College of Engineering at NC State University Home to Three New NSF Career Awards

Dr. Mahinthakumar

Dr. Mueller

Dr. Rabiei

Three faculty members of the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University have received National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Awards so far this year.  They are Dr. Gnanamanikam (Kumar) Mahinthakumar, assistant professor of civil engineering; Dr. Frank Mueller, assistant professor of computer science; and Dr. Afsaneh Rabiei, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.  The award is one of the highest honors given by NSF to university faculty in science and engineering.

Each grant is for $400,000 and runs for five years. 

Mahinthakumar will use the award to support his research project entitled, “High-End Computing in Environmental Engineering With Application to Subsurface Characterization.”  Mueller’s project is “Exploiting Binary Rewriting to Analyze and Alleviate Memory Bottlenecks for Scientific Applications.”  Rabiei will investigate “Processing and Development of a New Ultra-Light High-Strength Material.”

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