Notes on New Research
KEN ANDERSON received a $25,000 grant from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for
his research in Experimental Data Management for the Process Development and Integration
Laboratory.
RICHARD BYRD and XIAO-CHUAN CAI received a $249,000 NSF award to study Scalable
Optimization Algorithms for Systems Governed by Multi-Physics PDEs.
CAI is also an investigator on two other NSF projects: Nonlinear Preconditioning Techniques for
ANDRZEJ EHRENFEUCHT, MICHAEL MAIN and GRZEGORZ ROZENBERG have been conducting
DIRK GRUNWALD received funding for two new projects in 2009: Enhancing Configuration
LIZ JESSUP and CLAYTON LEWIS have received $18,000 to implement An Alliance between
Historically black Universities and Research Universities for Collaborative Education and
LIZ JESSUP also received an NSF grant and REU supplement of $256,000 for Taxonomy for the
MICHAEL MAIN received funding from the Engineering Excellence fund for a pilot project on
Jane Mulligan received two research awards totaling $96,000 from Flashback Technologies to
ALEX REPENNING is working on a $1.5 million NSF project, Strategies: Reforming IT Education
through Game Design: Integrating Technology-Hub, Inner City, Rural and Remote Regions,
SRIRAM SANKARANARAYANAN is also our most recent recipient of an NSF CAREER Award.
JEREMY SIEK, a joint member of the computer science faculty and electrical, computer, and
energy engineering, received an NSF CAREER award for his project Bridging the Gap Between
KATIE SIEK a received $610,000 NSF CAREER Award for her work on Health Bridge:
HENRY TUFO has received a total of $1.65 million from two DOE grants: Petascale Atmospheric