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Project Title   Project Code   Principal Investigator   Research Category   Project Type   Project Status  
Climbing over Energy Barriers: A New Paradigm for Accelerating Kinetics 19-DR-001 Christine Orme Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Disruptive Research Continuing
Advanced Manufacturing of Net-Shape Leading Edge Geometries for Hypersonic Flight 19-DR-002 James Cahill Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Disruptive Research Continuing
Understanding Material Strength Variabilities and Uncertainties for Component Qualification 17-ERD-029 Jeffrey Florando Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Final
Rapid Closed-Loop Control of Additive Manufacturing with Machine Learning 17-ERD-037 Brian Giera Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Final
In Situ Diagnostics for Accelerated Fabrication and Manufacturing of Advanced Materials 17-ERD-042 Jonathan Lee Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Final
Functional Photoresists for Energy Applications 18-ERD-004 Juergen Biener Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Final
Porous Metals via Ice Templating 18-ERD-032 Michael Bagge-Hansen Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
Influence of Process Parameters and Alloy Composition on Crack Mitigation in Selective Laser Melting 18-ERD-057 Bey Vrancken Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Final
Transforming Living Materials into Chemical Reactors 19-ERD-005 Fang Qian Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
Acoustic and Electromagnetic Characterization for Accelerated Development of Additive Manufacturing 19-ERD-008 David Stobbe Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
Advanced Photopolymer Materials Engineering for Multiscale Additive Fabrication 19-ERD-012 Maxim Shusteff Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
Materials with Embedded Microstructural Logic 19-ERD-018 Robert Panas Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
Glass Inks for Three-Dimensional Printed Fiber Preforms and Telescope Optics 19-ERD-020 Rebecca Dylla-Spears Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Imaging via X-Ray Reflectometry and Phase-Contrast Computed Tomography 19-ERD-022 Kadri Aditya Mohan Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
Exascale-Ready Modeling to Predict Recrystallization in High-Temperature Materials 19-ERD-026 Tomas Oppelstrup Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
Characterizing Materials for Quantum Computing 20-ERD-010 Yaniv Rosen Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
Laser Processing of Solid-State Lithium Batteries 20-ERD-018 Jianchao Ye Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
High Energy Density Supercapacitors 20-ERD-019 Marcus Worsley Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
Super-Strong, Micrometer-Thin Carbon Nanotube Yarns 20-ERD-023 Xavier Lepro Chavez Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
Ultrathick Boron Carbide Coatings 20-ERD-029 Sergei Kucheyev Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
Accelerated Multi-Modal Manufacturing Optimization 20-ERD-036 Adam Jaycox Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
Mid- and High-Z Doping of High Purity, Density Tunable Amorphous Carbon Films on Complex Geometries 20-ERD-042 Steven Falabella Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
Developing an Understanding and Control of Electrochemical Deposition Processes for Functional Coatings on Complex Three-Dimensionally Printed Substrates 20-ERD-056 Nikola Dudukovic Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
Magnetostrictive Materials for Enhanced Sensors and Electronic Components 20-ERD-059 Scott McCall Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing In-Process Monitoring and Optimization Using Thermionic Emission Detection 19-FS-037 Aiden Martin Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Feasibility Study Final
Sculpting Non-Machinable Porous Materials 20-FS-004 Leonardus Bimo Bayu Aji Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Feasibility Study Final
Parallel Two-Photon Lithography Using a Metalens Array 20-FS-032 Xiaoxing Xia Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Feasibility Study Continuing
Shape Changing of Responsive Elastomer Structures 20-FS-035 Caitlyn Cook Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Feasibility Study Continuing
Dual Wavelength Negative Imaging Digital Light Processing Stereo Lithographic Apparatus 20-FS-042 Bryan Moran Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Feasibility Study Continuing
Unconventional Superconductivity in a Focused-Ion-Beam-Decorated Topological Insulator 19-LW-040 Dongxia Qu Quantum Science and Technology Lab-Wide Final
Development of Additive-Manufacturing Inks with Embedded Electronics for Programmable Matter 19-LW-056 Maxwell Murialdo Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Lab-Wide Final
