award or honor given Distinguished Early Career Award, conferred on Liu, Yang, 2024 US DOE Solar Decathlon - Honorable Mention, conferred on Luhan, Gregory, 2009 Outstanding Junior Investigator, conferred on Safonov, Alexei, 2007
awards grant 2016 AMS Mario J. Molina Symposium 21th International Conference on Ion Beam Modification of Materials- A Field-Deployable Magnetic Resonance Imagining Rhizotron for Modeling and Enhancing Root Growth and Biogeochemical Function AOI 1L1 Evaluation of amine-incorporated porous polymer networks (aPPNs) as sorbents for post-combustion CO2 capture Addressing Internal Shuttle Effect: Electrolyte Design and Cathode Morphology Evolution in Li-S Batteries Advanced Simulation and Experiments of Strongly-Coupled Geomechanics and Flow for Gas Hydrate Deposits: Validation and Field Applications Advanced Surface Plasma Nitrdiding for Development of Corrosion Resistant and Accident Tolerant Fuel-Cladding- An Experimental Study of Design and Performance for the Water-based Reactor Cavity Cooling System An innovative SR-WEC for a market-disruptive LCOE. Assessing the influence of background state and climate variability on tropical cyclones using initialized ensembles and mesh refinement in E3SM Automated TERRA Phenotyping System for Genetic Improvement of Energy Crops Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification In Predictions of Flows In Highly Heterogeneous Media and Its Applications To the Co2 Sequestration Big Data Synchrophasor Monitoring and Analytics for Resiliency Tracking (BDSMART) Breakup of Loosely Bound Nuclei At Intermediate Energies for Nuclear Astrophysics and the Development of A Position Sensitive Build4Scale Content Delivery Materials Build4Scale: Manufacturing Training for Cleantech Entrepreneurs CERT (Center for Exascale Radiation Transport) CFD and System Code Benchmark Data for Plenum-to-Plenum Flow for Natural, Mixed and Forced Circulation Center for Research Excellence on Dynamically Deformed Solids (CREDDS): Discovering the Role of Heterogeneities in High Strain Rate Mechanical Response- Center of Excellence in Nuclear Training and University Based Research (CENTUAR) Changing the Way Geothermal Wells are Drilled: Physics-Based Drilling Parameter Selection, Workflow Implementation and Training in Order to Reduce Non-Productive Time and Increase ROP Cold QCD Studies with STAR at RHIC Collaborative Project: Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction From Meso-TO Planetary-Scale: Mechanisms, Parameterization, and Variability Convective-Environmental Interactions in the Tropics Correlates of Sensitive Technologies Coupled Application of Accident Tolerant Fuels and the RCIC System to Enhance LWR Safety Critical Accelerator R&D for the Jefferson Lab Electron-ION Collider (JLEIC) DOE - Collaborative Research: Impacts of Aerosols and Air-Sea Interaction On Community Earth System Model (CESM) Biases In the Western Pacific Warm Pool Region DOE - the 3-D Convective Cloud Spectrum In Amie Radar Observation and Global Climate Simulations DOE-Cyclotron Based Nuclear Science Deep Cyber-Physical Situational Awareness for Energy Systems: A Secure Foundation for Next-Generation Energy Management Demonstration of a Methodology for Direct Validation of MARMOT Irradiation-Induced Microstructural Evolution and Physical Property Models Using U-10ZR NEUP 18-14741 Developing GPR For Enhanced Root and Soil Organic Carbon Imaging Developing Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry for Structural Characterization of Complex Molecular Systems Developing Surrogate Reaction Techniques To Determine Neutron Capture Rates Development of Biosensors to Measure the Spatial and Temporal Concentration Profiles of Inorganic Phosphate in Plants During Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis Development of Graphene Sensor Development of High Performance ODS Alloys Diffusion and Kinetics in Organic Radical Polymers Dimensionality Reduction and Early Event Detection Using Online Synchrophasor Data Dynamic Behavior of Natural Seep Vents: Analysis of Field and Laboratory Observations and Modeling Dynamic Binary Complexes (DBC) as Super-Adjustable Viscosity Modifiers for Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids Experimental Validation Data and Computational Models for Turbulent Mixing of Bypass and Coolant Jet Flows in Gas-Cooled Reactors Experimental and Computational Studies of NEAMS Pebble Bed Reactors Experimentally Validated Computational Modeling of Creep and Creep-Cracking for Nuclear Concrete Structures FFATA: Radiation Response of Low Dimensional Carbon Systems Fundamental Electroweak Interaction Studies Using Trapped Atoms and Ions Genomics of Energy Sorghum’s Water Use Efficiency/Drought Resilience High Energy Physics at Texas A&M University High Resolution Temperature and Flow Measurements in Wire-Wrapped Fuel Assemblies High-Capacity and Low-Cost Hydrogen-Storage Sorbents for Automotive Applications High-Pressure Turbulent Flame Speeds and Chemical Kinetics of Syngas Blends With and Without Impurities- High-field dipole technology for LHC Tripler Identification of Efficient and Stable Solid-Solid Electrochemical Interfaces for Li-S Batteries Impact of Coupled Gas Migration and Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Processes on the Performance of Repositories for High Level Nuclear Waste Importance of Microbial Activity On Groundwater Iodate and Organo-Iodine Speciation and Mobility At Two DOE Sites Improving Land-Surface Modeling of Evapotranspiration Processes in Tropical Forests Improving radiation response of solid-state interfaces via control of curvature