2022 CAES Summer Visiting Faculty Program
CAES invites university-member faculty to submit applications for the fifth annual CAES Summer Visiting Faculty Program (CSVFP), which kicks off in May. The deadline to apply is Feb. 25. The primary objective of this 12-week program is to support and guide faculty from Boise State University, Idaho State University and University of Idaho in the development of a submission-ready research proposal in collaboration with a researcher at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), who will serve as co-PI.
Application Materials: When applying via web portal, you will be asked to upload a copy of your curriculum vitae and your proposed project (using the Application Project Proposal template below). For non-US citizens ONLY, please complete and upload the FVA form as prompted by the application portal.
Awardees will participate in professional development, seminars and informational sessions aimed at building the faculty member's understanding of the US Department of Energy and its core capabilities, INL's strategic initiatives and areas of interest, and best practices in cross-institutional collaboration. Long-term objectives of the program include continued partnerships between the faculty member, INL and the CAES consortium, strengthening the consortium's inclusive research community and support STEM research and education across Idaho through collaborative university and laboratory networks.
We strongly encourage early career faculty to consider applying for 2022. Interested faculty should contact CAES Research, Education and Innovation Specialist Dr. Hillary Fishler (Hillary.fishler@inl.gov).
Additional Resources:
SVFP cohorts
| CSVFP YEAR | Institution | Faculty Member Awardee | Focus Area | INL Collaborators | Project | Proposed Funding Agency | Proposed Amount (If Indicated) |
| 2021 | Boise State University | Dan Deng | Computing, Data, Visualization | Casey Icenhour | An open source multiphysics platform for studying magnetorestrictive materials and devices | NSF DMR | |
| Yantian Hou | Nuclear Energy | Koushik A. Manjunatha; Vivek K. Singh | Protection and Threat Mitigation of DER Wireless Infrastructure | NSF CPS | |||
| Min Long | Computing, Data, Visualization | Yidong Xia, Trishelle Copeland-Johnson | Discovery of Corrosion Resistant Alloys for Nuclear Applications Using Data Informed Computing | NEUP | 700,000 | ||
| Yang (Frank) Lu | Innovative Energy Systems | Binghui Li | Data-enabled holistic optimization of integrated passive and grid-interactive design for energy efficient buildings | DOE EERE | 1,000,000 | ||
| Jayash Paudel | Energy Policy | Lionel Toba, Mamunur Rahman | Modeling energy poverty in the US | US EPA | 65,000 | ||
| Idaho State University | Andrew Chrysler | Cybersecurity | John Beck | Spectrum Analysis for Detection of Malware in RFID Tags |
DOE | 464,000 | |
| Mostafa Fouda | Cybersecurity | Kurt Derr | 5G Security through Artificial Intelligence | DOD | 450,000 | ||
| Mustafa Mashal | Nuclear Energy | Chandu Bolisetti, Som Dhulipala | Potential Applications of Ultra–High Performance Concrete (UHPC) in Nuclear Energy, Defense, and Homeland Security |
ARPA-E | 1,300,000 | ||
| Irene van Woerden | Nuclear Energy | Rajiv Khadka | Sensor Analytics: Innovation in fission battery development and deployment | DOE | |||
| University of Idaho | Dave Arcilesi | Nuclear Energy | Amey Shigrekar | Not Received | n/a | n/a | |
| Vibhav Durgesh | Nuclear Energy | Stephen Hancock | Thermo-fluid characterization of flow in nuclear reactors | CINR | |||
| Michael Maughan | Adv. Manufacturing | Thomas Lillo | In-Situ Quenching for Additive Manufacturing of Cost Effective High-Temperature Powerplant Components | DOE, NASA, ARO, ANR | 800,000 | ||
| Rick Sheldon | Cybersecurity | Craig Rieger | Security analytics for cyber physical systems and IoT | DOE | |||
| Damon Woods | Innovative Energy Systems | Bhaskar Mitra | Demand response capabilities of a ground-source neighborhood network | NSF | 2,000,000 | ||
| 2020 | Boise State University | Todd Otanicar | Energy-Water Nexus | Aaron Wilson | Thermal Gradient Reverse Osmosis — Pathway to Low Energy Thermal Desalination | EERE, NSF | 247,000 |
| Marion Scheepers | Cybersecurity | Katya LeBlanc | The Human Factor and Threat Mitigation in Cyberspace | DOD, NSF | |||
| Idaho State University | Amir Ali | Nuclear Energy | SuJong Yoon, Piyush Sabharwall | Scaling distortions and high-quality thermal-hydraulic validation data for pebble-bed reactors | NEUP | 800,000 | |
| Dan LaBrier | Nuclear Energy | Bryce Kelly | Development of Advanced Manufactured High-Temperature-Resistant Permanent Magnets | NEUP, NSUF | 260,000 | ||
| Anna McCarrey | Nuclear Energy | Ron Boring, Tina Miyake | Identifying the effects of age and increased automation on human performance in the nuclear control room workspace | NEUP | 600,000 | ||
