 Professor
Bruce Jacob (electrical and computer engineering [ECE] and
Institute for Systems
Research [ISR]) is part of a team selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA) to develop new supercomputer prototype systems for DARPA's Ubiquitous
High Performance Computing program. The four-year, $25.8 million award will fund
research at the Clark School, as well as academic project partners at Louisiana
State University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Notre
Dame, University of Southern California, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Stanford University and North Carolina State University.
 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
has awarded a five-year cooperative agreement totaling $15 million to the Maryland
NanoCenter at the University of Maryland to develop and implement a Postdoctoral
Researcher and Visiting Fellow Measurement Science and Engineering Program.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) assistant professors John
Cumings and Oded Rabin are among the co-PIs of the project,
which is led by
Professor Daniel P. Lathrop (physics and Institute for Research
in Engineering and
Applied Physics) and also includes co-PI and Assistant Professor Edo
Waks (ECE).
 NIST has awarded the Clark School's Department of Materials
Science and Engineering (MSE) a five-year, $15 million grant to renew its collaboration
with its Technology Center for Neutron Research. MSE professor and chair Robert M.
Briber is the PI on the project called "Neutron Spectroscopy and Scattering for
Applications in Materials Science, Macromolecular Science, Condensed Matter
Physics and Chemistry."
 Professor John Baras (ECE/ISR)
is a co-PI on
a new National Science Foundation (NSF) grant award from the Cyber-Physical-Systems
program in the large category, "Science of Integration for Cyber-Physical Systems."
The five-year, $5 million grant is a collaborative effort between three universities:
Vanderbilt University (lead institution), University of Notre Dame and University
of Maryland.
 A team of researchers at the University of Maryland and Bowie State
University, including Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Assistant
Professor and co-PI Ganesh Sriram, received a $3.2 million, four-year
grant from the NSF's
Plant Genome Research Project to study ways to turn poplar trees into high-yield crops
for biofuels including ethanol, the renewable biofuel used in gasoline blends and
flex-fuel vehicles.
Ganesh
Sriram also is a co-PI on a
project that has received a $1.9 million grant from the NSF to acquire a superconducting
800 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer that will help scientists and
engineers solve complex problems in biology and medicine. The instrument will be the
highest field NMR spectrometer located on the College Park campus and will enable
scientists to investigate the three-dimensional structure of biological molecules
and study their interactions with a degree of resolution and sensitivity not
previously possible.
 ECE faculty members are conducting research in
three new Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURIs) announced by
the U.S. Department of Defense:
- Prof. Timothy
Horiuchi (ECE/ISR, pictured) and Prof. Sean Humbert
(aerospace engineering) are participating in an Office of Naval Research MURI,
“Animal Inspired Robust Flight with Outer and Inner Loop Strategies.” The Clark
School’s portion of the grant is $1.48 million. The lead institution for this MURI
is the University of Washington, and the principal investigator is Kristi
Morgansen. The lead institution is the University of Washington; Boston
University and University of North Carolina also participate.
- Professor Rama
Chellappa (ECE/University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer
Studies/computer science [CS]) and Professor Larry Davis (CS/ECE)
are involved with a MURI titled "Rich Representations with Exposed Semantics
for Deep Visual Reasonings." The MURI funding will support researchers at UM,
Carnegie Mellon University (lead university), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
and University of Pennsylvania. UM will receive $1.75 million over five years to
conduct this research.
- Professor John
Baras (ECE/ISR) is participating in an Air Force Office of Scientific
Research MURI, “Multi-Layers and Multi-Resolution Networks of Interacting Agents in
Adversarial Environments.” The Clark School’s portion of this grant is $700,000.
The lead institution for this MURI is the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
and the principal investigator is Tamer Basar.
 Associate Professor Timothy Horiuchi (co-PI; ECE/ISR)
and Professor Cynthia Moss (PI; psychology/ISR, pictured)
have won a $1.5 million NSF Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience
grant, "Adaptive perceptual-motor feedback for the analysis of complex scenes."
 Civil
engineering Professor Gang-Len Chang's Applied Technology and
Traffic Analysis Program recently received an award of $1 million from the
Maryland State Highway Administration. This is an extension of a previous
award to design and implementation of a real-time traffic monitoring and prediction
system for travel to and from Ocean City, Md.
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