Theme

Proposal

University

Biomedical Science & Engineering (BSE)

Real-time THz Imaging for Identification of Malignant vs.
Benign Tissue Characteristics and Tumor and Nerve Margins

Ohio State University

Electromagnetic Detection and Imaging of Liver Metastases from Colorectal Cancer

Ohio State University

MicroRNAs in Mechanotransduction and Its Utilization in Vascular Stents

UC San Diego

Exploring Mechanotransductive Signaling as a Therapeutic Target in Brain Cancer

UC Berkeley

Inducing Functional Changes in Proteins Using THZ Radiation: First Steps Towards Protein Electrodynamics

University of Southampton

Novel MEMS Drug Delivery Devices

University of Texas at Dallas

Biotherapeutics

Bispecific Antibody Capture of Tumor-Secreted Chemokines

MIT

De Novo Design of Repeat Proteins as Non-antibody Protein Scaffolds

UNC Chapel Hill

Chemoenzymatic Site-Selective Attachment to Antibodies: Using Glycosylation Sites to Position Drugs

University of Oxford

Computational Science

(R)Evolutionary High-Throughput Discovery and Optimization of Materials Enhanced Technologies

Central Michigan University

Atomic-Scale Modeling of Defect-Mediated Device Degradation

Vanderbilt University

SmartApps: Smart Applications for Multicores

Texas A&M University

Generation of Parallel Patterns based programs for hybrid CPU-GPU architectures

University of Bordeaux

Network Inference and Optimization with Statistical Physics methods (NETSTAT)

University of Thessaly

Leveraging Bipartite Networks to Investigate the Dynamical Properties of Socio-technical Systems

IIT Kharagpur

Modeling of nanoelectronic and nanoelectromechanical systems based on graphene

Institute of Spectroscopy Russian Academy of Sciences

Fast Low Cost Methods to Learn Structure of Large Networks

King’s College London

Connectivity

An Optimized Solution Toward Green Mobile Cloud Computing

UCLA

Practical Concatenated Polar Coding

UC San Diego

FTN Signaling Combined with Concatenated LDPC Coding for Bandwidth-efficient Data Transmission

Lund University

Performance Limits of Cloud based Wireless Networks

IIT Hyderabad

Generalized Concatenated Polar Codes

Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University

Enabling AGN Near-Capacity Polar Codes with Good Error Performance through Lattices and Concatenated Nested Coding

UT Austin

Ultra-high Data Rate Pptical Wireless: towards the All-optical Network

University of Oxford

Energy

Enhancing Bandwidth of PEH via a Flexible Structure Coupled with Magnetic Field

Auburn University

Low-frequency Ultra-wide Bandwidth Piezoelectric Energy Harvester

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Design, Simulation and Fabrication of A Spiral-Shaped Multi-mass PVDF Cantilever

Peking University

Heterogeneous Layered Structured Materials for High Energy and Power Density of Lithium Battery

University of Michigan

Image Sensor

Polarization Enhanced Image Sensor for Endoscopy

Washington University in St. Louis

Medical Technology, Imaging, 3D Modeling, Device, Graphic, etc.

Fractal RF Coils for MRI

UC Irvine

Patient-Specific Simulations of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Adaptation: New Approaches to Predict Therapeutic Responses

UC San Diego

Development of Tunable Terahertz Source for Nonlinear 2D THZ Spectroscopy of Biomedical Samples

MIT

A novel shear wave approach to non-invasively assess mechanical properties of liver for early diagnosis and 3D organ modeling

University of Pittsburgh

MRI-Safe Robot for Direct Image-Guided Percutaneous Interventions

Johns Hopkins University

All-optical High-resolution Photoacoustic Endoscopy

University of Michigan

Volumetric Rendering and 3D UI for Medical Applications to Achieve mHealth

SUNY Stony Brook

MobileX: Imaging Skin, Blood and Retina via Computational Photography on a Smartphone

Rice University

Tissue Characterizing Female Breast Tomography using Ultrasound

Friedrich Alexander University

Silica Nanoshells for Tumor Localization and HIFU

UC San Diego

Non-Invasive High Resolution Near-Infrared Imaging for Hemodynamics Monitoring and Tumor Detection

