Friday, January 31, 2025

Stanford HAI Funds Groundbreaking AI Research Projects







Stanford HAI is pleased to announce the recipients of the latest Seed Research Grant awards. The seventh cohort of this program represents all seven Stanford schools and more than 31 academic departments. In the coming months, these teams of scholars will explore the possibilities of AI technology in diverse fields, including organizational culture, AI for science, cybersecurity, neuroscience, and robotics.

Supported initially by Steve and Roberta Denning and for four years by Dalio Philanthropies, seed grants are awarded to speculative ideas at the frontier of AI research. Funding aligns with the institute’s three research imperatives: human impact, augmenting human capabilities, and intelligence. And since HAI receives such a wide range of proposals each year, the program has become a recognized bellwether for the future of AI.

New for the 2024/25 program, Stanford HAI awarded an additional $10,000 for select projects that have a public policy component. The funding will support these research teams in conducting policy activities, such as holding workshops and developing briefs that will amplify their research findings among policy audiences.
Also for the first time, Stanford HAI is co-funding two projects with the Center for Digital Health: “Empowering Patients with AI: LLM-Based Summarization of Clinical Reports for Patient Experience Improvement” and “Shuno: Accessible and Joyful Hearing Health Monitoring.”

This year’s funded projects include:

Democratizing Structural Biology and Protein Design with Multimodal AI
Possu Huang, assistant professor of bioengineering, aims to enhance our understanding of protein structures through an interdisciplinary, human-centered AI approach. By leveraging large language models (LLMs), bridging the gap between text and protein modalities, and integrating their lab's protein generative models and evaluation metrics, this team of researchers aims to create a user-friendly, natural-language interface for interacting with protein structures and design tools. This work will facilitate a broad-scale comparison of methods and the development of new ways to design proteins using computer simulations.

(Re)presenting the H in HAI: A Disability Justice Evaluation of AI Detection Tools

Alfredo Artiles, a professor of education and an expert on disability and inclusive education, is leading a two-part study to improve research methods for the protection of disability rights with respect to AI. The first phase involves a literature review of how AI researchers conceptualize the human figure, focusing specifically on (dis)ability representation in natural language processing research. In the second phase, Artiles and colleagues will evaluate the behavior of AI detectors on text written by neurotypical college students compared with essays written by neurodivergent students. Common AI detection tools will be used to evaluate whether the essays were AI-generated or composed by humans. Finally, the team will use its findings to create a toolkit to assist individuals in pursuing recourse and reparations for infringement of their rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

AI-Driven Drought Indicators for Sustainable Urban Water Policy

Led by Sarah Fletcher, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and a center fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, this team plans to develop an AI-driven approach to mitigate the increasing risk of drought in urban environments. Drought planning presents a challenge because current indicators of drought are developed ad hoc and not tested rigorously or updated frequently. Moreover, there are many variables to consider and many available scales to measure them. To solve this problem, the researchers will integrate a water management simulation model into a reinforcement-learning framework, guided by stakeholder engagement.

In-the-Wild Multimodal Data Collection for Compliant Assistive Robot Skill Acquisition

As the world population ages and demand for daily care increases, traditional support systems will become inadequate to meet the needs of elderly populations. Assistive household robots may help address this gap, particularly ones capable of imitation learning that leverages human demonstrations. However, deploying AI technologies in robotic systems faces a fundamental challenge: data scarcity. Mark Cutkosky, professor of mechanical engineering, has assembled a team that’s developing a low-cost, scalable solution to augment standard Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) records with tactile data to provide multimodal information that can enhance the precision, robustness, and safety of robotic systems for the home.

Since its founding, Stanford HAI has provided approximately $14 million in seed grants that have attracted an additional $25 million in external funding. “This multiplier effect validates the program’s ability to identify promising early-stage research in AI,” said HAI Director of Research Programs Vanessa Parli.



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Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Four Illinois researchers receive Presidential Early Career Award








CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Four researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were named recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young professionals at the outset of their independent research careers.

