Research funding sources include a variety of federal agencies, as well as grants from business and industry. To date, the college's research expenditures exceeded $73 million. The following is a list of grants awarded to the College of Engineering and Computing faculty.
2020 - 2019 - 2018 - 2017 - 2016 - 2015 - 2014 and Earlier
Celso Moller Ferreira and Paul R. Houser receive funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Celso Moller Ferreira and Paul R. Houser received funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for SHORE-BREAK: Assessing and predicting Arctic Coastal Erosion Hazards with ICESat-2.
Anticipated funding: $100,000
September 18, 2023
Seiyon Lee receives funding from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOA)
Seiyon Lee received funding from NOA for EXCLAIM: a Decision Support Toolkit to Mitigate Impacts of Cascading Climate Hazards.
Anticipated funding: $42,389
September 18, 2023
Liza Price Wilson Durant receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership
Liza Price Wilson Durant received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for NoVA Node CCI FY24 Initiatives.
Anticipated funding: $416,666
September 18, 2023
Kai Zeng receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Kai Zeng received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Fingerprinting Techniques for Millimeter-Wave Device Authentication in 5G/NextG Wireless Communications.
Anticipated funding: $50,000
September 18, 2023
Jean-Pierre Auffret, Linton Wells, and David G. Boulos receive funding from the George Mason Research Foundation
Jean-Pierre Auffret, Linton Wells, and David G. Boulos received funding from the George Mason Research Foundation for NATO MERLIN Phase III.
Anticipated funding: $475,791
September 18, 2023
Lily Wang receives funding from the National Institutes of Health
Lily Wang received funding from the National Institutes of Health for SCH: Novel and Interpretable Statistical Learning for Brain Imaging Data.
Anticipated funding: $1,199,772\
September 11, 2023
Daigo Shishika receives funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory
Daigo Shishika received funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory for Rethinking Assignment-based Methods in Multi-agent Differential Games.
Anticipated funding: $239,524
Sept. 5, 2023
John Stufken receives funding from the Institute of Statistical Sciences
John Stufken received funding from the Institute of Statistical Sciences for Institute of Statistical for for Co-Editorship of Statistica Sinica.
Anticipated funding: $87,672
September 5, 2023
Mark Huntington Snyder receives funding from Northeastern University
Mark Huntington Snyder received funding from Northeastern University for NU/Inclusive Computing.
Anticipated funding: $10,000
September 5, 2023
Mingkui Wei receives funding from Raytheon Systems
Mingkui Wei received funding from Raytheon Systems for CYSE 492 - Raytheon Zero Trust Architecture.
Anticipated funding: $15,000
August 28, 2023
Kai Zeng, Brian L. Mark, and Jiang Weiwen receive funding from U.S. Department of the Army
Kai Zeng, Brian L. Mark, and Jiang Weiwen received funding from U.S. Department of the Army for Advanced mmWave Testbed for Wireless Communication Security Research and Education.
Anticipated funding: $250,000
August 28, 2023
Leigh S. McCue-Weil receives funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Leigh S. McCue-Weil received funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for Developing a Blueprint for r2p "Best Practice."
Anticipated funding: $9,040
August 28, 2023
Weiwen Jiang receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Weiwan Jiang received funding from the National Science Foundation for CyberTraining: Pilot: Quantum Research Workforce Development on End-to-End Quantum Systems Integration.
Anticipated funding: $300,000
August 28, 2023
Weiwen Jiang and Jessica L. Rosenberg receive funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Weiwen Jiang and Jessica L. Rosenberg received funding from the NSF for Collaborative Research: OAC Core: An Integrated Framework for Enabling Temporal-Reliable Quantum Learning on NISQ-era Devices.
Anticipated funding: $330,000
August 28, 2023
Elise D. Miller-Hooks receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Elise D. Miller-Hooks received funding from the National Science Foundation for Conference: US-UK Workshop on Transformation in Urban Underground Infrastructure Sensing.
Anticipated funding: $99,999
August 28, 2023
John Friedrich Shortle receives funding from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
John Friedrich Shortle receives funding from the FAA for NEXTOR III: DO 21: System Safety Management Transformation (SSMT).
Anticipated funding: $148,000
August 28, 2023
Kevin Patrick Moran and Ziyu Yao receive funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Kevin Patrick Moran and Ziyu Yao received funding from the NSF for Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: Toward Understandability and Interpretability for Neural Language Models of Source Code.
