Career Research Awards
Notable Career Research Awards
NSF CAREER AWARDS
The CAREER Award is NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty who demonstrate potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
2025
Tanzima Islam, Computer Science
CAREER: SPEED: Scalable Performance-aware Engine for Efficient Decision-making on High-Performance Computing Systems
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/2177694
Christine Lee, Mathematics
CAREER: Colored Link Homologies and the Geometric Topology of Surfaces in Low-Dimensions
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/2372343
Kecheng Yang, Computer Science
CAREER: Predictable Real-Time Computing in the Presence of Unpredictabilities
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/2100629
https://www.cose.txst.edu/faculty-research-expertise/computer-science/kecheng-yang.html
2024
William Boney, Mathematics
CAREER: Compactness in Incompact Worlds
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/2158908
2023
Hwa Young Lee, Mathematics
CAREER: Reframing Students’ Graph Literacy with a Focus on Students’ Thinking
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/2013131
https://www.cose.txst.edu/faculty-research-expertise/mathematics/hwa-young-lee.html
2022
Nestor Guillen, Mathematics
CAREER: Integro-differential and transport problems in partial differential equations
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/2154434
2021
Yoichi Miyahara, Physics
CAREER: Characterization of quantum dot qubits by scannable mechanical resonator
https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2021/miyahara-career-grant.html
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/2129546
https://www.cose.txst.edu/faculty-research-expertise/physics/yoichi-miyahara.html
David Rodriguez, Biology
CAREER: Unraveling post-invasion dynamics of the amphibian-killing fungus via rapid genetic diversity assessments of both hosts and pathogens
https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2021/nsf-career-grant-fungal-diseases.html
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/1922354
https://www.cose.txst.edu/faculty-research-expertise/biology/david-rodriguez.html
Hiro Lee Tanaka, Mathematics
CAREER: Higher Algebra and Symplectic Geometry
https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2021/tanaka-nsf-career-grant-.html
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/2105558
https://www.cose.txst.edu/faculty-research-expertise/mathematics/hiro-lee-tanaka.html
2018
Jennifer Czocher, Mathematics
CAREER: Scaffolding Strategies for Undergraduate Mathematical Modeling Skills
https://news.txst.edu/press-releases/2018/czocher-nsf-career-grant.html
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/1922573
2016
Todd Hudnall, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Hong-Gu Kang, Biology
CAREER: Characterization of epigenetic factors and their regulatory roles in modulating transposable elements, plant immunity and transgenerational inheritance
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/1922370
https://www.cose.txst.edu/faculty-research-expertise/biology/hong-gu-kang.html
2013
Oleg Komogortsev, Computer Science
CAREER: Secure and Trustworthy Ocular Biometrics
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/1921726
Apan Quasem, Computer Science
CAREER: Autotuning for Multicore and Manycore Architectures: An Enhanced Feedback-driven Approach
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/1921733
Nikoleta Theodoropoulou, Physics
CAREER: Spin-Dependent Transport at Oxide Interfaces Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/1922598
https://www.cose.txst.edu/faculty-research-expertise/physics/nikoleta-theodoropoulou.html
2012
Jessica Bishop, Mathematics
CAREER: Characterizing Critical Aspects of Mathematics Classroom Discourse
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/1935931
https://www.cose.txst.edu/faculty-research-expertise/mathematics/jessica-bishop.html
Mina Guiguis, Computer Science
CAREER: Securing Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) Against Stealthy Attacks
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/1921723
2011
M. Alejandra Sorto, Mathematics
CAREER: Mathematical Instruction for English Language Learners (MI-ELL)
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/1922552
https://www.cose.txst.edu/faculty-research-expertise/mathematics/m-alejandra-sorto.html
2009
Nihal Dharmasiri, Biology
Career: Characterization of new Arabi dopsis mutants with altered response to auxin
https://news.txst.edu/about/news-archive/press-releases/2009/07/NSF072309.html
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/1922325
2008
Benjamin Martin, Chemistry and Biochemistry
CAREER: Chemically Modified Ternary Chalcogenide Materials
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/1922401
1990’s
Carlos Gutierrez, Physics
PECASE
The Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.
2017
Oleg Komogortsev, Computer Science
Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research Program Award
The DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program provides an annual funding opportunity for researchers in universities and DOE national laboratories. Established in 2010, this program supports the individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and stimulates research careers in the disciplines supported by the DOE Office of Science: Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), Biological and Environmental Research (BER), Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES), High Energy Physics (HEP), Isotope R&D and Production (IP), and Nuclear Physics (NP).
2022
Tanzima Islam, Computer Science
https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2022/tanzima-islam-early-career-research-program-award.html