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Data Polymorphism: Enabling Fast and Adaptable Scientific Data Retrieval with Progressive Representations | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2026 | $496,129 | July 15, 2026 | June 30, 2030 | Xin Liang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Impacts of Intracellular and Extracellular Hydraulic Environments on Mammalian Cell Migration in Confined Spaces | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $492,743 | October 15, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Yizeng Li | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Critical Infrastructure Resiliency through Robust Provenance and Information Sharing | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2023 | $492,055 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Deepak K Tosh | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Models and Algorithms for Strategic Conservation Planning | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $485,188 | October 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Jorge A Sefair | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Boundary Control Towards Smart Water Management Systems | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $483,306 | October 1, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Mamadou L Diagne | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Conflicting Traffic Streams with Mixed Traffic: Modeling and Control | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $482,972 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2026 | Danjue Chen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Heterogeneity-Enriched Communication for Advancing HPC Systems and Applications | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2026 | $482,193 | January 1, 2026 | December 31, 2028 | Xiaoyi Lu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Building the Merger Tree of the Milky Way with Machine Learning | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2024 | $482,093 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Lina Necib | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Charge-Programmed Additive Microfabrication Process for Multi-Materials and Multi-Functionalities | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $481,998 | October 1, 2022 | October 31, 2026 | Xiaoyu Zheng | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The Role of Basement Membrane Stiffness in Regulating Kidney Filtration | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $481,588 | October 1, 2021 | September 30, 2026 | Nicholas Ferrell | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Atomistic Investigation of Phase Transition in Nanostructured Silicon--Towards Convergent Understanding with Mechanics-Informed Machine Learning Potential | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $479,070 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2027 | Wei Gao | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Composite Physics-Informed Learning of Dynamic Systems | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2025 | $477,585 | October 1, 2024 | July 31, 2028 | Truong X Nghiem | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Scalable, General-Purpose, and Automated Secure Computing for AI Infrastructure | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2026 | $470,245 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2031 | Qian Lou | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Chemomechanics of 2D Transition Metal Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $468,488 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Chenglin Wu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Highly Effective, Usable, Performant, Scalable Data Reduction Framework for HPC Systems and Applications | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) | 2023 | $467,770 | January 1, 2023 | January 31, 2023 | Dingwen Tao | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding Our Dynamic, Young, Solar Neighborhood | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $467,410 | March 1, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Jacqueline K Faherty | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Advancing Theory and Practice of Robust Simulation Analysis Under Input Model Risk | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $459,174 | July 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Eunhye Song | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Revealing the Influence of Magnetic Fields During the Formation of Planetary Systems | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2026 | $458,045 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | Richard Teague | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The True Mass-Radius-Period Distribution of Small Exoplanets | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $455,019 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Darin A Ragozzine | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: An Integrated Framework for Resilience Analytics: From Physics-based Modeling of Building Components to Dynamics of Community Level Recovery | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $454,237 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Arghavan Louhghalam | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Decentralized Optimization Framework for Next-Gen Transportation and Power Systems with Large-scale Transportation Electrification | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $452,155 | October 1, 2024 | July 31, 2028 | Zhaomiao Guo | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Charting the Formation, Transformation, and Destinies of Gas and Young Stars in the Solar Neighborhood | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $447,644 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2030 | Catherine Zucker | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Framework for Galaxy Formation Theory in the Era of Artificial Intelligence | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2026 | $445,607 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2031 | Paul A Torrey | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Fast Radio Bursts Illuminating the Unseen Universe | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $435,398 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Vikram Ravi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Large-scale pretraining for Earth observation from noisy labels | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2026 | $432,737 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2031 | Sherrie Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Multichannel Convolutional Neural Network Framework for Prediction of Damage Nucleation Sites in Microstructure | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $429,789 | September 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Brandon Runnels | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Hierarchical Commit or Defer Problems with Learning: Methods and Applications | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $429,563 | January 1, 2022 | May 31, 2025 | Juan S Borrero | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Realizing Alternative Cements with Chemical Kinetics: Tuned Mechanical–Chemical Properties of Cementitious Magnesium Silicate Hydrates by Multi-Scale Synthetic Control | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $429,250 | February 1, 2022 | September 30, 2023 | Erika La Plante | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Novel Parallelization Frameworks for Large-Scale Network Optimization with Combinatorial Requirements: Solution Methods and Applications | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $428,680 | August 15, 2025 | December 31, 2028 | Danial Davarnia | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Holistic Study of Compact-Object Mergers across the Electromagnetic Spectrum | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $415,002 | April 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Raffaella Margutti | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manufacturing USA: Deep Learning to Understand Fatigue Performance and Processing Relationship of Complex Parts by Additive Manufacturing for High-consequence Applications | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $403,296 | October 1, 2025 | April 30, 2028 | Jia Liu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Discovering the Microphysics of Dark Matter with Cosmology | NSF | Physics Section | 2023 | $400,000 | July 15, 2023 | June 30, 2028 | Vera Gluscevic | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: BRACE-CI: Building Resilience through human-AI Co-Engineering Cyberinfrastructure | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2026 | $400,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | Vedhus Hoskere | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Belief Formation in Verification Strategies and the Evaluation of Verification Evidence | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $392,612 | October 1, 2021 | July 31, 2025 | Alejandro Salado | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Characterization of the Strain Rate-Dependent Mechanical Behavior of the Cell-Cell Adhesion Interface | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $389,397 | October 1, 2024 | December 31, 2027 | Ruiguo Yang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The Most Ancient Stars in the Milky Way | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2024 | $387,371 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Kevin C Schlaufman | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Multi-scale Mechanical Behavior of Quantum Dot Nanocomposites: Towards Data-driven Automatic Discovery of High-performance Structures | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $382,298 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Ozgur Keles | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Versatile Wearable Robots for Rehabilitation of Children with Gait Disabilities | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $381,052 | February 15, 2022 | March 31, 2026 | Hao Su | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Practical Adaptive Filters and Applications | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2025 | $376,103 | January 1, 2025 | May 31, 2029 | Prashant Pandey | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Communication-efficient and topology-aware designs for geo-spatial analytics on heterogeneous platforms | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2023 | $373,384 | July 15, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Satish Puri | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Harnessing Snapping Instabilities for Shape-Reconfigurable Structures | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $368,886 | March 15, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Kawai Kwok | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Open-source GPU-accelerated computational infrastructure for coastal fluid-structure interaction in extreme hydrodynamic conditions | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2025 | $367,874 | September 1, 2025 | December 31, 2028 | Georgios Moutsanidis | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A PRIMER on fostering new ideas and minds to uncover the invisible Universe | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $360,405 | June 15, 2025 | May 31, 2030 | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Learning-Enabled Multiphysics Computational Infrastructure for Failure Simulation in Geohazard-Structure Interaction | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2026 | $358,268 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2031 | Qizhi He | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Modeling the Evolution of Massive Galaxies with Enzo-E | NSF | Division Of Astronomical Sciences | 2024 | $356,389 | September 1, 2024 | January 31, 2025 | Yuan Li | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Modeling the Evolution of Massive Galaxies with Enzo-E | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $356,389 | January 15, 2025 | August 31, 2029 | Yuan Li | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Accelerating Real-time Hybrid Physical-Numerical Simulations in Natural Hazards Engineering with a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-driven Paradigm | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $348,450 | September 1, 2022 | January 31, 2023 | Barbara G Simpson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: In-situ Capture and Conversion of CO2 to Hydrocarbons | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $344,481 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2027 | Kandis L Abdul-Aziz | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Multifidelity Modeling and Search Using Adaptive Field Prediction | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $338,078 | October 1, 2021 | September 