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OFFICE OF THE VICE PROVOST

Dennis Roberson Ganesh Raman Maggie Garcia Vice Provost for Research Deputy Vice Provost Executive Assistant [email protected] for Research [email protected] 312.567.3032 [email protected] 312.567.6893 312.567.3470

OFFICE OF RESEARCH COMPLIANCE AND PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT

Glenn Krell Elizabeth Soto Mariam Othman Director Assistant Director Coordinator, Compliance and [email protected] [email protected] Proposal Development 312.567.7141 312.567.3462 [email protected] 312.567.5757 2015 ANNUAL RESEARCH REPORT

OFFICE OF SPONSORED RESEARCH AND PROGRAMS

Domenica Pappas Toni Allen Deborah Wade Director Associate Director Research Administrator [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 312.567.3987 312.567.3638 312.567.3099

Robert LaPointe Flolena Redmond Gary Weiler Deputy Director Associate Director Research Administrator [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 312.567.7135 312.567.3340 312.567.3108

Brian Davis Research Administrator [email protected] 312.567.3072

CORPORATE RELATIONS

Ruth Sweetser Sabrina Fesko Scott Klapman Director Assistant Director Director of Operations [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 630.682.6020 312.567.6890 312.567.6844

TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIALIZATION OFFICE

Herbert Munsterman Raja Krishnan Director Intellectual Property Manager [email protected] [email protected] 312.567.7214 312.567.7212 Message from the Vice Provost for Research

Dear Colleagues and Friends, Greetings! I am pleased to provide you with this report on Illinois Tech’s research efforts for the 2015 academic year and our goals for 2016 and beyond. Our two-fold goal for research, during the second year of the Many Voices, One Vision—Moving Forward strategic plan, is to increase our research funding to at least $60 million per year and to enhance significantly the impact and related visibility of our research efforts. The first goal is easy to measure and provides a strong indicator of year-to-year success. The qualitative metric—enhancing impact and increasing visibility—is more difficult to measure. Despite the measurement challenge, positive indicators of our stronger impact are appearing. We are increasing our involvement in multi-university/ industry research efforts and external forums often serving as the principal investigator or chair for these efforts. The work of our top researchers is featured in news articles and technical publications. The Nayar Prize, although it does not fall neatly under the umbrella of research, nevertheless is igniting both excitement and energy in the Table of attainment of our high impact goals. This is all extremely important as this stature and visibility contribute to a virtuous cycle of “success breeding even greater success” Contents through our increased capability to attract high quality faculty and students. This report provides a snapshot of our research enterprise at both the institution and the college level. The good news Office of Research is that more proposals are being submitted and the dollar amount associated with awards is increasing. We just missed Highlights...... 2 our $250M proposal goal (up considerably from the just under $200M in 2014). Unfortunately, this surge in proposals Overview of hasn’t resulted in an increase in the number or value of our new research awards which declined from $38M in 2014 Proposals and Awards...... 3 to $36M in 2015. While we are not alone in experiencing declines as the federal and state governments reduce their research expenditures, this decline is obviously not helping us achieve our quantitative strategic plan goal of $60 Research Financial Status (Proposals, million. In addition, though our research revenue was slightly up relative to 2014 ($33 ->34M), our indirect cost recovery, Awards, Awards/IDC, the money used to fund our university infrastructure that supports our research, was down slightly. Obviously we will and Revenue/IDC)...... 4 need to do better in both quantitative and qualitative categories to achieve our university goals. Given our aspirations, our 2016 goals for new proposals and awards are $300M and $42M respectively (both ~20% increases from 2015). Overview of Awards, Revenue, Expenditures, Our research enterprise is a critical component of the university’s mission and an area where there is much to and Recovered Costs...... 6 be done. More of us need to be actively engaged in research efforts--and those of us who currently are need Summary of to aim higher. To support this work, the Office of Research is facilitating a variety of new initiatives to assist Proposal and Award in the proposal development and submission process. We will be rolling out a new research support system Data by College during the upcoming academic year as well as sponsoring focused meetings to connect faculty groups in (FY 13, 14, and 15)...... 7 order to stimulate the development of large interdisciplinary project proposals. In conjunction with the deans Dollars Awarded and and institute directors, we embarked on reviews of our research centers with the goal of finding ways to better Number of Awards support their initiatives. We are also dedicating considerable effort to strengthening relationships with external by Sponsor Type...... 9 university partners, such as the Illinois College of Optometry, and with corporate sponsors. Though challenging, Breakdown of Federal increasing our level of contribution to and research funding from companies should enhance our research focus Funding Sources...... 10 and aid us in our quest to find real world applications for the knowledge and technologies we develop.

Illinois Tech’s Finally, we are working to enhance the recognition for the accomplishments and hard work of our Top Researchers...... 11 research community. This report is one of many efforts to make more people aware of what is taking place here at Illinois Tech--and which faculty are providing the leadership in research. And in the NSF CAREER years ahead, we hope to be recognizing an increasing number of faculty for their efforts. Award Winners...... 12 I wish you all an extremely productive and successful year! ERIF Award Winners...... 13

Sigma Xi Award Winners....14 Best regards, Research Group Rosters..... 15

Summary of Institutes and Research Centers...... 16 Dennis Roberson | Vice Provost for Research

Faculty Research Highlights...... 21 ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | 1 Highlights from Overview of the Office of Research Proposals and Awards

› The Office of Sponsored Research and Programs › OR hosted the 11th Annual Research Day at Illinois Tech 2016 Goals: $300M in Proposals and $42M in Awards (OSRP) recorded $36,181,071 in awards received in highlighting research accomplishments of students and FY15, with facilities and administrative costs awarded faculty. The event included a poster session with 43 of $5,649,037. These compare favorably with FY14 student participants and 33 faculty and staff judges. The outcomes, $38,042,795 and $6,803,535, respectively. undergraduate winners were: 1st place: Yusra Sarhan TOTAL NUMBER OF PROPOSALS SUBMITTED TOTAL NUMBER OF AWARDS › In FY15, Illinois Tech researchers submitted 416 (BME), advised by David Mogul (BME); 2nd place: proposals, requesting a total of $243,530,769. This Ritika Dhawan (BME), advised by Georgia Papavasiliou marks an increase in dollars from FY14, where Illinois (BME); and 3rd place: Georgi Hristov (MMAE), advised Tech researchers submitted 411 proposals and requested by David Williams (MMAE). The graduate winners a total of $195,284,139. Since proposals often yield were: 1st place: Martin Detrois (MMAE), advised by research awards six months after they are submitted, Sammy Tin (MMAE); 2nd place: Javid Mahmoudzadeh this increase in proposal dollars provides the opportunity (MMAE), advised by Kevin Cassel (MMAE); and 3rd for awards growth in the current academic year. place: Qing Li (IFSH), advised by Tong-Jen Fu (IFSH). Following the poster session, Argonne Distinguished › The Office of Research (OR) welcomed38 new Fellow Mike Pellin delivered the Sigma Xi Lecture. faculty members at the New Faculty Orientation. New › faculty gained familiarity with the staff and services OR and the Illinois Tech chapter of Sigma Xi recognized of the Offices of Sponsored Research, Research three faculty members and one graduate student for Compliance, and Grant and Contract Accounting. exceptional research accomplishments. This year’s Illinois Tech/ Sigma Xi Excellence in Research award › OR welcomed 36 students at the Fellowship forum winners were: Patrick Corrigan (Psychology), senior during the Fall 2014 semester. Students were faculty; Adam Hock (Chemistry), junior faculty; Liad provided with information about the application and Wagman (Economics), junior faculty; and Chris TOTAL DOLLAR AMOUNT REQUESTED TOTAL DOLLAR AMOUNT AWARDED evaluation processes associated with prestigious Pelliccione (Physics), student, advised by Carlo Segre. research fellowships, including opportunities such (IN THOUSANDS) (IN THOUSANDS) › as the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. ORCPD continued to work to support the Campuswide Safety Working Group (CSWG), which is charged › OR awarded two $25,000 multi-disciplinary Educational with overseeing safety compliance in all teaching and and Research Initiative Fund grants to faculty. This research labs on Illinois Tech campuses. Voiceovers year’s winners were collaborations between Aron were also completed for a comprehensive series Culotta (CS) and Jennifer Cutler (SSB), and between of online presentations on laboratory safety. Salim El Rouayheb (ECE), and Dong Jin (CS). › ORCPD launched a new service called Fund Searching › OR awarded Starr-Fieldhouse fellowships to two Services Team or “FSST!” in fall 2014. FSST! offers students in 2015. This year’s winners were Lu personalized coaching including “house calls” for faculty Liu (ECE), advised by Yu Cheng, and Razane members seeking funding for research. The team’s new Tajeddine (ECE), advised by Salim El Rouayheb. targeted approach is an alternative to bombarding faculty › OR continued to stimulate collaborative multi-disciplinary members with irrelevant funding opportunity emails. research at Illinois Tech through research forums and small FSST! developed and distributed a comprehensive new group meetings. The fall 2014 Research Forum highlighted “advice template” of best practices on grant seeking to the work of Illinois Tech NSF CAREER Award Winners approximately 40 faculty. The new template is based on while the spring 2014 forum brought together Illinois best practices gleaned from interviews with successful College of Optometry faculty and Illinois Tech faculty grant seekers and from the National Organization of interested in factors, such as diabetes, that affect vision. Research Development Professionals (NORDP). *American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) › OR held focus groups on cancer research, operations › FSST! also presented six workshops and panel discussions research and UI Labs: Project CITYWORKS in for faculty including Fund Searching, Crafting a Strong order to discuss potential academic initiatives. Research Proposal, Building Research Teams, and other topics. Building Research Teams, a new effort from FSST!, is an ongoing series of panel discussions by faculty and deans offering mentoring on what it takes to build multidisciplinary teams. Presenters included Christine Himes (Dean, Lewis College of Human Sciences), Russell Betts (Dean, College of Science), Carlo Segre (Professor, Physics), and Roya Ayman (Professor, Psychology).

