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Featured Projects: Information + Communications Technology
Investigator: Sarma Vrudhula
Institution: Arizona State University
Program: SRG
Award: $2,000,000 Term: 36 Months
Better performing and faster computer networks are necessary in computing intensive industries like defense. University scientists will help Raytheon, a major employer in Arizona, improve computing capabilities for its current and future products.
Investigator: Nasser Peyghambarian
Institution: University of Arizona
Program: SBC
Award: $298,719 Term: 12 Months
The new Arizona-based company TIPD, LLC will commercialize a new type of electronic switch that uses electronic and light components to greatly increase the speed, yet reduce the cost and energy consumption of broadband communications such as the kind we need for TV cable and Internet.
Investigator: Cun-Zheng Ning
Institution: Arizona State University
Program: SRG
Award: $50,000 Term: 12 Months
University scientists are using light particles in very small structures to make key devices needed in computers, cells phones, and sensors. This new technology is called ‘nano’ because of the extremely small size of the devices, and will bring many technical jobs to Arizona.
Research Projects: Information + Communications Technology
Investigator: Steve Baral
Institution: Arizona State University
Program: CAA
Award: $138,603 Term: 18 Months
Scientists and physicians often rely on databases to find critical pieces of information quickly and reliably. Unfortunately, automated databases often contain inaccuracies, so Arizona scientists are developing a new method for collecting information with user input for corrections, which will expand Arizona’s growing prominence in data storage and medical diagnostic.
Investigator: Connie Woodhouse
Institution: University of Arizona
Program: CAA
Award: $71,195 Term: 18 Months
Wildfires can have an extremely negative impact on climate and biodiversity of Arizona forests. This national database will help us understand how and provide support for the state’s economic sectors that rely on water supplies, forest resources, and tourism.
Investigator: Sarma Vrudhula
Institution: Arizona State University
Program: SRG
Award: $2,000,000 Term: 36 Months
Better performing and faster computer networks are necessary in computing intensive industries like defense. University scientists will help Raytheon, a major employer in Arizona, improve computing capabilities for its current and future products.
Investigator: Sarma Vrudhula
Institution: Arizona State University
Program: SBC
Award: $490,000 Term: 24 Months
In partnership with Raytheon, university scientists are delivering better performing computer networks by using new programming approaches and operating system policies that harness available computation resources more effectively.
Investigator: Trevor Thornton
Institution: Arizona State University
Program: SBC
Award: $236,095 Term: 26 Months
Arizona start-up SJT Micropower is leveraging federally funded projects from NASA and the DOD to commercialize a new type of electrical circuit that can run with much lower power and higher speed than ever before. This is an important advance in manufacture of medical devices, space vehicles, and defense products.
Investigator: Sudha Ram
Institution: University of Arizona
Program: SRG
Award: $540,000 Term: 36 Months
Almost every decision in today’s enterprises is based on data from sources as diverse as databases and the web. To ensure it is used appropriately and within context, AZ scientists, in partnership with Raytheon, are developing a method to evaluate data quality and understanding the relationship between provenance and quality.
Investigator: Nasser Peyghambarian
Institution: University of Arizona
Program: SBC
Award: $111,656 Term: 12 Months
By stimulating brain cells every time they process information, AZ startup company TIPD, LLC., in collaboration with university scientists, to create better images of the brain non-invasively. The result is the potential to revolutionize diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
Investigator: Nasser Peyghambarian
Institution: University of Arizona
Program: SBC
Award: $298,719 Term: 12 Months
The new Arizona-based company TIPD, LLC will commercialize a new type of electronic switch that uses electronic and light components to greatly increase the speed, yet reduce the cost and energy consumption of broadband communications such as the kind we need for TV cable and internet.
Investigator: Vimla Patel
Institution: Arizona State University
Program: CAA
Award: $267,872 Term: 14 Months
When clinicians encounter mental disorders in patients, it is important for them to understand what particular behaviors or statements result in one diagnosis over another. AZ university scientists are designing technologies to train clinicians and provide them with objective tools to aid decisions, resulting in better medicine in Arizona.
Investigator: Cun-Zheng Ning
Institution: Arizona State University
Program: SRG
Award: $50,000 Term: 12 Months
University scientists are using light particles in very small structures to make key devices needed in computers, cells phones, and sensors. This new technology is called ‘nano’ because of the extremely small size of the devices, and will bring many technical jobs to Arizona.
Investigator: Jerome Moloney
Institution: University of Arizona
Program: SBC
Award: $499,000 Term: 15 Months
Laser fibers amplify and direct light, and have many applications in medicine and everyday life, such as for TV cable, phone, and internet. A newly created AZ company Polar Laser Laboratories, LLC is improving on these fibers to make them faster, less expensive, and more energy-efficient.
Investigator: Denis Mamaluy
Institution: Arizona State University
Program: CAA
Award: $133,000 Term: 18 Months
Nanodevices are very small implements used in applications such as computers and highly sensitive sensors able to detect a single atom of a dangerous chemical. AZ scientists are creating computer models of how these devices work so they can improve their performance and test them in a variety of environments.
Investigator: Franko Kueppers
Institution: University of Arizona
Program: CAA
Award: $108,599 Term: 18 Months
In order to prepare for the impending demands of tomorrow’s information infrastructure, Dr. Kueppers is working on pushing photonics beyond its current domain with the goal to improve the transmission backbone and the peripheral customized functionality needed for processing signals, routing data, and controlling traffic ‘on demand’.
Investigator: Thomas Hoisch
Institution: Northern Arizona University
Program: CAA
Award: $109,515 Term: 18 Months
By making use of outdoor viewable color displays, longer lasting batteries, multiple docking options, and touch screen capabilities, educating the next generation geologists, mining engineers and farmers has been made more exciting, more efficient and more effective.
Investigator: Sandeep Gupta
Institution: Arizona State University
Program: CAA
Award: $298,424 Term: 18 Months
In partnership with Intel, University scientists are creating new and economically attractive methods for efficient and safe storage of data by managing power consumption and heat, enabling Arizona to maintain its lead as a location for data storage centers, clusters, and network server farms in the US.
Investigator: Graciela Gonzalez
Institution: Arizona State University
Program: CAA
Award: $185,688 Term: 18 Months
Extracting useful and precise information from technical texts is an art as well as a science, and AZ researchers are coming up with automated, yet accurate, ways to organize useful terms and information in an easily searchable database that scientists access and use at their convenience and with confidence.
Investigator: Russell Chipman
Institution: University of Arizona
Program: SRG
Award: $1,200,000 Term: 36 Months
Scientists, in partnership with Breault (BRO) Research, are developing computer programs to improve control of a certain kind of light – polarized light- which has broad applications for cutting edge military, industrial, and commercial markets ranging from missile systems to LCD television manufacturing.
Investigator: Steve Baral
Institution: Arizona State University
Program: CAA
Award: $37,976 Term: 12 Months
Researchers trying to discover the pathway of a disease or a drug need to know endless facts which should be extracted from articles into an easily accessible database. AZ scientists are designing the most accurate such database by combining automated and human extraction of knowledge, with tremendous federal leveraging opportunities.
Investigator: Yong Zhang
Institution: Arizona State University
Program: SRG
Award: $500,000 Term: 12 Months
Global Solar Inc and First Solar Inc, along with university scientists, are developing a new solar cell that is three times more efficient than conventional cells, reducing the cost of solar power and generating interest from in-state and out-of-state solar manufacturers for residential, commercial and military applications.