The winners this year are health and kinesiology professor Marni Boppart, physics professor Barry Bradlyn, chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Ying Diao and computer scienceprofessor Edgar Solomonik.
Professor Marni Boppart Photo by Michelle Hassel Boppart is the Saul J. Morse and Anne B. Morgan Professor in Applied Health Sciences and studies molecular and cellular mechanisms responsible for the health benefits of exercise. This information is then used to develop novel cell- and pharmacological-based interventions that can prevent or treat loss of muscle mass and function with age. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Allen Distinguished Investigator Award, the Beckman Institute Vision and Spirit Award and the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the College of Applied Health Sciences. She is a fellow of the American Physiological Society and of the American College of Sports Medicine. Boppart also is affiliated with cell and developmental biology, the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.
Professor Barry Bradlyn Photo by Fred ZwickyBradlyn studies theoretical condensed matter physics, specializing in topological phases of matter. His research centers on geometry and topology in solid-state systems, focusing on how we can use these mathematical tools to identify and understand new exotic quantum materials. He is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow and has been awarded an Air Force Young Investigator Award, an NSF Career Award and the McMillian Award.
Professor Ying DiaoPhoto by Michelle Hassel
Diao’s research focuses on understanding the assembly of functional polymers and innovating printing approaches that enable structural control down to the molecular and nanoscale to enable next-generation electronics and greener energy. She has received many awards for her work. She was named to the list of Technology Review Innovators Under 35 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry, a NASA Early Career Faculty Award and the AIChE Allen P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications. Diao also is affiliated with chemistry, materials science and engineering, the Beckman Institute and the Materials Research Laboratory at Illinois.
Professor Edgar SolomonikPhoto courtesy Edgar Solomonik
Solomonik studies the design of efficient algorithms for numerical problems, with a focus on tensor computations, a class of challenging calculations characterized by many parameters and unknown variables. Tensors provide a mathematical framework for solving complex and data-intensive problems prevalent in physics, chemistry and other scientific domains. Solomonik is the recipient of many awards, including The Grainger College of Engineering Dean’s Excellence in Research Award, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Supercomputing Early Career Prize, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Early Career Researchers Excellence Award in High Performance Computing.


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Friday, January 24, 2025

School public engagement efforts recognised at King's Engaged Research Awards 2025







The Awards ceremony brought together over 130 staff, students and community partners to celebrate best practices in public and community engagement with research at King’s.

Professor Tomoki Arichi, Head of the Research Department of Early Life Imaging at the School, won the Communicating Research: Local prize for his workshops on the Developing Brain, along with partners at the Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre including Leila Hadiyat, Claudia Gracia and Fatemeh Mozaffar.

The workshops, which focus on early brain development and differences in children with neurodevelopmental conditions, were co-developed by researchers, clinicians and the Public Engagement team at our School, and Coin Street Centre. This was a response to local families’ desire to learn more about why some children develop differently and to understand the research behind it.

Overwhelmingly positive feedback has helped to build new bridges with the local community in the form of further workshops and interactive collaboration.

We are delighted and proud to have received this award for the series of workshops about brain development and neurodevelopmental conditions at the Coin Street Community Centre on the Southbank. It was only possible through working closely with our fantastic public engagement team, the incredible, dedicated Coin Street staff, and the KCL researchers and NHS colleagues who all gave up their time for the workshops. We found it very rewarding to see how the local community of families and healthcare workers engaged in every session and look forward to working with them more in the future.Professor Tomoki Arichi, Head of the Research Department of Early Life Imaging at the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences

The School's Community Engagement Officer Deanne Naula won the Outstanding Individual - Professional Services prize for her exceptional contribution to the public engagement space at King's. Noting Deanne's achievement, the School's public engagement co-lead, Professor Alexander Hammers said, "Deanne has made the most remarkable progress in reaching out to communities that do not traditionally engage with science... [she] is thus making very important contributions to societal acceptance of science and removing the "ivory tower" image of universities in their own local communities.”

It’s a real honour to receive this award as the other nominees are spectacular! It’s also really important for not only community engagement activities to be recognised, but also the work it takes to make them happen, the soft warm bits that don’t always make it into the reports but ensure healthy, equitable, mutually beneficial relationships that underpin great engagement. It has taken me 4 dedicated years to get to this point - meeting and working with a lot of great people along the way and I have loved every minute!Deanne Naula, Community Engagement Officer at the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences


Staff members at the School were also nominated for their noteworthy efforts to create impactful, holistic and multidisciplinary initiatives that drive collaborative and innovative solutions in service to society.

