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At the Center for Emerging & Innovative Sciences, we provide our corporate partners with a tremendous competitive advantage when it comes to developing state-of-the-art products.

At a time when many companies are reducing their research and development budgets, we provide access to a rich source of innovation and technology: New York State’s leading research universities. We identify university researchers whose interests match industry needs. We provide matching state funds to magnify the impact of the investment you make as a corporate sponsor.

 

Technical Areas & Related Researchers
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Analog/Digital Integrated Circuits and Computing System Design

Integrated-circuit design: high-performance VLSI/CMOS circuits, analog and mixed-signal IC design, and low-power sensor-interface electronics, New computational architectures, superconducting digital circuits, hardware security.

Principal Investigators and Researchers at University of Rochester:

Eby Friedman

Michael Huang

Selcuk Kose

Zeljko Ignjatovic

 

Principal Investigators and Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology:

Tejasvi Das

Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing

Acoustics and audio engineering: spatial audio, flat-panel loudspeaker design, room acoustics, and vibration/audio signal processing.

Principal Investigators and Researchers at University of Rochester:

Mark Bocko

Zhiyao Duan

Michael Heilemann

Daniel Phinney

Biomechanics, Human Factors & Medical Device Innovation

Applied mechanics of the human body and translation to devices: orthopedic and occupational biomechanics/ergonomics, and medical-technology commercialization.

Principal Investigators and Researchers at University of Rochester:

Amy Learner

Greg Gdowski

 

Principal Investigators and Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology:

Ehsan Rashedi

Biomedical Signal Processing & Data Analytics

Machine learning, statistics, and signal processing applied to physiological data and operational decision-making: cardiac/ultrasound signal analytics, forecasting, and optimization.

Principal Investigators and Researchers at University of Rochester:

Ajay Anand

Jean-Philippe Couderc

 

Principal Investigators and Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology:

Katie McConky

Biomedical Ultrasound & Image-Guided Systems

Diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound, elastography, photoacoustic imaging, and medical image computing/registration for image-guided procedures.

Principal Investigators and Researchers at University of Rochester:

Diane Dalecki

Stephen McAleavey

Mohammad Mehrmohammadi

Neb Duric

Maria Helguera

Deb Rubens

 

Principal Investigators and Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology:

Michael Richards

Cristian Linte

Biosensors, Nanomembranes & Tissue Engineering

Engineered biomaterials and devices: ultrathin nanomembranes, optical/photonic biosensors, and tissue engineering and mechanobiology.

Principal Investigators and Researchers at University of Rochester:

James McGrath

Benjamin Miller

 

Principal Investigators and Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology:

Thomas Gaborski

Karin Wuertz-Kozak

Computational Imaging, Imaging Science & Remote Sensing

Extracting information from images and video: computer vision, deep learning, and hyperspectral/multispectral remote sensing and target detection.

Principal Investigators and Researchers at University of Rochester:

Jiebo Luo

Mujdat Cetin

Gaurav Sharma

 

Principal Investigators and Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology:

Andreas Savakis

Emmett Ientilucci

Jan van Aardt

Integrated & Quantum Photonics

On-chip and fiber-based photonic devices, silicon photonics, nanophotonics, and quantum optical/photonic systems for computing, sensing, and communication.

Principal Investigators and Researchers at University of Rochester:

Jaime Cardenas

Qiang Lin

Nick Vamivakas

Pablo A. Postigo

Roman Sobolewski

Hui Wu

 

Principal Investigators and Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology:

Stefan Preble

Drew Maywar

Lasers, Nonlinear & Ultrafast Optics

Laser physics and engineering: femtosecond/ultrafast laser-matter interaction, high-power fiber and waveguide lasers, and nonlinear optical phenome.

Principal Investigators and Researchers at University of Rochester:

Govind Agrawal

Chunlei Guo

Wayne Knox

William Renninger

 

Principal Investigators and Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology:

Jie Qiao

Materials, Manufacturing & Semiconductor Devices

Materials engineering and device fabrication: organic/semiconductor thin-film electronics, III-V nanowire growth, soft-matter/colloidal materials, and fluid-dynamics of coating and manufacturing processes.

Principal Investigators and Researchers at University of Rochester:

Lewis Rothberg

Paul Funkenbusch

David Foster

 

Principal Investigators and Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology:

Karl Hirschman

Parsian K. Mohseni

Jairo A. Díaz-Amaya

Steven J. Weinstein

Molecular & Cell Biology / Microbiology

 

Cellular and molecular biology: synthetic/systems biology and antibiotic resistance, bacterial pathogenesis, and extracellular-matrix biology in wound healing.

Principal Investigators and Researchers at University of Rochester:

Allison Lopatkin

Paul Dunman

Denise Hocking

Ophthalmology, Vision Correction & Ocular Imaging

Clinical and translational eye care: vision restoration after neurological damage, refractive/corneal correction, ocular imaging and adaptive optics, orbital disease, and tear-film modeling.

Principal Investigators and Researchers at University of Rochester:

Krystel Huxlin

Susana Marcos

Steven Feldon

Tara Vaz

 

Principal Investigators and Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology:

Kara Maki

Optical System Design, Instrumentation & Metrology

Design and theory of optical systems and imaging instrumentation: freeform optics, computational/coherence imaging, wave/mathematical optics, polarization optics, and astronomical detectors.

Principal Investigators and Researchers at University of Rochester:

Jannick Rolland

James Zavislan

Julie Bentley

Miguel Alonso

Barry Silverstein

Thomas Brown

 

Principal Investigators and Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology:

Zoran Ninkov

Networks

Networked systems: wireless sensor/ad hoc networks, mobile-cloud computing, dynamic network health monitoring, graph signal processing.

Principal Investigators and Researchers at University of Rochester:

Wendi Heinzelman

Gonzalo Mateos

Cristiano Tapparello

Robotics

Robotics, motion planning, and human-robot interaction, artificial intelligence.

Principal Investigators and Researchers at University of Rochester:

Tom Howard

Vision Science & Eye Movements

Basic research on human visual perception: eye-movement behavior (saccades, fixations), psychophysics, and computational models of vision, including AR/VR and eye-tracking applications.

Principal Investigators and Researchers at University of Rochester:

Duje Tadin

Martina Poletti

Michele Rucci

 

Principal Investigators and Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology:

Gabriel Diaz

James Ferwerda

Collaborative Innovation Research (CIR)

CIR funding is up to $40,000 and requires at least a 2:1 company match.

Learn more about CIR funding.
Short Term Applied Research (STAR)

The STAR program is for smaller, more focused research. This program provides up to $10,000 with a flexible match requirement.

Learn more about STAR funding.