DARPA Forward Risers

Sarah Adams

Johns Hopkins University

Future of Optical Computing for Ubiquitous Service (FOCUS)

Presenting at Washington State University

Zachariah Addison

The Ohio State University

Theory of Hall Effects in Chiral Magnets with Skyrmions

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Bikram Adhikari

Colorado School of Mines

Perfusable 3D Printed Gelatin Methacrylate Scaffolds for Trabecular Meshwork Modeling and Glaucoma Studies

Presenting at Colorado State University

Konrad Ahlin

Georgia Tech Research Institute

Hyper-Redundant, Flexible Manipulator for DoD Applications

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Mirza Riyaz Akhter

Texas A&M University

Plasma processing for recovery of critical and rare earth metals from wastewater

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Ramya Akula

Unversity of Central Florida

Interpretable Multi-Head Self-Attention Architecture for Sarcasm Detection in Social Media

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Ali AlQahtani

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Zero Effort Client-Side Two Factor Authentication

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Elena Dalla Benetta

University of California, San Diego

The development of a highly specific and programmable RNA-targeting platform with minimum off-target activity

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Kyle Bentz

Illumina, Inc.

Metal-Directed Soft Materials

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Jared Beyersdorf

Emory University

Development of an mRNA-based Strategy for Protection Against Nerve Agent Toxicity

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Ganapati Bhat

Washington State University

Self-Powered Internet of Things for Wide Area Sensing and Situational Awareness

Presenting at Washington State University

Michael Bianco

University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Learning-based inference and detection for physical systems, with applications in acoutstic and radio-frequency signal processing

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Benjamin Bowman

Cybermonic

George Washington University

Augmenting the Cybersecurity Analyst Workflow with Graph Intelligence

Presenting at Washington State University

Michael Boyle

Colorado State University

What is MEV and how could it affect the stability of blockchain consensus mechanisms?

Presenting at Colorado State University

Robert Broberg

University of Pennsylvania

Quantum Network Interface Controller (QNIC)

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Nicole Brown

Univeristy of Colorado

Decoding the molecular computation that underlies learning, cognition, and memory

Presenting at Colorado State University

Jonathan Calvert

Brown University

Development of Intelligent Spinal Interfaces for Phantom Limb Pain

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Nicholas Campbell

University of Colorado-Boulder

Gas Conductivity Manipulation for Next Generation Plasma Flow Control

Presenting at Colorado State University

Jared Chandler

Tufts University

Developing An Automatic Linguist for Binary Protocols

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Suraj Cheema

University of California, Berkeley

Ultrathin Ferroelectric Negative Capacitance: A New Platform for Energy-Efficient Transistors

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Lingwei Chen

Wright State Univesity

Beyond Adversary: Advancing Adversarial Vulnerability of Machine Learning for Supporting Real-world Tasks

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Shuyu Cheng

The Ohio State University

Topological Magnets for Potential Applications in Data Storage

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Allegra A. Beal Cohen

University of Florida

Partially Automated Knowledge Engineering

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Nicole Couto

University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Bottom Ekman-driven heat exchange at the Chukchi shelf break

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

James Crawford

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Leveraging our addiction to single use plastic for carbon capture and storage

Presenting at Colorado State University

Nathan Crookston

Metron

Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Shauna Crowley

AbCellera Biologics

Keeping pace with a pandemic: An integrated technology stack for the fast discovery of antibodies

Presenting at Washington State University

Mathieu Dahan

Georgia Institute of Technology

Strategic Allocation of Heterogeneous Resources to Fortify Complex Networks and Detect Attacks

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Sahar Daraeizadeh

Intel Labs

Machine-Learning-based Automatic and Real-Time Calibration of Quantum Computers

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Blake Davis

Johns Hopkins University

Automated Celestial Navigation System

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Phillip Davis

MRIGlobal

Feature Enginner Sequence Data for Machine Learning Applications

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Jacob Defilippis

University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Understanding & Exploiting Multi-path Propagation in a Complex Medium for Signal Processing

