Recent Grants

(NIH COBRE) Oklahoma Center of Medical Imaging for Translational Cancer Research

PI: Javier Jo Pun Kay

Award amount: $978,120

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health

Aurora

PI: Mark Yeary

Co-PIs: Justin Metcalf; Nathan Goodman; Robert Palmer; Caleb Fulton

Award amount: $557,999

Sponsor: U.S. Federal Government

Wastewater-Based Epidemiology to Monitor Infectious Pathogens in the State of Oklahoma

PI: Jason Vogel

Co-PI: Ralph Tanner

Award amount: $500,453

Sponsor: State of Oklahoma, Department of Health

(NIH COBRE) Oklahoma Center of Medical Imaging for Translational Cancer Research

PI: Qinggong Tang

Award amount: $436,023

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health

(NIH COBRE) Oklahoma Center of Medical Imaging for Translational Cancer Research

PI: Javier Jo Pun Kay

Award amount: $361,008 (two awards)

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health

Development of protein-based nanostructures activated by ultrasound

PI: Sangpil Yoon

Award amount: $315,903

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health

Development and Validation of a Virtual Bariatric Endoscopic (ViBE) simulator

PI: Doga Demirel

Award amount: $136,741

Sponsor: Florida A&M

(NIH COBRE) Oklahoma Center of Medical Imaging for Translational Cancer Research

PI: Han Yuan

Award amount: $133,437

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health

(NIH COBRE) Oklahoma Center of Medical Imaging for Translational Cancer Research

PI: Yuchen Qiu

Award amount: $127,374

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health

Imaging markers of neural injury in chronic spinal compressive disease

PI: Lei Ding

Award amount: $116,677

Sponsor: OU Health Sciences Center

Early detection of renal cancer by a novel imaging platform

PI: Chen Wang

Co-PI: Qinggong Tang

Award amount: $100,000

Sponsor: Prevent Cancer Foundation

Enhancing robotic head and neck surgical skills using stimulated simulation

PI: Doga Demirel

Award amount: $93,447

Sponsor: Florida State University

Additive Manufactured Low-Loss Small-Size Low-Profile Conformal GRIN Lens

PI: Jorge Salazar-Cerreno

Award amount: $83,446

Sponsor: Agile RF Systems, LLC

Monitoring of UHPC Link Slabs and Expansion Joint Headers on I-35 over Cimarron O'flow

PI: Royce Floyd

Co-PI: Jeffery Volz

Award amount: $75,000

Sponsor: State of Oklahoma, Department of Transportation

Innovative High-Performance Geotextiles for Stabilization of Problematic Roadway Subgrades

PI: Kianoosh Hatami

Award amount: $70,000

Sponsor: State of Oklahoma, Department of Transportation

Integrating Spectral Pixel Arrays with Switchable Machine Learning algorithm for Advanced Infrared Astronomy

PI: Sarah Sharif

Award amount: $30,000

Sponsor: Oklahoma State University

Enabling Efficient and Safe Edge Intelligence for Unmanned Aircraft Systems

PI: Mike Banad

Award amount: $29,886

Sponsor: Oklahoma State University

ARM Lead Mentor

PI: Connor Flynn

Co-PIs: Jens Redemann; Wesley Honeycutt

Award amount: $20,000

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy - Argonne National Laboratory

Development of Guidelines to Enhance Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Desing in Oklahoma

PI: Syed Ashik Ali

Co-PIs: Musharraf Zaman; Sagar Ghos

Award amount: $20,000

Sponsor: Geocal

NCI Photoimmunotherapy for treatment of metastatic cancer

PI: Wei Chen

Award amount: $17,952

Sponsor: OU Health Sciences Center

Wastewater Surveillance for the Citizen Pottawattamie Nation

PI: Jason Vogel

Co-PIs: Kristen Shelton; Gilson Sanchez; Richard Zamor; Ralph Tanner

Award amount: $10,706

Sponsor: Southern Plains Tribal Health Board

CAREER: Decoding Cardiac Arrhythmias: Integrating Multiphysics Simulations and Deep Learning Models to Uncover Multi-physical Contributions and Arrhythmia Initiation

