Research Awards and Recognition
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Research Awards and Recognition
RIT has been recognized as a doctoral university by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education since 2016 because of its growing research activity.
Sponsored Research Awards
In millions of dollars
Research Expenditures
In millions of dollars
Federal Awards
In millions of dollars
Major Grants
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January 27, 2021
RIT’s Image Permanence Institute receives $350,000 grant from NEH
Research activities for the three-year, field-based research project will be organized and led by Kelly McCauley Krish, IPI preventive conservation specialist. The study will apply data from temperature, relative humidity, and pollutant monitoring to comprehensively balance these known risks to collections when implementing energy-saving mechanical system operations.
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January 11, 2021
RIT Sponsored Research garners $82 million
RIT had its best year ever for sponsored research funding. For fiscal year 2020, which ended June 30, RIT received 382 new awards totaling $82 million. The record funding follows almost $58 million in research expenditures in fiscal year 2019, also a record.
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October 14, 2020
RIT, URMC receive grant to study benefits of AI-enabled toilet seat technology
Toilet seats with high-tech sensors might be the non-invasive technology of the future that could help reduce hospital return rates of individuals with heart disease. A joint project by researchers at RIT and the University of Rochester Medical Center will determine if in-home monitoring can successfully record vital signs and reduce risk and costly re-hospitalization rates for people with heart failure. The five-year, $2.9 million venture is funded by the National Institutes of Health.
NSF CAREER Awards
2024
For “Understanding Fiber Bundle Failure Mechanics for Ultra-high Reliability Applications”
2024
For “Computation-efficient Resolution for Low-Carbon Grids with Renewables and Energy Storage”
2023
For “Toward Reliable and Quantum-resistant Connected Vehicle Security”
2022
For “Investigating the Use of Empathy-Building Interventions in Experiential Computing Education”
2022
For “Chirality and polymer thermodynamics: frustration and amplification”
2021
For “Interface-mediated Ionic Transport in Mismatched Complex Oxide Heterostructures: Role of Misfit Dislocations”
2021
For “Co-evolution of Machine Intelligence and Continuous Information”
2020
For “Synthesizing Architectural Tactics”
2020
For “Computational Model of Perceived Color and Appearance in Augmented Reality”
2019
For “Learning to Solve Problems in context-rich environments: A Naturalistic study in STEM Workplaces, research labs, project-based and lab courses”
2018
For “Development of High-Efficiency Ultraviolet Optoelectronics”
2016
For “Energy-Efficient Datacenters with Wireless Interconnection Networks”
2015
For “Magnetocaloric Effect in Metallic Nanostructures”
2015
For “Theory of Optomechanical Nanorotation Sensing – Approaching the Quantum Regime”
2014
For “Integrating Physical Models into Data-Driven Inference”
2013
For “Environmental impacts of reusing, recycling and disposing of lithium-ion batteries after they have been used in electric vehicles”
2010
For “Strain Balanced Quantum Dots for high Concentration Photovoltaics”
2010
For “Graphics: Gaze Manipulation”
PI Millionaires
Since 2000, RIT has recognized 206 principal investigators and researchers who have achieved $1 million or more in funding by inducting them into a class of “PI Millionaires.”