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Joseph DeFranco

Colorado State University

Investigating CWD prion strain propogation following varying routes of prion exposure and their interspecies transmission potential

Presenting at Colorado State University

Dante Disharoon

Case Western Reserve University

Miniaturized Dielectric Coagulometry for Point-of-Care Assessment of Hemostatic Dysfunctions

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Aneesh Dixit

Texas A&M University

Logic Locking Framework for Protecting Critical Microelectronic Assets

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Danny Drury

Colorado School of Mines

High Operating Temperature Ferroelectric Non-Volatile Memory

Presenting at Colorado State University

Ciprian Dumitrache

Colorado State University

Plasma Assisted Combustion Studies for Hypersonic Propulsion

Presenting at Colorado State University

Brian Eckstein

Colorado School of Mines

Assembling Supramolecular Organic Frameworks with Chalcogen Bonds

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Joseph Epperson

University of Texas at Dallas

Enabling unsupervised closed-loop neuromodulation to enhance recovery after neurological injury

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Giovanni Esteves

Sandia National Laboratories

Emerging Ferroelectric Materials for Microelectric Technologies

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Gregory Falco

Johns Hopkins University

A Resilient, Zero-Trust Architecture for Hosted Payloads and Space Infrastructure as a Service: The (ORBITS) Architecture

Presenting at Colorado State University

Laur Ferris

University of Washington

Autonomous sensing of rapidly evolving features of the high-latitude ocean

Presenting at Washington State University

Cindy France

Raytheon Technologies

Multi-Spectral Deception

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu

California Institute of Technology

Building a digital twin of permafrost degradation informed by geophysical and chemical sensing

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Amandine Gamble

University of California, Los Angeles

Predicting epidemiological parameters from laboratory experiments: an illustration with SARS-CoV-2 incubation period

Presenting at Washington State University

Thomas Gartner

Georgia Institute of Technology

Machine learning-enhanced molecular simulation tools for advanced polymer materials

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Walter Gerych

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Recovering The Propensity Score From Biased Positive Unlabeled Data

Presenting at Washington State University

Alok Ghanekar

University of Southern California

Violation of Kirchhoff's Law of Thermal Radiation with Dynamic Permittivity Modulation

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Alan Ghazarians

Leidos, Inc.

Hyperdimensional Encoding for Learning Feature Representations of Sensor Data

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Abraham Gonzalez

University of California, Berkeley

Chipyard: An Open-Source Generator of RISC-V Systems-on-a-chip

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Lakshmi Narasimhan Govindarajan

Brown University

Artificial intelligence guided spinal neuromodulation for restoration of sensorimotor function after spinal cord injury

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Michael Grace

University of Arizona

A Quantum Assist for Computer Vision

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Kevin Grout

BAE Systems, FAST Labs

Hybrid-Integrated Packaged Photonic Oscillator Generating RF using Internal Fast Frequency Synthesis

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Quinton Guerrero

Georgia Tech Research Institute

Fractional Fourier Transformed Prolate Spheroidal Sequence Waveforms for MIMO Systems

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Matt Guidry

University of California, Santa Barbara

Characterization methods and modeling to bring novel semiconductors including N-polar GaN to the next generation of efficiency and linearity

Presenting at Washington State University

Ankur Gupta

University of Colorado-Boulder

Multi-scale Dynamic Simulations of Electrochemically Mediated CO2 Capture

Presenting at Colorado State University

Rohit Gupte

Texas A&M University

A versatile microfluids platform for phenotyping and recovery of single microbial cells from complex natural communities

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Blake Harrison

Arizona State University

Unsupervised Dynamics Learning for Visual Robot Navigation

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Christopher Heidelberger

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Wafer-Scale Heteroepitaxial Photonic Integration

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Rebekah Herrman

University of Tennessee

A Novel Solution to Nondeterministic Polynomial (NP) Graph Problems using Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithms

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Timothy Hoffman

University of Colorado-Boulder

Intracellular crowding by bio-orthogonal hydrogel formation induces reversible molecular stasis

Presenting at Colorado State University

Sanghyun Hong

Oregon State University

Building Secure and Reliable Deep Learning Systems from A Systems Security Perspective

Presenting at Washington State University

Can Huang

Texas A&M University

Adapted biological systems for long-distance universal space-traveling ecosystems (ABSOLUTE)

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Sitao Huang

University of California, Irvine

Python-based High-Level Programming Flow for Efficient Heterogeneous Accelerators

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Syed Rafiul Hussain

The Pennsylvania State University

Automated Reasoning of Security and Privacy of 5G Cellular Networks

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Joel Hypolite

University of Pennsylvania

Organizing AI Strategies Into Systems (OASIS)

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Mohsen Imani

University of California, Irvine

Hyperdimensional Computing for Efficient, Robust, and Secure Cognitive Learning

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Bryce Inman

University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Bacterial Tunneling: A biophysical mechanism mediating fluxes in the marine phycosphere

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

AKM Kamrul Islam

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Classification of Epileptic Seizures from EEG Using Machine Learning Approach

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Zeinab Jahed

University of California, San Diego

AI-assisted, high-thorughput and non-invasive reconstruction of intracellular action potential waveforms

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Waylon Jepsen

Colorado State University

A Theory of Constant Function Market Makers

Presenting at Colorado State University

Jianan Jian

University of Pittsburgh

Penile Erection Induced by Stimulation of Sacral S1/S2 Spinal Roots in Cats

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Sagar Karandikar

University of California, Berkeley

Hyperscale SoC: An open-source hyperscaler-optimized RISC-V server system-on-chip

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Alexander Keesling

QuERA Computing, Inc.

Making quantum computers useful and scalable

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Dakshita Khurana

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Securing Computation Over the Quantum Internet

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Kateryna Kostenkova

Colorado State University

Non-innocent vanadium imidazole-and pyridine-based Schiff base anticancer complexes: synthesis and characterization

Presenting at Colorado State University

Courtney Kurinec

Washington State University

Training specific cognitive skills to mitigate sleep deprivation-related impairments on situational awareness and decision making in dynamic, operationally complex environments

Presenting at Washington State University

Scott Ledgerwood

Colorado State University

Effects of Multiple Sensory Integration on Virtual Reality Training Simulations

Presenting at Colorado State University

Sarah Lehman

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

ISVAR: IN-SITU Edge Case Detection, Patching for Mobile Augmented Reality Systems

Presenting at Washington State University

Tamara Lehman

University of Colorado-Boulder

Security as a First-Class Design Constraint

Presenting at Colorado State University

Manling Li

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Open-World Multimedia Multilingual Event Knowledge Acquisition for Intelligence Analysis and Foraging

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Shaowei Li

University of California, San Diego

Design and Implementation of Hyperdimensional Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Shuang Li

University of California, Los Angeles

Non-convex Optimization for Signal Processing and Machine Learning

Presenting at Colorado State University

Jacob MacWilliams

Colorado State University

Adaptive role of specific toxic secondary metabolites in plant-herbivore interactions

Presenting at Colorado State University

Mahmoud Mahmoud

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Accurate and Privacy-Preserving Person Localization in Large-Scale Camera Surveillance System Using Federated Learning

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Lauren Malsick

Colorado State University

Novel Insights into RNA Decay in Bats and its Role in Disease Tolerance

Presenting at Colorado State University

Katie Martin

Colorado State University

Comparison of different nanoparticles paired with FANA technology for spray-on gene silencing in weeds

Presenting at Colorado State University

Janelle Mason

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Information, Evidence, and Identity: A Computational Framework

