{"id":14018,"date":"2015-09-03T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T19:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=14018"},"modified":"2015-09-03T15:00:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T19:00:35","slug":"two-professors-receive-prestigious-nsf-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/two-professors-receive-prestigious-nsf-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Two professors receive prestigious NSF award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_13918\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/InTheseHills-NSF-Wang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13918\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/InTheseHills-NSF-Wang-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"Sophia Wang works with a robotic arm in her lab.\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/08\/InTheseHills-NSF-Wang-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/08\/InTheseHills-NSF-Wang-768x585.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/08\/InTheseHills-NSF-Wang-705x537.jpg 705w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/08\/InTheseHills-NSF-Wang.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophia Wang works with a robotic arm in her lab.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nTwo faculty members have received a total of $1 million in funding as part of the National Science Foundation\u2019s highest honor for junior faculty members.<br \/>\nJacob Sorber\u00a0and\u00a0Yue \u201cSophie\u201d Wang\u00a0were among the honorees in this year\u2019s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. Each has been awarded $500,000 for research.<br \/>\nSorber\u2019s research enables low-cost, low-power sensors to gather data for long periods of time. The sensors would be powered by energy from environmental sources, such as the sun, with no need for batteries or manual recharging.<br \/>\nHe said the sensors have the potential to transform science and society. They could, for example, be used to monitor human health, growing conditions in greenhouses or the behavior patterns of animal populations in the wild.<br \/>\nWang is focusing on two distinctly human attributes \u2014\u00a0trust and regret \u2014\u00a0to develop new \u201ccontrol algorithms\u201d and decision-making strategies that would help humans and robots work together to be more productive. She sees big opportunities for humans and robots to collaborate in manufacturing.<br \/>\nWang also sees high potential for \u201chuman-supervised mobile sensor networks.\u201d Robots could begin doing low-level simple and repetitive tasks while humans could be involved in high-level complex tasks, she said. While research is central to the award, winners also must be excellent teachers and have proven themselves exemplary in integrating research and education. Selection is highly competitive.<br \/>\nSorber is an assistant professor in the\u00a0School of Computing,\u00a0and Wang is an assistant professor of\u00a0mechanical engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two faculty members have received a total of $1 million in funding as part of the National Science Foundation\u2019s highest honor for junior faculty members. Jacob Sorber\u00a0and\u00a0Yue \u201cSophie\u201d Wang\u00a0were among the honorees in this year\u2019s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. Each has been awarded $500,000 for research. 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