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Research At A Glance

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Research Funders

Federal

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
  • Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
  • Army Research Office (ARO)
  • Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
  • Department of Defense (DOD)
  • Department of Education (ED)
  • Department of Energy (DOE)
  • Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
  • Department of the Interior (Interior)
  • Department of Transportation (DOT)
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA)
  • National Aeronautic and Space Administration Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NASA EPSCoR)
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
  • National Security Agency (NSA)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • Office of Naval Research (ONR)
  • U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
  • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Abbreviated Research at a Glance

The following tables offer an accessible, but abbreviated version of “Research at a Glance.”

  • Locations Shown—City Center Plaza (CCP) and the U.S. Bank Building next door (U.S. Bank); Charles P. Ruch Engineering (RUCH); the Environmental Research Building (ERB); Harry Morrison Civil Engineering (HML); the Micron Center for Materials Research (MCMR); the Micron Engineering Center (MEC); the Multipurpose Classroom Building (MPCB), and the Yanke Family Research Park (YFRB).
  • Directions—To find a location, search by code or name at the Campus Map.

COEN Research Labs

National Center

This National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center develops novel coatings and functionalities enabled by two-dimensional materials. Penn State University leads with other university, industry, and government partners, including Boise State.

Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings (ATOMIC)

David Estrada, Boise State University Site Director

Computer Science

An overview of Computer Science provides comprehensive details including faculty research areas by category, individual, center, lab, and program. There is also a description of available Research Experience for Undergraduate opportunities, summaries of grants and awards, and recent masters and PhD theses.

Research Area or Lab Location Contact
Adapt Data Flow Optimizations Lab CCP Catherine Olschanowsky
Artificial Intelligence-based Security Lab U.S. Bank Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano
Computer Graphics and Visualization Group CCP Steven Cutchin
Computing and Artificial Intelligence Lab for Physical Sciences CCP Min Long
Data Security-preserving Computing Lab CCP Jyh-haw Yeh
Human-computer Interaction and Kidsteam Lab CCP Jerry Alan Fails
Idaho Election Cybersecurity Center

Note: This investigator also directs a second lab.

CCP Hoda Mehrpouyan
Information Security, Privacy, and Mining Lab CCP Gaby Dagher
Privacy and Industrial Control Systems Security Lab

Note: This investigator also directs a second lab

CCP Hoda Mehrpouyan
Program Analysis for Software Verification CCP Elena Sherman
Software Engineering and Analytics Lab CCP Nasir Eisty
Speech, Language & Interactive Machines Group U.S. Bank Casey Kennington
Trustworthy and Robust Artificial Intelligence Lab CCP Jun Zhuang

Construction Management

WorkConstruction.org is in the RUCH facility. Anthony Perrenoud directs this multi-institutional group that conducts and applies research to promote the construction industry, educate its workers, and attract future workers.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

A research highlights overview of Electrical and Computer Engineering provides research news, as well as a comprehensive list of active research programs by research area.

Research Area or Lab Location Contact
Applied Magnetics and Photonics Laboratory MEC Karthik Srinivasan
Biomedical Imaging Research Laboratory RUCH Neal K. Bangerter
Electronic and Neuromorphic Devices and Systems Lab

Note: See further for another Cantley lab.

MEC Kurtis Cantley
Electronics and Natural Sciences Research Lab MEC Kris Campbell
Hartman Systems Integration Lab MEC Sin Ming Loo
High Performance Systems on Reconfigurable Chips MEC Nader Rafla
Integrated Bioelectronic Medicine Lab MEC Benjamin Johnson
Low-Power Integrated Circuits and Embedded Systems Laboratory MEC Omiya Hassan
Plasma and Vacuum Electron Devices Lab MEC Jim Browning
Power Research Lab MEC Said Ahmed-Zaid, Emeritus Faculty
Transport Characterization Lab

Note: See previous for another Cantley lab.

MCMR, RUCH Kurtis Cantley, David Estrada (MMSE)

Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering

An overview of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering provides summaries of research labs and centers and identifies research faculty in five areas: biomedical engineering, energy systems, engineering education, materials, and systems and controls. There is also a nice introduction to here to explain the benefits to undergraduates of participating in research.

Research Area or Lab Location Contact
Center for Orthopaedic & Biomechanics Research

The department maintains an affiliation with this College of Health Sciences lab, and several faculty members share equipment. Erin Mannen also shares space.

Yanke Tyler Brown (Kinesiology)
Boise Applied Biomechanics of Infants Lab Yanke Erin Mannen
Biomaterial & Musculoskeletal Engineering Lab MEC Sophia Theodossiou
Ceramic Microelectrical Mechanical Systems Lab MEC Don Plumlee
Computational Biosciences Lab MEC Clare Fitzpatrick
Computational Materials Design Lab MEC Mahmood Mamivand
Digital Design and Automation Lab RUCH Daicong Da
Energy Systems and Air Quality

Engineering and Computer Science Education

MCMR JoAnn Lighty
Mechanical Adaptations Lab MEC Gunes Uzer
Northwest Tissue Mechanics Lab MEC Trevor Lujan
Robot Control Lab MEC Aykut Satici
Smart Materials and Systems Lab MEC Zhangxian “Dan” Deng
Thermal Transport and Solar Energy Lab ERB, HML Todd Otanicar

Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering

An overview of Material Science and Engineering offers robust details about research news, groups, facilities, services, a database of shared instrumentation, active research projects, and recent publications.

Research Area or Lab Location Contact
Advanced Materials Lab MEC Brian Jacques
Advanced Nanomaterials & Manufacturing Lab

Note: See further for other Estrada labs.

MCMR David Estrada
Applied Electrochemistry & Corrosion Research Lab MEC Mike Hurley
Computational Materials Design Lab MEC Mahmood Mamivand
Computational Materials Engineering Lab ERB Eric Jankowski
Computational Modeling for Advanced Epidemiology Lab MCMR Richard Elliott
Electrochemical Energy Materials Lab MEC Claire (Hui) Xiong
Functional Ceramics Group MEC Rick Ubic
Macromolecular Sciences Lab MCMR Scott Phillips
Magnetic Materials Lab ERB, HML Peter Müllner
Materials Theory and Modeling Group MCMR Lan Li
Nanoscale Materials and Device Group
Atomic Films Lab MEC Elton Graugnard
Quantum DNA Research Group
(video overview 5:16)
MCMR Bill Knowlton
Surface Science Lab MCMR Paul H. Davis, Bill Knowlton
Ultrafast Laser Lab MCMR Ryan Pensack, Bill Knowlton
W.M. Keck NanoEngineering Lab MCMR Jeunghoon Lee (MSMSE; Chemistry)
Tissue Engineering and Bioprinting Lab (affiliated with the Biomolecular Research Center in the College of Arts and Sciences) MCMR David Estrada, Julie Oxford (Biological Sciences
Transport Characterization Lab
Note: See previous for other Estrada labs.
MCMR, RUCH David Estrada, Kurtis Cantley, ECE

Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning

An overview of OPWL summarizes research and development labs, and links to lab pages.

Research Area or Lab Location Contact
Interactive Learning Design Lab RUCH Rafael da Silva
Knowledge for Action Virtual Research Lab Vicki Stieha, Emeritus Faculty
Learning Strategy Lab RUCH Seth-Aaron Martinez
Performance Support for Accessibility Lab CCP, RUCH Donald Winiecki
Process Management Lab RUCH Steve Villachica, Emeritus Faculty
Workplace-Oriented Research Central Lab RUCH Seung Youn (Yonnie) Chyung
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