International and Domestic Nuclear Facilities Experience for the U.S. Students and National Lab Professionals Lattice and Beam Dynamics Studies and Critical Component-Development for a 15MA CW Strong Focusing Cyclotron Major improvements on the longwave radiative interactions between surface and clouds in the Polar Regions in atmospheric global circulation model (GCM) Mixed Metal Phosphonate-Resins for Separation of -Lanthanides from Actinides- Modeling Catalyzed Growth of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Molecular Magnets Based on a Modular Approach: Investigation of Coupling, Anisotropy and Electronic Factors on Bistability Molecular-Membrane Air Conditioner/Dehumidifier Multi Universities for Small Modular Reactor Simulators: NuScale Multi-Phase Model Development to Assess RCIC System Capabilities under Severe Accident Conditions Multiscale Analysis and Computation for Flows In Heterogenous Media NRI: Collaborative Visual Assistant for Robot Operations in Unstructured or Confined Environments Natural Organic Matter and Microbial Controls on Mobilization/Immobilization of I, Pu and Other Radionuclides in Soils and Waters Affected by Radionuclide Releases in USA and Japan New Horizons In C-F Activation By Main Group Electrophiles NuSTEM: Nuclear Science, Technology and Education for Molten Salt Reactors Nuclear Safeguards Education Outreach Through the Nuclear Safeguards Education Portal and the Nuclear Facilities Experience Nuclear Science Center Reactor Upgrades Organized convection and parameterized versus large-scale physics in-global earth system models Photocatalysts for H2 Evolution: Combination of the Light Absorbing Unit and Catalytic Center in a Single Molecule Plutonium Speciation and Mobility Through the Subsurface Environment: Nature of Organic Collodial Carriers Probing electron-molecule scattering with HHG: Theory and Experiment Proposal for A Topical Collaboration On Quantitative Jet and Electromagnetic Tomography (jet) of Extreme Phases of Matter In Providing the Roadmap for New Element Discoveries and New Chemistries of the Heaviest Elements QCD and Standard Model Studies RPA-16-10732: High Temperature Tribological Performance of Ni Alloys Under Helium Environment for Very High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors (VHTRs) Radioactive Powder Characterization Equipment for Enhanced Research and Teaching Capability Radioiodine Speciation in Aqueous Systems Robust Adaptive Topology Control (RATC) Robust Carbon Dioxide Imaging Using Joint Tomographic Inversion of Seismic Onset Time and Distributed Pressure and Temperature Measurements Roles of Carburization and Oxidation on Transition-Metal Catalyzed Surface Reactions Scalable multilevel uncertainty quantification concepts for extreme-scale multiscale problems Soil carbon responses to atmospheric CO2 Southeast Texas Urban IFL: Equitable solutions for communities caught between floods and air pollution Southeast Texas Urban Integrated Field Lab (IFL): Equitable solutions for communities caught between floods and air pollution Spatiotemporally Resolved Multiscale Measurements of Single- and Multi-Phase Flows Using State-Of-The-Art System of X-ray Tomography and Optical Sensors Studies of Reactive Amorphous Compounds and Surfaces: Their Pathways to Crystallinity and Surface Functionality Sub-Kelvin High-Mass CCD Detectors for Dark Matter & Neutrino Searches Sustainable Herbaceous Energy Crop Production in the Southeast United States Synthetic Crop for Direct Drop In Biofuel Production Through Photorespiration Intermediates and Engineering Terpenoid Pathways Synthetic Microorganisms to Enable Lignin to Fuel Conversion TAOI B: Synergistic Computational and Microstructural Design of Next-Generation High-Temperature Austenitic Stainless Steels THCM Coupled Model For Hydrate-Bearing Sediments: Data Analysis and Design of New Field Experiments (Marine and Permafrost Settings) Targeted Energy Focusing to Induce Micro-Cracking for Reduced Cutting Energy and Increased Rate of Penetration Templating Lattice-Confined Catalysts for Selective Hydrocarbon Upgrading Texas A&M Industrial Assessment Center 2011-2016 Texas A&M University Industrial Assessment Center Texas Engineering Experiment Station Fellowship and Scholarship Support The Eagle Ford Shale Laboratory: A Field Study of the Stimulated Reservoir Volume, Detailed Fracture Characteristics, and EOR Potential The SuperCDMS Program at Texas A&M University The SuperCDMS Program at Texas A&M University- The Texas A&M Interdisciplinary Radioisotope Production and Radiochemistry Program Theoretical Nuclear Physics Thermal and Thermoelectric Phenomena in Novel Materials and Systems of Disordered and Interacting Electrons Timing Intrusion Management Ensuring Resiliency Ton Scale Germanium: Beyond Zeptobarn Wimp Cross-Section Toward Understanding the QGP with the STAR Experiment at RHIC Toward Understanding the Qgp With the Star Experiment At Rhic Two-Phase Flow Facility for Dynamic Characterization of Thermal Hydraulics in Light Water Reactors Ultra-Low Threshold Cryogenic High Voltage Detectors For WIMP Search And Coherent Neutrino Scattering Experiments Understanding Climate Model Biases In Tropical Atlantic and Their Impact On Simulations of Extreme Climate Events Understanding and Strategies for Controlled Interfacial Phenomena in Lithium-Ion Batteries and Beyond Upgrading Lignin-Containing Biorefinery Residues for Bioplastics Using Radioiodine Speciation to Address Environmental Remediation and Waste-Stream Sequestration Problems at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and a DOE Site Waveguiding Solar Concentrator