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The Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) is the Department of Defense’s most prestigious single-investigator award and supports basic research with the potential for transformative impact. As a 5-year fellowship with up to $3 million in funding, the VBFF supports new, out-of-the box ideas where researcher creativity intersects with the unknown. Vannevar Bush Fellows represent a cadre of experts that provide invaluable direction to the DoD in its scientific efforts and also train the next generation of scientists and engineers.
VBFF Fellow Directory
University of Oregon
Neural Circuits and Computations in the Octopus Visual System
2024
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Analog Epigenetic Cell Memory: Biology and Engineering
2024
California Institute of Technology
Computational Hypergraph Discovery, a Framework for Connecting the Dots
2024
University of California, Santa Barbara
Beyond the Band Minima: High Energy Electron Dispersion, Physics, and Technology
2024
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Generative Active Modeling Along Unstable Dynamics for Capturing Unprecedented Extreme Events
2024
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
An Embodied Neuroscience for Cognition and Emotion
2024
University of California, San Diego
Engineering Dynamics Lipid Compartments for an Artificial Cell
2022
University of Colorado, JILA
Quantum System Scaling and Advantage for Fundamental and Applied Science
2022
Stanford University
Scalable Generation and Control of Large Quantum States of Light and Matter in Engineered Semiconductor Materials
2022
University of California, Santa Barbara
Controlling Recombination in Wide-Bandgap Materials
2022
Stanford University
Dissecting the Neural Circuit Basis for Volition: A New Framework for Brain-Machine Interface
2022
University of California, Los Angeles
Extreme Aerodynamics: Grasping the Unknown Skies
2022
Brown University
The Next Generation of Operator Regression Networks: Theory, Algorithms, Applications
2022
California Institute of Technology
Data-Driven Acceleration and Discovery of Computational Models
2022
Princeton University
Toward a Brain-Inspired Model of the Flexibility and Autonomy of Human Behavior
2021
Dartmouth College
Quantum Theory for Spectral Analysis, Prediction, and Control of Classical Systems
2021
University of Illinois at UC
Physics-Aware Reduced-Order Modeling for Non-equilibrium Plasma Flows: Implications in the Field of Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics
2021
University of California-Berkeley
On Intelligence and Networks: Conjoined Research in Machine Learning, Microeconomics, and Dynamical Systems
2021
Brown University
High-dimensional Stochastic Dynamics on Diverse Network Topologies
2021
University of Wisconsin
Engineering Quantum Heterostructures with Expitaxial Antiperovskites
2020
NYU/ Courant Institue
Mathematical Foundation and Scientific Applications of Machine Learning
2020
Cornell University
Bridging Levels of Scale in Large Social and Information Networks
2019
Columbia University
Measuring, Tracking and Modulating Human Decision - Making Neural Circuits "In the Wild"
2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Analog Quantum Computing with a Molecular Quantum Gas Microscope
2019
City University of New York (CUNY)
Multi-Physics Metamaterials for Thermal Management and Heat Manipulation
2019
Columbia University
New Forms of Quantum Matter Created with Ultra-Fast Nano-light
2019
Northwestern University
Manufacturing Process Complier - A Foundation for New Process Generation
2019
Yale University
New Regimes of Quantum Optomechanics Using Level Levitated Superfluids
2019
Georgia Tech
Development and Validation of a New Generalized Framework for Objective Rapid Explorations of Design Spaces for Novel Engineered Materials
2018
Harvard University
Quantum Engineered Van Der Waals Heterostructures for Topological Electronic Structures Towards Novel Device Applications
2018
University of Michigan
Hierarchical Materials Engineering with Chiral Nanoceramics
2018
Harvard University
Synthetic Bioelectrical Materials for Sensing, Pattern Formation, and Computation
2018
University of Chicago
Generalized Computations for Learning, Memory, and Decision Making in Artificial and Biological Neural Networks
2018
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Disentangling and Controlling Turbulent Structure with Nonlinear Dynamics and Machine Learning
2018
Harvard University
Many-Body Quantum Dynamics with Microscope Control - A New Research Frontier
2018
University of California, Los Angeles
Exploring Dissimilar and NanoMaterials Integration as a Platform for New MWIR Device Functionality
2018
University of Chicago
Atomic Imprint Crystallization and Scanning Near-field Deposition for Creating Large Area Single Crystal Surfaces on Amorphous Substrates
2018
Stanford University
Non-Reciprocal Photonic Gauge Potential and Nonequilibrium Thermal Metaphotonics for the Control of Light and Heat
2017
California Institute of Technology
Learning and Plasticity in Cortico-Hippocampal Circuits
2017
Northwestern University
Plasmonic-Dielectric Metamaterials for Enhanced Spectroscopy and Controlled Chemistry
2017
University of Chicago
Quantum State Creation and Control in Scalable Two-Dimensional Systems for Information Processing and Sensing
2017
Rice University
New Theory and Methods for Low-Dimensional Signal Modeling, Sensing, and Processing
2017
Columbia University
Perfect Semiconductors from Imperfect Materials: Dynamic as a Design Principle
2017
Texas A&M University
Turbulence Transport in Extreme Non-Equilibrium Environments
2017
Harvard University
Theory-Driven Biomimetic Design of Novel Optical Metamaterials
2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mapping the Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Perception in the Human Brain
2016
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
What Lies Beneath? Using Remote Sensing to Determine Currents, Features, and Turbulence Below the Surface
2016, 2009
Harvard University
Nanostructured Surfaces for Integrated Optoelectronics. Plasmonics, and Quantum Optics
2016
CalTech
Materials by Design: Developing Ultra-lightweight, Damage Tolerant Meta-Materials through Architecture and Nano-structuring
2016
University of Southern California
Multiple Structured Electromagnetic Waves Containing Orbital Angular for Novel Communications, Imaging, and Directed Energy
2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A New Paradigm for Analysis of Complex, Networked, Social and Engineering Systems
2016
University of Pennsylvania
Robotics: Toward the New Science of Programmable Work
2016
California Institute of Technology
Advanced Mathematical Methods in Computational Electromagnetism
2016
Carnegie Mellon University
Forward Modeling of Electron Scattering Modalities for Microstructural Quantification in Structural Materials
2016
University of Toronto
Practical and Scalable Quantum Simulators for Chemistry Materials
2015
University of Pennsylvania
Materials for Extreme Manipulation of Light, Sound, and Heat
2015
University of Pennsylvania
LOCAL-to-GLOBAL: Algebraic Topology for Data, Networks, and Systems
2015
University of Pittsburgh
Quantum Piston: Quantum Preservation, Simulation, and Transfer InOxide Nanostructures
2015
UC Santa Barbara
Engineered Heusler Compound Heterostructures and Superlattices
2015
University of California, San Diego
Bio-Inspired Functional Hybrids: A New Paradigm for Solid-state Devices
2015
University of New South Wales
Towards Scalable Quantum Computation with Electrically-gated Silicon Quantum Dot Qubits
2014
Duke University (currently unaffiliated)
Molecular-scale Energy Transport and Computational Phenomena Enabled by DNA Nanotechnology
2014
University of Chicago
Transcribing Quantum Information Using Quantum Dynamics of Coherent Materials
2014
University of California, San Diego
Development of Interfacial Phase Diagrams for the Materials Genome Initiative: Tailoring the Processing and Properties of Materials for Defense Applications
2014
Northwestern University
Functional Crystals Through Encodable Hard and Soft Matter
2014, 2008
University of California, Davis
Decoding and Enhancing Neural Mechanisms for Episodic Memory
2014
University of Chicago
Optical Materials Harnessing Meso-scale Electrodynamics and Plasmonics for Enhanced Chemistry, Sensing, and Quantum Optics
2014
Stanford University
Engineering Functionality in Emergent Oxide Thin Film Materials Systems
2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Synthetic Biology for Advanced Functional Materials
2014
The University of British Columbia
Designing New Higher Temperature Superconductors
2010
University of Texas Austin
Developing Biological Software via Genetically Augmented Proteins
2010
Harvard University
Quantum Control of Light and Matter: from the Macroscopic to the Nanoscale
2010
University of California-Berkeley
Attosecond Electron Processes in Materials: Excitons, Plasmons, and Charge
2010
Stanford University
Computational and Theoretical Design of Photo-and Mechano-Responsive Molecular Devices
2010
Northwestern University
Paradigms for Emergence of Shape and Function in Biomolecular Electrolytes for the Design of Biomimetic Materials
2010
Stanford University
Mathematical Modeling in Radom Media: from Homogenization Stochasticity
2010
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
What Lies Beneath? Using Remote Sensing to Determine Currents, Features, and Turbulence Below the Surface
2016, 2009
Harvard University (no longer affiliated)
One-Dimensional Nanostructures as Building Blocks for Functional Electronic and Bioelectronic Materials
2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Natural Armor: An Untapped Encyclopedia of Engineering Designs for Protective Defense Applications
2009
Northwestern University
Materials and Mechanics for Stretchable Electronics/Optoelectronics
2009
Yale University
Investigation of Diesel Producing Fungi as a Renewable Source of Fuel
2009
Purdue University
Novel Ultrabroadband Photonic and Radio Frequency (RF) Systems
2009
University of Colorado, Boulder
Development of High Power Ultrafast Lasers and Applications in Hyerspectral Imaging and Nanotechnology
2008
Carnegie-Mellon University
Managing Acoustic Communications in High-Stress Settings
2008
Penn State University
High Strain Actuators for Miniaturized Actuators and Self-Powered Sensors
2008
Northwestern University
Functional Crystals Through Encodable Hard and Soft Matter
2014, 2008
University of California-Berkeley
Nanostructured Materials for Low Power, Light Weight, High Performance Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices
2008