Delft University of Technology

Combined Laser Ultrasonic and Optoacoustic Imaging System for Biological Tissue

Institute on Laser and Information Technologies RAS

Metabolic Engineering

High-Accuracy Integration of Transcriptomics and Metabolic Modeling with Application to the Metabolic Engineering of Escherichia coli

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

A Synthetic, Combinatorial Approach to Identify Yeast Gene Knockdown Targets for Metabolic Engineering Applications

UT Austin

Novel Screening Method for Finding Aerobic Aldehyde and Alcohol Dehydrogenases

Tampere University of Technology

Molecular Mechanisms of Substrate Inhibition of Dehydrogenases

University of Toronto

Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling and Integrative Analysis of Omics Data: Lessons from S. cerevisiae

Chalmers U of Technology

New Materials

Computational Material Design: Evolutionary Algorithm for Predicting New High Dielectric Materials

SUNY Stony Brook

Holographic Photopolymerizable Prganic/inorganic Hybrids

Cornell University

Multifunctional Composites based on Biopolymers and Biobased Additives for Food Packaging Applications

University of Perugia

Characterising QD (Quantum Dot) Emitters and Lasers

Cardiff University

Quantum Dot Lasers: Materials Physics to Printable Devices

University of Oxford

Supermacroporous Hybrid Polymerics for Efficient Removal of Endocrine Disruptors and Other Water Pollutants

IIT Kanpur

Holographic Photopolymers with High Performances for Display Applications

Institute of Organic Chemistry SB RAS

Novel Indium‐free TCO with Low-Temperature Preparation by Ultraviolet Photo-Annealing

University of Michigan

Hybrid Ferroelectric-Charge Nonvolatile Memory

Cornell University

New Memory

Redefining DRAM Interface for Future Platforms

University of Pittsburgh

System-Wide Adaptive Techniques for Robust STT MRAM Integration

UT Austin

Novel Electronic Devices Based on Coupled Phase Transitions

University of Texas at Dallas

Next Generation Ics & Interconnections

Novel Inkjet Printed Ultra broadband Wireless Interconnects between Chips, Modules and Boards operating up to 110GHz

Georgia Tech

Non-Volatile Magnonic Logic

UCLA

Precision Lateral Heterojunctions for Atomically Thin Circuitry

Cornell University

Wireless Chip-to-Chip Interconnects: From Circuits To Systems

Purdue University

Graphene-enabled Wireless Communications

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

Silicon Origami for 3D Interconnect Technology

Cornell University

III-V-based Nanowire MOSFET and NanoPillar Tunnel FET For Ultra Low-Power Nanoelectronics

Penn State University

III-V 4D Transistors

Purdue University

Multiscale Simulation of Charge Transport Properties in Polycrystalline Graphene

Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

Physarum chips: A feasibility study on interfacing nano- and macro-worlds via amorphous biological computing substrate

University of West of England

Radio-Frequency Graphene Integrated Circuits

Harvard University

Design and Fabrication of Nanosized Logic Gates with the Fluorene Derivative (FD)/DNA Probes and their Application for Detection of ATP and Cocaine

Qingdao Institute, CAS

High Temperature Processed Thin Film Transistors On Low Temperature Substrates

Stanford University

Power Electronics

Modular Multilevel Motor Drive for Electrical Vehicles Incorporating Battery Charger and Providing Battery Charge Management

University of Birmingham

Advanced Electric Vehicle Battery Management Systems for Safety and Performance

University of Oxford

Process & Design for Product Development

Plasmonic Nanolithography using Hyperbolic Medium for Large Area Nanopatterning

University of Michigan

A Debugger for Mobile-Cloud Applications

UIUC

A Critical Evaluation of System-Efficient ESD Design (SEED)

UIUC

Hygro-thermal Induced Failure Prediction by Using Peridynamics

University of Arizona

Atomistic Modeling of Strained Group IV Alloys

University of Washington

UX

Next Generation User Interfaces Incorporating Eye Tracking for Smart Portable Electronics

University of Pennsylvania

Context-Aware Spoken Dialogue Agents for Immersive Interaction in the Real World

Carnegie Mellon University

Human-Centric User Research to Identify Disruptive Opportunities in Convergent Paper and Digital Use

UC Berkeley

Users’ Experience and Design Value Research on Paper Use

Shanghai Jiao Tong University