Hydrogen Embrittlement-Resistant High-Entropy Alloys with High Strength and Ductility 20-LW-015 Shinyoung Kang Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Lab-Wide Continuing
Toward Wearable Artificial Intelligence: Flexible Nanocrystal Memristors That Mimic Multilevel Synaptic Functions 20-LW-018 Xiaojie Xu Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Lab-Wide Continuing
Pattern Formation in Concurrent Multiscale Simulation: A Breakthrough in Understanding Metal Behavior 20-LW-027 Jaehyun Cho Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Lab-Wide Continuing
Development of Magnetic Nanostructures and Their Composites for Efficacious and Lightweight Millimeter Wave Absorbers 20-LW-039 Jinkyu Han Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Lab-Wide Continuing
Developing and Characterizing New Tools for Actinide Processing Science 18-SI-001 Jason Jeffries Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Strategic Initiative Final
A New Science-Based Paradigm Enabling Microstructure-Tailored Additive Manufacturing of Metals 18-SI-003 Manyalibo Matthews Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Strategic Initiative Continuing
Accelerating Feedstock Optimization Using Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Data Analysis Techniques 19-SI-001 Thomas Han Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Strategic Initiative Continuing
Advanced Quantitative Metrology and Characterization for Manufacturing 20-SI-001 Joseph Tringe Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Strategic Initiative Continuing
Predicting and Controlling Corrosion 20-SI-004 Brandon Wood Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Strategic Initiative Continuing
Microbial Characterization of Combat-Patient Wounds to Improve Healing 17-ERD-031 Nicholas Be Bioscience and Bioengineering Exploratory Research Final
Longitudinal Monitoring of Ribonucleic Acid Content of a Live Cell with a Nanotube Pore Interface 18-ERD-011 Aleksandr Noy Bioscience and Bioengineering Exploratory Research Continuing
A Computational Approach to Improve Prediction of Off-Target Drug Binding Using Membrane Bilayer Effects 18-ERD-035 Helgi Ingolfsson Bioscience and Bioengineering Exploratory Research Final
Stable Isotope Probing and Viromics: Quantifying Virus-Host and Carbon Cycling Dynamics in Soil with Isotope-Targeted Metagenomics 18-ERD-041 Steven Blazewicz Bioscience and Bioengineering Exploratory Research Continuing
Optical Interconnect for High-Density Neural Signals 18-ERD-042 Razi-ul Haque Bioscience and Bioengineering Exploratory Research Final
Bioprinting Breast Cancer In Situ to Study Cell Communication in Disease Progression 18-ERD-062 Claire Robertson Bioscience and Bioengineering Exploratory Research Continuing
A Deep Bayesian Active Learning Framework for Temporal Multimodal Data 19-ERD-009 Priyadip Ray Bioscience and Bioengineering Exploratory Research Continuing
Delivering Ribonucleic Acid Vaccines Using Nanoparticles 20-ERD-004 Nicholas Fischer Bioscience and Bioengineering Exploratory Research Continuing
Bioprinting of Engineered Biofilms for Microbial Electrosynthesis 20-ERD-013 William Hynes Bioscience and Bioengineering Exploratory Research Continuing
Flexible and High-Density Nerve Interface for Peripheral Neuromodulation 20-ERD-054 Razi-ul Haque Bioscience and Bioengineering Exploratory Research Continuing
Microbiome Controls on Harmful Algal Toxin Production in Lake Erie 20-ERD-061 Xavier Mayali Bioscience and Bioengineering Exploratory Research Continuing
Elucidating Algal–Bacterial Community Interactions by Tracking Volatile Biomarkers 19-FS-035 Matthias Frank Bioscience and Bioengineering Feasibility Study Final
Metamaterials for Mechanically Directing Cell Phenotype 19-FS-064 Karen Dubbin Bioscience and Bioengineering Feasibility Study Final
Using Microscale Models to Enhance Predictions of Damage to Soft Tissues 19-FS-070 Phillip Paul Bioscience and Bioengineering Feasibility Study Final
Vanishing Neural Probes: Chronic Implants on Resorbable Substrates 20-FS-008 Travis Massey Bioscience and Bioengineering Feasibility Study Final
Synthetic Biology for Nuclear Activity Detection 20-FS-009 Dan Park Bioscience and Bioengineering Feasibility Study Final
Boot Camp Bugs: Microbiomes of US Infantry Trainees 20-FS-029 Nicholas Be Bioscience and Bioengineering Feasibility Study Continuing
Rapid Detection of Candidates for Vaccines Against Biothreat Agents 18-LW-039 Magdalena Franco Bioscience and Bioengineering Lab-Wide Final
Three-Dimensional Bioprinted Aneurysm for Intervention Modeling Validation 19-LW-006 Monica Moya Bioscience and Bioengineering Lab-Wide Continuing
Antibacterial Minerals: A Geochemical Approach to Combating Antibiotic Resistance 19-LW-029 Keith Morrison Bioscience and Bioengineering Lab-Wide Continuing
Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogenesis: Waging the Arms Race with Superbugs 19-LW-048 Brent Segelke Bioscience and Bioengineering Lab-Wide Final