| Irene van Woerden | Energy Policy | Rae Moss | Perceptions of Nuclear energy across Idaho | NE, IGEM, WECC | 228,496 | ||
| University of Idaho | Hangtian Lei | Cybersecurity | Tim McJunkin, Luo Yusheng | Adaptive Cyber Protection for Intelligent Electronic Devices in Smart Substations | DOE | 400,000 | |
| 2019 | Boise State University | Liljana Babinkostova | Cybersecurity | Robert Erbes | Integrating Algebraic Structures and Side Channel Attacks for Lightweight and Post-Quantum Cryptographic Protocols |
NSF SATC CORE | |
| Dan Deng | Advanced Manufacturing | Michael Shaltry | Micro-Scale Additive Manufacturing of Shape Memory Thin Films | NSF Additive Manufacturing | 470,361.00 | ||
| Dave Estrada | Energy-Water Nexus | Rebecca Fushimi | Emerging 2-Dimensional Materials for Process Intensification | ACS PRF | 110,000 | ||
| Mike Hurley | Advanced Manufacturing | Donna Guillen | 3D Metal Printer to Enable Innovations in Nuclear Materials and Sensors | NSUF | |||
| Brian Jacques | Nuclear Energy | Subhashish Meher | Novel Hierarchical Nickel-based Superalloys for Molten Chloride Salt Reactors | CINR | |||
| Nirmala Kandadai | Energy-Water Nexus | Josh Daw | Silicon Carbide based hardened Raman and Infrared Thermography Temperature Sensors | DOD DTRA | 162,140 | ||
| Michal Kopera | Computing, Data, Visualization | Cody Permann | High-resolution Dynamic interface Model of Ice/ocean interactions in Arctic Fjords | NSF | 311,042 | ||
| Min Long | Advanced Manufacturing; Computing, Data, Visualization | Larry Aagesen | An Integrated Experimental and Computational Study on Irradiation Effects of Additive Manufacturing Materials | NSUF | 500,000 | ||
| Edoardo Serra | Cybersecurity; Computing, Data, Visualizatioin | Shane Stailey | Enhancing workforce development and early outreach to advance data-driven cyber physical security |
Idaho STEM Action Center P3; NSF | 450,000 | ||
| Idaho State University | Tony Forest | Nuclear Energy; Computing, Data, Visualization | Daniel Schwen | A Validation of Radiation Induced Swelling for Materials used in Micro-Reactor Structural Systems | NEUP | 374,180 | |
| Leslie Kerby | Computing, Data, Visualization | Leah Guzowski | Applied Data Science and Machine Learning in Python Boot Camp |
ARPA-E, IGEM, NNSA | 32,500 | ||
| Mustafa Mashal | Innovative Energy Systems; Cybersecurity | Matthew Watrous | Earthquake Luminosities (EQLs): Fundamental Understanding of the Phenomenon and Identifying Potential Applications | DOD DTRA | 20,000 | ||
| Yaqi You | Nuclear Energy, Energy Water Nexus; Cybersecurity | Chenlin Li | Harness Agricultural Biowastes for Sustainable Food- Energy-Water Nexus: Maximizing Biochar Potential for Microbiome-mediated Soil Health | NSF | 507,718 | ||
| University of Idaho | Costas Kolias | Cybersecurity | Craig Rieger | An Immutable Device Authentication Technology Based on Radiant Analog Behavior | NSF SaTC Core/TTP | 800,000 | |
| Michael McKellar | Nuclear Energy; Advanced Manufacturing; Innovative Energy Systems | Donna Guillen | Technical and Economic Analyses of Power Conversion Units for Micro-Reactors. | DOE RC 2.3 | 800,000 | ||
| Thomas Ptak | Energy Policy | Noel Bakhtian | Energy Pipeline for Idaho Partnership in Education (EPIPE) | NSF IUSE | 570,000 | ||
| Zouheior Rezki | Cybersecurity | Arup Bhuyan | Resilient and Secure Sensor Networks for Efficient Autonomous Operations and Remote Control on Reactors | NSF CPS | 598,881 | ||
| Min Xian | Computing, Data, Visualization | Noel Bakhtian | PCDD: Physics-constrained Data-driven Framework for Multiphase Flow Modeling of Nuclear Reactors | NEUP | 466,000 | ||
| 2018 | Boise State University | Mike Hurley | Nuclear Energy | Gabriel Ilevbare | Using additive manufacturing to tailor the corrosion performance of stainless steel (title used for future Single Investigator Call ) Novel Nanoscale Electrochemical Characterization for the Qualification of Advanced Manufactured Alloys (title for contribution to collaborative proposals, specific alloy dependent on proposal call: DOE= Stainless Steel, DoD SBIR Phase II= Glassy Aluminum Alloys) | DOE NEUP | |
| Idaho State University | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||
| University of Idaho | Dave Arcilesi | Nuclear Energy | Donna Guillen | Not Received | n/a | ||
| Michael Haney | Cybersecurity | Steve Hartenstein, Wayne Austad | Nuclear Operator Cybersecurity Research and Development | LDRD | 125,000 | ||
| Michael McKellar | Nuclear Energy | Donna Guillen | Benefit of Collaboration Technical and Economic Analysis of Power Conversion Units for Special Reactors, "Special Purpose or Micro Nuclear Reactors produce power in the range of 2 MWe to 20 MWe" and "Technical Abstract TEA of PCUs for SPRs" | NE | 380,000 | ||
| Dakota Roberson | Cybersecurity | Steve Hartenstein, Wayne Austad | Wide-Area Control Learning Archetypes Responsive to Compensator Output and "Facilities, Equipment, and Other Resources University of Idaho - Idaho Falls" | NSF |