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Lucas McCabe

George Washington University

Contagion Source Localization

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Brian McMahon

Georgia Tech Research Institute

Ultra-Compact, Transparent Penning Trap for Quantum Applications

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Akanksha Menon

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atmospheric Water Harvesting using Inorganic-Organic Composite Materials

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Arya Menon

Texas A&M University

Bioinspired Hardware-Software Co-Design for Intelligent High-Frequency Active Sensors

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Anders Miltner

University of Texas at Austin

Program Verification Through Practical Program Synthesis

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Kerry-Ann Mitchell

The Ohio State University

Biocompatible Cranial Implant for Embedding Neurotechnological Devices

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Jamal Molin

Northrup Grumman

INSITE - Interdisciplinary Neuromorphic Sensory Integration on The Edge

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Matthew Molineaux

Parallax Advanced Research

Agent-Directed Learning

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Britany Morgan

University of Tennessee

INFERNO: Introduction of Novel Foliar Engineering to Reduce Nefarious Oxidation

Presenting at Colorado State University

Rachel Mugge

University of Southern Mississippi

Microbiome Signal Propagation of Marine Biofilms from Steel Structures on the Seabed

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Max Murphy

Carnegie Mellon University

Bridging Information with Neural Devices (BIND)

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Vidya Muthukumar

Georgia Institute of Technology

Data-adaptive algorithms for learning in the presence of strategic behavior

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Jake Nelson

Auburn University

The destabilizing force of exceeding urban carrying capacity under a changing climate

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Byung-Doh Oh

The Ohio State University

Unified Unsupervised Grammar Induction for Typologically Diverse Languages

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Kevin Okun

University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Semidiurnal inner shelf flow in the Southern California Bight

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Priyadarshini Panda

Yale University

Energy-aware and Robust Distributed Learning for Extreme Edge Efficiency

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Joon-Suh Park

Harvard University

Mass-Producible, Large-Diameter, All-Glass Metalens Operating at Visible Wavelength for 10 cm Aperture Optics and Beyond

Presenting at Colorado State University

C. Andrew Parlier

University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

New Instruments to Measure Small-Scale Flows and Mixing in the Ocean

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Deepak Pathak

Carnegie Mellon University

Towards Continually Learning Robots In The Wild

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Ahmad Patooghy

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Reliable Embedded Systems for Real-Time Near Sensor Data Processing

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Nicholas Paul

Soar Technology, Inc.

Urban Reconnaissance through Supervised Autonomy (URSA)

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Devon Payne

Montana State University

Biomining of trace metals from pyrite by primitive archaea

Presenting at Washington State University

Vitor Manuel Parreira Pereira

SRI International

Real-world Software Engineering Applications of Verified Cryptographic Code

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Christopher Peterson

Georgia Tech Research Institute

Symmetry-breaking and symmetry-protection in electromagnetic structures

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Lisa Poulikakos

University of California, San Diego

Colorimetric Metasurfaces for Next-Generation, On-Chip Disease Surveillance

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Nikunjkumar Prajapati

NIST

Advancing the Sensitivity of the Rydberg Atom Based Electric Field Sensor

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Pranav SJB Rana

The Ohio State University

Establishment of wound infection models for assessment of therapeutic agents

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Brandon Reagen

New York University

Enabling Practical Privacy Preserving Computing with Hardware-Software Codesign

Presenting at Washington State University

Peter Renner

Texas A&M University

High-Performance Metal-ceramic Hybrid Coatings for Extreme Conditions

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Savannah Rocha

Colorado State University

Development of artificial intelligence neural networks for high throughput quantification of cellular pathology associated with neurotoxic central nervous system injury

Presenting at Colorado State University

Rachael Ryan

James Cook University

Inhalable helminth protein biologics to supress pathogen-induced lung inflammation