Using High-Dimensional Omics Data to Identify Therapeutic Strategies for Promoting Tissue Repair and Regeneration 20-LW-002 Aimy Sebastian Bioscience and Bioengineering Lab-Wide Continuing
Incorporation of Carbon Electrodes on Flexible Microelectrode Arrays 20-LW-038 Allison Yorita Bioscience and Bioengineering Lab-Wide Continuing
Direct Visualization of Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes by Protein-Mediated Loop Extrusion Using High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy 20-LW-040 Yuliang Zhang Bioscience and Bioengineering Lab-Wide Continuing
Engineered and Instrumented Three-Dimensional Tumor-Immune Model System 19-SI-003 Elizabeth Wheeler Bioscience and Bioengineering Strategic Initiative Continuing
Vaccination on the Fly: The Use of Mosquitoes to Vaccinate Bat Populations That Harbor Human Pathogens 19-DR-014 Monica Borucki Chemical and Biological Countermeasures Disruptive Research Continuing
Construction of Genetic Sense-and-Respond Modules to Detect Viral Infection 18-ERD-034 Kenneth Overton Chemical and Biological Countermeasures Exploratory Research Continuing
Profiling Neurological Consequences and Susceptible Populations of Chronic Opioid Use 20-ERD-009 Heather Enright Chemical and Biological Countermeasures Exploratory Research Continuing
Rapid Computational Identification of Therapeutic Targets for Pathogens 20-ERD-062 Jonathan Allen Chemical and Biological Countermeasures Exploratory Research Continuing
Building a Computational and Experimental Rapid Response Pipeline to Counter the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Outbreak and Emerging Biothreats 20-ERD-064 Magdalena Franco Chemical and Biological Countermeasures Exploratory Research Continuing
Identifying Potential Antiviral Small Molecules Against the Coronavirus Disease 2019 20-ERD-065 Felice Lightstone Chemical and Biological Countermeasures Exploratory Research Continuing
Bioprinting Transgenic Plant Cells for Chemical and Biological Countermeasure Production 20-FS-001 Jennifer Knipe Chemical and Biological Countermeasures Feasibility Study Final
Quantum Cascade Lasers with Submicrosecond Tuning Speed for the Detection of High Explosives and Chemical Warfare Agents 20-FS-044 Jerry Carter Chemical and Biological Countermeasures Feasibility Study Continuing
Engineering Yeast Biosensors for Pathogen Detection 20-LW-020 Tek Hyung Lee Chemical and Biological Countermeasures Lab-Wide Continuing
A Quantitative Methodology for Measuring Cyber Risk to Critical Infrastructure 17-ERD-117 Meghan Mcgarry Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Resilience Exploratory Research Final
Predictive Modeling of Correlated Noise in Superconducting Circuits 18-ERD-039 Vincenzo Lordi Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Resilience Exploratory Research Final
Industrial Control Systems Network Mapping and Data Analytics for Cybersecurity 19-ERD-021 Brian Kelley Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Resilience Exploratory Research Continuing
Exploration of In-Memory Analytics 20-ERD-053 Kristine Monteith Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Resilience Exploratory Research Continuing
Addressing Qubits with a Software-Defined Radio Field Programmable Gate Array 20-FS-002 Lisa Poyneer Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Resilience Feasibility Study Final
Fo'c'sle: Trustworthy Firmware Updates for Energy Control Systems 20-FS-019 Stephen Chapin Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Resilience Feasibility Study Final
Learning Neural Activation Manifolds for Secure Artificial Intelligence 20-FS-020 Wesam Sakla Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Resilience Feasibility Study Final
Compact High Efficiency Electrically Tunable Amplifier (CHEETAh) 19-DR-015 Adam Conway Directed Energy Disruptive Research Continuing
Scalable Computational Tools for Predicting Fluid-Structure Interactions in Laser Directed Energy Applications 19-ERD-015 Robert Nourgaliev Directed Energy Exploratory Research Continuing
Probabilistic Predictions and Uncertainty Estimation for Radiological and Nuclear Effects Modeling 17-ERD-045 Donald Lucas Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Final
Measuring Atmospheric Gas Using Small Satellites 17-ERD-059 Vincent Riot Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Final
Advancing Measurements and Understanding of the Rate and Structure of Atmospheric Warming 18-ERD-054 Stephen Po-Chedley Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Final
Deeply Rooted: Evaluating Plant Rooting Depth as a Means for Enhanced Soil Carbon Sequestration 19-ERD-010 Erin Nuccio Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Interseasonal Prediction of Western United States Snowpack with Deep Learning 19-ERD-032 Gemma Anderson Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Improved Seismic Monitoring for National and Energy Security with Earth Models from Full Waveform Inversion 20-ERD-008 Arthur Rodgers Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Understanding Urban and Wildland Fire Dynamics 20-ERD-034 Jeffrey Mirocha Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Understanding Carbon Accumulation Below Ground and the Role of Nutrients Under Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels 20-ERD-055 Cesar Terrer Moreno Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Dating Alluvial Landforms to Understand the Role of Climate in California's Water Supply 19-LW-036 Alan Hidy Earth and Atmospheric Science Lab-Wide Continuing