PI: Rui Zhu

Award amount: $418,901

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Development of protein-based nanostructures activated by ultrasound

PI: Sangpil Yoon

Award amount: $363,919

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health

CAREER: High Performance Code Generation for Irregular Computation via a Graph Structure Descriptor Language

PI: Richard Veras

Award amount: $330,757

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Building a co-design, co-learning platform in support of flooding preparation on tribal lands for indigenous communities

PI: Chengbin Deng

Co-PIs: Yang Hong; Farina King

Award amount: $277,229

Sponsor: NASA - Headquarters

Design remote microgrids with enhanced resilience: analysis, prototyping and modularization

PI: Ning Jiang

Award amount: $144,754

Sponsor: North Dakota State University

Focused CoPe: Enabling holistic decision-making for historically underrepresented communities impacted by coastal hazards via building a community digital twin

PI: Andres Gonzalez Huertas

Award amount: $93,403

Sponsor: Texas A&M University

Development of AI/ML for cancer diagnosis and treatment

PI: Chongle Pan

Award amount: $50,000

Sponsor: OU Health Sciences Center

Fusion-Based State Estimation for Localization and Synchronization of Distributed Radar Sensor Networks

PI: Russell Kenney

Co-PI: Justin Metcalf

Award amount: $45,000

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research

(OCAST HR) A Novel Strategy for Percutaneous Nephrostomy Guidance

PI: Qinggong Tang

Co-PI: Chongle Pan

Award amount: $45,000

Sponsor: State of Oklahoma, Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology

The Fate and Transport of Microplastics into the Human Food Chain through Land Application of Biosolids, Animal Manures, and Drilling Fluid Wastes to Agricultural Soils

PI: Mark Nanny

Award amount: $14,203

Sponsor: OptoKhemia

Informatics and Machine Learning Tools for Equitable Survivorship Care in Oklahoma

PI: Talayeh Razzaghi

Award amount: $5,685

Sponsor: OU Health Sciences Center

Relative Positioning of Autonomous Platforms in a RF Restricted Environment

PI: Yan Zhang

Co-PIs: Justin Metcalf; Wei Sun

Award amount: $1,280,835

Sponsor: Technology Service Corporation

Aurora

PI: Mark Yeary

Co-PIs: Justin Metcalf; Nathan Goodman; Caleb Fulton; Robert Palmer

Award amount: $517,654

Sponsor: U.S. Federal Government

Automatic Wide-Field Optical Coherence Tomography for Assessment of Transplant Kidney Viability

PI: Qinggong Tang

Co-PI: Chongle Pan

Award amount: $210,572

Sponsor: University of Massachusetts

Chemical looping splitting of CO2 and H2O for syngas production and oxidative coupling of methane for producing ethylene at intermediate temperatures

PI: Pejman Kazempoor

Award amount: $89,999

Sponsor: University of Utah

An AI/ML Collaborative for Southeast Florida Coastal Environmental Data and Modeling Center

PI: Amy McGovern

Award amount: $79,982

Sponsor: Florida International University

Matching Support for The Southern Plains Transportation Center: CY1

PI: Royce Floyd

Total UTC award: $36,000,000

This award amount: $35,000

Sponsor: State of Oklahoma, Department of Transportation

Pyroptosis-inducing peptide nanofibers for ovarian cancer treatment

PI: Handan Acar

Award amount: $28,016

Sponsor: OU Health Sciences Center

Southern Plains Transportation Center: Regional UTC

PI: Jinsong Pei

Co-PI: Dean Hougen

Total UTC award: $36,000,000

This award amount: $20,063

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Transportation

Enhancing Oklahoma Community Climate Resilience Through Electric School Bus Integration into Local Energy Grids

