Assistant Professors Earn NSF Early Career Awards
Two College of Engineering assistant professors were awarded the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Award, typically known as the CAREER Award, in 2021. NSF describes the CAREER Award as its most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department and organization.
Yarui Peng, assistant professor of computer science and computer engineering, and Sarah Hernandez, assistant professor of civil engineering, each will receive $500,000 over five years to support their research.
Peng’s award, titled “Chiplet-Package Co-Optimizations for 2.5D Heterogeneous SoCs with Low-Overhead IOs,” is funded by Software and Hardware Foundations of Computing and Communication Foundations Division.
It will support Peng’s research and education programs to develop computer-aided design tools, design IC chips and study methodologies to combine heterogeneous chiplets within a single package, maximizing system performance, density and power savings with minimum design overhead.
Peng joined the department in 2017 and leads the Energy-Efficient Electronics and Design Automation (E3DA) Lab. Details of Peng’s programs can be found on the E3DA lab website. (e3da.csce.uark.edu/)
Hernandez’s award, titled “Towards Unbiased Long-Range Freight Planning Through Passive-Sensors and Workforce Diversity,” is being jointly funded by the Civil Infrastructure Systems program and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). It will support Hernandez’s research and development of freight-goods movement data at a resolution needed to make informed, data-driven decisions about long-range transportation infrastructure investment and policies, having a positive impact on the health, safety and success of the United States’ freight transportation industry.
More information on Hernandez’s research can be found on the Freight Transportation Data Research Lab website. (wordpressua.uark.edu/sarahvh/)
