FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS FOR FOR GRANTS/CONTRACTS INITIATED IN FISCAL YEAR 2009 (June 2008 - May 2009)

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Office of the Dean

Dr. James Tien

NSF: SEEDS AT UM: Scientists and Engineers Expanding Diversity and Success at the University of Miami

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Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Jorge Bohorquez

Technical Entrepreneurship Program in the College of Engineering at UMiami

Dr. Barry Lieber

2008 Summer Bioengineering Conference Flow Divertors to Cure Cerebral Aneurysms

Dr. Fabrice Manns

Minority Predoctoral Fellowship Program

Dr. Weizhao Zhao

Image Guided Robotic Orthopedic Surgery Image Analysis of MRI for Evaluation of Alzheimer's Disease

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Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering

Dr. James Englehardt

Development of a Predictive Bayesian Data-Derived Multi-Modal Gaussian Maximum Likelihood Model of Sunken Oil Mass

Dr. Antonio Nanni

CRC for Repair of Buildings and Bridges with Composites (3rd Year)

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Xiaodong Cai

Cooperative Multihop Wireless Communications and Networking: Joint Design of Error Control Codes, Media Access, and Routing Algorithms (Year 3) Career: Stochastic Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Gene Networks

Dr. Zhenhua Jiang

Career: Reconfigurable, Multilayer, Intelligent Agent Based Control Paradigm for Electric Power Microgrids Development of a Reconfigurable Microgrid Test Bed for Resilient and Sustainable Energy Systems Research and Education Hierarchical Integration and Control of Distributed Energy Resources

Dr. Manohar N. Murthi

Career: Agile Speech & Audio Transmission Over Heterogenous Networks

Dr. Shahriar Negahdaripour

Sensing Fusion for Underwater Scene Recovery Acquisition of Two Blue View Sonar Cameras for Stereo Imaging

Dr. Mei-Ling Shyu

Data Integration and Data Mining Support for Tropical Cyclone Integrated Observing Systems Hurricane Loss and Projection Model Systems Support for the Development and Simulation of Tropical Cyclone Numerical Models in a Cluster System

Dr. Akmal Younis

Grid-enabled Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Industrial Engineering

Dr. Shihab Asfour

University of Miami Industrial Assessment Center Technologies Solar Photovoltaic (SPV), Two-Speed, & Variable-Speed Pool Pumps at Ten Residential Homes.

Dr. Tarek Khalil

Occupational Safety and Health Training Grant

Dr. Joseph Sharit

Center on Research and Education for Aging and Technology (Year 4)

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Dr. Qingda Yang

XFEM Development and Its Application on Damage Initiation of Composite Materials

Dr. Ge-Cheng Zha

Targeting Flow Non-Linearity of Fluid-Structural Interactions Using Detached Eddy Simulation of Turbulence (Year 3)

Dr. Xiangyang Zhou

Identification and Validation of Analytical Chemistry Methods for Detecting Surface Contamination and Water Moisture  Development and Study of Mediator-enhanced Polymer Electrolyte Supercapacitors  Development and STudy of Self-Sustained Electrochemical Promotion Catalysts for Hydrocarbon Reforming