 Professor
Michael Zachariah (Mechanical engineering [ME]) is part of a research team that won
a $7.5 million Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Award from the Department
of Defense to research ways to design energetic materials that are more stable, reliable,
and less vulnerable. Zachariah will work with principal investigator Richard A. Yetter
from Pennsylvania State University and researchers from Princeton University, Purdue
University, and Georgia Institute of Technology.
 Professor Shihab Shamma (electrical and computer engineering
[ECE] and the Institute for Systems Research [ISR], pictured) is the principal investigator
on a five-year, $4.1 million project funded by the European Research Council’s Advanced
Grants Program. He is working with the Ecole Normale Supérieure and co-PI
Daniel Pressnitzer,
a researcher at the Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception of the Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique. “ADAM: The Adaptive Auditory Mind” experimentally investigates
a radically novel view of hearing, where active hearing emerges from a deep interplay
between adaptive sensory processes and goal-directed cognition.
 ME professor Jaydev P. Desai (pictured) and
David J. Foran, director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging & Informatics at the
Cancer Institute of New Jersey, will lead a cross-disciplinary team of researchers
in a five-year, $1.6 million project. They will develop new approaches and technologies
to provide insight into the underlying mechanisms associated with disease onset
and progression in breast cancer, not available using traditional assessment techniques.
 Five
Clark School professors have won Defense University Research Instrumentation Program
(DURIP) funding to support the purchase of research instrumentation:
• Assistant Professor Anya Jones (aerospace engineering [AE], pictured) for
“Equipment for the Study of Micro Air Vehicle Gust Response”
• Professor P. S. Krishnaprasad (ECE/ISR) for “Testbed for Synthesis of Collective
Behavior from Fundamental Building Blocks”
• Associate Professor Raymond Sedwick (AE) for “Development of a Dusty Plasma
Bombardment Source Using Laser Ablation”
• Assistant Professor Edo Waks (ECE) for “Terahertz Source and Measurement for
Spectroscopy, Communications, Sensing”
• Professor Michael Zachariah (ME) for “Measurement System for Energetic Materials
Decomposition.” |
