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)
