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Research Development is located in Kelly Hall, 7th floor, West Wing
2101 Sun Bowl Drive
500 W University Ave (general address)
El Paso, TX 79968
researchdev@utep.edu (General Inbox)
Dr. Laura Alvarez from the Department of Earth, Environmental & Resource Science in the College of Science received the prestigious NSF CAREER award in 2023 for her proposal, “CAREER: Understanding the Physics of Turbulent Flow, Erosion and Depositional Patterns in River Systems,” aiming to provide a theoretical and numerical framework to study the feedback between turbulent flow, sediment transport, and geomorphologic changes in river systems.
Dr. Alexander Friedman from the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science received the prestigious NSF CAREER award in 2023 for his proposal, “CAREER: Defining the Mechanistic Role of Striosomal Microcircuits in Decision-Making,” which is testing a multifaceted model of brain regions involved in complex decisions using advanced computational and experimental techniques.
Dr. Deepak Tosh from the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering received the prestigious NSF CAREER award in 2023 for his proposal, “CAREER: Critical Infrastructure Resiliency through Robust Provenance and Information Sharing”. This project investigated how to devise an overhead-aware provenance framework to incorporate implicit local resiliency in the critical infrastructure that assures data and operational trustworthiness while thwarting rogue devices through continuous lightweight authentications.
Dr. Christopher Kiekintveld, from the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering, was honored with the prestigious NSF CAREER award in 2013 for his proposal, “CAREER: Robust Strategic Reasoning for Multi-Agent System” which developed methods for analyzing MAS to select strategies for an agent to follow that will lead to desirable outcomes.
Dr. Martine Ceberio, from the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering, was honored with the prestigious NSF CAREER award in 2010 for her proposal, "CAREER: Symbolic-Numeric Constraint-Based Solutions for Real-World Scientific Problems." Her innovative career plan aimed to enhance problem-solving techniques to better address real-world needs and increase accessibility, utilizing advanced Numerical Constraint Solving methods.
Dr. Bridget Smith-Konter from the Department of Earth, Environmental & Resource Sciences in the College of Science, received the prestigious NSF CAREER award in 2009 for her proposal, “CAREER: An Integrated Geologic, Geodetic, and Paleoseismic Study of Plate Boundary Stress Evolution and Geoscience Education Utilizing the EarthScope” to investigate the relationship between stress evolution of the Pacific-North American plate boundary and the occurrence of major earthquakes in this region using time-dependent fault deformation models constrained by geologic, geodetic, and paleoseismic data.
Dr. Juan Noveron, from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the College of Science, received the prestigious NSF CAREER award in 2008 for his proposal, "CAREER: Metal-Mediated Supramolecular Materials in Water: Towards Programmable Molecular Complexity with DNA-Delivery Functions." This CAREER project focused on the cross-disciplinary study of new supramolecular systems with DNA-delivery properties, paving the way for programmable molecular complexity in aqueous environments.
Dr. Niescja Turner, from the Department of Physics in the College of Science was honored with the prestigious NSF CAREER award in 2003 for her proposal, “CAREER: Dynamics and Evolution of Magnetic Storms in Varying Solar Wind Conditions” examining the behavior of the ring current under different solar wind conditions and during different phases of the solar cycle.