PI: Dong Zhang

Award amount: $5,033

Sponsor: OU Health Sciences Center

Matching Support for The Southern Plains Transportation Center: CY1

PI: Syed Ashik Ali

Total UTC award: $36,000,000

This award amount: $59,643

Sponsor: State of Oklahoma, Department of Transportation

Large-Scale CoPe: Coastal Hazards, Equity, Economic prosperity, and Resilience (CHEER)

PI: Srikanth Bashetty

Co-PI: Christopher Dalton

Award amount: $19,000

Sponsor: Innovative Scientific Solutions

RII Track-2 FEC: Cost-effective conversion of natural gas and biomass to hydrogen and performance carbons

PI: Steven Crossley

Co-PIs: Ngoc Bui; Daniel Resasco; Bin Wang

Award amount: $1,000,000

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Development of Readily Manufactured and Interface Engineered Proton-Conducting Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells with High Efficiency and Durability

PI: Hanping Ding

Award amount: $961,667

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy

Southern Plains Transportation Center: Regional UTC

PI: Kendra Dresback

Co-PIs: Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter; Aikaterini Kyprioti

Total UTC award: $36,000,000

This award amount: $74,429

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Transportation

Southern Plains Transportation Center: Regional UTC

PI: Royce Floyd

Total UTC award: $36,000,000

This award amount: $60,000

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Transportation

ARM Lead Mentor

PI: Connor Flynn

Co-PIs: Wesley Honeycutt; Jens Redemann

Award amount: $30,000

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy - Argonne National Laboratory

Matching Support for The Southern Plains Transportation Center: CY1

PI: Kenneth Hobson

Co-PIs: Syed Ashik Ali; Musharraf Zaman

Total UTC award: $36,000,000

This award amount: $34,145

Sponsor: State of Oklahoma, Department of Transportation

Quantum Photonics Integrated Design Center (QuPIDC)

PI: Alisa Javadi

Award amount: $120,014

Sponsor: Purdue University

Large-Scale CoPe: Coastal Hazards, Equity, Economic Prosperity, and Resilience (CHEER)

PI: Randall Kolar

Co-PI: Kendra Dresback

Award amount: $178,052

Sponsor: University of Delaware

Southern Plains Transportation Center: Regional UTC

PI: Aikaterini Kyprioti

Co-PIs: Jinsong Pei; Arif Mohaimin Sadri

Total UTC award: $36,000,000

This award amount: $65,826

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Transportation

A Deep Learning Enhanced Fourier Ptychography Microscopic Scanner to Facilitate Adequacy Assessment in Rapid On-site Evaluation

PI: Yuchen Qiu

Award amount: $150,000

Sponsor: American Cancer Society

Matching Support for The Southern Plains Transportation Center: CY1

PI: Arif Mohaimin Sadri

Co-PIs: Syed Ashik Ali; Musharraf Zaman

Total UTC award: $36,000,000

This award amount: $60,073

Sponsor: State of Oklahoma, Department of Transportation

Development of Real-Time Multistatic Passive Radar Networks for Severe Weather Prediction

PI: Patrick Skinner

Co-PIs: David Bodine; Samuel Emmerson; Caleb Fulton; Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter; Robert Palmer; David Schvartzman Cohenca

Award amount: $269,696

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Predicting Asphaltene Deposition in Pores

PI: Alberto Striolo

Award amount: $128,000

Sponsor: Chevron, U.S.A

Southern Plains Transportation Center: Regional UTC

PI: Shreya Vemuganti

Total UTC award: $36,000,000

This award amount: $39,212

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Transportation

Ghuts, Grit, and Gills: Synthesis of Hydrologic, Water Quality, and Ecosystem Data for Climate Adaptation Planning

PI: Jason Vogel

Co-PI: Richard Zamor

Award amount: $20,219

Sponsor: Auburn University

Planning: CRISES: Collective Action for Restoring Ecosystem Services (CARES) Center

PI: Jason Vogel

Co-PI: Lara Souza

Award amount: $19,999

Sponsor: Kansas State University

Southern Plains Transportation Center: Regional UTC

PI: Yan Zhang

Co-PI: Hernan Suarez Montalvo

Total UTC award: $36,000,000

This award amount: $52,702

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Transportation

3D Printed Hypersonic Testbed

PI: Yingtao Liu

Award amount: $7,060

Sponsor: Raven Space Systems

Exploring Surrogate Modeling Development Techniques to Enhance the Tropical Cyclone Risk Estimates