2 | 2015 ANNUAL RESEARCH REPORT ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | 3 Illinois Tech Research

4 | 2015 ANNUAL RESEARCH REPORT ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | 5 Overview of Awards, Revenue, Proposals and Awards Expenditures, and Recovered Costs by College: Total FY13-15

TOTAL DOLLARS AWARDED EACH FISCAL YEAR TOTAL REVENUE BY FISCAL YEAR DOLLARS REQUESTED NUMBER OF PROPOSALS SUBMITTED (IN THOUSANDS) (IN THOUSANDS)

ADMINISTRATIVE AND FACILITIES COSTS DOLLARS AWARDED NUMBER OF AWARDS AWARDS AND EXPENDITURES AWARDED AND RECOVERED (IN THOUSANDS) (IN THOUSANDS)

ACE: Armour College of Engineering; ARCH: College of Architecture; CoS: College of Science; ID: Institute of Design; LAW: Chicago-Kent College of Law; LCHS: Lewis College of *American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Human Sciences; SAT: School of Applied Technology; SSB: Stuart School of Business

* IIT Research Institute (IITRI)

6 | 2015 ANNUAL RESEARCH REPORT ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | 7 Proposals and Awards Dollars Awarded and Number by College: Total FY13-15 of Awards by Sponsor Type: Total FY13-FY15

DOLLARS REQUESTED DOLLAR AMOUNT AWARDED BY NUMBER OF AWARDS BY SPONSOR (IN THOUSANDS) NUMBER OF PROPOSALS SUBMITTED SPONSOR TYPE, TOTAL FY-13-15 TYPE, TOTAL FY-13-15

DOLLARS AWARDED (IN THOUSANDS) NUMBER OF AWARDS DOLLAR AMOUNTS AWARDED BY SPONSOR TYPE FY-13-15 NUMBER OF AWARDS BY (IN THOUSANDS) SPONSOR TYPE FY-13-15

ACE: Armour College of Engineering; ARCH: College of Architecture; CoS: College of Science; ID: Institute of Design; LAW: Chicago-Kent College of Law; LCHS: Lewis College of Human Sciences; SAT: School of Applied Technology; SSB: Stuart School of Business

8 | 2015 ANNUAL RESEARCH REPORT ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | 9 Breakdown of Federal Illinois Tech’s Funding Sources Top Researchers

TOP FEDERAL FUNDING SOURCES PRINCIPAL PRINCIPAL PRINCIPAL PRINCIPAL › National Institute of Health INVESTIGATORS INVESTIGATORS INVESTIGATORS WITH INVESTIGATORS WITH WITH RESEARCH WITH AWARDS COMBINED AWARDS MORE THAN FIVE › Food and Drug Administration REVENUE EXCEEDING TOTALING MORE THAN TOTALING MORE THAN AWARDS IN FY15 › Department of Energy $1,000,000 IN FY15 $1,000,000 IN FY15 $2,000,000 FOR FY-13-15 Britt Burton-Freeman › National Science Foundation David Baker Robert Brackett David Baker Adam Hock Robert Brackett David Baker Robert Brackett Zhiling Lan BREAKDOWN OF FEDERAL Patrick Corrigan Britt Burton-Freeman Ali Cinar Alvin Lee FUNDING SOURCES, FY15 Tom Irving Tom Irving Patrick Corrigan Ioan Raicu Some U.S. Department of Defense Regnal Jones Regnal Jones Alex Flueck Carlo Segre funds were awarded through: Carlo Segre George Langlois Tom Irving Mohammad › U.S. Air Force Office of Mohammad Mohammad Regnal Jones Shahidehpour Sponsored Research Shahidehpour Shahidehpour Boris Pervan Leon Shaw › U.S. Navy Miles Wernick Miles Wernick Vijay Ramani › Office of Naval Research Carlo Segre INVESTIGATORS › U.S. Army PRINCIPAL PRINCIPAL Miles Wernick INVOLVED IN (CO-PI ) INVESTIGATORS WITH INVESTIGATORS OR PI OF MORE THAN › U.S. Army Research Office RESEARCH REVENUE WITH AWARDS TWENTY AWARDS BETWEEN $500,000- TOTALING $500,000- PRINCIPAL FOR FY13-15 INVESTIGATORS WITH Some U.S. Department of Energy $1,000,000 IN FY15 $1,000,000 IN FY15 Eric Brey COMBINED AWARDS OF funds were awarded through: Weslynne Ashton Patrick Corrigan $1,000,000- $2,000,000 Britt Burton-Freeman › Argonne National Lab Ali Cinar Adam Hock FOR FY13-15 Alvin Lee › Fermilab Alex Flueck Zhiling Lan DOE: Department of Energy; NSF: National Science Foundation; Shlomo Argamon Boris Pervan › National Energy Technology Laboratory NIH: National Institutes of Health; FDA: Food and Drug George Langlois Alvin Lee Weslynne Ashton Vijay Ramani Administration; DOD: Department of Defense; SBA: Small Business › National Nuclear Security Administration Boris Pervan Ioan Raicu Eric Brey Carlo Segre Administration; USDA: United States Department of Agriculture; Ed: Vijay Ramani Vijay Ramani › Los Alamos National Lab Department of Education; FAA: Federal Aviation Administration; Britt Burton-Freeman Jeffrey Terry NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Dennis Roberson Carlo Segre Hyun-Soon Chong Some National Institutes of Health Leon Shaw Brent Stephens Adam Hock funds were awarded through: Jay Shieber Yagmur Torun Zhiling Lan › National Cancer Institute Jeffrey Terry Francis Lane › National Institute of Biomedical George Langlois Imaging and Bioengineering Alvin Lee Dennis Roberson Some other funds were awarded through: Mohammad › U.S. Department of State Shahidehpour › National Institute of Mental Health Leon Shaw › U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Jeffrey Terry › National Security Agency Yagmur Torun › National Institute of Justice Philip Troyk Chris White

10 | 2015 ANNUAL RESEARCH REPORT ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | 11 NSF CAREER Educational and Research Award Winners Initiative Fund (ERIF) Winners

