Spotlight on Select 2024 Grantees
Alan Bergland
Dr. Alan Bergland’s 4-VA research project, titled “Sex, death and dormancy in the rock pools of Belle Isle,” explores how organisms adapt and populations evolve in response to environmental change—a central question in biology.
Kory Burns
Dr. Kory Burns' project titled, "Engineering Site-selective Photon Emitters in Twisted Bilayer van der Waals Solids" leverages the strengths of students at UVA and VT in the field of Twistronics.
Seokhyun Chung
In his 4-VA project, “Achieving the Future of Worker Injury Risk Assessment: Personalized and Privacy-preserving,” Dr. Chung emphasizes that ergonomic risk evaluation is critical today, as many workers are exposed to environments where certain repeated activities can lead to musculoskeletal disease.
Seongkook Heo
Assistant Professor Seongkook Heo uses artificial intelligence and innovative interfaces to address two pressing challenges: loneliness among older adults and accessibility for blind individuals, in two 4-VA-funded projects.
Jingjing Li
Dr. Jingjing Li works to improve how the travel industry structures their online services in her 4-VA project titled, "Building Machine Learning Resilience During Disasters."
Chang Lou
Dr. Lou’s research aims to develop a warning system capable of detecting and reacting to silent failures in cloud systems, and his 4-VA-funded project, “Enforcing Safe Product Software Updates with Proactive Runtime Checking,” helps him to do just that.
J.D. Quigley
Assistant Professor J.D. Quigley ran two collaborative workshops bringing together experts and students from Virginia and surrounding states to work together on projects in topology for his 4-VA funded project, “Collaborative Workshops in Topology.”
Bon Trinh
Assistant Professor Bon Trinh had two goals for his 4-VA project entitled, “An Integrated Computational and Experimental Approach for Cancer Drug Screening,” which included identifying cancer-causing proteins and developing a drug that inhibits the activity of those proteins.
Baoxing Xu
Dr. Baoxing Xu is interested in bringing innovation to the manufacturing technologies for flexible electronics through the 4-VA project, “Printing of Ultrathin Conductive Films on Liquid for 3D Wearable Electronics."