Selective Removal of Ions from Aqueous Solutions 18-ERD-024 Patrick Campbell Energy and Resource Security Exploratory Research Final
Algebraic Multigrid Preconditioners for Scalable Simulation of Reservoir Geomechanics and Multiphase Flow 18-ERD-027 Joshua White Energy and Resource Security Exploratory Research Final
Improving Durability in the Next Generation of Photovoltaic Materials Through Discovery and Mitigation of Interface-Based Degradation Mechanisms 20-ERD-060 Jonathan Lee Energy and Resource Security Exploratory Research Continuing
Hot Plasma Etching of Gallium Nitride 19-FS-005 Sara Harrison Energy and Resource Security Feasibility Study Final
Enabling Optimized Charging of Electric Vehicles in Mobility Services 19-FS-030 Ruben Glatt Energy and Resource Security Feasibility Study Final
New Experiment–Theory Capability for Atomic-Level Imaging of Interfaces in Solid-State Batteries 19-FS-056 Liwen Wan Energy and Resource Security Feasibility Study Final
Development of Operando Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Capabilities for Solid-State Battery Research 20-FS-012 Maxwell Marple Energy and Resource Security Feasibility Study Final
Functional Metal Coatings on Three-Dimensional Substrates 20-FS-021 Monika Biener Energy and Resource Security Feasibility Study Final
High-Flux Electrochemical Synthesis of Ammonia in Ionic Liquid 20-FS-022 Maira Ceron Hernandez Energy and Resource Security Feasibility Study Continuing
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Removal from Water by Plasmonic-Photocatalysis 20-FS-049 Allan Chang Energy and Resource Security Feasibility Study Continuing
Manufacturing Molecules for the Carbon Economy 19-SI-005 Eric Duoss Energy and Resource Security Strategic Initiative Continuing
Plasma Amplifiers to Enable Dramatic Increases in Laser Power and Energy to Access New Physical Processes 19-DR-011 Patrick Poole High-Energy-Density Science Disruptive Research Continuing
Exploring Laser-Produced Relativistic Pair Plasma Jets 17-ERD-010 Hui Chen High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Final
Foams in Hohlraums 17-ERD-118 Ogden Jones High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Final
Next-Generation Hohlraums for High Coupling Efficiency 17-ERD-119 Peter Amendt High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Final
Accurate Temperature Determination from X-Ray Diffraction and X-Ray Absorption Measurements 18-ERD-001 Federica Coppari High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Simulating Magnetized Particle Dynamics in Z-Pinch Plasmas 18-ERD-007 Mikhail Dorf High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Final
Probing Liquid Phases and f-Electron Systems at the Dynamic Compression Sector 18-ERD-012 Richard Briggs High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
X-Ray Optics Solutions for Studying Mesoscale Science 18-ERD-014 Stefan Hau-Riege High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Direct Measurement of Mass-Temperature Distributions in the Core of Implosions on the National Ignition Facility 18-ERD-015 Daniel Thorn High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Final
Quantum Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Electronic Transport in Nonlinear Regimes 18-ERD-031 Alfredo Correa Tedesco High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Final
Pressure Ionization in Ultrahigh-Density Plasmas 18-ERD-033 Tilo Doeppner High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Final
Metal Ejecta: Transport, Interaction, and Recollection 18-ERD-060 Alison Saunders High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Imaging Dynamics of Defects Far from Equilibrium 18-ERD-063 Leora Dresselhaus-Cooper High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Unraveling the Physics and Chemistry of Water-Rich Mixtures at Extreme Pressures and Temperatures 19-ERD-031 Marius Millot High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Laser-Plasma Interactions in Magnetized Environments 19-ERD-038 Yuan Shi High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Using Nano-Structured Targets and Ultra-Intense Lasers for Nuclear Science and Source Development 20-ERD-026 Gary Grim High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Plasma Transport at the Nexus of Measurement and Modeling 20-ERD-035 Robert Rudd High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Scalable and Accurate Simulation of Magnetized Plasmas 20-ERD-038 Ilon Joseph High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Tailored Particle Sources Driven by Precision-Shaped Short-Pulse Laser Pulses 20-ERD-048 Derek Mariscal High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Behavior and Utility of Flow or Turbulence in Compressing Plasma 20-ERD-058 Seth Davidovits High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Development of Multilayer Laue Lenses for 25 Kilo-Electronvolt X-Ray Imaging 19-FS-044 Bernard Kozioziemski High-Energy-Density Science Feasibility Study Final
