The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply.
UMBC early-career faculty have secured a total of 50 NSF CAREER Awards since the program was established by NSF in 1995, including 14 since 2020. Many of these early-career faculty members have since risen to leadership positions at UMBC and at other institutions.
UMBC President Valerie Sheares Ashby received her NSF CAREER award in 1998 as an early-career faculty member at Iowa State University.
CAREER: Teaching to Empower with Learning Analytics for College Students by College Students
Award Number: 2339674; Principal Investigator: Lujie Karen Chen, Information Systems
NSF Organization: DRL; Award Date: 04/25/2024; Award Amount: $790,887.
CAREER: Rethinking PIM-Assisted GPU Computing for Multi-Tenant Artificial Intelligence
Award Number: 2239638; Principal Investigator: Chenchen Liu, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
NSF Organization: CNS; Award Date: 07/26/2023; Award Amount: $539,004.
CAREER: Trustworthy and Robust Federated Learning for Computational Healthcare
Award Number: 2238743; Principal Investigator: Sanjay Purushotham, Information Systems
NSF Organization: IIS; Award Date: 05/12/2023; Award Amount: $591,587.
CAREER: Automated Reasoning to Advance Chemical Theory
Award Number: 2236769; Principal Investigator:Tyler Josephson, Chemical, Biochemical & Environmental Engineering
NSF Organization: CHE; Award Date: 03/30/2023; Award Amount: $651,609.
CAREER: Structural and Mechanistic Studies of RNA-mediated Enteroviral Genome Replication
Award Number: 2236996; Principal Investigator: Deepak Koirala, Chemistry & Biochemistry
NSF Organization: MCB and BIO; Award Date: 02/16/2023; Award Amount: $785,747
CAREER: The Role of Local Adaptation to Reproductive Conflict in the Distribution of Facultatively Parthenogenetic Reproduction
Award Number: 2237684; Principal Investigator: Mercedes Burns, Biological Sciences
NSF Organization: IOS and DEB; Award Date: 01/30/2023; Award Amount: $622,506
CAREER: Interfacial Engineering and Additive Printing of Flexible Thermoelectric Materials
Award Number: 2238996; Principal Investigator: Deepa Madan, Mechanical Engineering
NSF Organization: CMMI; Award Date: 12/20/2022; Award Amount: $500,007
CAREER: Identifying and Controlling Interfacial and Structural Instabilities in Transition Metal Oxide Cathodes for Na-ion Batteries
Award Number: 2402216; Principal Investigator: Özgür Çapraz, Chemical, Biochemical & Environmental Engineering
NSF Organization: CBET; Award Date: 10/01/2022; Award Amount: $500,000.
CAREER: Robots, Speech, and Learning in Inclusive Human Spaces
Award Number: 2145642; Principal Investigator: Cynthia Matuszek, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
NSF Organization: CISE; Award Date: 03/11/2022; Award Amount: $548,928
NSF Organization: CMMI; Start Date: 10/15/2021; Award Amount: $521,938
CAREER: Fair Artificial Intelligence for Intelligent Humans: Removing the Barriers to Deployment of Fair AI Technologies
Award Number: 2046381; Principal Investigator: James Foulds, Information Systems
NSF Organization: CISE; Award Date: 03/01/2021; Award Amount: $546,724
CAREER: Investigating the Impact of Device Aging on the Security of Cryptographic Chips
Award Number: 1943224; Principal Investigator: Naghmeh Karimi, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
NSF Organization: CNS; Award Date: 03/24/2020; Award Amount: $499,000
CAREER: Synergy-based Human Machine Interfaces
Award Number: 2053498; Principal Investigator: Ramana Vinjamuri, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
NSF Organization: IIS; Award Date: 11/13/2020; Award Amount: $499,983
CAREER: Big Data Climate Causality Analytics
Award Number: 1942714; Principal Investigator: Jianwu Wang, Information Systems
NSF Organization: OAC; Award Date: 04/01/2020; Award Amount: $542,294
CAREER: Structure, Mechanism, and Selectivity of Microbial Ferrous Iron Transport
Award Number: 1844624; Principal Investigator: Aaron Smith, Chemistry & Biochemistry
NSF Organization: CHE; Award Date: 04/10/2019; Award Amount: $548,000
CAREER: Scalable and Adaptable Cross-Domain Autonomous Health Assessment
Award Number: 1750936; Principal Investigator: Nirmalya Roy, Information Systems
