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CDRF Recipients (FY26)

Recipients of Cross-Disciplinary Research Fund Awards in FY26

Principal InvestigatorsProject TitleDepartments
Aman Luthra,
Adam Dean
Privatization, unionization, and working conditions in the
waste collection industry
Geography; Political
Science
Xindi Hu, Xiaoke
Zhang
Predicting Drinking Water Contaminants in Underserved
Areas with Transfer Learning
Environmental and
Occupational Health;
Statistics
Evie Downie,
Tiffany Sikorski
Clare Boothe Luce Proposal Preparatory Climate SurveyPhysics; Curriculum and
Pedagogy
Weidong Cao,
Luyao Lu
In-Sensor Compressive Learning for Efficient and Adaptive Edge Intelligence: A Case Study on Personalized Chronic
Physiology Monitoring
Electrical and Computer
Engineering; Biomedical
Engineering
Long He,
Zhengtian Xu
Deployment of Battery Swapping for E-Bikes in Urban
Delivery
Decision Sciences;
Civil and Environmental
Engineering
Y. Tony Yang,
Ariana Munger
Advancing Antiviral Care for Hepatitis C in Pregnant
Populations: Int Maternal Support for Better Outcomes
Health Policy and
Management; Obstetrics
and Gynecology