FY 2021 Seed Funding Awards
In December 2020, DISC created a research seed funding program designed to incentivize transdisciplinary, convergent research teams focused on tackling grand challenges. Seed funding allows OU researchers to incubate ideas with the potential for future extramural support. In FY 21, DISC awarded 11 OU research teams a total of $115,000 in seed funding.
Big Idea Challenge Finalists - $60,000 Total Award
| Awardee | Team Members | Amount Awarded |
|---|---|---|
| Creation of a Sustainable and Holistic Refugee Resettlement Model (SHRRM) | Chie Noyori-Corbett June Abbas Suchismita Bhattacharjee Ronald Frantz Jr. Sunny Lee Ying Wang Jiening Ruan Qiong Wang | $20,000 |
| Enabling Tribal Data Sovereignty | Paul Spicer Amanda Cobb-Greetham Laura Harjo Raina Heaton Taiawagi Helton Kelvin White Deven Carlson David Ebert Jennifer Koch Audrey Reinert | $20,000 |
| Understanding, Predicting and Countering Vaccine Misinformation and Disinformation | Shane Connelly Georgia Kosmopoulou Kash Baker Rachel Blum Barbara Carlson Mark Doescher Christian Grant Amanda Janitz Matthew Jensen Lori Jervis Sunny Lee Glenn Leshner Laura-Isobel McCall Shaila Miranda Nancy Snow Heshan Sun Sridhar Radjakrishnan Kent Teague Aaron Wendelboe | $20,000 |
Convergence of Data Science and Aerospace, Defense, & Global Security - $30,000 Total Award
| Awardee | Team Members | Amount Awarded |
|---|---|---|
| Expediting the Industrial Adoption of Additively Manufactured Titanium Alloys by Deep-Learning Assisted Process-Property Design and Informative Machine Learning Augmented Process Optimization and In-Situ Monitoring for High Throughput Additive Manufacturing of Structural Composites | Yingtao Liu Iman Ghamarian Jin-Song Pei Dean Hougen Le Gruenwald Zahed Siddique | $10,000 |
| Towards Improving the Prediction of Blocking Patterns and Extreme Weather on Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Timescales | Steven Cavallo James Rupert Dimitrios Diochnos Sivaramakrishnar Lakshmivarahan Audrey Reinert Jason Furtado | $10,000 |
| The Decision Environment of Resilient Communities | Katerina Tsetsura Xiaochen Zheng Dean Hougen | $10,000 |
AI for Science - $10,000 Total Award
| Awardee | Team Members | Amount Awarded |
|---|---|---|
| Accelerated Optoelectronic Materials Design and Discovery Guided by Machine Learning and Advanced Computation | Dean Hougen Samuel Cheng Kun Lu Bin Wang Byram Saparov | $3,000 |
| Blending data streams to create reliable ecological forecasts | Dean Hougen Yifu Li Jeff Kelly Charles Nicholson | $4,000 |
| Machine-Learning (ML) Assisted Molecular and Coarse-Scaled Dynamics | Samuel Cheng Deepak Devegowda Dean Hougen Yihan Shao | $3,000 |
Opioid Research - $15,000 Total Award
| Awardee | Team Members | Amount Awarded |
|---|---|---|
| Wastewater Synoptic Survey of Opioids and Other Illicit Drugs in Rural Communities across Oklahoma | Jason Vogel Erin Maher Daniel Snow Bradley Stevenson Halley Reeves Katrin Khun Bryce Lowery | $10,000 |
| The Health and Economic Impact of a New Multidisciplinary Clinic to Treat Infective Endocarditis (IE) due to Intravenous Drug Use (IDU) | David Bard Aneesh Venkat Pakala Nelson Ivan Agudelo Higuita Michael Brand Junying Zhao Hairong Song | $5,000 |
