DAGSI RESEARCH TOPICS

FY24 TOPICS WILL BE POSTED MONDAY, OCTOBER 2ND, 2023

2023 Research topics- Published


	Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (RX)
Topic #	Title	Contact
RX23-1	Engineering Photonic Materials Using Exceptional Points	Robert Bedford
RX23-2	Molecular Simulation of the Biocompatibility and Biodegradation of Polymer Hydrogels	Rajiv Berry
RX23-3	Molecular Simulation of Enzyme-Substrate Complexes	Rajiv Berry
RX23-4	Ab Initio Modeling of Point Defects for Quantum Information Science	Luke Bissell
RX23-5	Synthesis and Integration of Quantum Light Sources and Quantum Sensors	Luke Bissell
RX23-6	Design of Adaptive Material Networks for Sensing, Actuation and Physical Computing	Philip Buskohl
RX23-7	Development and Behavior of High-Temperature Ceramic Matrix Composites	Michael K. Cinibulk
RX23-8	Engineering Qubit-Phonon Interactions in Ultra-wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Room Temperature Quantum Technologies	Chandriker Dass
RX23-9	Automated Process-Driven Design for Additive Manufacturing	Andrew Gillman
RX23-10	Cooperative Human and Machine Learning for Manufacturing	Andrew Gillman
RX23-11	Single Crystal Fiber Development for IR Applications	Benjamin Gray
RX23-12	Engineering Nonlinear Optical Materials	John G. Jones
RX23-13	Creation of Materials, Manufacturing and Design Knowledge Representation via Self-assembly of Ontology Design Patterns	Elizabeth Loiacono
RX23-14	Ultra-Wide Bandgap (UWBG) Materials for Electronics and Optoelectronics	Shin Mou
RX23-15	Understanding Onset of Damage in Multifunctional Composite	Dhriti Nepal
RX23-16	Exploration of Magnetization Dynamics in Ferromagnetic and Antiferromagnetic Materials	Michael Page
RX23-17	Performance and Characterization of Advanced Composites for Air and Space Applications in Extreme Environments	Craig P. Przybyla
RX23-18	Process Modeling for Polymer Matrix Composites	Matthew J. Grasinger
RX23-19	Advanced Processing of Ceramic and Ceramic Matrix Composite Structures	Lisa M. Rueschhoff
RX23-20	Linking Processing Structure and Properties through Deep Learning	Megna Shah
RX23-21	Synthesis and Mechanical Actuation of Helically Chiral Molecules and Polymer Fibrils	Davide L. Simone
RX23-22	Omics and Bioinformatics for Microbiomes and Materials	Blake Stamps
RX23-23	Investigation of the Optical Properties of Novel 2D Materials	Michael A. Susner
RX23-24	Flexible Electronics for Responsive Structures and Sensors	Christopher Tabor
RX23-25	Developing Python-Based Hardware-Software Integration Platform for Closed-Loop Autonomous Synthesis	Vikas Varshney
RX23-26	Defect Analysis of Ultra-wide Bandgap (UWBG) Materials for Electronic Applications	Thaddeus Asel


