Institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst

Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Proposed research ideas: 

I am primarily interested in ab initio calculations of materials properties based on density functional theory (DFT). DFT has been successfully used to obtain electronic and vibrational structure of many semiconductors and 2-dimensional materials (ex. graphene, MoS2, etc.) A… Continue reading →

Institution: Inter American University of Puerto Rico

Department: Computer Science

Proposed research ideas:

The technology is becoming more and more accessible so people can use it without much work at learning how to use it. This has led to our devices become connected through the internet, sensitive to the dissemination of unwanted information.… Continue reading →

Institution: Bates College

Department: Mathematics

Proposed research ideas:

I am interested in working on method development for quantum mechanical simulations. I think it’s a natural extension of my current work on developing methods for classical molecular dynamics simulations. I can imagine collaborating with Lin Lin, Eric Neuscamman and the Computational… Continue reading →

Institution: Binghamton University

Department: Systems Science Industrial Engineering

Proposed research ideas:

I have been focusing my research on data-driven modeling of various complex systems for monitoring and control purposes. I am interested in exploring the following ideas collaboratively with research teams/groups at DOE labs. (1) Data infusion: heterogeneous data sources are readily available, for… Continue reading →

Institution: South Dakota State University

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Proposed research ideas: 

I am interested in all of the work performed at Berkeley Lab Computational Research Division in Applied Mathematics.

Motivation:

I have been working on high performance computing, computational fluid dynamics and related material for ten years. I love research in these areas.

Institution: Louisiana State University

Department: Mathematics and Physical Sciences

Proposed research ideas: 

The objective of this proposal is to implement advanced machine learning techniques in improving the scoring functions of protein-ligand docking models. In molecular docking, a large number of binding poses (orientation + conformation) are evaluated using a scoring function. A… Continue reading →

Institution: Jackson State University

Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science

Proposed research ideas: 

Multiregion FDTD (MR/FDTD) approach seeks to avoid the inefficiencies of the classical FDTD when applied to large, sparsely filled modeling problems by eliminating explicit calculation of fields in the space between subregions surrounding the modeled objects. In… Continue reading →

Institution: Prairie View AM University

Department: Chemistry

Proposed research ideas: 

While my current modeling interests are on the reaction mechanism study of organic/inorganic/organometallic system, the energy profile of composite materials in the energy application such as solar energy, biofuel conversion, I would like to explore other computational modeling research area, including the… Continue reading →

Institution: Idaho State University

Department: Mathematics & Statistics

Proposed research ideas:

Recent results on the numerical simulation of classical turbulent flow over a heated plane suggest that the implicit dissipation of the numerical schemes can lead to artificial convective structures similar to naturally realized Rayleigh-Bernard cells in the simulated flows. These… Continue reading →

Institution: Monmouth College

Department: Biology

Proposed research ideas: 

I would love to learn more about working with the IMG, Integrated Microbial Genomes, database. My background would be best suited for incorporating additional data concerning purported HGT events into the database, but I would be open to working on another project which involves… Continue reading →

Institution: Lehigh University

Department: ECE

Proposed research ideas: 

Prefetching is an efficient mechanism to hide long memory latency. Emerging memory technologies (e.g., 3D XPoint) exhibit even longer latencies for higher density as compared to DRAM. Prefetchers will become increasingly important to make judicious decisions on and when to move which data… Continue reading →

Institution: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Department: Computer Science

Proposed research ideas: 

Large-scale linear solvers play an important role in various practical applications, ranging from data analysis to large-scale scientific computing. Deflated block Krylov subspace methods exhibit many attractive properties when solving large linear systems with multiple right-hand sides, including accelerated convergence… Continue reading →

Institution: Tennessee State University

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Proposed research ideas: 

The biggest advantage of 3D manufacturing or rapid prototyping is a capability of enabling simple manufacturing process of highly complicated geometrical shapes of objects. However 3D manufacturing still has lots to be improved in material processing to enhance the quality of products… Continue reading →

Institution: University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Department: Computer Science

Proposed research ideas: 

1) Develop Smart Energy System Research Platform ( SESP). In SESP project the focus of the research will be in the power system failure detection by using real-time measurement data. 2) Climate change prediction using deep learning.

Motivation:… Continue reading →

Institution: City College of New York

Department: Computer Science

Proposed research ideas:

Develop advanced network technologies and novel network architecture for sustainable underwater monitoring and exploration. The technology of underwater acoustic network has emerged as a promising solution to facilitate a variety of aquatic applications, such as subsea scientific exploration, commercial… Continue reading →

Institution: DePaul University

Department: School of Computing and Digital Media

Proposed research ideas:

I propose three research ideas: – Development of deep learning architectures for multimodal learning problems: Real-world scenarios often involve acquisition of data from multiple sources. However, fusing information from different sources is a difficult task due to differences in the… Continue reading →

Institution: University of Puerto Rico

Department: Computer Science and Engineering

Proposed research ideas:

Nowadays, there is a great need to develop efficient and intelligent learning methods to cope with future data processing demands. We propose to investigate mechanisms to provide adaptive mechanisms for accelerating deep learning on large systems.

Motivation:

This program will… Continue reading →

Institution: Southern University

Department: Computer Science

Proposed research ideas:

I am a professor of computer science and I have been teaching various courses in the field of computer science including computer architecture and organization, networking, wireless sensor networks, and operating systems. I am more interested in the field of networking and security area.… Continue reading →

Institution: American River College

Department: Chemistry

Proposed research ideas:

I would like to invite several students from American River College to work with Dr. Crivelli and her team to 1) further develop deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) models applied to drug discovery, 2) expand these models to target Zika and severe acute respiratory… Continue reading →

Institution: University of Houston – Clear Lake

Department: Computer Science

Proposed research ideas: 

With the widespread availability of connected smart devices, Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming the world’s largest computing platform. These large-scale, heterogeneous and resource-constrained devices bring many significant new challenges to the design of efficient and reliable IoT systems.… Continue reading →

Institution: University of California, Merced

Department: Physics

Proposed research ideas:

Using BerkeleyGW and excited-state forces for self-trapped excitons.

Motivation:

Access to lab facilities and staff expertise in training students in computational science.

Institution: Virginia Tech

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Proposed research ideas:

1. Artificial intelligence for materials design and discovery to push the limits of heat conduction for thermal energy harvesting, storage, and management 2. Understand interfacial thermal transport using advanced atomistic-level simulations 3. Multiscale simulations of thermal phonon transport from first-principles for hierarchical structures. 4.… Continue reading →

Institution: The City College of New York

Department: Computer Science

Proposed research ideas: 

Our objective is to allow the creation of visual analysis applications, particularly in urban science, to be more accessible to data enthusiasts and domain experts, in a similar way that game engines are made available to independent developers. Simply put,… Continue reading →

Institution: University of Saint Mary

Department: Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Proposed research ideas: 

With the potential wide uses of nanomaterials in biomedical application, the recently focused on carbon-based nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes or graphene, concerns of nanotoxicity of carbon-based nanomaterials have been growing. To eliminate nanotoxicity in these engineered materials, we… Continue reading →

Institution: University of Central Oklahoma

Department: Engineering and Physics

Proposed research ideas: 

Topic: Fluid dynamics based multiphysics simulation for cilia-driven cellular motility, biomixing, and transport. Cilia and flagella are thin subcellular organelles that bend actively to propel cells (algae, sperms etc.) or move fluids and materials in human airways and other ventricles/passages.… Continue reading →