Grants

Major New Research Grants in 2025-2026

Grants Funded for May 2025 and June 2026 

Lead PI

Sponsor

Project title

Ana Arias

NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Sound Asleep: Technologies for uninterrupted whole night sleep recording in an MRI scanner.

Ana Arias

Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy

Developing Biological Nitrification Inhibitors to Reduce N2O Emissions in Sorghum

Ali Niknejad

NSF National Science Foundation

VINES: Track 1: Photonics-Enabled Energy-Efficient Radio Architecture With In-Line Signal Processing for Massive MIMO (PRISM)

Jun-Chau Chien

NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

A CMOS-based miniaturized and disposable molecular detection system enabling sample in-situ biosensing

Jun-Chau Chien

NSF National Science Foundation

3D Heterogenous-Integrated RFICs for the Next-Generation Phased Array

Jun-Chau Chien

NSF National Science Foundation

NSF I-Corps - Berkeley AptaSensor for Emerging Biomedical Applications

Jun-Chau Chien

DOD Advanced Research Projects Agency

Controlling Enzymes with Nanoelectronics

Ali Niknejad

Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.

Electro-Optic Modulation via Silicon Photonics Ring Resonator Super Modes Toward 1 Tb/s Transmission

Ali Niknejad

NSF National Science Foundation

Wideband Ultra Linear Transceiver Circuits (WULT-C) for New Spectrum

Applications

Pierluigi Nuzzo

NSF National Science Foundation

Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: A complete hardware accelerator for satisfiability (SAT) to enable dramatic performance improvements for a large set of combinatorial optimization problems

Pierluigi Nuzzo

NSF National Science Foundation

Collaborative Research: RI: Small: Towards Assured Robust Intelligence in Multi-Agent Systems with Runtime Safety

Pierluigi Nuzzo

Lockheed (Lockheed-Sanders, Lockheed-Martin)

REACTOR (Rapidly Engineered Architecture, Coordination, Timing and Optimal Reconfiguration)