	Aerospace Systems (RQ)
Topic #	Title	Contact
RQ23-1	Extending the Tractability of Large-Eddy Simulation for High Reynolds-Number Flows	Daniel J. Garmann
RQ23-2	Meta-materials for Structural Applications	Thomas J. Spradlin
RQ23-3	Aerothermoelastic Analysis Methodologies for Aircraft Design	Philip S. Beran
RQ23-4	Multi-Fidelity Analysis Methods for Multidisciplinary Design Optimization	Philip S. Beran
RQ23-5	Numerical Simulation of High Mach Number Viscous Flow	Nick Bisek
RQ23-6	Advanced Flight Control	Michael Bolender
RQ23-7	Leveraging Both Experimental and Computational Data to Study Hypersonic Flight	Matthew Borg Matthew Tufts
RQ23-8	Control Techniques for Two Phase Thermal Management	Larry Byrd
RQ23-9	Electric Capacitance Tomography Development for Two Phase Flow	Larry Byrd
RQ23-10	Supersonic Combustion Ramjet Research	Campbell Carter
RQ23-11	Compact and Novel Combustion Concepts	Andrew Caswell
RQ23-12	High-Altitude Combustion Ignition and Relight Research	Andrew Caswell
RQ23-13	Enabling Robust and Durable Aerospace Structures for Combined, Extreme Environments	Thomas Eason
RQ23-14	Unsteady Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer in Turbines	John Clark
RQ23-15	High Capacity Cathode Materials Functionalized with Carbon for Lithium-based Batteries	Joseph P. Fellner
RQ23-16	Intelligent Power Systems for Next Generation Aircraft	Joseph P. Fellner James Scofield
RQ23-17	Efficient Small Scale Propulsion and Power Systems	Mark Fernelius
RQ23-18	Enhanced Optical Flow Diagnostics/ Minimization of Particle Seeding	Benjamin Hagen
RQ23-19	Active Thrust Balance of Engine Mainshaft Bearings	Brian D. Nicholson
RQ23-20	Wall-Modeled LES of Shock-boundary layer interaction (SBLI)	Ez A. Hassan
RQ23-21	Mechanical strengthened interfaces of 3D-Printable Multifunctional Solid State Batteries	Joseph P. Fellner
RQ23-22	Advanced Structural Concepts for lighter and low cost Aircrafts	James Joo
RQ23-23	High Work High Efficiency Low Pressure Turbine Aerodynamics	Christopher Marks Rolf Sondergaard
RQ23-24	Low-Speed, Unsteady Aerodynamics: Physics, Modeling, and Control	Albert Medina
RQ23-25	Advanced Analytical Tools for Turbine Engine Bearing Compartments	Brian D. Nicholson
RQ23-26	Combustion Enhancement in High-Speed Flows	Timothy Ombrello
RQ23-27	Innovative Active Flow Control for Aircraft Aerodynamics Enhancement	Ryan Plumley
RQ23-28	Basic Research in Energy and Combustion Science	Brent A. Rankin
RQ23-29	Large Eddy Simulations of Turbulent Combustion Systems	Brent A. Rankin
RQ23-30	Analysis and optimization of advanced hybrid electric architectures for next generation tactical unmanned aerial systems (UAS)	Michael A Rottmayer
RQ23-31	Weapons Bay Shear Layer Physics Quantified with High Fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics	Ryan F. Schmit
RQ23-32	High Frequency Load Measurements of Slender Bodies in Unsteady Flow Fields	Ryan F. Schmit
RQ23-33	Chimera Hole Cutting for High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Fluid Solver	Christopher Schrock
RQ23-34	Structural Dynamics & Mechanics of Turbomachinery Components	Dino Celli
RQ23-35	Data Science Based Approaches for Modeling Electronics, Devices, and Systems with Control Applications	Kenneth Semega
RQ23-36	Magnetocaloric effect of Ni-Mn based Heusler alloys	Zafer Turgut
RQ23-37	Design Approaches for Hypersonic Inlet and Isolator Operability	Tyler Gardner
RQ23-38	System Engineering for Energy and Power Integration Coupled with Validation Testing	Kirk Yerkes
RQ23-39	Advancement of Automated Aerospace Structural Design	Justin Clough
RQ23-40	Control Techniques for Aircraft Energy Management	Jon Zumberge
RQ23-41	Trajectory Planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems	Dave Grymin
RQ23-42	Design and Verification of Automatic, Autonomous, and Intelligent Aerospace Control Systems	Kerianne Hobbs
RQ23-43	Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for Air-Launched Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)	Paul A. Fleitz
RQ23-44	Computational Design, Analysis and Integration of Aircraft Power and Thermal Management Subsystems	Soumya S. Patnaik
RQ23-45	Digital Engineering and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) for Aircraft Power and Thermal Subsystems	Soumya S. Patnaik
RQ23-46	Modeling and Simulation Study of Aircraft Environmental Control System for UAS Military Aircraft	Abdeel J. Roman
RQ23-47	Study of DEW thermal performance under aircraft mission profile conditions	Abdeel J. Roman
RQ23-48	Two-phase flow thermal systems study for UAS aircraft applications	Abdeel J. Roman
RQ23-49	Analysis and Development of Inlet Systems for Gas Turbine Engines	Stuart Benton
RQ23-50	Analytic Sensitivities and Machine Learning applied to Uncertainty Quantification for Multidisciplinary Systems Analysis & Design Optimization	Edwin E. Forster
RQ23-51	Machine Learning Approaches in Computational Fluid Mechanics	Christopher Schrock
RQ23-52	Detonation Engine Propulsion Research	Adam Holley
RQ23-53	Fan and Compressor Experimental Aerodynamics	Michael G. List
RQ23-54	Fan and Compressor Design, Modeling, and Simulation	Michael G. List
RQ23-55	Unsteady Flow Physics and Aerodynamic Flow Control in High-Work Low Pressure Turbine Passages	Christopher Marks
RQ23-56	Computer Science/Pattern Tracking/ ML to enhance flow visualization techniques for Unsteady Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer Turbine Research	Natalia A. Posada
RQ23-57	Multidisciplinary nonlinear time-spectral methods for air vehicle design	Nathan A. Wukie
RQ23-58	Goal-oriented adaptive methods for air vehicle design	Nathan A. Wukie
RQ23-59	Coupling Computational Fluid Dynamics {CFO} Analysis and Optimization Techniques for Scramjet Engine Design Applications	Mark Hagenmaier

