Research At A Glance

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Research Funders

Federal

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Army Research Office (ARO), Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Education (ED), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of the Interior (Interior) Department of Transportation (DOT), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA), National Aeronautic and Space Administration Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NASA EPSCoR), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Security Agency (NSA), National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Naval Research (ONR), U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Regional

Boeing, Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES), Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE; source funding from the NIH), City of Boise; Higher Education Research Council (HERC), Idaho Department of Commerce (DOC), Idaho Department of Education (ED), Idaho Global Entrepreneurial Mission (IGEM), Idaho INBRE (IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence; source funding from the NIH), Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Space Grant Consortium (ISGC; source funding from NASA), Idaho Secretary of State, Idaho STEM Action Center, Idaho State Board of Education, Idaho Transportation Department (ITD), Idaho Workforce Development Council, Micron Technology, the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust, and Pilgrim Africa.

Abbreviated Research at a Glance

Tables below offer an abbreviated version of “Research at a Glance.”

Locations Shown—City Center Plaza (CCP) and the U.S. Bank Building next door (U.S. Bank); Charles P. Ruch Engineering (RUCH); the Environmental Research Building (ERB); Harry Morrison Civil Engineering (HML); the Micron Center for Materials Research (MCMR); the Micron Engineering Center (MEC); the Multipurpose Classroom Building (MPCB), and the Yanke Family Research Park (YFRB).
Directions—To find a location, search by code or name at the Campus Map.

Civil Engineering

Investigators use the Environmental Research Building (ERB).

Research Area or Lab	Contact
Advanced Transportation Management Lab	Mandar Khanal
Air Quality Lab	Sondra Miller
Clean Soils Lab	Arvin Farid
Geo-Mechanics and Geo-Imaging Lab	Nick Hudyma
Hydroclimate Modeling and Analysis Lab	Mojtaba Sadegh
Hydrologic Interfaces and Processes Lab	Kevin Roche
MicroMechanics & Smart Infrastructure Lab	Yang Lu
Sustainable and Resilient Geotechnical Engineering Lab	Bhaskar Chittoori

Computer Science

An overview provides comprehensive details including faculty research areas by category, individual, center, lab, and program. There is also a description of available Research Experience for Undergraduate opportunities, summaries of grants and awards, and recent masters and PhD theses.

Research Area or Lab	Location	Contact
Adapt Data Flow Optimizations Lab	CCP	Catherine Olschanowsky
Artificial Intelligence-based Security Lab	U.S. Bank	Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano
Computer Graphics and Visualization Group	CCP	Steven Cutchin
Computing and Artificial Intelligence Lab for Physical Sciences	CCP	Min Long
Data Security-preserving Computing Lab	CCP	Jyh-haw Yeh
Human-computer Interaction and Kidsteam Lab	CCP	Jerry Fails
Idaho Election Cybersecurity Center Note: The investigator directs a second lab, below.	CCP	Hoda Mehrpouyan
Information Security, Privacy, and Mining Lab	CCP	Gaby Dagher
Networking and Security Lab	CCP	Yantian Hou
People and Information Research Team	CCP	Michael Ekstrand
Privacy and Industrial Control Systems Security Lab Note: The investigator directs a second lab, above.	CCP	Hoda Mehrpouyan
Program Analysis for Software Verification	CCP	Elena Sherman
Software Engineering and Analytics Lab	CCP	Nasir Eisty
Speech, Language & Interactive Machines Group	U.S. Bank	Casey Kennington

Construction Management

WorkConstruction.org is in the RUCH facility. Anthony Perrenoud directs this multi-institutional group that conducts and applies research to promote the construction industry, educate its workers, and attract future workers.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

A research highlights overview provides research news, as well as a comprehensive list of active research programs by research area.