Current faculty in this group include:
- Vinay Abhyankar
- Cecilia Alm
- Irshad Altheimer
- Martin K. Anselm
- Callie Babbitt
- Charles Bachmann
- Margaret Bailey
- Cassandra Berbary
- Mishkat Bhattacharya
- David Borkholder
- Scott Brown
- Vincenzo Buonomo
- Donna Burnette
- Manuela Campanelli
- Enid Cardinal
- Christopher Collison
- Denis Cormier
- Paul Craig
- Feng Cui
- Moumita Das
- Steven Day
- Betsy Dell
- Richard DeMartino
- Travis Desell
- Gabriel Diaz
- Carlos Diaz-Acosta
- Ke Du
- Matthew Dye
- Doreen Edwards
- Lisa Elliot
- Joshua Faber
- Mark Fairchild
- Don Figer
- Scott Franklin
- Tom Gaborski
- Matthew Ganter
- Bill Garno
- Michael Gartley
- Aaron Gerace
- Christina Goudreau Collison
- Surendra Gupta
- Anne Haake
- Richard Hailstone
- Peter Hauser
- Karl Hirschman
- Matthew Hoffman
- Joseph Hornak
- Seth Hubbard
- André Hudson
- Matt Huenerfauth
- Clyde Eirikur Hull
- Emmett Ientilucci
- Bonnie Jacob
- Stephen Jacobs
- Keith Jenkins
- Daniel Johnson
- Christopher Kanan
- Satish Kandlikar
- Jeyhan Kartaltepe
- Joel Kastner
- John Kerekes
- Robert Kremens
- Daniel Krutz
- Michael Kuhl
- Santosh Kurinec
- Andres Kwasinski
- Brian Landi
- Donna Lange
- Blanca Lapizco-Encinas
- James Lee
- Christopher Lewis
- Cristian Linte
- Barbara Lohse
- David Long
- Carlos Lousto
- Carol Marchetti
- Sharon Mason
- Drew Maywar
- David Messinger
- Casey Miller
- Mehdi Mirakhorli
- Matthew Montanaro
- John Moore
- James Myers
- Darren Narayan
- Nabil Nasr
- Nenad Nenadic
- Dina Newman
- Zoran Ninkov
- Jason Nordhaus
- Richard Notargiacomo
- Richard O'Shaughnessy
- Justin Pelletier
- Jeff Pelz
- Keven Poore
- Stefan Preble
- Ivan Puchades
- Jie Qiao
- Ryne Raffaelle
- S. Manian Ramkumar
- Emma Richardson
- Iris Rivero
- Andrew Robinson
- Risa Robinson
- Sean Rommel
- Eli Saber
- Carl Salvaggio
- Thomastine Sarchet
- Andreas Savakis
- Hans Schmitthenner
- Jennifer Schneider
- Joha Shamsujjoha
- Nirmala Shenoy
- Joseph Sirianni
- Mark Smith
- Bruce Smith
- Michael Stinson
- Grover Swartzlander
- Michael Thurston
- Brian Tomaszewski
- Thomas Trabold
- Gill Tsouri
- Jan van Aardt
- Anthony Vodacek
- Linwei Wang
- Eric Williams
- L. Kate Wright
- Matthew Wright
- Karin Wuertz-Kozak
- Shanchieh Yang
- Qi Yu
- Bo Yuan
- Richard Zanibbi
- Michael Zemcov
- Jing Zhang
- George Zion
- Ben Zwickl
Seed Funding
RIT awards researchers seed funding of $5,000 for proposals written during the fall semester and later refined over the course of a two-day Grant Writers’ Boot Camp.
For “Creating Informed and Engaged End Users in High-Performance Campus Buildings for Improved Energy Efficiency and Enhanced Comfort”
For “Monitoring and Improving Length of Stay and Readmission Rates Using Learn Management Techniques”
For “Advancing Culturally Relevant STEM Learning Experiences for Underrepresented Students”
For “The Use of Keyword Error Rate to Determine the Quality of Automated Speech Recognition Systems”
For “Development of Bioplastic Packaging Solution for the Transport of Apples”
For “A Principled Model Selection Method for Deep Learning in Protein Function Analysis”
For “Robotic Collaborative Perception and object Manipulation for Effective and Affordable Elder Care”
For “Integrating dynamical systems and machine learning to study paleoclimate data”
For “Benchmarking Integration of Relational and Non-Relational Data Systems”
For “Neurocognitively-Motivated Conversational Assistants Based on Distribution Representations”
NIH Boot Camp Seed Funding
RIT also offers an advanced boot camp focused on the National Institutes of Health. Participants in the NIH Boot Camp submitted proposals for seed funding to help develop competitive proposals or revise proposals to specific NIH programs in the coming year. 2019 awardees will receive up to $10,000 and include:
Kate Gleason College of Engineering
College of Health Sciences and Technology
Kate Gleason College of Engineering