The 'What Does Radiotherapy Mean to You?' project was recognised in the Collaboration (Global) category. Led by Lisa Whittaker and Liane Harris, the project brought together 13 people who have had radiotherapy, their family members/carers, radiation researchers and a therapeutic radiographer to engage in creative practices to answer the aforementioned question. Also nominated in the Collaboration category was the partnership between the Coin Street community and the School's Centre for Medical Engineering, led by Deanne Naula.

Dr Samantha Terry, winner of the Communicating Research award in 2024, was nominated for the Outstanding Individual (Established Academic) prize this year for her activities across a number of platforms aimed at supporting the local community as well as patients with experience of radiotherapy and their loved ones. Also on the Outstanding Individual shortlist was Alice Taylor-Gee, Senior Public Engagement Manager at the School, for enabling 1480 academics and professional staff to develop and participate in over 250 engagement activities through training, funding support and facilitated activity.



To have 6 projects shortlisted in the King's Engaged Research Awards, and then winning two of those, is fantastic! It is so important to have recognition for all the excellent engagement work we do within our School, so the event was a great opportunity to celebrate alongside our researchers together with our community and patient groups.Alice Taylor-Gee, Senior Public Engagement Manager, BMEIS


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Thursday, January 23, 2025

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Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Collaborative Science Pilot Awards to accelerate five promising research projects







To encourage and advance team science between clinical and basic science faculty, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals (UH) jointly funded five research teams engaged in new and promising scientific studies.
The Collaborative Science Pilot Awards, a program supported by the CWRU-UH Joint Strategic Leadership Committee, recently awarded each team $50,000 with the possibility of receiving additional funding as substantial research progress is made and scientific milestones are met.

Established two years ago, the awards program aims to inspire innovative research projects across Case Western Reserve and UH. The awards leverage the evolution of scientific endeavors in which research is shifting to teams, promoting collaboration to more effectively move science forward.

“Collaboration and mentorship are essential for the advancement of science, innovation and medicine,” said Stan Gerson, dean and senior vice president for medical affairs at the School of Medicine and director of the National Center for Regenerative Medicine at Case Western Reserve. “We are very pleased to see more proposals submitted by senior investigator and early-career faculty together this year. The interdisciplinary mentorship and collaboration that transpires across research and clinical enterprises facilitates problem-solving, enables the navigation of challenges and provides the support and guidance necessary for researchers at all career levels to thrive.”

The funding awarded in late 2024 builds on an initiative launched in 2023 when the School of Medicine and UH formed five groups focused on five key research areas: infection, immune response and immunotherapy; cancer; brain health; genetics, genomic and genetic therapeutics; and health services.

A scientific committee of leading investigators evaluated a record number of proposals submitted by research teams last year.


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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Two UD researchers receive presidential career awards








Two University of Delaware researchers — Tingyi Gu and Kevin Solomon — have received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). It is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers, according to the announcement by the White House on Jan. 14.

“On behalf of the entire University community, congratulations to Tingyi and Kevin on this very prestigious honor. This is a testament to their pioneering accomplishments and exceptional potential for leadership in driving research and innovation for the benefit of society,” President Dennis Assanis said. “We are proud to have among our ranks such distinguished faculty members at UD, and we look forward to their continued success.”

Gu, an associate professor in UD’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is working on next-generation optical communications that would enable the exchange of messages at the speed of light. Her research focuses on developing integrated photonic devices, which are built using tiny chips that process and transmit particles of light versus electrons. They are faster, use less energy, and are much smaller than traditional electronic circuits. Potential applications range from creating more reliable, less-intensive forms of computer memory, to improving the precision imaging critical to biomedical scans or avoiding collisions for driverless cars or even navigating in space. Gu and her team did the space experiments with miniaturized optical input/output (I/O) components, validating these nanoscale devices for navigation and remote sensing.

The research being pursued by Kevin Solomon, the Thomas and Kipp Gutshall Career Development Associate Professor in UD’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is inspired by nature — in particular, microorganisms — which he heralds as “the most innovative chemists.” He is working to characterize and harness the capabilities of these tiny organisms to address challenges in sustainability, human health and food safety. A focus of his research is to create novel gene editing techniques that will accelerate the development of new industry platforms for fields ranging from drug development to biofuel manufacturing.