RECENT ILLINOIS TECH NSF CAREER AWARD WINNERS ERIF provides seed funding for high risk or innovative research and education programs at the pre-competitive stage. NSF CAREER AWARD RECIPIENTS AMONG AITU SCHOOLS Funded projects are multi-disciplinary or interdisciplinary in scope and must show the potential for external funding. Association of Independent Technological Universities Mustafa Bilgic (AITU) is an organization of leading private United 2015 2011 States technological universities and colleges. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Aron Culotta and Jennifer Cutler Nancy Karuri Active Learning through Rich and UNIVERSITY 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 TOTAL Tracking perception dynamics in online social networks Surface Modifications for Promoting Tissue Repair Transparent Interactions Massachusetts Institute Salim El Rouayheb and Dong Jin Mehdi Modares 12 4 9 13 5 43 of Technology Faster Wireless Data Rates via Caching on Smart Structural Health Monitoring and Damage Seebany Datta-Barua Carnegie Mellon Devices: Theoretical Analysis & Implementation Detection of Existing Structures with Assistant Professor of Mechanical, 8 12 6 6 3 35 University Unknown Input and Limited Responses Materials, and Aerospace Engineering Rensselaer 3 5 6 4 0 18 Coherent Structures in Ionospheric- Polytechnic Institute 2014 Thermospheric Flows 2010 Drexel University 2 5 5 3 1 16 Kenneth Tichauer and Jialing Xiang Mapping Molecular Heterogenityin Tumors for Mahesh Krishnamurthy Yu Cheng California Institute 3 4 4 2 2 15 Advanced Personalized Cancer Therapy Real-Time Electromagnetic Modeling and Associate Professor of Electrical of Technology Analysis Technique for Electric Machines and Computer Engineering Illinois Institute David Minh, Britt Burton-Freeman, 4 2 0 2 0 8 Exploring the Underexplored: A Fundamental of Technology and Indika Edirisinghe Zongzhi Li Worcester Polytechnic Elucidating the Mechanism of Anthocyanin- Multicommodity Flows and Algorithmic Graph Theory Study of Optimal Resource Allocation 1 5 1 0 0 7 and Low-Complexity Algorithms in Multi- Institute Induced Insulin Sensitization in Sustainable Transportation Decision Making Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Networks Case Western 1 2 3 0 1 7 Shawn Shadden Reserve University Identifying Key Transport Mechanisms Stevens Institute 2013 Ioan Raicu 2 1 0 3 0 6 in the Formation of Thrombi Assistant Professor of Computer Science of Technology Eric Houston and Boris Glavic

Avoiding Achilles’ Heel in Exascale Clarkson University 1 0 1 1 0 3 An Interdisciplinary Approach for Assessing Computing with Distributed File Systems Treatment Motivation Among Patients Undergoing 2009 Polytechnic 1 2 0 0 0 3 Antiretroviral Therapy: Integrating Multidimensional Institute of NY Sandra Bishnoi Scaling with Data Provenance Techniques Vijay Ramani Embry-Riddle Using Daphnia Magna and Surface Enhanced 0 1 1 1 0 3 Associate Professor of Chemical Aeronautical University Matthew Spenko and Donald Chmielewski Raman Scattering Imaging (SERSI) to Explore and Biological Engineering Rochester Institute Robotic Enhanced Urban Farming the Ecotocity of Metal Nanoparticles 0 0 0 2 1 3 of Technology Multi-Functional Materials for Cindy Menches and Scott Morris Georgia Papavasiliou Electrochemical Energy Conversion Franklin W. Olin 0 0 0 0 0 0 Affective Reactions to Construction Contract Framing Quantitative Study of the Effects of PEG College of Engineering Substrate Physical Properties and Degradation Shangping Ren Harvey Mudd College 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kinetics on Fibroblast Cell Migration Associate Professor of Computer Science 2012 Lawrence Jia Wang Behavior-Based Coordination Model and Technological 0 0 0 0 0 0 Arjun Chakravarti and Weslynne Ashton Programming Techniques for Open Distributed Analysis and Optimization of Sequential University Agent-Based Models as a Platform for Interdisciplinary and Real-Time Embedded Computing Circuits Under Process Variations The Cooper Union Research of Complex Social and Business Systems for the Advancement 0 0 0 0 0 0 Imam Samil Yetik of Science and Art Georgia Papavasiliou and Fouad Teymour Registration of Histiology to Invivo Multispectral Feasibility of Using Mixture of High MW PEG and Keck Graduate Institute 0 0 0 0 0 0 MR Images for Prostate Cancer Localization Crosslinked PEG Nanoparticles for Sustained Kettering University 0 0 0 0 0 0 Delivery of Phosphate to the Intestinal Mucosa

Milwaukee School 0 0 0 0 0 0 of Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute 0 0 0 0 0 0 of Technology

Webb Institute 0 0 0 0 0 0

http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/advancedSearch.jsp (Awarded During Calendar Year)

12 | 2015 ANNUAL RESEARCH REPORT ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | 13 Illinois Tech-Sigma Xi Excellence 2014-2015 Research Groups in Research Award Winners RESEARCH ACADEMY RESEARCH COUNCIL INSTITUTIONAL Ali Cinar Matthew Bauer REVIEW BOARD The Office of the Provost, the Office of Research, and the Illinois Tech Chapter of Sigma Xi sponsor Patrick Corrigan Keith Bowman Patrick Corrigan, Chair the Illinois Tech/Sigma Xi Awards for Excellence in University Research to recognize exemplary Tom Irving David Gidalevitz Royce Cunningham accomplishments in research, scholarship, and creative activity by Illinois Tech faculty. Philip Nash Joel Goldhar Libby Hemphill Boris Pervan Nancy Karuri Elisabeth Hildt 2015 2012 2008 Ganesh Raman* Glenn Krell* Eric Houston SENIOR FACULTY SENIOR FACULTY SENIOR FACULTY Shangping Ren Norm Lederman Patrick Ireland Patrick Corrigan Boris Pervan Miles Wernick Dennis Roberson, Chair Eun-Jeong Lee Glenn Krell* Psychology Mechanical, Materials, and Electrical and Jon Larson Aerospace Engineering Computer Engineering Carlo Segre Shuwang Li JUNIOR FACULTY Xian-He Sun Vedran Mimica Noah McClain Adam Hock JUNIOR FACULTY JUNIOR FACULTY Anita Opdycke Chemistry Kui Ren Shangping Ren Miles Wernick David Mogul Electrical and Computer Science Chris White Joseph Orgel JUNIOR FACULTY Computer Engineering David Williams Krishna Pagilla CAMPUSWIDE SAFETY Liad Wagman WORKING GROUP

Economics 2007 Yongyi Yang Domenica Pappas* Cindy Chaffee, Chair 2011 Nancy Ptak* SENIOR FACULTY Matt Cusack 2014 SENIOR FACULTY Tom Irving Ganesh Raman, Chair Todd Diel Jinqiao Duan Biology Dennis Roberson* SENIOR FACULTY Andy Howard Applied Mathematics Stan Ruecker Ali Cinar JUNIOR FACULTY Oscar Johnson Chemical and JUNIOR FACULTY Konstantinos Mazin Safar Brad Katz Biological Engineering Zongzhi Li Arfanakis Matthew Shapiro Glenn Krell Civil, Architectural, and Biomedical Engineering John Shen SENIOR FACULTY John Kriegshauser Carlo Segre Environmental Engineering Charles Uth Tim Morrison Physics 2006 Peng-Jun Wan 2010 Sheldon Mostovoy JUNIOR FACULTY SENIOR FACULTY Rong Wang Kathiravan David Williams Zabel Panosyan SENIOR FACULTY Wei Zhang Krishnamurthy Mechanical, Materials, and Charles Uth Yongyi Yang Institute for Food Aerospace Engineering Electrical and Safety and Health Computer Engineering JUNIOR FACULTY Mark Anastasio JUNIOR FACULTY *Ex-Officio Member 2013 Eric Brey Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering SENIOR FACULTY Christopher White Physics 2009

JUNIOR FACULTY SENIOR FACULTY Yu Cheng Xian-He Sun Electrical and Computer Science Computer Engineering JUNIOR FACULTY Xiaoping Qian Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering

14 | 2015 ANNUAL RESEARCH REPORT ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | 15 THE CENTER FOR THE CENTER FOR THE MOLECULAR processing equipment including high ELECTROCHEMICAL SCIENCE STUDY OF CONDENSED SOFT pressure processing, retorts and Research Institutes AND ENGINEERING The center MATTER Dedicated to the research a fresh produce processing line. conducts basic and applied research of soft matter, both biological and IIT RESEARCH INSTITUTE (IITRI) production of safe, wholesome foods. WANGER INSTITUTE FOR primarily in fuel cells and batteries, synthetic, this multidisciplinary center THE CENTER FOR SPECIALTY IITRI is Illinois Tech’s not-for-profit IFSH has four operating centers: SUSTAINABLE ENERGY RESEARCH while preparing students for careers has substantial expertise. The center PROGRAMS The center administers contract research affiliate. With NCFST, Center for Nutrition Research, (WISER) WISER’s mission is to in advanced energy technology. has substantial expertise in cell key specialized programs, including a focus on biomedical research, Center for Processing Innovation, continue to improve the quality of membranes, collagen, ECM, peptide customized laboratory proficiency IITRI’s staff of approximately 100 and Center for Specialty Programs. life and positively impact society THE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE mimetics, entangled polymers, testing services that support the scientists and technicians conducts while preserving our natural IN POLYMER SCIENCE AND networks, and the cytoskeleton. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, programs for both government PRITZKER INSTITUTE OF resources and the environment ENGINEERING Established in 1990, Particular emphasis is paid to U.S. Department of Agriculture, and commercial sponsors. Specific BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE AND for future generations. Fulfillment the center is home to interdisciplinary establishing molecular structure/ state government laboratories, and areas of expertise include preclinical ENGINEERING The Pritzker Institute of this mission will reduce our research and education that advances property/function relationships. the Food Emergency Response toxicology, carcinogenesis and is an umbrella organization that dependence on fossil fuels and, at polymer science and engineering. The center houses faculty from Network. The center also conducts cancer prevention, inhalation enhances the biomedical science the same time, provide sufficient and Research is conducted on synthesis, biology, engineering, and physics, research on specialty projects technology, molecular biology, and engineering research activities affordable sources of clean energy rheology, characterization, and and is a member of the Pritzker involving select agents. analytical chemistry, and biodefense. on the Illinois Tech campus. The and water. WISER cultivates close processing of polymers. Institute of Biomedical Science and THE CENTER FOR STRATEGIC Medical Imaging Research Center, the collaboration among numerous Engineering. Research relies equally THE CENTER FOR FINANCIAL COMPETITIVENESS (CSC) The INSTITUTE FOR FOOD SAFETY Center for Integrative Neuroscience programs at Illinois Tech with a focus on experimental, computational, INNOVATION Financial innovation Center for Strategic Competitiveness AND HEALTH IFSH is a world-class and Neuroengineering Research, on development of energy-related and theoretical components, has been vigorously debated since develops global partnerships to research institute that produces the Engineering Center for Diabetes interdisciplinary educational and including neutron diffraction; the financial crisis of 2008. The enhance innovation and creativity, knowledge-based outcomes in the Research and Education, the Center research initiatives and proposals. X-ray diffraction and scattering; Center for Financial Innovation (CFI) and is the foundation for Illinois areas of food safety, food defense, for the Molecular Study of Condensed Current WISER activities involve atomic force microscopy; Forced takes a comprehensive and objective Tech’s Stuart School of Business and nutrition for stakeholders in Soft Matter, and the Biophysics more than 60 faculty members from Rayliegh Scattering; micro- and look at the history of financial strategically competitive curriculum. government, industry, and academia. Collaborative Access Team operate throughout Illinois Tech, spanning bulk rheology; molecular dynamics innovation, providing a central The Center’s mission is to develop IFSH builds on and expands the vital under the auspices of the Institute. engineering, design, architecture, simulations; and stochastic and location for scholars, practitioners, strategic competitiveness into work of the National Center for Food Each of the centers has a director business, psychology, the sciences, statistical mechanical modeling. media, and the general public to an approach to business that will Safety and Technology (NCFST), and is described elsewhere in this and law. WISER plans to further explore the many innovations that enhance the ability of individuals, a unique research consortium of report. The Pritzker Institute develops enhance research and educational THE CENTER FOR NUTRITION serve as the foundation for our global organizations, and governmental Illinois Institute of Technology, the and coordinates relationships and partnerships with the City of Chicago, RESEARCH The center supports financial system. The Center provides units to be proactive and innovative U.S. Food and Drug Administration programs with traditional science State of Illinois, industry, national the work of the Clinical Nutrition data, video interviews, and an in addressing global market (FDA), and the food industry. For and engineering departments within laboratories, and other universities. Research Center, which conducts Encyclopedia of Financial Innovation challenges in the next economy. more than 20 years, the center has Illinois Tech, as well as institutions The goal of the institute is to play human nutrition and clinical research via its website. Formerly named the In 2014, the Center for Sustainable provided a collaborative environment outside the university, including a leading role in identifying future to characterize and describe the Center for Financial Markets, and Enterprise became part of the Center where scientists from industry, Argonne National Laboratory, research directions for shaping biological activity of foods and food established in 1998 as the Center for Strategic Competitiveness, academia, and government pool their Rush Presbyterian Medical Center, national and international energy components in a variety of study for Law and Financial Markets, the creating opportunities to implement scientific expertise and institutional and the University of Chicago. policy and sustainability initiatives. areas including nutrient/phytonutrient perspectives to ensure the CFI has evolved from the vision properties and bioavailability and practical and equitable business of its first director, John A. (Jack) metabolism, obesity and satiety; strategies that advance ecological Wing. A financial and educational and diabetes and cardiovascular sustainability, while fostering our innovator, Wing served as chairman disease risk reduction. The unit also current and future economic viability. Research Centers of Chicago Corp and ABN AMRO manages projects related to the THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF Inc.--and was a trustee of Illinois Tech. Institute for Food Safety and Health’s ETHICS IN THE PROFESSIONS THE CENTER FOR ACCELERATOR involved in a number of research simulating, analyzing, and modifying (IFSH) nutrition research arm. THE CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE (CSEP) Established in 1976, the AND PARTICLE PHYSICS programs, and will promote their behavior; and applying these NEUROSCIENCE AND Ethics Center’s mission is to (CAPP) CAPP provides a locus substantial increases in such methods to various complex THE CENTER FOR PROCESSING NEUROENGINEERING RESEARCH educate students as responsible for interdisciplinary activities involvement through a close working systems of national interest. Current INNOVATION The center provides (CINNR) CINNR’s mission is to professionals, to reflect on the wider at Illinois Tech aimed at the relationship with other universities research areas include nonlinear expanded food safety, process foster collaborative research in implications of scientific progress, continued development of in the region and with Fermilab and and stochastic phenomena in control, evaluation of novel systems and behavioral neuroscience and to contribute to the shaping research in elementary particle Argonne National Laboratory. complex systems; multiagent processing technologies and at the University of Chicago, the of technology in accordance with physics, development of new systems; complex networks and process validation capabilities for Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago fundamental human values. Its particle- accelerator technologies, THE CENTER FOR COMPLEX adaptive systems; natural and applied research through IFSH’s and other Chicago-area institutions research program is in ethics in and education and outreach to SYSTEMS AND DYNAMICS (CCSD) industrial ecologies; dynamics of GMP processing area, kitchen and in neural engineering at the life sciences and in ethical educational institutions and to the CCSD provides an interdisciplinary multiphase systems; fluid turbulence; and pilot plant; BSL-2 processing Illinois Tech. Work in the center and societal issues of emerging wider business, philanthropic, and collaborative environment for molecular-level modeling of physical innovation laboratory; and the newly ranges from basic science to technologies, with a particular focus general public sectors. It serves as fundamental and applied research for systems; brain electrophysiology commissioned BSL-3 laboratory clinical efforts and emphasizes on philosophical and ethical aspects a base to coordinate the activities understanding and mathematically and computational neuroscience; and biocontainment pilot plant. interdisciplinary approaches of neuroscience. The Ethics Center of a group of Illinois Tech faculty, describing complex systems; and transportation systems. The unit also administers education to understanding the complex is committed to multi-disciplinary graduate students, and staff from developing mathematical and and training services, and other behavior of the nervous system. and multi-institutional research, to various departments currently computational techniques for targeted commercial projects. The center is equipped with various projects that combine empirical

