Four robotics faculty members received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Awards this year.

NSF CAREER Awards are given to early-career professors to fund research that is expected to form a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. The four CAREER Award recipients of the robotics program and the projects funded by the award are listed below (ordered by award date).

• Salman Asif is awarded for a project titled "Optimized Sensing and Recovery for Computational Imaging".
  ECE News: https://www.ece.ucr.edu/news/2021/01/10/salman-asif-receives-nsf-career-award-computational-imaging
  NSF Award Info: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2046293
• Samet Oymak is awarded for a project titled "Foundations of Resource Efficient Machine Learning".
  ECE News: https://www.ece.ucr.edu/news/2021/01/15/samet-oymak-receives-nsf-career-award-resource-efficient-machine-learning
  NSF Award Info: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2046816
• Konstantinos Karydis is awarded for a project titled "Morphological Computation for Resilient Dynamic Locomotion of Compliant Legged Robots with Application to Precision Agriculture".
  ECE News: https://www.ece.ucr.edu/news/2021/02/25/konstantinos-karydis-receives-nsf-career-award-resilient-dynamic-locomotion
  NSF Award Info: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2046270
• Vagelis Papalexakis is awarded for a project titled "Autonomous Tensor Analysis: From Raw Multi-Aspect Data to Actionable Insights"
  NSF Award Info: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2046086