ECE faculty member wins part of $16.6 million Air Force grant

In total, 57 scientists and engineers from 42 research institutions and small businesses were selected after submitting winning research proposals through the Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program.

For the next three years, the grant funds will go toward Chi's work in low-complexity inference strategies for large-scale data streams.

According to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Young Investigator Program is open to scientists and engineers at research institutions across the United States who received PhD or equivalent degrees in the last five years and who show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research.

This year AFOSR received over 200 proposals to choose from, in areas such as dynamical systems and control; quantum and non-equilibrium processes; information, decision and complex networks; complex materials and devices; and energy, power and propulsion. 

Those selected receive the grants over a three-year period.  

Chi completed her PhD in electrical engineering at Princeton University in 2012, where she worked with Professor Robert Calderbank. 

In January, Chi’s paper, “3D Multifocus Astigmatism and Compressed Sensing (3D MACS) Based Superresolution Reconstruction,” was accepted to Biomedical Optics Express. Her paper “Compressive Two-Dimensional Harmonic Retrieval via Atomic Norm Minimization” was also accepted to IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing.

Other Ohio State faculty selected include Lawrence Baker, for Understanding the Mechanism of Catalytic Selectivity During Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Using Nonlinear Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy, and Cosmin Blaga for Studies of Complex Systems in Intense, Ultrafast Mid-Infrared Laser Fields.

More information about the Young Investigator Research Program grants is available from the AFOSR press release.