30, 2025 | Leifur Leifsson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: From Underground to Space: An AI Infrastructure for Multiscale 3D Crop Modeling and Assessment | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) | 2024 | $324,213 | June 1, 2024 | October 31, 2026 | Guoyu Lu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Hierarchical Commit or Defer Problems with Learning: Methods and Applications | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $320,437 | October 1, 2024 | January 31, 2028 | Juan S Borrero | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Communication-efficient and topology-aware designs for geo-spatial analytics on heterogeneous platforms | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) | 2022 | $313,550 | August 1, 2022 | October 31, 2023 | Satish Puri | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Capillary-Incorporated Bioprinting of Biomimetic Soft Tissue Constructs | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $305,394 | January 1, 2025 | May 31, 2027 | George Z Tan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Towards an Accessible Radio Astronomy Observatory in Rural Midwest | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2024 | $302,906 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Adam P Beardsley | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: StreamZ: An Adaptive and Scalable Lossy Compression Framework for Extreme-Scale Scientific Data Streaming Pipelines | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2026 | $300,000 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2031 | Kai Zhao | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A FAIR-Aligned Ontology-Driven Cyberinfrastructure for Multi-Scale Materials Discovery and Design | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2026 | $300,000 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2031 | Byeong-Min Roh | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Synergistic physics-based and deep learning cardiovascular flow modeling | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) | 2022 | $299,170 | July 1, 2022 | October 31, 2022 | Amirhossein Arzani | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Capillary-Incorporated Bioprinting of Biomimetic Soft Tissue Constructs | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $295,317 | June 1, 2022 | April 30, 2025 | George Z Tan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: HayaRupu: Accelerating Natural Hazard Engineering with AI-Driven Discovery Loops | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2024 | $287,988 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Krishna Kumar | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Transforming Machine Learning Models Developed in Labs to Manufacturing Plants for In-Process Quality Prediction | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $283,965 | October 1, 2024 | June 30, 2028 | Peng Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanically Adaptive, Energetically Passive Robotics | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $282,493 | March 15, 2022 | May 31, 2025 | David Braun | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Transforming Machine Learning Models Developed in Labs to Manufacturing Plants for In-Process Quality Prediction | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $281,680 | May 1, 2023 | June 30, 2025 | Peng Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanics of Next-Generation Composites using Cellulose and Bioinspired Interfaces | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $270,040 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2027 | Anamika Prasad | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Transportation Network Maintenance under Climate Change, Resource Uncertainties, and Connectivity | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $270,000 | December 15, 2023 | September 30, 2028 | Kakan Dey | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing of Molybdenum Alloys for High-temperature Applications: Residual Stresses and Porosity Considering Ductile-to-brittle Transition Temperature | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $267,969 | October 1, 2025 | February 28, 2027 | Duck Bong Kim | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Asymmetrical Fracture of Two-Dimensional High Entropy Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $263,618 | October 1, 2023 | May 31, 2027 | Yingchao Yang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding Strategic Dynamics in the Engineering of Decentralized Systems | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $258,604 | October 1, 2023 | May 31, 2026 | Paul T Grogan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing of Molybdenum Alloys for High-temperature Applications: Residual Stresses and Porosity Considering Ductile-to-brittle Transition Temperature | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $258,217 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Duck Bong Kim | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Dynamic Process-Attribute-Data-Performance Modeling to Enable Smart Ultrasonic Metal Welding | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $250,982 | January 1, 2024 | January 31, 2026 | Chenhui Shao | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Scalable Software Infrastructure for Analyzing Complex Networks | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2025 | $250,199 | February 15, 2025 | December 31, 2028 | Md Ariful Azad | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Harnessing Heterogeneous Sources of Data and Artificial Intelligence for Informed Flood Management | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $245,799 | April 1, 2025 | October 31, 2028 | Erfan Goharian | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: An order of magnitude improvement in measurements of the physical properties of dark matter | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $239,959 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2030 | Anna M Nierenberg | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Leveraging the Three-Dimensional Multi-Stability from Origami Folding to Synthesize Multi-Functional Material Systems | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $236,310 | July 15, 2022 | April 30, 2024 | Suyi Li | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Multi-scale Mechanical Behavior of Quantum Dot Nanocomposites: Towards Data-driven Automatic Discovery of High-performance Structures | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $216,995 | September 1, 2022 | November 30, 2024 | Ozgur Keles | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Vibration-Assisted Laser Keyhole Welding to Improve Joint Properties | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $215,255 | December 1, 2021 | March 31, 2025 | Wenda Tan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Forward and Inverse Uncertainty Quantification of Cardiovascular Fluid-Structure Dynamics via Multi-fidelity Physics-Informed Bayesian Geometric Deep Learning | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2025 | $202,932 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2027 | Jian-Xun Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: In-situ Capture and Conversion of CO2 to Hydrocarbons | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $193,659 | April 1, 2022 | June 30, 2024 | Kandis L Abdul-Aziz | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Statistical Advances in Topological Data Analysis with Applications to Astronomy | NSF | Mathematical Science Section | 2024 | $170,947 | July 15, 2024 | June 30, 2030 | Jessica J Kehe | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Next Generation Models of Planet Formation and Evolution | NSF | Division Of Astronomical Sciences | 2024 | $157,630 | December 1, 2023 | July 31, 2025 | Nathan A Kaib | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Automated Synthesis of Compound Machines Using Computational Design Optimization | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $157,421 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2024 | Kai A James | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanical Forces on the Nuclear Linker of Nucleoskeleton to Cytoskeleton (LINC) Complex | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $147,630 | October 1, 2022 | April 30, 2024 | Daniel Conway | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Characterization of the Strain Rate-Dependent Mechanical Behavior of the Cell-Cell Adhesion Interface | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $147,510 | October 1, 2022 | November 30, 2024 | Ruiguo Yang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Optimization in the Race to a Liquid Biopsy | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $136,876 | February 15, 2023 | April 30, 2025 | Andrew A Li | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Open-source GPU-accelerated computational infrastructure for coastal fluid-structure interaction in extreme hydrodynamic conditions | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) | 2024 | $131,669 | January 1, 2024 | September 30, 2025 | Georgios Moutsanidis | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Harnessing Snapping Instabilities for Shape-Reconfigurable Structures | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $131,600 | April 1, 2022 | May 31, 2024 | Kawai Kwok | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Corrugated Graphene Superlattice Structures by Strain-induced Shrink Nanomanufacturing | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $131,365 | October 1, 2021 | September 30, 2022 | SungWoo Nam | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Conformal Stamp Printing for 3D Curvilinear Electronics Manufacturing | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $119,444 | January 1, 2022 | September 30, 2022 | Cunjiang Yu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Asymmetrical Fracture of Two-Dimensional High Entropy Materials | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $118,344 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2024 | Yingchao Yang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Scalable Computational Seismology for All | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2022 | $111,698 | May 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Eileen R Martin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Additively Manufactured Nanomaterial Layers with Submicron Structures | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $105,356 | April 1, 2022 | January 31, 2024 | Kenan Song | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Characterizing Error Management Cognitive Bias in Design - A Path to Better Design | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $103,826 | October 1, 2021 | July 31, 2027 | Katherine Fu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Curing-Induced Microcracking in Thermoset Composites | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $103,784 | April 1, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Marianna Maiaru | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Hierarchical Structure Integrity of Magnesium Alloys via Asynchronous Laser and Additive Processing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $99,999 | October 1, 2022 | April 30, 2026 | Michael P Sealy | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manufacturing USA: Deep Learning to Understand Fatigue Performance and Processing Relationship of Complex Parts by Additive Manufacturing for High-consequence Applications | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $96,704 | April 1, 2023 | May 31, 2026 | Jia Liu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Modeling the Loosening of Bolted Joints due to Nonlinear Dynamics of Structural Assemblies | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $96,340 | September 1, 2023 | November 30, 2024 | Keegan J Moore | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Surface Engineering by Predictive Laser Deposition of Multi-Principal Element Alloys | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $87,000 | July 1, 2024 | February 28, 2026 | Ganesh Balasubramanian | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Scalable Software Infrastructure for Analyzing Complex Networks | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) | 2024 | $82,548 | January 15, 2024 | June 30, 2025 | Md Ariful Azad | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Finite Elasticity of Morphing Metamaterials. Theory and Applications | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $81,587 | October 1, 2025 | March 31, 2027 | Hussein Nassar | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Multichannel Convolutional Neural Network Framework for Prediction of Damage Nucleation Sites in Microstructure | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $77,922 | June 1, 2022 | September 30, 2023 | Brandon Runnels | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Novel