Donald Goldfarb, Alexander and Hermine Avanessians Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, has won the award in recognition of his contributions to mathematical analysis and breakthroughs in scientific computing.

Yaniv Erlich, an assistant professor of Computer Science and Computational Biology at Columbia, will use the DARPA funds to develop advanced DNA storage technologies.

A research team from Columbia University received a National Science Foundation grant to assist scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), the instrument that won a Nobel Prize for detecting gravitational waves.

To counter a growing public safety concern, a professor at Columbia's Data Science Institute is leading a research team to design an intelligent headphone system that will warn pedestrians of imminent dangers from vehicles.

The development of a self-contained soft actuator three times stronger than natural muscle, without the need of externals, signals a breakthrough in soft robotics.