Notable Career Research Awards
NSF CAREER AWARDS
The CAREER Award is NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty who demonstrate potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
2025
Lauren Fuess, Department of Biology
CAREER: Characterizing the mechanisms linking bleaching recovery to pathogen susceptibility in a model cnidarian system
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/2255473
Tanzima Islam, Computer Science
CAREER: SPEED: Scalable Performance-aware Engine for Efficient Decision-making on High-Performance Computing Systems
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/2177694
Christine Lee, Mathematics
CAREER: Colored Link Homologies and the Geometric Topology of Surfaces in Low-Dimensions
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/2372343
Kecheng Yang, Computer Science
CAREER: Predictable Real-Time Computing in the Presence of Unpredictabilities
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/2100629
https://www.cose.txst.edu/faculty-research-expertise/computer-science/kecheng-yang.html
2024
William Boney, Mathematics
CAREER: Compactness in Incompact Worlds
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/2158908
2023
Hwa Young Lee, Mathematics
CAREER: Reframing Students’ Graph Literacy with a Focus on Students’ Thinking
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/2013131
https://www.cose.txst.edu/faculty-research-expertise/mathematics/hwa-young-lee.html
2022
Nestor Guillen, Mathematics
CAREER: Integro-differential and transport problems in partial differential equations
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/2154434
2021
Yoichi Miyahara, Physics
CAREER: Characterization of quantum dot qubits by scannable mechanical resonator
https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2021/miyahara-career-grant.html
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/2129546
https://www.cose.txst.edu/faculty-research-expertise/physics/yoichi-miyahara.html
David Rodriguez, Biology
CAREER: Unraveling post-invasion dynamics of the amphibian-killing fungus via rapid genetic diversity assessments of both hosts and pathogens
https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2021/nsf-career-grant-fungal-diseases.html
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/1922354
https://www.cose.txst.edu/faculty-research-expertise/biology/david-rodriguez.html
Hiro Lee Tanaka, Mathematics
CAREER: Higher Algebra and Symplectic Geometry
https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2021/tanaka-nsf-career-grant-.html
https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/2105558
https://www.cose.txst.edu/faculty-research-expertise/mathematics/hiro-lee-tanaka.html
Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research Program Award
The DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program provides an annual funding opportunity for researchers in universities and DOE national laboratories. Established in 2010, this program supports the individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and stimulates research careers in the disciplines supported by the DOE Office of Science: Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), Biological and Environmental Research (BER), Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES), High Energy Physics (HEP), Isotope R&D and Production (IP), and Nuclear Physics (NP).
2022
Tanzima Islam, Computer Science
https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2022/tanzima-islam-early-career-research-program-award.html