Funding

Active research support

The lab's work is supported by 6 active awards from NSF, DOE, AFOSR, AFRL, and Sandia. We gratefully acknowledge our sponsors.

Operator Learning & Surrogate Modeling

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Collaborative Research: Unified Neural Operator (UNO): Towards Trustworthy Operator Learning for Scientific Applications

DMS / CISE — Computational & Data-Enabled Science (CDS&E) · PI Varun Shankar; Co-PI Akil Narayan

2025 – 2028
PI FA9550-25-1-0042

Property-preserving and multiscale operator learning for surrogate modeling

Laboratory Research Initiation Request (LRIR)

2024 – 2027
Co-PI

Scalable operator learning and surrogate modeling

Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD)

2024 – 2027

Trustworthy, Property-Preserving SciML

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Co-PI Award #2546821

Collaborative Research: CS2: On-Demand Semantic Analysis via Program Synthesis

CS2 — Correctness for Scientific Computing Systems (joint NSF/DOE) · PI Ben Greenman; Co-PIs John Regehr, Varun Shankar

2026 – 2029
Co-PI Award #2403379

Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: SCIOPT: Toward Certifiable Compression-Aware SciML Systems

CISE/CCF — Software & Hardware Foundations (SHF: Medium) · PI Ganesh Gopalakrishnan; Co-PIs Mary Hall, Varun Shankar

2024 – 2027

Digital Twins for Engineering & Biology

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PI

Numerical methods and scientific machine learning for composite materials and structures

Air Force Research Laboratory (subcontracts via UES and ARCTOS)

2023 – 2027

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