PI: Aikaterini Kyprioti

Award amount: $19,684

Sponsor: University of Delaware

Computational Design of Heterogeneous Catalysts for Coupling CO2 and Ethylene to Manufacture Acrylic Acid Derivatives

PI: Bin Wang

Award Amount: $229,082

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy

Temporal Networks of Environmental Refugee Relocation: Security and Socioeconomic Impacts

PI: Kash Barker

Co-PIs: Andres Gonzalez Huertas; Chie Noyori Corbett

Award amount: $191,414

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense

Radar Volumetric Fill Profile Detection

PI: Jorge Salazar-Cerreno

Co-PIs: Caleb Fulton; Nathan Goodman

Award amount: $287,021

Sponsor: Deere and Company

Expand AI2ES for 4D Space-time Organization of Precipitation Processes, Visualization Tools, and Workforce Development

PI: Amy McGovern

Award amount: $18,440

Sponsor: San Diego State University Foundation

Tied to AI2ES ($20,000,000) from National Science Foundation

Hailstone

PI: Mark Yeary

Co-PIs: Caleb Fulton; Nathan Goodman; Robert Palmer; Justin Metcalf

Award amount: $507,807

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense, Air Force

SMART Hub (Hub for Spectrum Management with Adaptive and Reconfigurable Technology) - Year 1 Research

PI: Hjalti Sigmarsson

Award amount: $105,110

Sponsor: Baylor University

Matching Support for The Southern Plains Transportation Center: CY1

PI: Musharraf Zaman

Co-PIs: Michael Molina; Royce Floyd

Total UTC award: $36,000,000

This award amount: $1,000,000

Sponsor: Oklahoma Department of Transportation

Improving Accessibility and Efficiency of Public Transportation via Optimal Integration with Shared Autonomous Electric Vehicles in Tribal Communities

PI: Dong Zhang

Co-PIs: Li Song; Bin Xu; Jie Cai

Award amount: $608,166

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy

Relative Positioning of Autonomous Platforms in a RF Restricted Environment (EMCON & GPS Denied)

PI: Yan Zhang

Co-PIs: Justin Metcalf; Wei Sun

Award amount: $150,000

Sponsor: Technology Service Corporation

Multi-Scale Biomechanical Modeling and Measurement of Auditory Injury and Protection Mechanisms

PI: Rong Gan

Co-PI: Yijie Jiang

Award amount: $700,000

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense

RECOVERS - Realigning Emotion and COgnition Via prEcision Regulation of networkS

PI: Han Yuan

Co-PI: Lei Ding

Award amount: $113,412

Sponsor: Columbia University

Radar Consortium F25

PI: Hjalti Sigmarsson

Co-PIs: Russell Kenney; Mark Yeary; Nathan Goodman

Award amount: $68,000

Sponsor: Kansas City National Security Campus

Global High-Resolution Datasets of Convective or Stratiform Type for Precipitation

PI: Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter

Co-PI: Shruti Upadhyaya

Award amount: $122,276

Sponsor: University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Novel electrically small wideband time-varying antennas (NEW VAN)

PI: Jessica Ruyle

Co-PI: Hjalti Sigmarsson

Award amount: $227,889

Sponsor: Boeing Defense and Space Group

Integrated Heterogeneous Structure of High-Entropy-Alloy/Reactor for High-Throughput Chemical Synthesis via In-Situ Carbon-Dioxide Hydrogenation

PI: Hanping Ding

Award amount: $47,380

Sponsor: Idaho National Laboratory

AI Institute: Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Sciences (AI2ES)

PI: Amy McGovern

Co-PIs: Andrew Fagg; Nathan Snook; Cameron Homeyer; Henry Neeman; Dimitrios Diochnos