Parallelization Frameworks for Large-Scale Network Optimization with Combinatorial Requirements: Solution Methods and Applications | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $77,352 | January 1, 2024 | September 30, 2025 | Danial Davarnia | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Decentralized Optimization Framework for Next-Gen Transportation and Power Systems with Large-scale Transportation Electrification | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $73,626 | August 15, 2023 | March 31, 2025 | Zhaomiao Guo | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding Fiber Bundle Failure Mechanics for Ultra-high Reliability Applications | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $62,608 | May 1, 2024 | June 30, 2025 | Michael G Schrlau | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding the Fundamental Dynamics of Angular Momentum Carrying Acoustic Wave Propagation | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $60,043 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2024 | Chengzhi Shi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Smart Additive Manufacturing - Fundamental Research in Sensing, Data Science,and Modeling Toward Zero Part Defects. | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $57,703 | October 1, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Prahalada Rao | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Flow Physics of Transient Rooftop Vortices at High Reynolds Numbers and Bio-Inspired Flow Control Strategies to Mitigate Wind Hazards | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $57,628 | January 15, 2025 | February 29, 2028 | Wei Zhang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Modeling and Mitigating Error Propagation in High-Performance Computing Applications | NSF | Division of Computing and Communication Foundations | 2025 | $51,180 | July 1, 2025 | September 30, 2025 | Guanpeng Li | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Modeling and Mitigating Error Propagation in High-Performance Computing Applications | NSF | Software & Systems Foundations | 2025 | $51,180 | July 1, 2025 | July 31, 2030 | Guanpeng Li | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Additive Manufacturing of Polymer Composites via in-situ Polymerization | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $50,311 | May 1, 2023 | November 30, 2024 | Mostafa Yourdkhani | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Privacy-preserving Transfer Learning for Process-defect Modeling toward Accelerated Cross-system Certification for Metal Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $48,000 | October 1, 2025 | April 30, 2027 | Wenmeng Tian | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Humanizing Engineering and Resilience: An Integrated Research and Education Approach to Understand and Enhance Infrastructure Resilience | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $44,753 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2028 | Christine J Kirchhoff | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Structural Estimation and Optimization for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes and Markov Games | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $38,852 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2025 | Yanling Chang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Discovering the Mechanisms Governing Fracture in Fragile Bones | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $31,680 | October 1, 2023 | March 31, 2026 | Claire Acevedo | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Organic Structure and Interphase Engineering for Fast-Charging, High-Temperature and Sustainable Batteries | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $30,704 | May 1, 2022 | March 31, 2024 | Chao Luo | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Practical Adaptive Filters and Applications | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) | 2024 | $30,323 | June 1, 2024 | February 28, 2025 | Prashant Pandey | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Integrating Sensorimotor Models into Human-Robot Collaboration in Gait, Posture, and Unsteady Tasks | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $23,096 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2024 | Daniel A Jacobs | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Efficient and Reliable Data Transfer Services for Next Generation Research Networks | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) | 2022 | $20,010 | June 1, 2022 | November 30, 2023 | Engin Arslan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Powder Preparation and Compaction for Ceramic Binder Jet Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $20,000 | October 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Chao Ma | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Heterogeneity-Enriched Communication for Advancing HPC Systems and Applications | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) | 2024 | $17,984 | January 1, 2024 | May 31, 2026 | Xiaoyi Lu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Bio-inspired Manufacturing of High Strength, High Toughness Metal-Graphene Composites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $16,000 | October 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Dong Lin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanical Behavior of Graphene-Carbon Fiber Composites | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $16,000 | April 1, 2023 | June 30, 2025 | Mehran Tehrani | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Enhancing Environmental and Economic Sustainability of Additive Manufacturing-based Remanufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $15,420 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2026 | Yisha Xiang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Composite Physics-Informed Learning of Dynamic Systems | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) | 2023 | $14,885 | July 1, 2023 | January 31, 2025 | Truong X Nghiem | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Efficient and Reliable Data Transfer Services for Next Generation Research Networks | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) | 2024 | $14,383 | October 1, 2023 | May 31, 2024 | Engin Arslan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Favorable Optimization under Distributional Distortions: Frameworks, Algorithms, and Applications | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $14,276 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2026 | Weijun Xie | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Machine Learning for Data-Driven Fault-Tolerant Control of Complex Systems | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $13,861 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Yuncheng Du | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Advanced Surface Coating of Metallic Powders by Vibration-Enhanced High-Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering for Sintering-Based Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $9,117 | December 1, 2025 | January 31, 2027 | Carlos Castano | nsf.gov |