16 | 2015 ANNUAL RESEARCH REPORT ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | 17 investigation with conceptual significant educational, research, and ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF interdisciplinary environment for THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR spectrum, and the desire to analysis, and to projects that practical contributions to the fields TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE broader areas of sensor research. FOOD SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY increase RF spectrum utilization introduce and propagate innovations of electric power, power electronics, CHICAGO RESEARCH CENTER The ICSSE at Illinois Tech performs NCFST, IFSH’s cornerstone principal and efficiency, WiNCom fuses in teaching. Furthermore, it houses electric machines, motor drives, and (IITAC-RESEARCH CENTER) The basic and applied research in operating center, continues the creative talents of faculty and a worldwide unique collection of vehicular power systems. The tasks keynote of the IITAC-Research developing chemical and biological to operate under its longtime students from across the university. ethics codes and a large collection of the center include the sponsorship Center is “Rethinking Metropolis,” sensing systems with novel materials cooperative agreement between WiNCom’s signature achievement of ethics education materials. of technical studies, which will the architecture of the multiple, and unique sensing platforms. The Illinois Tech and the U.S. Food and is the 2007 establishment and enhance the role of university competing entities defining urban center provides the state-of-the-art Drug Administration, focusing on ongoing operation of the Illinois THE CENTER FOR SYNCHROTRON faculty, manufacturers, vendors, and life in the new millennium. Urban facilities and the expertise in sensor design and performance of a variety Tech Spectrum Observatory, which RADIATION RESEARCH AND consumers in power engineering migrations and the proliferation research. The research outcome of collaborative and cooperative is creating a continuous record of INSTRUMENTATION The center research and education. The center of information technologies have will benefit society and improve research projects across several RF spectrum utilization in Chicago. promotes the application of works with centers and departments rendered obsolete the logistical the quality of life through a cleaner focus areas, including microbiology; Research programs include RF the tools and techniques of across Illinois Tech, other institutions, premises and architectural values environment, more efficient energy chemical constituents; allergens; spectrum measurements; RF synchrotron radiation to science government agencies, and industry of the traditional city. We can no usage, earlier diagnosis and effective food processing, packaging; measurement data storage and and engineering research, with to sponsor research projects, short longer view architecture as a singular treatment of diseases, and safer food. methods validation; and nutrition. analysis techniques; cognitive a particular focus on developing courses, conferences, and seminars. enterprise of making buildings and radio; communication system and operating experimental beam it is time for a radical critique of our THE MEDICAL IMAGING RESEARCH ROBERT W. GALVIN CENTER FOR modeling; RF coexistence; and RF line facilities to serve the needs of THE ENGINEERING CENTER approaches. The task of rethinking CENTER (MIRC) The Medical ELECTRICITY INNOVATION The interference modeling and mitigation. various collaborative access teams FOR DIABETES RESEARCH AND our habitats and landscapes in a Imaging Research Center (MIRC), mission of the Galvin Center is to Application areas are licensed at the Advanced Photon Source EDUCATION (ECDRE) ECDRE’s fundamental way entails a multi- affiliated with the Pritzker Institute of pursue groundbreaking work in the and unlicensed spectrum, public at Argonne National Laboratory. objective is to use engineering and faceted and interdisciplinary Biomedical Science and Engineering, generation, transmission, distribution, safety, smart grid, and spectrum scientific techniques to develop approach. It will draw upon the is an interdisciplinary research management, and consumption sharing. The center has generated THE CENTER FOR WORK ZONE treatment modalities for diabetes cultural, social, economic, and team focused on technological of electricity. As a part of Illinois numerous technology transfers and SAFETY AND MOBILITY (CWZSM) and its many complications. ECDRE biological sciences, but it will also advances in the field of medical Tech WISER, the Galvin Center spinoffs, including a commercial CWZSM works towards providing is the first center in the U.S. to focus demand a particular talent and imaging. MIRC, which is housed in brings together faculty, students, RF spectrum observatory network. long-term solutions to highway work on diabetes treatment. Illinois Tech sensitivity to be cultivated in the Illinois Tech’s University Technology researchers, industry, government, Center researchers have ongoing zone safety and mobility problems, faculty members, in collaboration architect who is ethically charged Park, is home to six faculty members innovators, and entrepreneurs to engagements with the FCC and other by building a consortium of major with investigators and clinicians with environmental interventions. from the departments of Electrical collaborate to improve the reliability, government entities including the U.S. work zone stakeholders, including at the University of Chicago and Richard Neutra some years ago and Computer Engineering (ECE) security, and efficiency of the Commerce Department Spectrum transportation agencies, road Argonne National Laboratory, are opened a book with the somber and Biomedical Engineering (BME), electric grid and overcome obstacles Management Advisory Committee. contractors, the trucking industry, and working on a variety of diabetes- note that “Nature has too long been as well as their student research to the national adoption and the insurance industry. By working related research projects. ECDRE is a outraged by design of nose rings, assistants, research associates, implementation of the smart grid. together through the consortium, component of the Pritzker Institute of corsets, and foul-aired subways.” and labs. MIRC contains two the stakeholders can combine THERMAL PROCESSING Biomedical Science and Engineering, Today this observation has become experimental laboratories, the their resources and knowledge, TECHNOLOGY CENTER (TPTC) which is developing a biomedical ever more relevant because the Advanced X-ray Imaging Laboratory and work towards preventing the Through TPTC, faculty and students research focus at Illinois Tech. problems associated with the (AXIL) and the Molecular Imaging 50,000 work zone injuries and perform high-quality basic and metropolis have grown even more Laboratory (MIL), which support 1,000 fatalities that occur every THE FLUID DYNAMICS applied research in thermal acute. We have choices to make research into new forms of medical year. The initiatives of the center RESEARCH CENTER (FDRC) processing technology to support the as a profession. And if the 21st imaging and their applications. In focus on (1) developing highway needs of the materials processing, The center consists of six faculty century is to succeed in improving addition to its role as a research work zone safety audit guidelines primary metals and manufacturing engaged in experimental, living conditions for the world’s team, MIRC acts to foster inter- by addressing the concerns and industry. In addition, the center computational, and analytical studies populations, it will be because disciplinary research cooperation interests of all stakeholders; (2) provides training and education of fluid flow and its control. The we have adopted the tools at our and educational initiatives at Illinois discovering/ developing/transferring to enhance the industries’ human center has numerous research-quality disposal and energetically stepped Tech in medical imaging, including new technologies and measures resource operations. Of special note experimental facilities including high- forth with a dynamic vision. The degree programs in the ECE and for improving work zone safety, are the innovative, crosscutting and low-Mach number wind tunnels, purpose of the IITAC-Research BME departments. MIRC research and minimizing the negative technological solutions to industrial jet facilities, water channels, anechoic Center is to promote and promulgate spans a wide array of methodologies impacts on private industries and materials processing problems room, and an axial flow compressor. invention - to proffer a new vision. such as MRI, CT, SPECT, and PET, that are being developed by multi- the national economy; and (3) Extensive computational resources and conventional and phase-contrast disciplinary research teams. providing work zone safety training are available for numerical flow THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER x-ray, and numerous applications in and education to the transportation FOR SENSOR SCIENCE AND medicine, including heart disease, simulations. Areas of focus include WIRELESS NETWORK AND community and the public. ENGINEERING (ICSSE) The cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease. MIRC active flow control for aerospace COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH applications, aeroacoustics, mission of the Center is to foster is also home to a spin-off research THE ELECTRIC POWER AND CENTER (WINCOM) Founded in contaminant dispersion predictions, communications within the scientific effort in “predictive policing,” in POWER ELECTRONIC CENTER 2006, WiNCom is an initiative of the and vortex-surface interactions. and engineering community about which concepts from medical (EPPEC) Illinois Tech has long computer science and electrical and sensors and exchange experiences image analysis are being applied to maintained high-quality education computer engineering departments. with academia, industry and research predict crime, in cooperation with and research programs in electric Motivated by the continuing growth labs through support of scientist, the Chicago Police Department. power and energy systems. The in the use of the radio frequency engineer, student and faculty research mission of EPPEC is to make and exchanges and to provide an