Established by President Clinton in 1996, PECASE recognizes scientists and engineers who show exceptional potential for leadership early in their research careers. The award recognizes innovative and far-reaching developments in science and technology, expands awareness of careers in science and engineering, recognizes the scientific missions of participating agencies, enhances connections between research and impacts on society, and highlights the importance of science and technology for our nation’s future.

This year’s nearly 400 awardees are employed or funded by 14 participating agencies within the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Interior, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs and the Environmental Protection Agency, the intelligence community, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution.



Gu was recognized for the PECASE through the recommendation of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research — she received the Young Investigator Award in 2017, and Solomon was recognized through the National Science Foundation, where he received the NSF CAREER Award in 2022.



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Friday, January 17, 2025

Technology Industries of Finland Centennial Foundation awards €880,000 for innovative research at Tampere University

 



The Technology Industries of Finland Centennial Foundation has granted a total of €2.9 million for six research projects. Two of these projects are conducted at Tampere University under the supervision of Professor Leena Ukkonen and University Lecturer Jarkko Valjakka from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology (MET).

This marks the ninth time the Technology Industries of Finland Centennial Foundation has invited grant proposals under its Future Makers programme, which is geared towards enhancing the long-term competitiveness of technology industries in Finland. This programme supports ambitious research projects that combine world-leading research with new strategic growth initiatives.

At Tampere University, Professor of Electronics Leena Ukkonen and University Lecturer in Biomedicine Jarkko Valjakka received grants in the latest funding call under the Future Makers programme.


New method for repairing tissue damage


The project titled “Integration of Cells and Self-Healing Polymer for Regenerative Tissue Engineering (REGENESIS)”, led by Professor Leena Ukkonen, received €635,000 in grant funding. The project partners include Professor Susanna Miettinen from Tampere University and Senior Research Fellow Jari Juuti from the University of Oulu.

The multidisciplinary REGENESIS project aims to develop a new bionic material technology that combines human cells with a self-healing polymer to create functional human tissue. This innovative technology will enable the replacement and regeneration of human body parts.

Given the impact of accidents, diseases, natural disasters, ageing and lifestyle factors on people’s physical capabilities, the global demand for bionic human spare parts is substantial. Currently, no technology can restore movement by fusing regenerative and self-healing structures to the human body on a cellular level.

“In the REGENESIS project, we are studying a self-healing polymeric material developed by researchers at the University of Oulu that mimics human tissue: if damaged, this material is capable of restoring its structure without any external energy or guidance. Our research is based on a novel combination of innovative self-healing polymers, advanced cell technologies and wireless biosensor technologies, enabling the creation of bionic components that are genuinely integrated into the human body,” Ukkonen says.

Professor Ukkonen’s research group will focus on integrating wireless biosensor technologies into the self-healing polymeric material, while the group led by Professor Susanna Miettinen will investigate the integration of human cells into the self-healing material. Researchers at the University of Oulu will oversee the development of the self-healing polymer. The three-year REGENESIS project will begin on 1 March 2025 and conclude on 28 February 2028.


Towards more low-cost CO2 capture


Jarkko Valjakka received €245,000 for his project, which studies enzymes that are designed for capturing carbon dioxide and converting it into useful products, with the goal of developing a more cost-effective method for capturing CO2 emissions from industrial processes. This will be achieved by using a combination of carbonic anhydrase and formate dehydrogenase to convert carbon dioxide directly into industrial raw materials.

“Finland is committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2050. We, the project partners, strongly believe that enzymatic methods will attract growing commercial interest in the environmental technology sector,” Valjakka says.   

During the project, the researchers will develop a modular system based on the SpyTag-SpyCatcher method, which joins enzymes together with natural covalent isopeptide bonds. This conjugation of carbonic anhydrase and formate dehydrogenase enhances not only structural durability but also the synergistic effect of the enzymes.

“The enzymes we investigate are powerful natural catalysts. Using them for carbon dioxide capture and conversion will enable further processing of the resulting raw materials in collaboration with industry,” Valjakka adds.

The project is connected to the EU’s Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) initiative, which studies the pilot-scale validation of these enzymatic processes.


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Monday, January 6, 2025

CAHNR Recognizes Research Success at Annual Event

 

Chief of Staff Michelle Williams (left), CAHNR Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education Kumar Venkitanarayanan (center), and Head of the Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science Paulo Verardi (right)

The College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR) recently celebrated another year of innovative research during an event organized by Kumar Venkitanarayanan, CAHNR’s associate dean for research and graduate education, and his team.

