University of Idaho (UI) is proud to announce the recipients of the 2024 UI-CAES Seed Funding Program. The program provides up to $10K to University of Idaho-led projects with the potential to garner additional, external funding. The funding total was $30K this year and comes from the UI Office of Research and Economic Development, where 25% of Facilities & Administration (F&A) funds from sponsored projects are returned to UI research institutes, including UI-CAES, to incentivize competitive research awards.
The seed grant priorities are to:
- Support novel, energy-related research aligned with CAES focus areas
- Support innovative outreach activities focused on energy-related issues
- Provide seed funding for subsequent research proposal development
- Fund graduate student (principally PhD student) energy research
- Support pre-tenured faculty
- Enhance collaboration with CAES institutions
Congratulations to the awardees:
- Constantinos Kolias, Leveraging the Power of LLMs to Scale-up Intent-based Network Security Configuration, $7,000
- Krishnan S Raja, Conversion of Oxides to Chlorides and Corrosion of SiC in FLiNaK, $8,000
- John Shovic, Industrial Research Contracts for New Specialized Domain Areas for AI Analysis of Manufacturing Data, $2,000
- Aleksandar Vakanski, Leveraging Vision-Language Models as Conversational Assistants in Nuclear Engineering, $7,000
- Amin Mirkouei, Leveraging Vision-Language Models as Conversational Assistants in Nuclear Engineering, $7,000
- Haiyan Zhao, a microgrant to support summer effort for recruiting two students, $2,000
- Min Xian, Microscopic Image Labeling Using Artificial Intelligence (MILAI) for Recruiting Graduate Students, $2,000