New Design for Low-Mode Asymmetry Mitigation in Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions 19-FS-061 Andrea Kritcher High-Energy-Density Science Feasibility Study Final
Development of Beryllium Carbide Capsules for Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions 19-FS-067 Abbas Nikroo High-Energy-Density Science Feasibility Study Final
Quantum Leap for Fusion Energy Sciences 19-FS-072 Ilon Joseph High-Energy-Density Science Feasibility Study Final
Generating Extreme Magnetic Fields by Engineering Short-Pulse Laser Targets 20-FS-013 Mark Sherlock High-Energy-Density Science Feasibility Study Final
Development of Secondary Toroidal Diamond Anvil Cell Gaskets for Highly Compressible Low-Z Sample Containment at Pressures Above 4 Megabars 20-FS-028 Earl O'Bannon High-Energy-Density Science Feasibility Study Final
Capturing a New State of Matter: Relativistic Electron-Positron Plasma 20-LW-021 Hui Chen High-Energy-Density Science Lab-Wide Continuing
Establishing a Laser-Driven Megaelectronvolt X-Ray and Neutron Radiographic Capability 19-SI-002 Andrew Mackinnon High-Energy-Density Science Strategic Initiative Continuing
Magnetically Assisted Ignition 20-SI-002 John Moody High-Energy-Density Science Strategic Initiative Continuing
Uncertainty Quantification and Experimental Design Using a Quantitative Forward Model for Kinematic X-Ray Diffraction 20-ERD-044 Joel Bernier High-Explosives Physics, Chemistry, and Material Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Imaging of Defects in Polymer Structures Using Water as a Detection Marker: The Search for Appropriate Illumination Sources and Signal Processing Methods 20-FS-006 Mihail Bora High-Explosives Physics, Chemistry, and Material Science Feasibility Study Final
Metal-Phthalocyanine Superlattices: Exploring Quantum Devices as a New Paradigm for Sensing Applications and Information Storage 19-LW-028 Alexander Baker High-Explosives Physics, Chemistry, and Material Science Lab-Wide Final
Unlocking the Mysteries of High-Explosive Science 18-SI-004 Lara Leininger High-Explosives Physics, Chemistry, and Material Science Strategic Initiative Continuing
Hypothesis Testing via Artificial Intelligence: Generating Physically Interpretable Models of Scientific Data with Machine Learning 19-DR-003 Brenden Petersen High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Disruptive Research Continuing
Nuclear Dynamics on a Quantum Chip 19-DR-005 Sofia Quaglioni Quantum Science and Technology Disruptive Research Continuing
Beating Monte Carlo: The Polynomial Method in Lattice Problems 19-DR-013 Christian Scullard High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Disruptive Research Continuing
Simulations of Interpenetrating Plasmas 17-ERD-081 Debojyoti Ghosh High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Final
High-Order Finite Elements for Thermal Radiative Transfer on Curved Meshes 18-ERD-002 Terry Haut High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Final
XPlacer: Extensible and Portable Optimizations of Data Placement in Memory 18-ERD-006 Chunhua Liao High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Final
Deep Multitask Learning for Predictive Oncology 18-ERD-017 Andre Goncalves High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Final
Methods for Explainable Artificial Intelligence 18-ERD-021 Terrell Mundhenk High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Final
The Development of High-Order Interface Tracking Schemes for the Simulation of Multiphase Flows 18-ERD-053 Bryce Campbell High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Final
Heterogeneous Computing Elements: A Quantitative Evaluation 19-ERD-004 Maya Gokhale High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Next Generation Machine Learning 19-ERD-007 Peer-Timo Bremer High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Expanding Control of Quantum Processor Units 19-ERD-013 Jonathan DuBois Quantum Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Scalable Multilevel Training of Large Neural Networks 19-ERD-019 Colin Ponce High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Advanced Physics Models for Particle-to-Particle Interactions 19-ERD-025 Kambiz Salari High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Continuing