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Patrick Corrigan biophysical and genetic methods to identify no less than and Outreach Centers six elastic proteins in Manduca flight muscle, including TITLE: Community Based Participatory two that had never been seen before in an insect flight Research (CBPR) for African Americans THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH THE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE, muscle. We were able to identify the gene sequences for with Serious Mental Illness AND SERVICE The center offers LAW & TECHNOLOGY (ISLAT) all of these muscles and were also able to demonstrate professional consulting services The Institute for Science, Law and INVESTIGATORS: Patrick Corrigan (PI), that the different portions of the muscle tune the amounts through the Department of Technology provides a forum to Lindsay Sheehan, and Sonya Ballentine of each elastic protein to their different physiological Psychology at Illinois Tech. The produce and disseminate knowledge FUNDING AGENCY: Patient Centered function, either as actuators or springs. These studies, center supports its clients through on the social and legal implications Outcomes Research Institute therefore, filled in an important and previously unknown research-based solutions that of emerging technologies. As part void in our knowledge of how these muscles operate. of its mission, the institute sponsors This two-year community-based participatory research improve individual, team, and organizational performance. long-term, multidisciplinary research, (CBPR) project addresses disparities in integrated health public conferences, judicial training, care for African Americans with serious mental illness. Adam S. Hock THE CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE During phase one of the project, an advisory board symposia for journalists, and other TITLE: Intermediate Temperature Hybrid ENTERPRISE The center’s goal is composed of African Americans with serious mental programs. Public programming, Fuel Cell System for the Conversion of to identify, develop, communicate, illness, health providers and researchers is meeting weekly scholarship, research, and student Natural Gas to Electricity and Liquid Fuels and help implement practical educational opportunities focus to develop a CBPR training curriculum. During the second and equitable business strategies on biotechnology, genetics, phase, the advisory board will hold community trainings on INVESTIGATORS: Adam S. Hock that advance the ecological nanotechnology, environmental CBPR and will select two teams of stakeholders to design (PI), Yunjie (Jerry) Xu, Guanghui sustainability of the greater Chicago science, social networks, mobile and implement unique projects using CBPR methods. The Zhang, Carlo U. Segre, Theodore R. Krause, area, while fostering our current apps and intellectual property. CBPR teams will each select a problem specific to health Deborah Myers, and Balu Balachandran care access for African Americans with mental illness and and future economic viability. In addition, institute staff and FUNDING AGENCY: Department of Energy, Advanced will investigate this problem scientifically. CBPR teams faculty draft laws and regulations, Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT/ and develop other programs that are viewed as active participants during all aspects of ECONOMICS (E3) E3 is an academic This project is aimed at converting stranded natural guide public policy decisions. the research process and are provided with training and program of research and coursework capacity to support implementation and evaluation. For gas reserves into a transportable fuel using an for students in engineering. The THE INVENTION CENTER The more information see www.chicagohealthdisparities.org. intermediate temperature fuel cell device. It combines research program encompasses areas catalysis innovations of the Hock group and Argonne center, which helps students and of specialization that relate to energy, faculty develop a studio approach National Laboratory collaborators with Argonne’s sustainable development, industrial to engineering, is project-oriented, Thomas C. Irving innovative fuel cell program. ARPA-E funds high- ecology, and environmental design. potential, high-impact energy technologies that are creativity-driven and encompasses TITLE: Elastic Proteins in the Flight all the stages of invention, including too early for private-sector investment. ARPA-E GRAINGER POWER ENGINEERING Muscle of Manduca sexta idea generation and development; awardees are unique because they are developing LABORATORY (GPEL) GPEL focuses prototype development and INVESTIGATORS: Thomas C. entirely new ways to generate, store, and use energy. on studies related to electric-power- Irving (PI), Chen-Ching Yuan, proof-of- concept; and the patent generation transmission, distribution, process and commercialization. Weikang Ma, Peter Schemmel, operation, and controls. GPEL houses Yu-Shu Cheng, Jiangmin Liu, George Tsaprailis, Miles Wernick several graduate and undergraduate Samuel Feldman, and Agnes Ayme Southgate TITLE: Predictive policing with the laboratories. Annual research support FUNDING AGENCY: National Science Foundation Chicago Police Department of more than $400,000 is provided by federal and private agencies. The physiological behavior of the flight muscles of the INVESTIGATORS: Miles Wernick (PI), Hawkmoth, Manduca sexta have a number of similarities to Yongyi Yang, and Jovan G. Brankov mammalian heart muscle despite a number of differences FUNDING AGENCY: in structure. In a recent paper in Science (George et al., National Institute of Justice 2013) we also showed that the force producing myosin cross bridges in the muscle could behave as actuators Illinois Tech researchers in the Medical Imaging Research or springs depending on the temperature of the muscle Center have applied machine learning techniques to and the patterns of nervous stimulation. So it appears predict crime in Chicago and software is now in use that Manduca flight muscle can be used not only as at the Chicago Police Department (CPD). The team a model system for some aspects of cardiac muscle has produced several software products for CPD: 1) an contraction but also as an inspiration for new types of algorithm that identifies the persons in Chicago with the adaptive actuators which could have wide applications very greatest risk of being involved in a shooting in the in technology. In order to fully understand the Manduca upcoming time period; 2) an algorithm that forecasts muscle system, we need to understand the proteins tomorrow’s number of violent crimes; and 3) a web responsible for its passive elastic properties as well as its dashboard that allows real-time visualization of crime active properties. In this study we used protein chemistry, statistics, identifying out-of-the-ordinary numbers that

