Yuejie Chi earns Office of Naval Research award

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Called a "career-defining moment" for those selected, the Office of Naval Research announced the recipients of its prestigious 2015 Young Investigator Program (YIP), one of the oldest and most selective scientific research advancement programs in the county.

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Ohio State Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Informatics Yuejie Chie is one of just 36 researchers to receive the award this year. Chi has been at Ohio State since 2012. 

Collectively, awardees will receive $18.8 million in grants to fund research across a range of naval-relevant science and technology areas. Chi will receive $509,244 over three years for her work in high-dimensional data analysis and statistical signal processing.

"It is a tremendous honor to be selected as an ONR young investigator," Chi said. "This YIP award will allow my research group to develop a comprehensive framework for extracting useful parameters from high-dimensional multi-modal datasets that are extremely noisy, incomplete, and/or corrupted. It will enable better decision making for data collected from various sensing and surveillance platforms exploited by the Navy, and have far-reaching applications in biological and neural signal processing as well."

Over the years, research by YIP recipients has led to breakthroughs in nanoscience, fiber-laser systems, ultrafast optoelectronic devices and more.

“These recipients demonstrate the type of visionary, multidisciplinary thought that helps the U.S. Navy anticipate and adapt to a dynamic battlespace,” Dr. Larry Schuette said, ONR’s director of research. “The breadth of their research and combined value of awards underscore the significance the Navy places on ingenuity, wherever it’s harbored, and support the framework for a Naval Innovation Network built on people, ideas and information.”

It has been a good year for Chi, who already won an Air Force Office of Scientific Research YIP award in January.