Listed projects include research awards from an array of federal and state agencies, as well as industries and foundations.
Multiyear contracts and grants are organized by the original award date, along with the total anticipated funding amounts. These figures may not account for subsequent changes, such as funding adjustments or transfers. Additionally, due to sponsor guidelines, some awards may not be included in our listings.
Yue Jin
Title: CAREER: Unveiling liquid droplet entrainment and heat transfer mechanisms in two-phase annular flow boiling and rewetting using advanced laser-based diagnostics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation Directorate for Engineering
Amount: $566,915
Project Period: 5/1/26-4/30/27
Baolin Deng
Title: Development and demonstration of a highly selective rare earth elements recovery system using novel ion imprinted media
Sponsor: Department of Energy
Amount: $2,800,000
Project Period: 4/23/26-4/22/29
Title: University of Missouri Flood Risk Resiliency and Inland Waterway Navigation Research
Sponsor: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Amount: $2,000,000
Project Period: 10/1/24-9/30/27
Title: Towards sustainable water resource management in Missouri through technology advancement, stakeholder engagement and workforce development
Sponsor: Environmental Protection Agency
Amount: $5,000,000
Project Period: 10/1/23-9/30/26
Yi Wang
Title: CAREER: Understanding ultrasonic vibration-enhanced anti-gravity electrohydrodynamic printing for high-precision functional structures
Sponsor: National Science Foundation Directorate for Engineering
Amount: $550,000
Project Period: 4/1/26-3/31/31
Roseanna Zia
Title: AI-guided physics-based models of non-canonical protein translation systems for synthetic biology and whole-cell models
Sponsor: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Amount: $560,200
Project Period: 3/10/26-6/9/28
Title: Bringing whole-cell models to life: Development of physics-based AI for accelerated modeling
Sponsor: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Amount: $824,983
Project Period: 1/1/26-12/31/28
Praveen Edara
Title: Missouri Construction Pathways Initiative
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education
Amount: $1,892,886
Project Period: 1/1/26-12/31/29
Ellen Wan
Title: Harnessing biochar-biologicals-compost interactions to maximize productivity and profitability of small- and medium-size transitioning vegetable production systems
Sponsor: National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Amount: $960,000
Project Period: 9/15/25-9/14/29
Marisa Chrysochoou
Title: Collaborative Research: ISUE/PFE:RED Partnership: Cultivating neuroadaptive learning ecosystems through AI-powered personalized learning
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,500,000
Project Period: 8/15/25-7/31/30
Noel Aloysius
Title: Missouri River Basin monitoring and modeling and development of engineering tools, standards, decision support tools
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service
Amount: $1,012,500
Project Period: 7/1/25-6/30/26
Title: Monitoring hydrologic and vegetation changes in the Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Sponsor: Allstate Consultants
Amount: $848,155
Project Period: 5/15/24-12/31/34
Praveen Rao
Title: Integration-Small: Harnessing FABRIC for scalable language model training and inference
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $500,000
Project Period: 7/1/25-6/30/27
Tanu Malik
Title: Notebook to workflow and back again
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $976,705
Project Period: 1/1/25-6/30/28
Yaw Adu-Gyamfi
Title: AI-assisted system for automated work zone monitoring and inspection
Sponsor: Missouri Department of Transportation
Amount: $555,578
Project Period: 11/1/25-12/31/27
Title: TITAN – Interactive web-based platform for visual analytics of transportation data
Sponsor: Missouri Department of Transportation
Amount: $778,640
Project Period: 1/1/25-12/31/28
Title: Establishment of a public-private transportation data exchange center
Sponsor: Missouri Department of Transportation
Amount: $919,997
Project Period: 12/1/24-11/30/28
Mahmoud Almasri
Title: NSF Convergence Accelerator Track J: Phase 2 rapid detection technologies and decision-support systems for safe, equitable food systems
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $5,000,000
Project Period: 12/1/23-11/30/26
Jianlin Cheng
Title: FET: Small: Deep transformers for interring gene regulatory networks from omics data
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $598,103
Project Period: 7/1/24-6/30/27
Sheila Grant
Title: Accelerating Materials Design and Manufacturing through Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Sponsor: Arizona State University
Amount: $1,873,408
Project Period: 3/28/24-3/27/26
Title: Technology, Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Hub
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $5,499,466
Project Period: 2/1/24-1/31/28
Chanwoo Park
Title: Dual-Mode Hybrid Two-Phase Loop for Data Center Cooling
Sponsor: Department of Energy
Amount: $1,299,281
Project Period: 9/8/23-9/7/26
Matt Maschmann
Title: NRT-HDR: Advancing Materials Frontiers with Creativity and Data Science
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $3,000,000
Project Period: 7/1/23-6/30/28