SystemX Alliance allocates a portion of member company contributions for Seed Grants. These grants promote research and student engagement that align with the center’s emphasis on System Thinking and Interdisciplinary Cooperation. They seed future research directions.
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Current Awards:
2024 Award
Towards a Full-Stack System for eDRAM-based Computing on Ephemeral Data
Professor Thierry Tambe (EE)
2024 Award
HDCam: On-Board Computer Vision for Low-power Wireless Cameras
Professors Zerina Kapetanovic (EE) and Sara Achour (CS)
Past Awards:
2021 Award
Automated Co-Design of Domain-Specific Hardware Accelerators and Compilers
Professor Priyanka Raina (EE)
2021 Award
Process Variation-Aware Compilation for Emerging Hardware Substrates
Professor Sara Achour (CS)
2021 Award
Lithium niobate photonic circuits for atom-based quantum computing
Professor Amir Safavi-Naeini (AP)
2021 Award
Development of a Novel Vertical Wicking μ-Cooler (VWμ-cooler) for the 3D MOnolithic/Stacked/Assembled IC (MOSAIC) Platform
Professors Kenneth Goodson (MS&E) and Subhasish Mitra (EE & CS)
2021 Award
Engineer Electrically Excitable Cells to Enhance the Human-Electronic Interface
Professor Xiaojing Gao (ChemE)
2020 Award
Development of GaN Transistors with Avalanche Capability to Enable Wireless Power Transfer
Professors Srabanti Chowdhury (EE) and Juan Rivas-Davila (EE)
2020 Award
Quantum Metasurfaces for Dynamic Flat Optics
Professors Mark Brongersma (MSE) and Felipe Jornada (MSE)
2020 Award
Peer Pressure: On-Device Learning from Soft Decisions
Professor Nicholas Bambos (EE & MSE)
2020 Award
Ultra-high Fidelity Oligonucleotide Synthesis on Individual Beads
Professors Lambertus Hesselink (EE) and Ronald W Davis (Biochemistry)
2019 Award
Electrostatic Phase Switching in 2D Systems for Scaled, Energy Efficient Phase Change Memories
Professors Alberto Salleo (MSE), Eric Pop (EE), and Evan Reed (MSE)
2019 Award
Error-resilient Planning and Optimization for Multi-Agent Autonomous Systems
Professors Dorsa Sadigh (EE & CS) and Mert Pilanci (EE)
2019 Award
CMOS technology for the rapid detection of sepsis biomarkers at the point-of-care
Professors Tom Soh (EE & Radiology) and Mark Holodniy (Dept. of Medicine & Palo Alto VA)
2018 Award
Understanding the potential of wide-bandgap semiconductors
Professors Juan Rivas (EE), Jim Plummer (EE), and Debbie Senesky (Aero/Astro)
2018 Award
A smart system for home-based food allergy screening
Professors Sindy Tang (ME)
& Kari Nadeau (Pediatric Food Allergy, Immunology and Asthma & Pediatrics)
2017 Award
Secure and Efficient Distributed Learning
Professors Ada Poon (EE), Bob Hu (EE) & Simon Wong (EE)
2017 Award
Heterogeneous mm-Wave/Photonics for Efficient Detection and Emerging Quantum Technologies
Professors Amin Arbabian (EE) & Amir Safavi-Naeini (Applied Physics)