High-Performance Parallel Simulations for Whole-Cell Modeling 19-ERD-030 Ali Navid High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Automatic Design of Transport Systems Through Topology Optimization on Adaptively Refined Computational Grids 19-ERD-035 Victor Beck High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Optimal High-Order Solvers 20-ERD-002 Andrew Barker High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Safe and Trustworthy Machine Learning 20-ERD-014 Bhavya Kailkhura High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Modeling Complex Behavior of Lattices to Enable Multiscale Design 20-ERD-020 Seth Watts High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Materials Response Under Hypersonic Flow Conditions Probed by Multimodal Diagnostics in a Benchtop Wind Tunnel 20-ERD-027 Selim Elhadj High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Final
Scalable Quantum Optimal Control 20-ERD-028 N. Anders Petersson Quantum Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Active Learning for Rapid Design of Vaccines and Antibodies 20-ERD-032 Thomas Desautels High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Robust Control of Scientific Simulations with Deep Reinforcement Learning 20-ERD-033 Daniel Faissol High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Final
Approximate High-Performance Computing: A Fast and Energy-Efficient Computing Paradigm in the Post-Moore Era 20-ERD-043 Harshitha Gopalakrishnan Menon High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Probabilistic Models for Dynamic Hypergraphs with Content 20-ERD-049 Grant Boquet High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Floating Point Reproducibility for Accelerator-Based Systems 20-FS-005 Ignacio Laguna Peralta High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Feasibility Study Final
Nonlinear Manifold-Based Reduced Order Models 20-FS-007 Youngsoo Choi High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Feasibility Study Final
Machine Learning-Driven Dynamic Four-Dimensional X-Ray Computed Tomography Reconstruction 20-FS-010 Hyojin Kim High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Feasibility Study Continuing
Optimizing Performance Through Parallelism-Aware Compilation 20-FS-015 Giorgis Georgakoudis High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Feasibility Study Final
High-Fidelity, Scalable Quantum Qubit Control Signal Generation 20-FS-017 Apurva Gowda High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Feasibility Study Final
Nonlinear Spatial Discretization Using Sparse Grids 20-FS-018 John Loffeld High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Feasibility Study Final
Measuring the Interpolation Quality of Trained Neural Networks 20-FS-034 Andrew Gillette High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Feasibility Study Final
Scalable Approximate Graph Clustering 20-FS-037 Geoffrey Sanders High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Feasibility Study Final
Active Control of Turbulent Flows through Deep Learning 20-FS-039 Simon Lapointe High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Feasibility Study Final
Persistent Concurrent Data Structures 20-FS-040 Peter Pirkelbauer High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Feasibility Study Final
Accelerated and Disaggregated Cognitive Simulation 20-FS-041 Brian Van Essen High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Feasibility Study Final
MADSTARE: Modeling and Analysis for Data-Starved or Ambiguous Environments 19-SI-004 Michael Schneider High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Strategic Initiative Continuing
Decentralized Autonomous Networks for Cooperative Estimation 20-SI-005 Ryan Goldhahn High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Strategic Initiative Continuing
Thulium-Doped Yttrium Lithium Fluoride High-Energy Laser Demonstrator 19-DR-009 Thomas Spinka Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Disruptive Research Continuing
Anti-Reflective Meta-Surfaces (ARMS) for High-Power Lasers 18-ERD-005 Eyal Feigenbaum Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Exploratory Research Final
Arbitrary Control and Characterization of Laser Waveforms and Interactions at Picosecond Resolution over Long Record Lengths 18-ERD-029 Ryan Muir Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Exploratory Research Final
Energy Scaling of Thin-Disk Lasers 18-ERD-038 Thomas Spinka Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Plasma Photonics: Manipulating Light Using Plasmas 18-ERD-046 Pierre Michel Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Germanium Photodiode Arrays for Hard X-Ray Imaging 19-ERD-001 Arthur Carpenter Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Gestalt Optics: Three-Dimensional Transparent Ceramics 19-ERD-006 Zachary Seeley Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
The Physics of Confined Laser Ablation and Its Applications 19-ERD-027 Wesley Keller Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Photonic Transceivers for Secure Radio Frequency Communications and Radar 19-ERD-039 Jason Chou Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Exploratory Research Final
Freeform Optics 20-ERD-003 Tayyab Suratwala Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