Total award amount: $20,000,000

This award amount: $3,988,666

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Operation of ShakeCast-OTA (Phase 3)

PI: Philip Harvey

Co-PI: Aikaterini Kyprioti

Award amount: $16,984

Sponsor: Oklahoma Turnpike Authority

Color Centers in Noise-free Hosts for Quantum Sensing and Communication Applications

PI: Alisa Javadi

Award amount: $191,853

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy

Improvements of ILS Receiver for flight inspection

PI: Hernan Suarez Montalvo

Co-PI: Yan Zhang

Award amount: $29,345

Sponsor: Thales AMS

Educational Program on Awareness, Sustainability, and Service in Water Wastewater Summer Academy

PI: Keith Strevett

Award amount: $1,700

Sponsor: East Central University

Risk Stratification and Predictive Modeling-enabled Personalized Management of Tricuspid Regurgitation in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

PI: Yingtao Liu

Award amount: $3,361

Sponsor: OU Health Sciences Center

Novel Electrically Small Wideband Time-varying Antennas (NEW VAN)

PI: Jessica Ruyle

Co-PI: Hjalti Sigmarsson

Award amount: $227,889

Sponsor: Boeing Defense and Space Group

Management of the ODOT Transportation Library

PI: Musharraf Zaman

Award amount: $219,341

Sponsor: Oklahoma Department of Transportation

AGS-CIF: Mobile Rapid Scanning Radar (RaXPol) for Enhancing Weather Radar Research and Hands-on Education

PI: Tian You Yu

Co-PIs: Howard Bluestein; Boonleng Cheong; Mark Yeary; David Schvartzman Cohenca; Robert Palmer; Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter; David Bodine

Award amount: $262,308

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Innovative approaches to expand irrigation water availability: treatment of brackish water using low-cost materials

PI: Elizabeth Butler

Award amount: $300,000

Sponsor: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

CAIG: Investigating Tornadogenesis via Explainable Deep Learning

PI: Nathan Snook

Co-PIs: Amy McGovern; Andrew Fagg; Ming Xue

Award amount: $886,172

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

(FINESST) The multi-radar microphysical palindrome: forward and backward operators as applied to precipitation physics

PI: Pierre Emmanuel Kirstetter

Award amount: $50,000

Sponsor: NASA

Mobile AAM Weather Information Systems

PI: Yan Zhang

Award amount: $33,000

Sponsor: Agile RF Systems LLC

Grand River Dam Authority Graduate Student Support

PI: Robert Nairn

Co-PI: Lori Han

Award amount: $78,167

Sponsor: Grand River Dam Authority

Materials development of proton conductors for solid oxide electrolysis cells

PI: Hanping Ding

Award amount: $70,000

Sponsor: Idaho National Laboratory

Collaborative Research: AGS-FIRP Track 3: In-situ Collaborative Experiment for the Collection of Hail In the Plains (ICECHIP)

PI: Cameron Homeyer

Co-PIs: Tian-You Yu; David Bodine; Conrad Ziegler; Edward Mansell; Zachary Lebo

Award amount: $548,981

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

ARM Lead Mentor

PI: Connor Flynn

Co-PIs: Jens Redemann; Wesley Honeycutt

Award amount: $20,000

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy - Argonne National Laboratory

The National IFE Starfire HUB Science & Technology Accelerated Research for Fusion Innovation & Reactor Engineering

PI: Horst Hahn

Co-PI: Hank Jenkins-Smith

Award amount: $200,000

Sponsor: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Aging-Aware Management of Motorized Energy Storage for Grid Flexibility Provision

PI: Paul Moses

Co-PI: Dong Zhang

Award amount: $174,384

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy

Development of Novel Chromium-Free Organic Coatings for Aerospace Applications

PI: John Klier

Co-PIs: Brian Grady; Wilson Merchan-Merchan

Award amount: $4,800,000

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense, Air Force

Bio-inspired Membranes for the Recovery of Critical Materials from Complex Mixtures based on Metallopeptoids

PI: Ngoc Bui

Award amount: $212,233

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy

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