Vanderbilt Engineering NSF CAREER, Young Investigator Award Winners

Sharon Weiss
http://eecs.vanderbilt.edu/people/sharonweiss/
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
2008 CAREER Award
"Faster and more accurate detection of biological and chemical materials by using portable porous silicon waveguides"

Julie A. Adams
http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~adamsja/
Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering
2007 CAREER Award
"Human Interaction with Large Numbers of Unmanned Vehicles"

Yi Cui
http://eecs.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/people/yicui
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
2007 CAREER Award
Achieving Self-Tunability of Peer-to-Peer Streaming Service through
User-Level QoS Inference

Deyu Li
http://frontweb.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/me/faculty/li.asp
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
2007 CAREER Award Winner
"CAREER: Fundamental Investigation and Thermal-Electrical Control of
Ion, Fluid, and Biomolecular Transport through Nanochannels"

Florence Sanchez
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2006 CAREER Award
An Integrated Research and Education Program in Long-Term Durability of Nano-Structured Cement-Based Materials during Environmental Weathering

Mark D. Does
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
2005 CAREER Award
Contrast-enhanced MRI tissue characterization

T. John Koo
http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~kootj/
Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering
2005 CAREER Award
Computation platform for design of hybrid systems
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases?id=18967

Xenofon D. Koutsoukos
http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~koutsoxd/
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2004 CAREER Award
Computational methods for the analysis and design of stochastic hybrid systems
Story on project from Vanderbilt Engineering Insight, Innovation, Impact

Bridget Rogers
http://www.che.vanderbilt.edu/rogers.htm
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Thin film ceramic coatings for hypersonic aircraft

Robert E. Bodenheimer
http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~bobbyb/
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
2003 CAREER Award
Teachable agent in educational computer animation
Engineering Research Report 2003

L. Roy Xu
http://www.cee.vanderbilt.edu/facultystaff/xu.html
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2003 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program
Bonding composite materials
Engineering Research Report 2003

Frank Bowman
http://www.che.vanderbilt.edu/bowman.htm
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
2000 CAREER Award
Modeling secondary organic compounds in atmosphere
Engineering Research Report 2002

Ken Frampton
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
2002 CAREER Award
Scalable intelligent systems for vibration reduction
Engineering Research Report 2002

Bridget Rogers
http://www.che.vanderbilt.edu/rogers.htm
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
2002 CAREER Award
Thin films for microelectronics devices
Engineering Research Report 2002

Eugene J. LeBoeuf
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2000 CAREER Award
Groundwater contamination by organic compounds
Engineering Research Report 2002