University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Grainger College of Engineering

Strategic Research Initiatives

The Grainger College of Engineering has always responded to the critical needs of society and continues to develop solutions for our global challenges. Our Strategic Research Initiatives support collaboration in high-impact research, as well as emerging areas. Funding and support for these programs seed our future success and drive new discoveries.

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2021 PROJECTS

Illinois People and Intelligent Infrastructures

Toward an Illinois Center for 3D Spatial Packaging of Interconnected Systems with Physical Interactions (SPI2)

James Allison, Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering

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Machine-assisted scalable fabrication of ultrafast quantum photonic devices

Simeon I. Bogdanov, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Phononic materials for improved flight of next-generation air vehicles

Kathryn Matlack, Mechanical Science and Engineering

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Fig. 1 We envision that U of I will serve as a science and technology hub for an observatory of infection genomics

An observatory for infection genomics

Helen Nguyen, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Figure: van der Waals (vdW) In- memory Computing: Investigate vdW materials and memory- centric nano-primitives with a clear trade-off between energy- latency-stochasticity, in-built reconfigurability, and supported by the Shannon model of computing to meet system accuracy requirements.

Van der Waals Materials and Devices for In-Memory Computing—Enabling AI at the Edge

Shaloo Rakheja, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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