July 2026 Grants and Contracts

We are pleased to share the success of SJSU's principal investigators who were awarded grants and contracts during July 2026:

Monthly Awards at a Glance
27 Awards Received: Valued at $7,470,916.

Note: Some industry-sponsored awards are not listed due to their respective non-disclosure terms. The sort below is by College, then department, followed by PI.

Lucas College and Graduate School of Business

Philbrick, Karen | College of Business
BART Leadership Academy: 2026-27
Sponsor: Bay Area Rapid Transit-BART — $99,000. 

Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering

Al-Manaseer, Akthem | Civil & Environmental Engineering
SJSU\/CSULB Research and Certification Program for Asphalt and Aggregate in California
Sponsor: CSU, Long Beach Foundation — $102,470.

Kumar, Gautam | Chemical and Materials Engineering
Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation for Controlling Abnormal Neural Synchronization and Oscillations
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health — $146,500.

Lee, Sang-Joon | Mechanical Engineering
NNME Pacific-Intermountain Network for Education in Semiconductors (PINES) Node
Sponsor: Boise State University — $175,308.

Mak, Ron | Computer Engineering
Intelligent Systems Research and Development Support-2 (ISRDS-3) Sponsor: KBR Wyle Services — $10,414.

College of Health & Human Sciences

Widaman, Adrianne | Nutrition & Food Science
Tele-Nutrition to Improve Cardiometabolic Health and Quality of Life Among Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury\u201D Project being Submitted for the SCI Model Systems
Sponsor: Santa Clara County — $2,850.

College of Information, Data and Society

Hofman, Darra | School of Information
Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program
Institute of Intl Education-IIE
Sponsor: Institute of Inational Education — $60,000.

College of Science

Carroll, Dustin | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Delivering n ECCO-FORTE Data-Constrained Modeling Framework for Quantifying Land-to Ocean Biogeochemical and Ecosystem Variability Across the North Slope
Sponsor: NASA — $62,534.

Diao, Minghui | Meteorology and Climate Science
Phase Transition in High-Latitude Clouds: Disentangling Effects of Aerosols and Meteorology Using NASA PACE Satellite and In-Situ Observations
Sponsor: NASA — $153,759.

Grand, Maxime | Moss Landing Marine Lab
A Versatile Programmable Flow Injection Platform for Shipboard and Autonomous Analysis of Nutrients and Trace Metals
Sponsor: National Science Foundation — $ 606,009.

Grazioli, Gianmarc | Chemistry
Probing Amyloid Fibril Self-Assembly with Network Hamiltonian Simulations in Explicit Space
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health — $183,125.

Heim, Wesley | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Mercury Study (2027-2031)
Sponsor: Delta Regional Monitoring Program — $1,024,874.

Khatami, Ehsan | Physics & Astronomy
AI and data science enabled predictive modeling of collective phenomena in strongly correlated quantum materials
Sponsor: University of Tennessee — $109,576.

Madden, Elizabeth | Geology
USGS IPA - Elizabeth Madden
Sponsor: United States Geological Survey — $20,000.                          

Menemenlis, Dimitris; Carroll, Dustin | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Mesoscale eddies, internal waves, and solitons in SWOT, global models, and downscaled regional models
Sponsor: University of Michigan — $64,632.

Menemenlis, Dimitris | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Exploring the FRESH Arctic: Fate of River Export and Surface Hydrology
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts — $37,211.                      

Menemenlis, Dimitris | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Impact of changes in sea level and ocean stratification on tides and lunar orbital parameters
Sponsor: University of Michigan — $48,348.           

Moh, Melody | Computer Science
Collaborative Research: CUE-T: Expanding the undergraduate AI talent pipeline by democratizing access to instructional capabilities across institutions of higher education (IHEs)
Sponsor: Cornell University — $152,169.            

Portner, Ryan | Geology
Collaborative Research: Transport Dynamics and Mobility of Large-Scale Submarine VolcaniclasticDensity Currents at Hunga Volcano, Tonga
Sponsor: National Science Foundation — $34,682.

Smith, Sarah | Moss Landing Marine Lab
Collaborative Research: Do “asymbiotic” Rhizosolenia mats obtain N from cryptic co-occurring diazotrophs?
Sponsor: National Science Foundation — $112,045.

Vishal, Kumar | Biological Sciences
Diet promotes muscle stem cell activation and proliferation in Drsosophila
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health — $183,125.  

Wilkinson, Katherine | Biological Sciences
The Electrical Basis of Proprioceptive Signaling
Sponsor: UC, Davis — $74,707.                   

Yarbrough, Mark | Moss Landing Marine Lab
MarONet operations to support PACE OCI System Vicarious Calibration
Sponsor: University of Miami — $23,315.

College of Social Sciences

Carr, Valerie | Psychology
Future Vertical Lift: Collaborative Research on Flight Control, Autonomous Rotorcraft, and Human-Systems Interface Design: Phase 2
Sponsor: NASA — $1,555,694.

Schuster, David | Psychology
Human Systems Integration: Collaborative Human Factors Research to Improve the Safety, Efficiency, and Reliability of NASA\u2019s Aeronautics and Space Missions: Phase 2
Sponsor: NASA — $1,342,681. and  1,032,888.

Division of Research & Innovation

Maloney, Deborah | Office of Sponsored Programs
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Sponsor: National Science Foundation — $53,000.