Houman Owhadi, Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Control and Dynamical Systems, has been named a 2024 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow for his research on "Computational Hypergraph Discovery, a Framework for Connecting the Dots."
Owhadi is one of 11 university scientists and engineers chosen for the 2024 class of Vannevar Bush Fellows, the U.S. Department of Defense's flagship single-investigator award for basic research.
Named after Dr. Vannevar Bush, who was instrumental in shaping defense research as the director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development after World War II, the VBFF supports high-risk and innovative ideas that drive scientists toward breakthrough discoveries.