NSF Organization: CNS; Award Date: 04/24/2018; Award Amount: $550,316
CAREER: Environmental Forensics: Emerging Water Quality Tools to Detect Leaking Sewers in Urban Streams
Award Number: 1653726; Principal Investigator: Lee Blaney, Chemical, Biochemical & Environmental Engineering
NSF Organization: CBET; Award Date: 03/17/2017; Award Amount: $512,000
CAREER: DeepMatter: A Scalable and Programmable Embedded Deep Neural Network
Award Number: 1652703; Principal Investigator: Tinoosh Mohsenin, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
NSF Organization: CNS; Award Date: 03/17/2017; Award Amount: $379,865
CAREER: Synergistic Cross-IoT N-Way Sensing using Wireless Traffic in the Edge
Award Number: 1652669; Principal Investigator: Ting Zhu, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
NSF Organization: CNS; Award Date: 02/08/2017; Award Amount: $394,671
CAREER: Collaborative Image Manipulation and Annotation in Surgical Telemedicine
Award Number: 1552837; Principal Investigator: Helena Mentis, Information Systems
NSF Organization: IIS; Award Date: 02/17/2016; Award Amount: $532,351
CAREER: Revealing the Complex Fluid Dynamics of Conventional Liquids Using Vibrating Nanoparticles
Award Number: 1554895; Principal Investigator: Matt Pelton, Physics
NSF Organization: DMR; Award Date: 03/08/2016; Award Amount: $689,999
CAREER: Characterizing Acid-Catalyzed Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation in the Atmosphere
Award Number: 1454763; Principal Investigator: Christopher Hennigan, Chemical, Biochemical & Environmental Engineering
NSF Organization: CHE; Award Date: 09/15/2015; Award Amount: $561,265
CAREER: A Self-Powered Biosensing Microsystem
Award Number: 1349603; Principal Investigator: Gymama Slaughter, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
NSF Organization: ECCS; Award Date: 01/01/2014; Award Amount: $416,000
CAREER: System Support for Renewable Energy-driven Devices
Award Number: 1308723; Principal Investigator: Nilanjan Banerjee, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
NSF Organization: CNS; Award Date: 08/24/2012; Award Amount: $351,480
CAREER: Regulation and Function of STAT Signaling in Cell Adhesion and Detachment
Award Number: 1054422; Principal Investigator: Michelle Starz-Gaiano, Biological Sciences
NSF Organization: IOS; Award Date: 02/15/2011; Award Amount: $650,000
CAREER: Deposition and Interface Properties of Metal Oxide Films on GaAs
Award Number: 0846445; Principal Investigator: Theodosia Gougousi, Physics
NSF Organization: DMR; Award Date: 05/01/2009; Award Amount: $530,653
CAREER: A Theoretical Framework for the Conceptual Design of Compliant Systems
Award Number: 0845793; Principal Investigator: Hai-Jun Su, Mechanical Engineering
NSF Organization: CMMI; Award Date: 05/01/2009; Award Amount: $412,000
CAREER: Organizational Adaptation in Artificial Agent Societies
Award Number: 0545726; Principal Investigator: Marie desJardins, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
NSF Organization: IIS; Award Date: 05/15/2006; Award Amount: $513,640
CAREER: Role of Zebrafish N-cadherin in Neurulation and Neuronal Differentiation (PECASE Award)
Award Number: 0448432; Principal Investigator: Rachel Brewster, Biological Sciences
NSF Organization: IOS; Award Date: 02/01/2005; Award Amount: $583,986
CAREER: Discovering Theoretical Entities
Award Number: 0447435; Principal Investigator: Tim Oates, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
NSF Organization: IIS; Award Date: 01/15/2005; Award Amount: $500,000
CAREER: Using Multiple Nuclear Introns to Reconstruct the History of Plumage Dichromatism in Orioles (Icterus)
Award Number: 0347083; Principal Investigator: Kevin Omland, Biological Sciences
NSF Organization: DEB; Award Date: 05/01/2004; Award Amount: $714,494
CAREER: Transition Metal Mediated Guanine Oxidation in Condensed DNA
Award Number: 0346066; Principal Investigator: Veronika Szalai, Chemistry & Biochemistry
NSF Organization: CHE; Award Date: 02/01/2004; Award Amount: $535,000
CAREER: Vibration and Stability of Distributed Structures with Industrial Applications
Award Number: 0348605; Principal Investigator: Weidong Zhu, Mechanical Engineering
NSF Organization: CMMI; Award Date: 06/01/2004; Award Amount: $411,000