“These grants support projects that address critical issues in sustainable agriculture, human, animal, and environmental health, and many other areas,” says Indrajeet Chaubey, CAHNR dean. “They also support the goal that underlies everything we do at CAHNR: to find solutions that benefit communities here in Connecticut and far beyond.”


In fiscal year 2024, CAHNR faculty secured $34.5 million in new research awards, underscoring the continued impact and importance of their work. This achievement marks a significant trajectory of growth. Since 2019, CAHNR’s annual research funding has grown from $20.7 million. Additionally, research expenditures reached a five-year high at nearly $34.9 million.

“I am immensely proud of our faculty and staff whose dedication and innovation contributed to the incredible success in securing grants” says Venkitanarayanan. “It is a testament of the impact of their research in advancing the frontiers of knowledge and solving real-world challenges.”

The celebration brought together leaders from across UConn, including Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Pamir Alpay and Chief of Staff Michelle Williams, to recognize the faculty’s accomplishments.                                                                                   

“CAHNR continues to embrace UConn’s proud history as an agricultural school while building programs and conducting research into the fields that are changing the world for the better,” says Alpay.


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Friday, January 3, 2025

Fellow of the Year and Mentor of the Year awards announced

 At an event held Dec. 5, Jennifer Woo, Ph.D., of the Chronic Disease Epidemiology Group, and Alexandra White, Ph.D., head of the Environment and Cancer Epidemiology Group, were awarded Fellow of the Year and Mentor of the Year honors, respectively.

The prestigious awards, which are presented each year to recipients nominated and chosen by NIEHS scientists, staff, and trainees, celebrate individuals who have made particularly noteworthy contributions to research and service to others.

Fellow of the Year

The Office of Fellows’ Career Development (OFCD) coordinates the selection of Fellow of the Year by creating a committee that chooses the winner. The award recognizes exceptional performance. This year, Woo, an Intramural Research Training Award postdoctoral fellow, was nominated by Dale Sandler, Ph.D., chief of the Epidemiology Branch.


Woo studies the effects of early-life trauma and early-life social environments on the risk for chronic disease later in life, primarily autoimmune disease and breast cancer, along with the epigenetic pathways that may connect exposures to these outcomes. Recently, she began studying the effects of extreme heat and the risk of developing systemic lupus erythematosus. This research is funded by the 2024 Office of Autoimmune Disease Research-Office of Research on Women’s Health Fellowship.

“The NIEHS Fellow of the Year Award means the world to me,” said Woo, who started her postdoc fellowship in June 2020 during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. She said that she was determined to build a community among the Epidemiology Branch fellows as they navigated the remote workplace.

“I am truly humbled to be recognized for my research and service to NIEHS and greatly appreciate the supportive mentorship by Dr. Sandler, who has facilitated my growth over the past four-and-a-half years.”

Mentor of the Year

Presented by the NIEHS Trainees Assembly, the Mentor of the Year award honors an NIEHS scientist who has made a major impact both scientifically and personally in the training of fellows and students. Beginning in 2015, White started mentoring NIEHS trainees — a passion she holds to this day as an Earl Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator and head of the Environment and Cancer Epidemiology Group. She was nominated by trainees Jennifer Ish, Ph.D., and Che-Jung Chang, Ph.D.

Dale Sandler, Ph.D., center, celebrates with Jennifer Woo, Ph.D., left, and Alexandra White, Ph.D., right 
Sandler, center, celebrates with Woo, left, and White, right, during the Dec. 5 awards ceremony. (Photo courtesy of Steve McCaw / NIEHS)

“Mentoring is the best part of my job,” said White, who has served as an advisor to approximately a dozen trainees. “I love working with students, and I've been lucky that I’ve had such great trainees come through my research group.”

White’s research is focused on understanding environmental contributors to cancer development in women. She seeks to learn how exposure to environmental chemicals, such as those from air pollution or personal care products, relates to a woman's risk of developing breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer.

“It's my privilege to be able to work with trainees, who bring their own skills and interests, and to build our research together.”

(Erica Hinton is a contract writer for the NIEHS Office of Communications and Public Liaison.)


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