	Sensors Directorate (RY)
Topic #	Title	Contact
RY23-1	Advancing Analogical Reasoning for Artificial Intelligence	Trevor Bihl
RY23-2	Counter-Autonomy through Adversarial Reinforcement Learning	Corey Schumacher
RY23-3	Development of SWIR Avalanche Photodetectors	Joshua Duran
RY23-4	Electronic-Grade Dielectric Integration for High-Power, High Frequency Electronic	Ahmad E. Islam
RY23-5	Ga2O3 for High Power Devices	Kevin Leedy
RY23-6	Gamification to Advance Reinforcement Learning	Trevor Bihl
RY23-7	Infrared Event Based Sensing	Charles Reyner
RY23-8	Symbols to describe AI systems	Trevor Bihl
RY23-9	Printed and Flexible Electronics and Photonics for USAF Sensor Applications	Emily Heckman
RY23-10	Printed, Flexible Microwave Circuits	Carrie Bartsch
RY23-11	High Performance LWIR Detectors and Focal Plane Arrays Based on 111-V Antimonide Based Materials	Gamini Ariyawansa
RY23-12	Synthesis and Characterization of Sh-x-vGexSnv Alloys	Bruce Claflin
RY23-13	Analysis Feedback Loop to System Model for Digital Design Iteration	Keith Dreyer
RY23-14	Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Analysis Chain for Air-Based Sensors	Keith Dreyer
RY23-15	Coupled Semiconductor Laser Arrays	Ricky Gibson
RY23-16	Interconnects for Scalable Integration of Heterogeneous Photonic Devices	Matthew Hagedon
RY23-17	Nanopatterned Phase-Change Materials for High-Speed, Continuous Phase Modulation	Joshua Hendrickson
RY23-18	Design and Verification of Automatic, Autonomous, and Intelligent Aerospace control Systems	Kerianne Hobbs
RY23-19	Optical and electrical characterization of topological materials	Arnold Kiefer
RY23-20	Novel materials and devices for nonlinear frequency conversion	Rita D. Peterson
RY23-21	Reconfigurable Radio Frequency (RF) Technology for Adaptable Phased-Arrays and Cognitive Electronic Warfare (EW) Applications	Tony K. Quach
RY23-22	Event Sequence Learning from Textual Scenario Descriptions	Michael L. Talbert
RY23-23	Conjugated Polymers for Infrared or RF Applications	Jarrett Vella
RY23-24	Wide-aperture nonlinear and nonreciprocal multilayers for optical switching, limiting, isolation, and enhanced light detection	llya Vitebskiy Igor Anisimov
RY23-25	Evolutionary Methodologies to Provide Next-Generation Avionics Resiliency	David A. Kapp
RY23-26	Adaptable and Resilient Control Systems for Next Generation Avionics Embedded Systems	Tern Kebede
RY23-27	Optimal Signal Design for Joint Radar and Communication System	Dr. Saba Mudaliar


	Airman Systems Directorate (RH)
Topic #	Title	Contact
RH23-1	Effects of Inhaled Particles on Lung Surfactant Function: Impact on Airmen Readiness Engaged in High-demand, High-impact Mission Tasks	Saber Hussain
RH23-2	Airmen Stress Scenario Simulation using Cultured Cells: Mitochondrial Health & Organ-Level Effects	Saber Hussain
RH23-3	Investigation of Biophotonic Cellular Communication to Understand Mechanisms of Performance	Saber Hussain
RH23-4	Develop, Test, and Validate Biomarker Sensors	Steve Kim
RH23-5	Software Development for Improved and Robust Volatile Mass Spectral Detection and Analysis	Sean Harshman
RH23-6	The Effect of Reduced Gravity on the Gut Microbiome and Its Interaction with the Host	Michael Goodson
RH23-7	Microbiome Modulation to Optimize Human Performance	Michael Goodson
RH23-8	Information and Fusion of Space Data	John Ianni
RH23-9	Human Machine Teaming in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning	Huaining Cheng
RH23-10	Mobile Display Concepts for Multi-Modal Data	Vincent Schmidt
RH23-11	Visualization and Fusion of Big Data	Vincent Schmidt

FY24 TOPICS WILL BE POSTED MONDAY, OCTOBER 2ND, 2023

2023 Research topics- Published

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