High-Energy Advanced Thermal Performance 20-ERD-006 Emily Link Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Glass Preforms for Next-Generation Fiber Lasers 20-ERD-012 Andrew Lange Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Defects Suppression in Process-Optimized High Power and Energy Multilayer Dielectric Coated Optics 20-ERD-024 Siping Qiu Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Next-Generation Beam Quality for Deployed Laser Systems 20-ERD-046 Stephen Ammons Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Ultrafast Plasma Optics for High-Power Coherent Light Sources 20-ERD-057 Matthew Edwards Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Assessment of Laser-Damage Performance of Meta-Surface Material to Enable High-Speed Laser Beam Control 19-FS-032 Eyal Feigenbaum Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Feasibility Study Final
Time-Resolved Two-Dimensional Streak Camera 19-FS-073 Matthew Dayton Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Feasibility Study Final
Beam Homogenization of Laser Drivers for High-Energy, Large-Aperture Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification 20-FS-011 Brendan Reagan Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Feasibility Study Final
Extending the Reach of Extreme Ultraviolet Instruments: A New Method for Measuring the Refractive Index of Materials 20-FS-026 Catherine Burcklen Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Feasibility Study Continuing
Pioneering Stable Isotope Signatures of Nuclear Proliferation 18-ERD-016 Jennifer Matzel Nuclear Threat Reduction Exploratory Research Final
Modeling Nuclear Cloud Rise and Fallout in Complex Environments 18-ERD-049 Katherine Lundquist Nuclear Threat Reduction Exploratory Research Continuing
Deployable, Automated Chemistry-on-a-Chip Platform for Nuclear Forensics 19-ERD-016 Narek Gharibyan Nuclear Threat Reduction Exploratory Research Continuing
Narcissus-Enabled Compact Thermal Hyperspectral Imager 20-ERD-005 Jay Bixler Nuclear Threat Reduction Exploratory Research Continuing
Developing Compositional Control During Additive Manufacturing of Surrogate Debris Reference Materials and Microanalytical Standards 20-ERD-021 Tashi Parsons-Davis Nuclear Threat Reduction Exploratory Research Continuing
Short-Pulse Interrogation for Detection of Special Nuclear Materials 19-FS-034 Yuri Podpaly Nuclear Threat Reduction Feasibility Study Final
Probing Photon Fusion for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider Using Proton Tagging 18-LW-061 Finn Rebassoo Nuclear Threat Reduction Lab-Wide Final
The Next Frontiers in Rare-Event Detection for Science and Security 20-SI-003 Nathaniel Bowden Nuclear Threat Reduction Strategic Initiative Continuing
Quantifying Uncertainties of Microscopic Nuclear Theories 18-ERD-008 Nicolas Schunck Nuclear Weapons Science Exploratory Research Final
Flash X-Ray Computed Tomography for Three-Dimensional  Characterization of Explosive Performance 18-ERD-052 Kyle Champley Nuclear Weapons Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Fission Experiments in Laser-Generated Plasmas 20-ERD-031 Alex Zylstra Nuclear Weapons Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Development of a Multidimensional, Holographic Velocity Interferometer System 20-ERD-050 Peter Celliers Nuclear Weapons Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Sirius Mini: A Prototype Disruptive Accelerator Architecture for Next-Generation Inertial Confinement Fusion Systems 20-ERD-052 Keith Lechien Nuclear Weapons Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Examining an On-the-Fly Movable Boundary Capability for Simulations of Unsteady High-Speed Aerothermodynamic Flows 19-FS-045 Gregory Burton Nuclear Weapons Science Feasibility Study Final
Learning-Based Predictive Models: A New Approach to Integrating Large-Scale Simulations and Experiments 18-SI-002 Brian Spears Nuclear Weapons Science Strategic Initiative Final
Developing Photonuclear Experimental Capabilities for Nuclear Science and Security 18-ERD-013 Robert Casperson Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Exploratory Research Final
The Next Breakthroughs in Neutrino Physics 18-ERD-028 Michael Heffner Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Microresonators for Compact Optical Sensors 19-ERD-002 Tiziana Bond Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Development of Novel Ligand-Based Systems to Study the Chemical Properties of the Transactinides 19-ERD-003 John Despotopulos Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Beta Decay at the Limits of Nuclear Stability: Integrating Ab Initio Calculations and Kinematically Complete Measurements 19-ERD-011 Aaron Gallant Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Nuclear Reaction Theory for Astrophysics and Laboratory Applications 19-ERD-017 Jutta Escher Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Investigating the Site of the Weak Rapid Neutron Capture Process 19-ERD-036 Wei Jia Ong Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Addressing Unresolved Questions About the Solar System with New Lunar Samples from the Apollo Missions 20-ERD-001 Gregory Brennecka Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Deciphering Fingerprints of Stellar Nucleosynthesis Through Nuclear Reaction Rate Measurements and Isotopic Analyses of Stardust 20-ERD-030 Brett Isselhardt Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