Research Area or Lab	Location	Contact
Electronic and Neuromorphic Devices and Systems lab Note: See below for another Cantley lab.	MEC	Kurtis Cantley
Electronics and Natural Sciences Research Lab	MEC	Kris Campbell
Hartman Systems Integration Lab	MEC	Sin Ming Loo
High Performance Systems on Reconfigurable Chips	MEC	Nader Rafla
Integrated Bioelectronic Medicine Lab	MEC	Benjamin Johnson
Plasma and Vacuum Electron Devices Lab	MEC	Jim Browning
Power Research Lab	MEC	Said Ahmed-Zaid, Emeritus Faculty
Transport Characterization Lab Note: See above for another Cantley lab.	MCMR, RUCH	Kurtis Cantley, David Estrada (MMSE)

Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering

An overview provides summaries of research labs and centers and identifies research faculty in five areas: biomedical engineering, energy systems, engineering education, materials, and systems and controls. There is also a nice introduction to here to explain the benefits to undergraduates of participating in research.

Research Area or Lab	Location	Contact
Center for Orthopaedic & Biomechanics Research The department maintains an affiliation with this College of Health Sciences lab, and several faculty members share equipment. Erin Mannen also shares space.	Yanke	Tyler Brown (Kinesiology)
—Boise Applied Biomechanics of Infants Lab	Yanke	Erin Mannen
Biomaterial & Musculoskeletal Engineering Lab	MEC	Sophia Theodossiou
Ceramic Microelectrical Mechanical Systems Lab	MEC	Don Plumlee
Computational Biosciences Lab	MEC	Clare Fitzpatrick
Computational Materials Design Lab	MEC	Mahmood Mamivand
Energy Systems and Air Quality Engineering and Computer Science Education	MCMR	JoAnn Lighty
Mechanical Adaptations Lab	MEC	Gunes Uzer
Northwest Tissue Mechanics Lab	MEC	Trevor Lujan
Robot Control Lab	MEC	Aykut Satici
Smart Materials and Systems Lab	MEC	Zhangxian “Dan” Deng
Thermal Transport and Solar Energy Lab	ERB, HML	Todd Otanicar

Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering

An overview offers robust details about research news, groups, facilities, services, a database of shared instrumentation, active research projects, and recent publications.

Research Area or Lab	Location	Contact
Advanced Materials Lab	MEC	Brian Jaques
Advanced Nanomaterials and Manufacturing Lab Note: See below for other Estrada labs.	MCMR	David Estrada
Applied Electrochemistry and Corrosion Research Lab	MEC	Mike Hurley
Collaboratory for Epitaxy of Nanomaterials	MPCB	Paul Simmonds (MSMSE; Physics)
Computational Materials Design Lab	MEC	Mahmood Mamivand
Computational Materials Engineering Lab	ERB	Eric Jankowski
Computational Modeling for Advanced Epidemiology Lab	MCMR	Richard Elliott
Electrochemical Energy Materials Lab	MEC	Claire (Hui) Xiong
Functional Ceramics Group	MEC	Rick Ubic
Macromolecular Sciences Lab	MCMR	Scott Phillips
Magnetic Materials Lab	ERB, HML	Peter Müllner
Materials Theory and Modeling Group	MCMR	Lan Li
Nanoscale Materials and Device Group	--	--
— Atomic Films Lab	MEC	Elton Graugnard
— Quantum DNA Research Group (video overview 5:16)	MCMR	Bill Knowlton
— Surface Science Lab	MCMR	Paul H. Davis, Bill Knowlton
— Ultrafast Laser Lab	MCMR	Ryan Pensack (ryanpensack@boisestate.edu), Bill Knowlton
— W. M. Keck NanoEngineering Lab	MCMR	Jeunghoon Lee (MSMSE; Chemistry)
Tissue Engineering and Bioprinting Lab (affiliated with the Biomolecular Research Center in the College of Arts and Sciences)	MCMR	David Estrada, Julie Oxford (Biological Sciences)
Transport Characterization Lab Note: See above for other Estrada labs.	MCMR, RUCH	David Estrada, Kurtis Cantley (ECE)

Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning

An overview summarizes research and development labs, and links to lab pages.

Research Area or Lab	Location	Contact
Learning Strategy Lab	RUCH	Seth-Aaron Martinez
Marginalized and Cross-cultural Research & Design Learning Tech Group	RUCH	Lisa Giacumo
Performance Support for Accessibility Lab	CCP, RUCH	Donald Winiecki
Process Management Lab	RUCH	Steve Villachica, Emeritus Faculty
Workplace-Oriented Research Central Lab	RUCH	Seung Youn (Yonnie) Chyung