March 10, 2025

Purdue University Office of Research announces SPARK and NIH incentive grants awardees

Several Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty members were part of the fall 2024 cohorts of award applicants.
A collage featuring six smiling individuals, threee in the top row and three in the bottom row
Clockwise from top left: Christopher Brinton, Elmore Associate Professor of ECE, Alexandra Boltasseva, Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of ECE, Alexander Kildishev, Professor of ECE, Scott Sudhoff, Michael and Katherine Birck Distinguished Professor of ECE, Vladimir Shalaev, Bob and Anne Burnett Distinguished Professor of ECE, David Love, Nick Trbovich Professor of ECE

Purdue University’s Office of Research recently announced recipients of awards for two key grant programs: SPARK (Supporting Partnering for Advanced Research teamworK) and NIH incentive grants. The SPARK and NIH incentive programs are important Purdue-led initiatives designed to foster collaborative research teams and provide targeted seed funding for institutional priority areas.

Several Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty members were part of the fall 2024 cohorts of award applicants.

  • “Dynamic intelligence in challenging environments (DICE)”; faculty recipients: Christopher Brinton (electrical and computer engineering), David Love (electrical and computer engineering), Inez Hua (civil engineering and environmental and ecological engineering) and Leifur Leifsson (aeronautics and astronautics engineering)

 

  • “AI-assisted weak measurements in nanophotonics”; faculty recipients: Alexander Kildishev (electrical and computer engineering), Vladimir Shalaev (electrical and computer engineering) and Alexandra Boltasseva (electrical and computer engineering)

 

  • “Digital and industrial center for economic and resilient-road vehicles technologies”; faculty recipients: Andrea Vacca (agricultural and biological engineering), Gregory Shaver (mechanical engineering), Scott Sudhoff (electrical and computer engineering), Stephan Biller (industrial engineering), Yuehwern Yih (industrial engineering) and Lizhi Shang (agricultural and biological engineering)

The deadline to apply for the spring 2025 round of SPARK funding is 5 p.m. March 14.Additional information for the spring 2025 rounds of SPARK funding can be found here while details on all intramural funding opportunities can be found here.

 

Source: Office of Research announces SPARK and NIH incentive grants awardees