NEW MEXICO: Engineering professor leading one of five NSF BRITE Fellow projects
Meeko Oishi, New Mexico NSF EPSCoR SMART Grid Center team member, will lead a $1 million project as part of the NSF Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering (BRITE) program.
As a BRITE Fellow, Oishi will be leading a single-principal investigator project titled Autonomous Systems that Accommodate Human Perception and Reasoning about Uncertainty. The project will involve the integration of knowledge of human perception and reasoning about uncertainty into new methods for the design and control of autonomous dynamical systems.
The five-year project begins May 1, 2023, and ends April 30, 2028. The NSF BRITE program is funded by NSF Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) in the NSF Engineering Directorate.
“The BRITE Fellow opportunity supports researchers who have a strong track record and a bold, unconventional vision that, if successful, could transform what’s possible and bring great benefits to the nation,” CMMI Division Director Robert Stone said. “NSF expects these BRITE Fellow projects to challenge established ideas, open new fields and create new paths through thorny problems.”