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Ahmed Saeed

Georgia Institute of Technology

Improving the Performance and Robutness of LEO Satellite Networks

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Anoop Sathyan

University of Cincinnati

Genetic Fuzzy Based Explainable AI towards Assured Autonomy

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Albert Schmitz

Intel Labs

Measurement-free Quantum Error Correction as a Quantum Digital Entropy Pump

Presenting at Washington State University

Ujjal Didar Singh Sekhon

Haima Therapeutics

Nanoscale Mimicry of Platelet Functions to Design Synthetic Intravenous Hemostats for Bleeding Control

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Madhuri Siddula

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Privacy enhanced recommendation system for a context aware location trajectory-based service in a Mobile Social Network

Presenting at Georgia Institute of Technology

Lillian Skeiky

Washington State University

Increased Resilience to Sleep Loss: Uncovering Mechanisms Underlying Efficiency in Banking Sleep

Presenting at Washington State University

Chelsey Smith

MRIGlobal

Development of a paper-based, equipment-free CRISPR assay

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Tyler Sodia

Colorado School of Mines

Next Generation Optical Sensors - Modular Nanoparticles for Laboratory and Field Testing

Presenting at Colorado State University

Sarath Sreedharan

Colorado State University

Building Human-Aware AI Agents for Naturalistic Collaboration

Presenting at Colorado State University

Srivasta Rangachar Srinivasa

Intel Labs

Process and Platform Technology (3D-IC) aware AI system architectures

Presenting at Washington State University

Michael Stager

Colorado School of Mines

Methods and Application of Anti-inflammatory Photopolymerized Zwitterionic Hydrogels

Presenting at Colorado State University

Alexander Steele

University of Houston

Decoding the language of the spinal cord using non-invasive methods

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Jiefeng Sun

Colorado State University

Programmable Shape-Shifting Soft Robots Driven by Twisted-and Coiled Actuators

Presenting at Colorado State University

Cooper Svajda

Texas A&M University

The Strategic Case for Computational Protein Design (CPD)

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Issa Tamer

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Next-generation laser operation using diode-pumped Tm:YLF

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Xiaochuan Tang

Colorado State University

Development of low work function oxides for thermionic energy conversion

Presenting at Colorado State University

Kevin Tangen

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Extension of SIGMA+ System to Greenhouse Gas and Health Equity Monitoring

Presenting at Washington State University

Justin Toole

Colorado State University

Corrosion of Two-dimensional (2D) Semiconductors

Presenting at Colorado State University

Damiano Torre

Texas A&M University

Impact analysis of the vulnerabilities of AI-based techniques used to detect cybersecurity attacks

Presenting at Texas A&M University

James Trevathan

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Development of an Injectable Electrode for Dorsal Root Ganglis Stimulation in the Treatment of Pain

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Caroline Trippel

Stanford University

Scalable Assurance via Formal and Verifiable Hardware-Software Contracts

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Colin Trout

Johns Hopkins University

Harnessing the Power of Quantum: Classical Supercomputer Design for Controlling a Quantum Computer

Presenting at Washington State University

Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner

Intel Labs

The Rise of Memory-Safe Languages: Building a Secure and Peformant Hardware/Software

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Sindhu Vangeti

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Preparing for the next respiratory viral pandemic

Presenting at Washington State University

Vasudha Varadarajan

Stony Brook University

Detecting Dissonant Stance in Social Media: The Role of Topic Exposure

Presenting at Colorado State University

Shivam Vedant

Texas A&M University

Next-Gen Secure, Sustainable, and Resilient US Energy and Manufacturing Supply Chain

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Jelena Vicic

University of California, San Diego

Understanding Cyber Escalation: The Use of Experiments Informed by Wargaming for Studying Dynamics of State Interactions in Cyberspace Short of Armed Conflict

Presenting at University of California, San Diego

Nathan Wages

Wright State Univesity

Improving Neural Response to Fatigue-Induced Motor Performance

Presenting at The Ohio State University

Boya Wang

University of Texas at Austin

Dynamic DNA Storage

Presenting at Texas A&M University

Xiaoguang (William) Wang

The Ohio State University

Design of Nanomaterials for Absorption and Conversaion of Radiant Energy