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FY2023

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Project Title Project Code Principal Investigator Research Category Project Type Project Status
Foam Fills for Laser-Plasma Instability Suppression 21-ERD-041 Peter Amendt High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Final
Fungal Pneumonia: Understanding Immune Vulnerabilities that Cause Valley Fever 22-ERD-010 Dina Weilhammer Bioscience and Bioengineering Exploratory Research Continuing
Shape Changing of Responsive Elastomer Structures 22-ERD-030 Caitlyn Krikorian Accelerated Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
High Accuracy at Low Cost: Using Machine Learning to Emulate the Department of Energy's Global Cloud-Resolving Climate Model 22-ERD-052 Peter Caldwell Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Host-Directed, Bioelectronic Immunomodulation for Protection Against Emerging Pathogens 23-ERD-013 Allison Yorita Bioscience and Bioengineering Exploratory Research Continuing
ForwardProp is a Novel Gradient-Free Learning Paradigm for Integrating Deep Neural Nets with Scientific Simulations 23-ERD-030 James Diffenderfer High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Materials for Energy Management across the Electromagnetic Spectrum 23-ERD-049 Anna Hiszpanski Accelerated Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
Glass-Engraved Meta-Optics for High-Power Lasers 21-ERD-002 Eyal Feigenbaum Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Exploratory Research Final
Experimentally Interrogating Detonation Chemistry on Sub-Nanosecond to 100-Nanosecond Timescales 21-ERD-023 Trevor Willey High-Explosives Physics, Chemistry, and Material Science Exploratory Research Final
From Microbes to the Earth System – Upscaling Microbial Community Dynamics to Macro-scale Soil Carbon Models 21-ERD-045 Katerina Georgiou Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Final
Dual-Energy Phase-Contrast Computed Tomography to Improve Material Discrimination 22-ERD-011 Kadri Aditya Mohan Accelerated Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
Next-Generation Implicit Neural Representation for Ill-Posed and Dynamic Computed Tomography Reconstruction 22-ERD-032 Hyojin Kim High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Data On-Demand for Capable Space Domain Awareness Architecture 22-ERD-054 Kerianne Pruett Space Science and Security Exploratory Research Continuing
Precision Polishing of Spheres via In-situ Process Monitoring and Machine-learning-based Optimization 23-ERD-014 Suhas Bhandarkar High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Gallium Arsenide Semiconductor Opening Switches for Pulsed Power Systems 23-ERD-031 Caitlin Chapin Directed Energy Exploratory Research Continuing
Taming the Wild West: Assessing Impacts-Relevant Climate Data Products 23-ERD-050 Paul Ullrich Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Beam-Combined Pulsed Fiber Lasers 21-ERD-004 Charles Yu Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Exploratory Research Final
Encoding High Specificity and Multiplexing in Nanoporous Gas Sensors 21-ERD-024 Steven Buchsbaum Energy and Resource Security Exploratory Research Final
Development of Metastable High Entropy Alloys for Additive Manufacturing 21-ERD-046 Zachary Sims Accelerated Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Final
Agile Mixing Platform Engineered for Transient Compositional Printing 22-ERD-012 Du Nguyen Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing