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2017 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows 

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David Awschalom
University of Chicago
Electronic Materials 

Quantum State Creation and
Control in Scalable Two-Dimensional
Systems for Information Processing
and Sensing

Richard Baraniuk
Rice University
Applied Mathematics

New Theory and Methods for
Low-Dimensional Signal Modeling,
Sensing, and Processing

 

Rodney Bowersox
Texas A&M University
Fluid Dynamics

Turbulence Transport in
Extreme Non-Equilibrium
Environments

 

Michael Brenner
Harvard University
Applied Mathematics

Theory-Driven Biomimetic
Design of Novel
Optical Metamaterials

 

Brent Doiron
University of Pittsburgh
Computational Neuroscience

Learning to Code in a
Noisy Cortex

 



Shanhui Fan
Stanford University
Meta-materials

Non-Reciprocal Photonic Gauge
Potential and Nonequilibrium
Thermal Metaphotonics for
the Control of Light and Heat

 



Beverley McKeon

California Institute of Technology
Fluid Dynamics

Designer Turbulence

 


 

Teri Odom
Northwestern University
Nanomaterials

Hierarchical Nanoscale
Materials

 

Tresa Pollock

UC Santa Barbara
Structural Materials

A 3D Platform for Discovery
of New Structured Materials

 

Athanassios Siapas

California Institute of Technology
Cognitive Neuroscience

Learning and Plasticity in
Cortico-Hippocampal
Circuits

Richard Van Duyne

Northwestern University
Functional Materials/Spectroscopy

Plasmonic-Dielectric Metamaterials
for Enhanced Spectroscopy
and Controlled Chemistry

Umesh Vazirani

UC Berkeley
Quantum Information Science

Testing Quantum Devices
and Quantum Mechanics

 

Xiaoyang Zhu

Columbia University
Electronic/Functional Materials

Perfect Semiconductors from Imperfect
Materials: Dynamic as a
Design Principle