NSF CAREER Awards

34 NSF CAREER Awards earned by ASU Engineering faculty in the past four years

Early-career faculty members in Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering have a strong track record of earning highly competitive and prestigious awards, including the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.

“Through these CAREER Awards, the NSF has recognized the potential of our early-career faculty to transform their respective fields and advance transformational research,” says Kyle Squires, ASU’s senior vice provost for engineering, computing and technology and dean of the Fulton Schools of Engineering. “The engineering and scientific communities stand to benefit greatly from the unique integration of education and research embodied by these talented young investigators.”

NSF CAREER Awards support the nation’s most promising junior faculty members as they pursue outstanding research, excellence in teaching and the integration of education and research.

Xiangyang Dong
School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

Additive Manufacturing of Structural Battery Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites

Houqiang Fu
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Ultrawide Bandgap Aluminum Nitride FETs for Power Electronics

Kailong Jin
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Nanoscale Resolution of Near-Interface Crystallization in Multicomponent Semicrystalline Polymeric Materials

Mojdeh Khorsand Hedman
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Holistic Distributed Resource Management and Discovery via Augmented Learning and Robust Optimization

Beomjin Kwon
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Kookjin Lee
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Accelerating Scientific Discovery via Deep Learning with Strong Physics Inductive Biases

Nick Rolston
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Design of Thermomechanically Robust Metal Halide Perovskite Photovoltaic Devices

Hasti Seifi
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Democratizing Haptics: Enabling Novice Designers with Vibrotactile Models and Tools

Zhe Xu
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Temporal Causal Reinforcement Learning and Control for Autonomous and Swarm Cyber-Physical Systems

Ayan Mallik
The Polytechnic School

A Multi-dimensional Study of Electromagnetic Interference in Wide Bandgap Power Electronics: Modeling, Estimation, and Mitigation

Ruijie Zeng
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Re-engineering Agricultural Drainage Infrastructure: Upscaling In-field Conservations for Regional Sustainability

Houlong Zhuang
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Developing Quantum Algorithms for High-Entropy Alloy Discovery

Abhinav Acharya
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Understanding the Immunometabolism-Epigenetic Crosstalk in Dendritic Cells

Kumar Ankit
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Understanding the origins of pearlite discontinuities in eutectoid microstructures: Modeling & Experiments

Deliang Fan
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Efficient, Dynamic, Robust, and On-Device Continual Deep Learning with Non-Volatile Memory based In-Memory Computing System

Troy McDaniel
The Polytechnic School

Anamitra Pal
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Kenan Song
The Polytechnic School

Arul Mozhy Varman
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Unraveling the impact of decoupling the carbon metabolism of microbial cell factories on bioproduction

Ruoyu “Fish” Wang
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Re-configurable, Source-Language-Agnostic Decompilation for Binary Programs

Jia Zou
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Rethink and Redesign of Analytics Databases for Machine Learning Model Serving

Ahmed Alkhateeb
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Enabling Highly-Mobile Large-Scale MIMO Systems with Machine Learning

Gautam Dasarathy
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Learning and Leveraging the Structure of Large Graphs: Novel Theory and Algorithms

Emma Frow
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

Reconfiguring Life: Care and control in bioengineering

Giulia Pedrielli
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

LEarning to Search with Structure (LESS), a Unifying Algorithmic Framework for Gray Box Optimization of Biomanufacturing Systems

Jorge Sefair
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Models and Algorithms for Strategic Conservation Planning

Yang Weng
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Faithful, Reducible, and Invertible Learning in Distribution System for Power Flow

Yu “Tony” Zhang
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

When Reality Fails Expectations: Containing Reflective Domain Models for Human-Aware Planning and Learning of Robotic Teammates

Daniel Aukes
The Polytechnic School

Dynamic Modeling and Fabrication of Compliant Material Systems for On-Demand Specialist Robots

Bruno Azeredo
The Polytechnic School

Electrochemical Nanoimprinting of Inorganic Semiconductors: Towards Manufacturing of Three-dimensional Free-Form Optical Devices

Samantha Brunhaver
The Polytechnic School

Ready for Change: Fostering Adaptability along the Engineering Pathway

Jennifer Kitchen
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Design Automation of Integrated Power Electronics: From Architectures to Circuits

Robert LiKamWa
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Rhythmic Pixel Region Interface Systems for Efficient, Performant, and Precise Augmented Reality

Ariane Middel
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Human Thermal Exposure in Cities – Novel Sensing and Modeling to Build Heat-Resilience

Yulia Peet
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Interaction of Turbulence with Flexible Surfaces: Coherent Structures and Near-Wall Dynamics

Barbara Smith
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

Multi-Parametric Electrophysiology for High-Resolution Deep Brain Circuit Analysis

Siddharth Srivastava
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Generalizable and Reliable Behavior Synthesis in Uncertain Open-World Environments

Wenlong Zhang
The Polytechnic School

Facilitating Human Interaction with Assistive Robots Through Intent Signaling and Inference

Heather Emady
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Quantification of the powder-liquid interface via multi-scale granulation

Stephanie Gil
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Multi-agent decision making and optimization using communication as a sensor

Matthew Green
School for the Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Using electrostatic interactions to guide microstructure and mechanical properties in block polyelectrolytes

Hyunglae Lee
School for the Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Transparent robot-aided rehabilitation (TRAIN): Robot-aided rehabilitation with refined characterization of altered biomechanics & enhanced physical human-robot interaction

Qin Lei
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

A universal block of “series connected SiC MOSFET” for medium/high voltage converter

Mohamed Sarwat
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Towards spatial data systems support for the Internet of Things

George Trichopoulos
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Enabling non-line-of-sight imaging with terahertz holography

Chao Wang
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Integrated optofluidic chips towards label-free detection of exosomal microRNA biomarkers

Heni Ben Amor
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence​

Preventive robotics: learning and adaptation for predictive human robot symbiosis

Yezhou Yang
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Visual recognition with knowledge

Treavor Boyer
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Sustainable urine processes through integration of education and research

Adam Doupé
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Next generation black-box web application vulnerability analysis

Mehdi Nikkhah
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

Cardiac ischemia on-a-chip: probing mechanisms underlying molecular, cellular and tissue-level adaptive responses after injury

Jay Oswald
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Novel coarse-grained simulations to study relationships linking morphology and plastic resistance in semi-crystalline polymers

Yueming Qiu

Bridging the gap between engineering simulation and reality of home energy-efficiency improvements via big-data analysis

Fengbo Ren
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Building energy-efficient IoT frameworks – A data-driven and hardware-friendly approach tailored for wearable applications

Hanghang Tong
Network robustification: theories, algorithms and applications

Robert Wang
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Phononic properties of colloidal nanocrystal superlattices

Carole-Jean Wu
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Maximizing energy efficiency with statistical performance and skin temperature quality of service guarantee for handheld platforms

Jennifer Blain Christen
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Adapting flexible display technology for optogenetic peripheral nerve stimulation

Candace Chan
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Engineering structure and ionic conductivity in Li7La3Zr2O12 nanowire-based solid electrolytes

Jingrui He
Modeling the heterogeneity of heterogeneity: Algorithms, theories and applications

Shimeng Yu
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Scaling-up resistive synaptic arrays for neuro-inspired computing

Ming Zhao
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Coordinated QoS-driven management of cloud computing and storage resources