20 | 2015 ANNUAL RESEARCH REPORT ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | 21 may signal a significant issue. This year, Professor Yang Only 19% of the diabetes apps had privacy policies. We Zhiling Lan Weslynne S. Ashton became principal investigator of a major new project found that sensitive information from diabetes apps is with CPD to optimize the use of video surveillance in TITLE: Toward Smart HPC through Active routinely shared with unrelated third parties (86% of the TITLE: Pathways to Cleaner policing and evaluate the role of video analytics. Learning and Intelligent Scheduling apps placed third-party cookies on the user’s device Production in the Americas INVESTIGATOR: Zhiling Lan and 77% shared information with ad networks or data INVESTIGATORS: Weslynne S. analytics companies). There was no statistically significant Ashton (PI) and Nasrin R. Khalili FUNDING AGENCY: National Mohammad Shahidehpour difference in the collection or sharing of information Science Foundation, Division of FUNDING AGENCY: Higher Education based on whether or not the app had a privacy policy. TITLE: Research, Development, Computer and Communication Foundations for Development, U.S Department of State and Testing of the Bronzeville Being analogous to smart grids, this project aims The Pathways to Cleaner Production in the Americas Community Microgrid (BCM) to develop critical technologies toward smart Liad Wagman project aimed to identify and create strategies for INVESTIGATORS: Mohammad supercomputing by incorporating intelligence into improving sustainability practices among micro, small TITLE: The Impact of Access to Shahidehpour (PI) and Zuyi Li resource management and job scheduling. Specifically, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Latin America and Consumer Data on the Competitive it will develop a framework named SPEaR (Scheduling the Caribbean through industry-university collaboration. FUNDING AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Effects of Horizontal Mergers for Performance, Energy, and Resilience efficiency) The project created an experiential education platform A team of Illinois Tech faculty and students is conducting for dynamically optimizing the three-dimensional INVESTIGATORS: Liad Wagman (co-PI), through which students in each of seven host countries research, development, and testing of a community performance, energy, and resilience scheduling. The Jin-Hyuk Kim, and Abraham Wickelgren learned about cleaner production (CP) by performing microgrid system with applications to the BCM. The research focuses on two thrusts. One is active learning environmental audits in MSMEs, and assessing and proposed BCM project will develop an interconnected FUNDING AGENCY: Federal Trade to automatically extract valuable performance, energy, recommending CP opportunities to the companies. system of microgrids and offer a test plan in Chicago’s Commission of South Korea and resilience patterns and tradeoffs out of application This interaction between industry and academia was Bronzeville community to establish the first DOE-funded Improvements in information technology have brought and system data; the other is intelligent scheduling to the basis for research on sustainability education and demonstration of community microgrids in the United growing concerns about privacy intrusion to the forefront adaptively control performance, resilience, and energy implementation in Latin America. One of our research States. The project team includes Illinois Institute of of public debate. Nearly all US consumers now use online efficiency in resource management and scheduling. themes examines the impact of experiential education on Technology, ComEd, OSIsoft, Microsoft, Argonne National media to shop, more than 60 percent of US consumers Completion of the project will make important advances student learning and competencies developed through Laboratory, Alstom Grid, Quanta Technology, University own smartphones, and over two thirds of online adults toward efficient use of extreme scale systems. The close practicum courses and internships. Another explores of Denver, S&C Electric, and Schneider Electric Company. in the US are now registered on social networks. As partnership with national laboratories and application trends in CP opportunities identified and implemented BCM utilizes state-of-the-art technologies provided by the recent reports by the US Federal Trade Commission scientists will enable the integration of this work into across industry sectors and countries to comprehend team members (such as the Microsoft NextCity platform show, this has lead to the proliferation of so-called data broader programs and activities of national interests. the desirability and viability of various options in relation and OSIsoft PI System) for a successful community brokers. These brokers collect consumers’ personal, to firm-level economic and strategic priorities as well as microgrid implementation. The Illinois Tech Mies campus, behavioral, and financial data from a wide range of national-level sustainable development imperatives. We one of the seven DOE pilot microgrid prototypes, a smart sources; connect, aggregate, and analyze these disparate Lori B. Andrews also investigate the barriers that MSMEs face with respect grid center of excellence, and a longtime Bronzeville elements of consumers’ online footprints to form detailed to implementing cleaner production practices and clean resident, currently operates and maintains its generation TITLE: Monitoring Health on the Go: the individualized profiles; and subsequently sell this data technology, and explore approaches for overcoming those and demand response assets that play a role in supporting Privacy Implications of Diabetes Apps to be used downstream for a variety of marketing barriers at the firm and policy levels. Overall, it is expected the microgrid operations. The Illinois Tech Microgrid has purposes across industry sectors. The extent of such INVESTIGATORS: Lori B. Andrews, Sarah R. that this program will contribute to understanding how demonstrated the higher reliability and the economics consumer profiling may be best described by this quote: Blenner, Adam J. Rouse, Nadia Daneshvar, small businesses can incorporate sustainability practices of microgrid operations and offered a distributed system Melanie Köllmer, and Curry Williams “Of nine data brokers, one data broker’s database has in their operations, diffusing sustainable manufacturing design that can be replicated in urban communities. The FUNDING AGENCY: Cy Pres Award / Diabetes information on 1.4 billion consumer transactions and practices in MSMEs across the region, and educating future stated vision for the DOE-funded project is to position over 700 billion aggregated data elements; another environmental professionals throughout the Americas. BCM as a platform that will be interconnected with the Mobile health apps help individuals manage chronic data broker’s database covers one trillion dollars in Illinois Tech Microgrid to provide enduring benefits to the health conditions, maintain independence, build skills, consumer transactions; and yet another data broker Bronzeville neighborhood. The BCM project will benefit and take on increasing responsibility for the prevention, adds three billion new records each month to its George M. Langlois from the Illinois Tech’s experience for offering broader diagnosis, and treatment of diseases. One-fifth of databases. Most importantly, data brokers hold a vast energy efficiency perspectives to key stakeholders with smartphone owners have mobile health apps; these apps TITLE: Critical Mass Program array of information on individual consumers. For keen interests in enhancing the economics, reliability, can provide a repository for data, including compliance Evaluation Program example, one of the nine data brokers has 3000 data security, and the resilience of the nation’s electricity with medication regimens, activity notes, and symptoms. segments for nearly every U.S. consumer’’ (FTC, 2014). INVESTIGATORS: George M. grid. The BCM architecture will be based on the already This interdisciplinary project analyzed what happens Langlois (PI) and Sean Wright developed and tested electrical system at the Illinois to the information collected by mobile health apps In this project, our aim is to provide an economic FUNDING AGENCY: Chicago Public Tech Microgrid that employs robust hierarchical control related to diabetes and whether potential users are analysis of the effects of consumer data on mergers. Schools (CPS) as part of a grant from the U.S. Navy and protection. The successful implementation of BCM sufficiently informed about what data will be collected, More specifically, we examine the influence of firms’ will meet critical milestones necessary to demonstrate analyzed, and shared. Mobile apps that collect, share, ability to target individualized pricing on the welfare In June of 2014, the CPS’s Critical Mass Program, the effectiveness of distributed generation that can and use digital health data expose consumers to serious consequences of horizontal mergers. Our early findings funded through the U. S. Navy, awarded the Center provide a cost-effective alternative to the expansion privacy risks. For example, if a data aggregator provides show that in a three-to-two firm merger, the post-merger for Research and Service (CRS) in the Lewis College planning of traditionally centralized power generation information to a life insurance company regarding an loss in consumer surplus is reduced when firms have of Human Sciences a two-year grant to monitor and and transmission systems. The BCM project will engage applicant who has installed several diabetes-related access to consumer data compared to when they do evaluate programs designed to increase interest in utility customers as significant participants that can fulfill apps or entered unhealthy glucose levels, that insurance not -- this is due to a reduction in the anti-competitive STEM careers within the military. The grant’s primary the economics, reliability, security, and the resilience company might raise its rates or might refuse to issue effects of the merger. In contrast, the analogous objectives include creating a systematic program of data mandates of a smart electricity infrastructure. a policy. Yet despite these risks, our study found that reduction is absent in a two-to-one firm merger. collection to enable CPS’s Board to track quantitative and users are generally inadequately warned about risks. Therefore, the merger effects of access to consumer qualitative data, measure progress and identify areas for data are strongly dependent on market structure. improvement in order to redirect the limited resources available. CRS will provide the following services:

