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Seed Grants

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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

2025 Award

Digital Twin for Wireless Model Simulation

Professor John Cioffi (EE)

2024 Award

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

Professor Thierry Tambe (EE)

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2025 Award

Democratizing Hard Hardware-Specification Verification Tasks

Professor Caroline Trippel (EE, CS)

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

Lithium niobate photonic circuits for atom-based quantum computing

Professor Amir Safavi-Naeini (AP)

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)

Annual Summary Report (PDF)

2021 Award

Process Variation-Aware Compilation for Emerging Hardware Substrates

Professor Sara Achour (CS)

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

Enhanced Perovskite Lasers via Dopant Interactions

Professor Dan Congreve (EE)