The Nuclear Science of Asteroid 16 Psyche 20-ERD-039 Morgan Burks Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Probing the Structure of a Perfect Liquid Using Jets and Machine Learning 20-ERD-041 Aaron Angerami Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Nuclear Analytics: Enabling New Multimodal Approaches to Nuclear Threat Detection 20-ERD-045 Jonathan Dreyer Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Establishing Hands-On Astrophysics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 19-FS-028 Reto Trappitsch Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Feasibility Study Final
Utilizing Radioactive Isotopes Harvested at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams for Neutron-Reaction Measurements 20-FS-024 Richard Hughes Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Feasibility Study Continuing
Connecting Nuclear Structure to Stellar Astrophysics: Neutron Skin in Tin Isotopes 19-LW-004 Jack Silano Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Lab-Wide Final
Using Moderately Volatile Elements to Understand the Origin of the Earth-Moon System 19-LW-027 Josh Wimpenny Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Lab-Wide Continuing
Proliferation of Interstellar Plutonium into the Solar System 19-LW-033 Reto Trappitsch Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Lab-Wide Continuing
Discovering the Nature of Neutrinos: How Nuclear Theory Will Advance This Grand Endeavor 19-LW-039 Kyle Wendt Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Lab-Wide Final
Using Isotope Probing of Microbe-to-Microbe Interactions to Determine the Fate of Carbon and Impacts on Climate Change 19-LW-044 Ty Samo Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Lab-Wide Continuing
Constraining the Origin of Earth’s Water with Isotope Tracers in Astromaterials 19-LW-046 Erik Oerter Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Lab-Wide Continuing
Two Nucleon Interactions and Their Effect on the Visible Universe and the Dark Universe 20-LW-001 Pavlos Vranas Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Lab-Wide Continuing
A Search for Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter 20-LW-006 Stephan Friedrich Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Lab-Wide Continuing
Constraining the Habitability of Mars When Water Flowed on Its Surface 20-LW-008 William Cassata Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Lab-Wide Continuing
Elusive Actinium: A First Glimpse into the Coordination Chemistry of Element 89 20-LW-017 Gauthier Deblonde Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Lab-Wide Continuing
Redefining the Geologic Timescale of the Solar System by Accurately Determining the Half-Life of Samarium-146 with Magnetic Microcalorimeters 20-LW-024 Geonbo Kim Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Lab-Wide Continuing
Understanding Angular Momentum in Nuclear Fission 20-LW-045 Aaron Gallant Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Lab-Wide Continuing
Nuclear Reaction Theory in the Precision Era: Probing New Physics in the Early Universe 20-LW-046 Konstantinos Kravvaris Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Lab-Wide Continuing
Ultrahigh-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy Using Cyclotron Radiation Emission 20-LW-056 Nathan Woollett Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Lab-Wide Continuing
Identifying the Influence of Environmental Effects on Post-Detonation Chemistry and Debris Formation 20-SI-006 Kimberly Knight Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Strategic Initiative Continuing
A Search for Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Dark Matter 17-ERD-120 William Dawson Space Security Exploratory Research Final
Integration of Quantification of Margins and Uncertainties Methodology into Parallel Discrete Event Simulator Framework 18-ERD-025 James Leek Space Security Exploratory Research Final
Tunable Optoelectronic Materials for Next-Generation Infrared Detectors 19-ERD-029 Anna Hiszpanski Space Security Exploratory Research Continuing
Observing Atmospheric Gravity Waves from Space 20-ERD-007 Matthew Horsley Space Security Exploratory Research Continuing
Revealing the Physics of the Hot and Energetic Universe via Single-Photon-Counting Advanced X-Ray Microcalorimeter Systems 20-ERD-022 Megan Eckart Space Security Exploratory Research Continuing
Asteroid Science in the Era of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope 20-ERD-025 Nathan Golovich Space Security Exploratory Research Continuing