2020 CAREER Awardees

Sze Zheng Yong is developing tools to make autonomous systems such as self-driving vehicles and drones safe and secure under real-world uncertainties.

Margaret Garcia is developing a set of models to help policy-makers make informed decisions about water use and infrastructure in water supply networks.

ASU’s Ariane Middel receives NSF CAREER award for work in urban climate and heat mitigation, and how people are responding to urban climate changes

Robert LiKamWa’s Meteor Studio designs software and hardware systems to improve mobile devices, especially visual perception on augmented reality devices

Bruno Azeredo’s work to develop a new method of 3D manufacturing for tiny, complex semiconductor devices earned an NSF CAREER Award

Kitchen cooks up automated design leading to faster, lighter electronicsEver wonder why the battery in your phone drains so quickly? While screen time is a major factor in battery depletion, behind the scenes, some of your battery’s energy is also being siphoned off...

Wenlong Zhang’s award-winning research at ASU is stepping up the possibilities for machine collaboration with people

Barbara Smith is developing a new tool to help researchers target specific cells to better understand how addiction impacts cellular mechanisms in the brain

Yulia Peet is laying theoretical groundwork for tech innovations through predicting and controlling the fluid dynamics of aircraft turbulence

Decoding design Nanotechnology is a hot topic in the engineering world. Discoveries at this tiny scale — meaning billionths of a meter, or the distance that fingernails grow each second — are inspiring optical and electronic innovations in fields ranging from medicine...

Making robots accessible to allThe robots we see depicted in popular culture, like R2-D2 from Star Wars or WALL-E, tend to be expensive, generalist robots. The high cost of developing and acquiring these mechanical helpers, in both time and money, makes them...

Samantha Brunhaver received a NSF CAREER Award to develop curriculum to teach engineers the necessary skills to adapt to a changing workplace