CAREER: Aging, Tooth Fracture and the Success of Restorative Dentistry
Award Number: 0238237; Principal Investigator: Dwayne Arola, Mechanical Engineering
NSF Organization: CBET; Award Date: 06/01/2003; Award Amount: $412,000
CAREER: Methodology for Statistical Computing in Massive Datasets: Parallel Approaches to Cluster and MCMC Estimation
Award Number: 0239734; Principal Investigator: Ranjan Maitra, Mathematics & Statistics
NSF Organization: DMS; Award Date: 06/01/2003; Award Amount: $172,467
CAREER: Large-Scale Semidefinite Programming
Award Number: 0238008; Principal Investigator: Madhu Nayakkankuppam, Mathematics & Statistics
NSF Organization: DMS; Award Date: 09/01/2003; Award Amount: $83,136
CAREER: Ubiquitous Distributed Knowledge Discovery from Heterogeneous Data
Award Number: 0093353; Principal Investigator: Hillol Kargupta, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
NSF Organization: IIS; Award Date: 09/01/2001; Award Amount: $370,000
CAREER: Thermodynamics, Photophysics and Spectroscopy of Charge-Transfer Complexes
Award Number: 9985299; Principal Investigator: Bradley Arnold, Chemistry & Biochemistry
NSF Organization: CHE; Award Date: 02/01/2000; Award Amount: $390,000
CAREER: Redox-Mediated Cleavage of Peptides and Nucleic Acids
Award Number: 9984874; Principal Investigator: Lisa Kelly, Chemistry & Biochemistry
NSF Organization: CHE; Award Date: 02/15/2000; Award Amount: $388,000
CAREER: Information Sources for Software Maintenance
Award Number: 9984047; Principal Investigator: Carolyn Seaman, Information Systems
NSF Organization: CCF; Award Date: 03/15/2000; Award Amount: $229,994
CAREER: Quantitative Studies of Weak Interactions in Aqueous Solution: Anion Binding by Cationic Cyclodextrins
Award Number: 9985300; Principal Investigator: Paul Smith, Chemistry & Biochemistry
NSF Organization: CHE; Award Date: 02/15/2000; Award Amount: $402,100
CAREER: A Unified Framework for Analysis and Synthesis of Feedforward ANNs, Integrating Fault Tolerance (FT), Generalization, Intrinsic Capacity/Redundancy and Learning Complexity
Award Number: 0196362; Principal Investigator: Dhananjay Phatak, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
NSF Organization: ECCS; Award Date: 09/01/2000; Award Amount: $143,813
CAREER: MultiAgent Systems to Support Mobile Information Access
Award Number: 9875433; Principal Investigator: Anupam Joshi, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
NSF Organization: IIS; Award Date: 06/01/1999; Award Amount: $213,952
CAREER: Rational Manipulation of Fungal Cell Wall Composition to Control Hyphal Fragmentation
Award Number: 9876012; Principal Investigator: Mark Marten, Chemical, Biochemical & Environmental Engineering
NSF Organization: CBET; Award Date: 05/01/1999; Award Amount: $330,000
CAREER: Immuno-Optical Biosensors for Plasma Factors/ Application of TQM in Bioengineering Education
Award Number: 9733207; Principal Investigator: Kyung Kang, Chemical, Biochemical & Environmental Engineering
NSF Organization: CBET; Award Date: 08/15/1998; Award Amount: $160,000
CAREER: Multivariate Visualization of Importance-Varying Data
Award Number: 9996043; Principal Investigator: Penny Rheingans, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
NSF Organization: ACI; Award Date: 11/01/1998; Award Amount: $178,300
CAREER: Maximum Partial Likelihood Methods for Communications
Award Number: 9703161; Principal Investigator: Tülay Adali, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
NSF Organization: CCF; Award Date: 08/01/1997; Award Amount: $200,000
CAREER: Receptor-Mediated Bacterial Adhesion to Extracellular Matrix
Award Number: 9702985; Principal Investigator: Julia Ross, Chemical, Biochemical & Environmental Engineering
NSF Organization: CBET; Award Date: 06/01/1997; Award Amount: $230,000
CAREER: Designer Proteases Using Catalytic Antibodies
Award Number: 9502901; Principal Investigator: Michael Sierks, Chemical, Biochemical & Environmental Engineering
NSF Organization: BME; Award Date: 08/15/1995; Award Amount: $218,500
CAREER: An Object-Oriented 3D Interaction Toolkit for Virtual Environment Research
Award Number: 9503093; Principal Investigator: Russell Turner, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
NSF Organization: IIS; Award Date: 05/01/1995; Award Amount: $134,756