22 | 2015 ANNUAL RESEARCH REPORT ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | 23 · Develop high quality student and teacher surveys crude extracts of strawberries and other anthocyanin rich Brent Stephens Alvin Lee that allow the Board to monitor perceptions of the berries. The work of this project aims to translate the basic program, identify programs and activities with the science research to clinical application understanding TITLE: Combining measurements TITLE: Building Capacity to Control Viral most impact, and track students’ post-secondary the role of anthocyanins and their metabolites in and models to predict the impacts of Food-borne Disease: A Translatonal, aspirations and teachers’ professional development; vasodilation responses and insulin sensitivity. The project climate change and weatherization Multi-Disciplinary Approach will incorporate a host of biological assays and methods, on indoor air quality and chronic · Develop a system of administering quantitative INVESTIGATORS: Lee-Ann Jaykus, including development of targeted and non-targeted health effects in U.S. residences and qualitative surveys and collect and store Robert Atmar, Steve Beaulieu, Jennifer analytical methods to identify and characterize key the results to provide comprehensive reporting INVESTIGATOR: Brent Stephens Cannon, Mary Estes, Angela Fraser, Aron Hall, Alvin Lee, anthocyanin metabolites substantiating anthocyanin intake Christine Moe, Jan Vinje, Leonard Williams, and Liju Yang on teacher and student feedback; FUNDING AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with their biological effects. Furthermore, we propose FUNDING AGENCY: USDA, National · Create reports that evaluate CPS-supplied student to develop computational methods based on molecular The objectives of this proposal are to use a combination Institute for Food and Agriculture and program data and determine efficacy of docking methodology to identify reliably and classify (as of field measurements and a nationally representative individual programs, activities and events while active or inactive) molecules that interact with a series set of dynamic residential indoor air quality models to The project is a multi-disciplinary, integrated approach advising how best to allocate resources; of diabetes related molecular targets (in collaboration predict indoor exposures and associated chronic health to develop appropriate tools and skill set to study · Generate quarterly and annual reports on the key with David Minh, Division of Biological Chemistry). effects of several priority pollutants of both indoor food-borne viral agents, and to use these tools and and outdoor origin across (1) the current residential knowledge to systematically identify risk factors and performance indicators (KPI) of the department, including at the student, program, and school level (as building stock; (2) the residential building stock under develop intervention and risk management strategies appropriate): e.g., student achievement and performance, Vijay K. Ramani future climate scenarios of 2050 and 2080; and (3) for reducing viral contamination in pre- and post- the future building stock under both future climate harvest. The project is funded by USDA for 5 years with professional development, program impact and TITLE: Anion Exchange and Bipolar scenarios and future climate policies that lead to a $25 million research budget involving 9 key partners sustainability, student interest in STEM, abrupt career/ Membranes for Electrochemical widespread application of weatherization retrofits and and 20 collaborating research institutions with North coursework changes, college, and the U.S. Navy; Energy Conversion turnover of the existing building stock to more energy Carolina State University as the lead university. The · Provide users with comprehensive reports INVESTIGATOR: Vijay K. Ramani efficient homes. A set of nationally representative consortium, USDA Food Virology Collaborative or that make them aware of the goals of each FUNDING AGENCY: indoor air quality models will be used to predict long- affectionately known as NoroCORE, aims to reduce student and program and where each stands Office of Naval Research term concentrations and health risks, with a number of the burden of food-borne diseases associated with in regards to achieving those goals; and key input parameters informed by results from novel viruses. As one of the key partners, Dr. Lee serves on The overarching objective of this project is to establish · Advise the Board’s project manager and develop the field experiments performed in 30 existing homes both the Executive Board and leads the Prevention and fundamental insights into the ion conduction, stability strategy for rolling out the survey system across CPS before and after weatherization retrofits are applied. Control CORE where mitigation and control strategies and alkaline degradation mechanisms of anion Critical MASS programs and supporting implementation. The field measurements will include ventilation rates, will be developed and evaluated for their efficacy in exchange membranes (AEMs) used as electrolytes in infiltration factors, indoor deposition rates, and envelope inactivating food-borne viruses in specific food matrices. electrochemical energy conversion and storage devices. penetration factors for a number of priority pollutants. The underlying context is the application of AEMs as Britt Burton-Freeman separators in alkaline membrane and bipolar membrane TITLE: Functional plant components for Leon Shaw fuel cells, direct borohydride fuel cells, borohydride/ Carlo Segre prevention and management of metabolic hydrogen peroxide fuel cells, flow batteries, and alkaline TITLE: Scalable Manufacturing of and endothelial disturbances: a focus membrane water electrolyzers. Our work in this regard TITLE: Materials Research Novel Hydrogen Storage Materials with on Anthocyanin rich plant foods. has enabled the design of higher performance and more Collaborative Access Team Control at Nanometer Length Scales INVESTIGATORS: Britt Burton- durable AEMs. Specifically, our work has established INVESTIGATORS: Carlo Segre INVESTIGATOR: Leon Shaw Freeman and Indika Edirisinghe structure-property relationships for different backbones FUNDING AGENCY: U.S. FUNDING AGENCY: and head group cation chemistries used in AEMs and FUNDING AGENCY: California Strawberry Commission Department of Energy National Science Foundation has helped ascertain how their structure influences ion and National Processed Raspberry Council conductivity and alkaline stability. The AEMs produced The continuing operations of the Materials Research Fuel-cell vehicles can convert fuel to energy without Diabetes afflicts more than 347 million people world- in our laboratory have been used to prepare bipolar Collaborative Access Team (MRCAT) are supported by greenhouse gas emission in addition to their greatest wide and is expected to be the seventh leading cause membranes and membrane electrode assemblies for its member institutions that provide the funds to Illinois conversion efficiency among the competing technologies of death in 2030. Diet and lifestyle modification are the hydrogen and direct borohydride fuel cells. Special Tech to hire the staff and operate the two beamlines (e.g., internal combustion engines, plug-in hybrids, and cornerstones of disease prevention and management. attention has been given to the implementation of for the members’ experiments using x-ray absorption battery-powered automobiles). However, one of the Certain polyphenolic compounds from various plant these bipolar membranes in borohydride/hydrogen spectroscopy to study catalysis, environmental systems, major issues that hinder widespread adoption of fuel- sources exhibit biological activities that promote glycemic peroxide fuel cells used as power sources in unmanned batteries, and fuel cells. The MRCAT beamline has a cell vehicles is the inadequate hydrogen storage system control through insulin-dependent and -independent underwater vehicles. The AEMs have been adapted 60cm long flat harmonic rejection mirror with Pt and Rh for on-board applications. This project is to investigate pathways offering potential adjunctive health promoting for use in redox flow batteries (exploiting the Donnan coatings. This mirror resides in the experimental station methods that can manufacture a large quantity of opportunities. Berry fruits provide a unique source and exclusion effect to enhance battery efficiency) and in solid and may be moved vertically in or out of the beam as novel hydrogen storage materials with control at either composition of polyphenolic compounds, particularly alkaline water electrolyzers for hydrogen production. the experiment requires. In addition to Illinois Tech, the atomic or low-nanometer length scales. We focus on a anthocyanin compounds. Our in vitro cell culture data have members of MR-CAT include UOP Honeywell, BP Research, transformative manufacturing method, termed as Ball demonstrated enhanced activation of insulin signaling the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Chemical Milling with Aerosol Spraying (BMAS), initiated by the PI’s mediated through insulin receptor substrate -1 (IRS-1) Sciences Division at Argonne National Laboratory group to enable a precise control in the mixing of complex tyrosine phosphorylation and phosphoinositide-3 kinase (ANL), and the Environmental Research Group at ANL. hydrides and metal hydrides at low-nanometer length (PI3)/ Protein kinase B (Akt)/-dependent pathways; scales. The LiBH4+MgH2 system is investigated because and in separate experiments vasodilator activity via the LiBH4+MgH2 system has been predicted by ab initio endothelial and nitric oxide dependent mechanisms with density functional theory (DFT) calculations to have

24 | 2015 ANNUAL RESEARCH REPORT ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | 25 favorable thermodynamics for reversible hydrogen storage The first area is that of mathematical modeling for the near ambient temperature. Furthermore, the LiBH4+MgH2 purpose of financial risk management, with application system has material-based storage capacities of 11.5 to hedging, valuation, and management of counterparty wt% H2 and 95g H2/L, which can be translated into credit risk (CCR). This kind of risk is one of the key risks the system-based storage capacity of 6.9 wt% H2 and born by market participants trading so called over the 57g H2/L, respectively (if a 60% efficiency of hydrogen counter (OTC) derivatives. Development of tractable storage systems is assumed), surpassing the DOE 2015 mathematical tools for the purpose of valuing and FreedomCAR system targets. Mixing LiBH4 and MgH2 managing of counterparty risk embedded in a large at the low-nanometer level will overcome the significant variety of the OTC contracts provides the risk managers kinetic barriers of the LiBH4+MgH2 system and transform with new methodologically sound procedures, and, a thermodynamically favorable hydrogen storage material consequently, may contribute to increased stability into a kinetically viable system that can meet the DOE of financial markets, and the whole economy. 2015 FreedomCAR targets with high gravimetric and The second area is that of application of stochastic volumetric storage capacities while being capable of analysis to studying of structured dependence quick uptake and release near ambient temperature. between so called Feller Markov processes. Besides its theoretical importance in the study of random processes, it is of practical importance in view of Tomasz Bielecki important applications, such as valuation and hedging TITLE: Topics in stochastic processes of counterparty credit risk and systemic risk. and mathematical finance: counterparty The focus in the third area is on mathematical modeling risk valuation and hedging, Markov of dynamic performance assessment indices with consistency and Markov copulae, and applications to conic finance. Dynamic performance dynamic performance assessment indices assessment indices are measures of performances of INVESTIGATORS: Tomasz R. Bielecki and Igor Cialenco a given activity in a random environment, and they are FUNDING AGENCY: National Science Foundation studied from abstract mathematical point of view. The aim of the research is to develop new mathematical methods for risk management in complex stochastic dynamical systems, such as financial markets. In view of the world-wide market turbulence in the past decade, and taking into account the known causes of it, such as mismanagement of the counterparty risk, particular emphasis is put on mathematical aspects of dynamic management of counterparty risk. The research is logically divided into three areas.

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