| CRII: OAC: A Hybrid Finite Element and Molecular Dynamics Simulation Approach for Modeling Nanoparticle Transport in Human Vasculature | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) | 2023 | $8,000 | October 15, 2022 | April 30, 2024 | Ying Li | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Quorum enhanced sustainable treatment of nitrogen (QuEST-N) | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $7,556 | May 15, 2022 | November 30, 2023 | Jeseth Delgado Vela | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Highly Effective, Usable, Performant, Scalable Data Reduction Framework for HPC Systems and Applications | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) | 2023 | $5,823 | January 1, 2023 | August 31, 2024 | Dingwen Tao | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Harnessing Heterogeneous Sources of Data and Artificial Intelligence for Informed Flood Management | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $5,571 | October 1, 2023 | August 31, 2025 | Erfan Goharian | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Data Polymorphism: Enabling Fast and Adaptable Scientific Data Retrieval with Progressive Representations | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) | 2025 | $3,871 | July 1, 2025 | July 31, 2026 | Xin Liang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Transportation Network Maintenance under Climate Change, Resource Uncertainties, and Connectivity | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $3,453 | October 1, 2023 | August 31, 2024 | Kakan Dey | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Domain-aware Statistical Learning | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $1,486 | October 1, 2022 | May 31, 2024 | Xiao Liu | nsf.gov |
Organizations
Funding by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | $0 | 54 | $15,117,417 |
| 2025 | 0 | $0 | 58 | $13,601,055 |
| 2024 | 0 | $0 | 108 | $34,958,271 |
| 2023 | 0 | $0 | 118 | $41,041,728 |
| 2022 | 0 | $0 | 147 | $64,515,591 |
Open federal funding opportunities
From Grants.gov: notices that funded awards in this table, and open notices on the same agency and assistance listing.
| Open opportunity | Number | Agency | Listing | Closes | Award ceiling | Why it matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets) | 26-512 | NSF | 47.041 | November 4, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
| PFE: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF) | 20-558 | NSF | 47.041 | November 10, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
| National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) | 25-540 | NSF | 47.041 | November 17, 2026 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
| Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 23-520 | NSF | 47.041 | January 21, 2027 | $1 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC) | 24-573 | NSF | 47.041 | January 26, 2027 | $1.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
| GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR) | 24-527 | NSF | 47.041 | February 8, 2027 | $3.6 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
| Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 | 24-598 | NSF | 47.041 | February 8, 2027 | $20 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
| EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (EFRI-2026/27): Wave-Based Computing ( EFRI-WBC) | 26-524 | NSF | 47.041 | February 11, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
| Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) | 26-506 | NSF | 47.041 | March 2, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
| NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) | 24-586 | NSF | 47.041 | April 6, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows | 24-528 | NSF | 47.041 | April 13, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
| IUSE / Professional Formation of Engineers: Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (IUSE/PFE: RED) | 24-564 | NSF | 47.041 | April 13, 2027 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
| Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS) | 25-533 | NSF | 47.041 | April 14, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
| EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP) | 24-588 | NSF | 47.041 | June 1, 2027 | $3.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
| Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) | 22-586 | NSF | 47.041 | July 28, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
| Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) | 23-601 | NSF | 47.041 | August 18, 2027 | $500,000 | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
| Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) | 24-590 | NSF | 47.041 | September 16, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
| Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science | 24-503 | NSF | 47.041 | October 13, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
| Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Excellence in Research (HBCU - EiR) | 23-598 | NSF | 47.041 | October 19, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
| Transport Phenomena (TP) | PD-26-366Y | NSF | 47.041 | August 20, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 291 awards here |
Updated November 3, 2026. Read from NIH RePORTER ExPORTER and NSF Award Search. Published by NIH and NSF as U.S. government data. NIH awards are fiscal years 2021 to 2025 (NIH files published to 2026-07-09); NSF awards are fiscal years 2022 to 2026 (NSF files published to 2026-11-02). NIH amounts are the total cost of each fiscal year in the window; NSF amounts are the funds obligated in the window. Organizations are matched on the UEI. Open opportunities come from Grants.gov and match on agency and assistance listing number, and on the notice number NIH prints on an award. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.