PI: Samir Bali

2024 - 27: $796,516  National Science Foundation (with co-PI's Imran Mirza and Thad Walker)

"ExpandQISE: Track 1: Bright, Highly Polarization-Squeezed Light Beam for Quantum Metrology"

2021 - 24: $331,885 US Army Research Office (+ $23,500 for training high school students and undergraduates in quantum information techniques)

"Particle-sorting and stochastic resonances in cold atom optical lattices: Path toward efficient nano-devices"

2018 - 19: $60,000 US Army Research Office (STIR)

"Noise-enabled high-efficiency cold atom nano-ratchets"

2011 - 12: $10,000 Dillon-Kane LLC, Shoupp Phase II (+ $10k matching from MU)

"Fully automated portable device for detecting extremely small changes in the refractive index of liquids"

2010: $5000 EmersonTechnologies

"Real-time measurement of change in refractive index of aviation fuel"

2009 - 12: $65,000 ACS Petroleum Research Fund  (+ $10k matching from MU)

2005 - 08: $39,000 Cottrell College Science Award (+$14k from MU)

"Investigations of radiative interactions and quantum tunneling in optical lattices by correlation measurement of scattered light"

2002 - 05: $35,000 ACS Petroleum Research Fund (+ $15k matching from MU)

"Designer lattices for measurements of Levy walks by atoms"

2002 - 05: $39,000 Cottrell College Science Award (+$16k from MU)

"Non-Brownian motion of cold atoms in optical lattices: An investigation based on correlation measurement of scattered light"

Student Tech Fee Award ($19k, 2017-18; $32k, 2013-14; $36k, 2019-20)

Roundtable Interdisciplinary Funding Award ($25k, 2013-14 with Engineering and Chemistry depts)

Shoupp Award ($8k, 2001)

CFR - Committee for Faculty Research Award ($22k, 2001-02 and $20k, 2008-09) 

College of Arts and Science Grant ($4k, 2001)

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Based on their academic record and research achievements in my lab, five of my students have received prestgious national awards.

- Goldwater Scholarship (Chanakya Pandya 2024)

- NSF Graduate Fellowship (Matt Beeler 2003)

- Mercury-Seven Astronaut Scholarship
  Megan Marshall 2010 (co-advised with Prof. Stephen Alexander)
  Richard Wagner 2008
  Laura Feeney 2001