Working Together to Make Big Things Happen We bring a collaborative spirit to the interdisciplinary teamwork needed to find innovative solutions to tough problems. One example of this is our participation in twelve Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURIs) and Engineering Research Centers over the past eight years - working with 30 other institutions and total funding for all institutions of more than $85M. These projects involve groundbreaking research in information networks, dynamic systems, AI, electromagnetic transmission, light energy, high power lasers, artificial photosynthesis, new materials from plasma, photonics, adaptive systems, and cellular metamaterials. 2021 Lead PI: Mario Sznaier, Northeastern Michigan ECE: Necmiye Ozay
The goal of this MURI is a new neurally inspired framework for learning and control, where insights from dynamical systems are used to design verifiable and safe machine learning algorithms, and insights from machine learning and neuroscience are used to design the next generation of learning-enabled control systems.
The goal of this MURI is to provide a new, inexpensive method, using a process that involves solar photocatalysis, to produce clean chemicals and fuels such as green hydrogen and methanol utilizing solar energy.
2020 Lead PI: Peter Bruggeman, Minnesota Michigan: Mark Kushner (ECE), Sujo Linac (ChemE)
Combining plasmas with conventional solution electrolysis opens the possibility of new nonequilibrium reactions to synthesize new classes of materials – super-hard alloys and complex polymers. This MURI is focused on investigating these unique plasma2018 Lead PI: Mingyan Liu, Michigan driven processes. Michigan: Michael Wellman (CSE) MURI: Multiscale Network Games of Collusion and Competition
The goal of this MURI is to develop tools to understand and shape online and on-the-ground networks that drive human decision making, focusing on areas such as international diplomacy, street crime, cyber-terrorism, military strategy, financial markets and industrial supply chains.
MURI: Magnet-Free NonReciprocal Metamaterials Based on Spatio-Temporal Modulation
The goal of the MURI is to introduce and develop novel ideas and revolutionary concepts to model, design, analyze, fabricate and characterize magnet-free non-reciprocal metamaterials for the next generation of integrated electromagnetic and photonic systems.
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MURI: Tunable III-Nitride Nanostructures for N≡N and C-H Bond Activation
MURI: Plasma Driven Solution Electrochemistry
MURI: Control and Learning Enabled Verifiable Robust AI (CLEVR-AI)
2019 Lead PI: Andrea Alù, CUNY Michigan ECE: Anthony Grbic
2021 Lead PI: Zetian Mi, Michigan Michigan ECE: Ted Norris
2018 Lead PI: Uwe Kortshagen, Minnesota Michigan: Mark Kushner (ECE), Angela Violi (ME) MURI: New Materials from Dusty Plasmas
This MURI is investigating methods to make new materials using plasma-synthesized nanoparticles, for applications ranging from energy, sensors, environment, health to defense.
