Seed Grants

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.

Current Awards

Digital Twin for Wireless Model Simulation

2025 Award

Professor John Cioffi (EE)

Towards a Full-Stack System for eDRAM-based Computing on Ephemeral Data

2024 Award

Professor Thierry Tambe (EE)

Past Awards

Automated Co-Design of Domain-Specific Hardware Accelerators and Compilers

2021 Award

Professor Priyanka Raina (EE)

Lithium niobate photonic circuits for atom-based quantum computing

2021 Award

Professor Amir Safavi-Naeini (AP)

Engineer Electrically Excitable Cells to Enhance the Human-Electronic Interface

2021 Award

Professor Xiaojing Gao (ChemE)

Development of GaN Transistors with Avalanche Capability to Enable Wireless Power Transfer

2020 Award

Professors Srabanti Chowdhury (EE) and Juan Rivas-Davila (EE)

Annual Summary Report (PDF)

Peer Pressure: On-Device Learning from Soft Decisions

2020 Award

Professor Nicholas Bambos (EE & MSE)

Annual Summary Report (PDF)

Robots that Learn to be Safe

2020 Award

Professor Chelsea Finn (EE & CS)

Annual Summary Report (PDF)

Process Variation-Aware Compilation for Emerging Hardware Substrates

2021 Award

Professor Sara Achour (CS)

Development of a Novel Vertical Wicking μ-Cooler (VWμ-cooler) for the 3D MOnolithic/Stacked/Assembled IC (MOSAIC) Platform

2021 Award

Professors Kenneth Goodson (MS&E) and Subhasish Mitra (EE & CS)

Enhanced Perovskite Lasers via Dopant Interactions

2021 Award

Professor Dan Congreve (EE)

Quantum Metasurfaces for Dynamic Flat Optics

2020 Award

Professors Mark Brongersma (MSE) and Felipe Jornada (MSE)

Annual Summary Report (PDF)

Ultra-high Fidelity Oligonucleotide Synthesis on Individual Beads

2020 Award

Professors Lambertus Hesselink (EE) and Ronald W Davis (Biochemistry)

Annual Summary Report (PDF)