Research Interests
Theoretical and experimental electromagnetic problems related to geophysical remote sensing and engineered electromagnetic materials.
Selected Grants
MRI: Track 1 Development of a Multi-Band Radio and Optical Lightning Imager
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2027CEDAR: Large-scale detection of cloud-to-ionosphere electrical discharges and quantifying their effect on the ionosphere
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2025Continent-scale low frequency lightning remote sensing
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2025InstaJam: every airman a sensor - jamming classification, localization, and visualization
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by InstaJam, LLC · 2023 - 2025AIRWaveS: Atmosphere-Ionosphere Responses to Wave Signals - Phase 2
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University · 2023 - 2024DIODE: Directional Imaging via Orientable Dipole Engineering
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Signature Research Inc · 2022 - 2024Collaborative Research: Engineering exceptional points for sound control with non-Hermitian acoustic metasurfaces
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2024AIRWaveS: Atmosphere-Ionosphere Responses to Wave Signals
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University · 2021 - 2023Every Airman a Sensor (Providing Joint Operation Capability with Jamming Detection and Mesh Networking)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by InstaJam, LLC · 2022 - 2023Title: Broadband Acoustic Wavefront Transformation and Control with Metamaterials and Metasurfaces
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Sony Corporation · 2021 - 2022EFRI NewLAW: Reconfigurable Nonreciprocal Acoustics and Topological Phases in Spatiotemporally Modulated Media
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · 2016 - 2021Collaborative Research: Observations of High-Energy Radiation Associated with Thunderstorms
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2016 - 2020Advancing Magnetization and Polarization Low Frequency Imaging (AMPLiFI)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · 2017 - 2020Expanding the Limits of Acoustic Metamaterials
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2013 - 2019Acoustic Metamaterials and Imaging
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Intellectual Ventures Management, LLC · 2017 - 2018Additive Manufacturing of Radio Frequency and Microwave Components from a Highly Conductive 3D Printing Filament
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Multi3D LLC · 2017 - 2018Development of a Modulating RF Reflectarray
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lockheed Martin Corporation · 2017 - 2017Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flash (TGF) Research with Fermi GBM
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Alabama in Huntsville · 2014 - 2016ADVICE: Advanced Diagnostics for VLF Ionospheric Channel Estimation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Florida · 2015 - 2016Transformation Optical Materials
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Army Research Office · 2009 - 2016Collaborative Research: ADELE Operations on the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2012 - 2015Development and Demonstration of Active Broadband Acoustic Metamaterials
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2012 - 2015Remote lightning current and charge transfer measurements
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2011 - 2014CEDAR: Global and Local Measurements of Lightning-mesosphere Interactions
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2010 - 2014Physical Origins of Coupling to the Upper Atmosphere from Lightning (PhOCAL)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · 2010 - 2014Automated Micromanufacturing for Optical Sensing and Computational Imaging, Metamaterials, and Quantum Computing
EquipmentCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research · 2012 - 2014Large Scale Lower Ionosphere Remote Sensing
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2007 - 2011Magnetospheric Remote Sensing Through IMAGE, WIND, and CLUSTER Radio Tomography Experiments
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2007 - 2011Remote Measurements of Lightning Current and Charge Transfer with Low Frequency EM Sensors
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2007 - 2011CEDAR: Quantitative Measurements of Lightning-Mesosphere Interactions from Remote Electromagnetic Fields
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2005 - 2009A Numerical Simulation Tool for Planetary Subsurface Radar
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2004 - 2008VLF Sensor System Build and Integration
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by US Geological Survey · 2008 - 2008CAREER: A New Approach for Radio Remote Sensing of the Ionosphere
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2001 - 2007Scientific Services and Computer Modeling for Tribocharging of Martian Dust Project
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2005 - 2006Novel Remote Measurements and Analysis of Continuing Lightning Current
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2002 - 2006Scientific Services and Computer Modeling for Tribocharging of Martian Dust Project
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2004 - 2005Quantitative Measurements of Lightning-Mesosphere Interactions from Remote Electromagnetic Fields
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2004 - 2005Magnetospheric Radio Tomography: Observables, Algorithms, and Experimental Analysis
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2002 - 2005Scientific Services and Computer Model Development for ACES UAV Project
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2003 - 2004Scientific Services and Computer Modeling for Tribocharging of Martian Dust Project
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2003 - 2004Well-conditioned Multi-level Fast Multipole Modeling of Military Communication Channels
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Army Research Office · 2001 - 2004Intense Lightening-Generated Electromagnetic Fields
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2001 - 2004Scientific Services and Computer Model Development for Mars'03 MATADOR Mission
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2001 - 2002External Relationships
- Birkeland Center for Space Science, University of Bergen, Norway
- Metacept, Inc.
- Susman Godfrey LLP
- Tyrata. Inc.
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