Spring 2024 Awards
The Spring 2024 Rapid Seedling Grants awarded $25,997 for three separate proposals:
PI:Jeff Wall "AutoProphet: An Open-source, AI-enabled Financial Analytics Tool to Democratize Advanced Financial Analysis for Finance Students and Retail Investors." $9,997 awarded.
PI:Ronghua Xu "Designing a Microchained Network Architecture for Internet of Vehicles (IoV) Networks." $6,000 awarded.
PI:Hassan Masoud "Harnessing Kirigami-Inspired Composites for Wave Energy Conversion." $10,000 awarded.
Fall 2023 Awards
The Fall 2023 Rapid Seedling Grants awarded $31,820 for four separate proposals:
PI: Flavio Bezerra Costa, co-PI:Chee-Wooi Ten "A Leap Towards Resilient Offshore Wind Energy: Innovative Experimental Setup for Developing Next-Generation Protection Systems for HVDC Grids." $10,000 awarded.
PI:Guy Hembroff "Adaptive Mental Health Intervention Recommendations using Reinforcement Learning and Natural Language Processing." $6,000 awarded.
PI:Ryan Williams "Enhanced Real-Time Data Acquisiton Capabilities for the Geospatial Research Shared Facility." $9,500 awarded.
PI:Vinh Nguyen "Automated Data-Driven Prediction of Porosity in Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing." $6,320 awarded.
Summer 2023 Awards
The Summer 2023 Rapid Seedling Grants awarded $59,992 for six separate proposals:
PI: Briana Bettin, co-PI Leo Ureel, co-PI Laura Brown "Revealing the Hidden Curriculum: Advancing Student Learning, Equity, and Accessibility in Computing Education." $9,992 awarded.
PI: Hoda Hatoum "Predicting patient prosthesis mismatch after aortic valve replacement." $10,000 awarded.
PI: Lanrong Bi, co-PI Adrienne Minerick, co-PI Thomas Werner, co-PI Chunxiu Yu, co-PI Zhiying Shan "Cyanobacteria blooms in Lake Superior: Is it an environmental trigger for neurodegenerative diseases?" $10,000 awarded.
PI: Amy Marcarelli, co-PI Jamey Anderson, co-PI Colin Brooks, co-PI Casey Huckins, co-PI Pengfei Xue "Autonomous characterization of the temporal dynamics of the Tobacco River plume in Keweenaw Bay, Lake Superior." $10,000 awarded.
PI: Jay Meldrum "Electric boats in Traverse City West Bay." $10,000 awarded.
PI: Ashraf Saleem, co-PI Erik Kocher, co-PI Thomas Oommen "Developing a UAV-based Miniature Cone Penetrometer for Terramechanics." $10,000 awarded.
Spring 2023 Awards
The initial round of Rapid Seedling Grants provided $39,400 in awards to four separate projects:
PI: Sriram Malladi "Integrating data-driven and physics-based modeling approaches for monitoring the shape of an underwater cable." $10,000 awarded.
PI: Daisuke Minakata "Distributed Resource Recovery and Remediation of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (DR3PFAS)." $10,000 awarded.
PI: Sidike Paheding, co-PI: Dukka KC, co-PI: Thomas Oommen "Mapping and Understanding Triggering Factors of Landslides via Transferable Deep Learning." $10,000 awarded.
PI: Leo Ureel "Infinite Loop: An Online Journal for Undergraduate Applied Computing and Research." $9,400 awarded.