Anticipated funding: $745,197
August 28, 2023
Siddhartha Sikdar, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, and Holly C. Matto receive funding from VentureWell
Siddhartha Sikdar, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, and Holly C. Matto received funding from VentureWell for Coordinating Opioid Network Needs with Expert Clinical Teams (iCONNECT).
Anticipated funding: $5,000
August 28, 2023
Maryam Parsa receives funding from the U.S. Army
Maryam Parsa received funding from the U.S. Army for the National Automotive Center
Automotive Research Center (ARC) A Center for Excellence in Modeling and Simulation of Ground Vehicles Supported by the National Automotive Center.
Anticipated funding: $126,000
August 28, 2023
Amarda Shehu receives funding from the NSF
Amarda Shehu received two NSF awards:
- Learning Protein-ish: Foundational Insight on Protein Language Models for Better Understanding, Democratized Access, and Discovery. Anticipated funding: $599,948.
- IIBR: Innovation: Bioinformatics: "Linking Chemical and Biological Space: Deep Learning and Experimentation for Property-Controlled Molecule Generation." Anticipated funding: $299,320.
August 1, 2023
Viviana Maggioni receives funding from NASA
Viviana Maggioni received funding from NASA for Machine learning-based flash flood forecasting in West Africa with satellite observations.
Anticipated funding: $20,675
August 14, 2023
Nora McDonald receives funding from the NSF
Nora McDonald received funding from the NSF for Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Beyond App-centric Privacy: Investigating Privacy Ecosystems among Vulnerable Populations.
Anticipated funding: $393,256
August 14, 2023
Jinwei Ye receives funding from the NSF
Jinwei Ye received funding from the NSF for CRII: RI: General Surface Reconstruction via Polarized Computational Imaging.
Anticipated funding: $40,586
August 14, 2023
Brian L. Mark receives funding from the DoD
Brian L. Mark receives funding from the DoD for Aspire/CCI Partnership Capstone Experience.
Anticipated funding: $5,000
August 14, 2023
Cameron Nowzari receives funding from Virginia Commonwealth University
Cameron Nowzari received funding from Virginia Commonwealth University for Defend the Republic ‐ Multi‐Ball Capturing Robot.
Anticipated funding: $5,000
August 14, 2023
Thanhvu H. Nguyen receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Thanhvu H. Nguyen received funding from the National Science Foundation for FMitF: Track II: Cybolic: a symbolic execution technique and tool for analyzing CMake build scripts.
Anticipated funding: $97,242
August 7, 2023
Hemant Purohit received funding from Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Hemant Purohit receives funding from Oak Ridge Associated Universities for Holistic Human Identity Mapping.
Anticipated funding: $34,000
August 7, 2023
Giorgio Ascoli receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy
Giorgio Ascoli received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for CRCNS22 Learning Rules in the Hippocampus and their Mapping to Neuromorphic Systems.
Anticipated funding: $250,001
August 7, 2023
Lei Yang receives funding from the National Institutes of Health
Lei Yang received funding from the National Institutes of Health for Achieve Fairness in AI-Assisted Mobile Healthcare Apps through Unsupervised Federated Learning.
Anticipated funding: $173,978
August 7, 2023
Ziyu Yao receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Ziyu Yao received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Calibrating Trust in Human-Machine Interactions with Algorithm Transparency.
Anticipated funding: $59,980
August 7, 2023
Jean-Pierre Auffret receives funding from Deloitte & Touche
Jean-Pierre Auffret received funding from Deloitte & Touche for HAYSTAC Human dynamics and movement trajectories.
Anticipated funding: $19,698
July 18, 2023
Brittany Johnson-Matthews receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Brittany Johnson-Matthews received funding from the National Science Foundation for Conference: VL/HCC 2023 Graduate Consortium.
Anticipated funding: $19,968
July 18, 2023
Jiayang Sun and Carolyn Drews-Botsch receive funding from Inova Healthcare
Jiayang Sun and Carolyn Drews-Botsch received funding from Inova Healthcare for Two Year Joint Pilot Training Program.
Anticipated funding: $39,248
July 18, 2023
Antonios Anastasopoulos receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Antonios Anastasopoulos received funding from the National Science Foundation for CCRI: Planning-C: Facilitating Language Technologies for Crisis Response.
Anticipated funding: $98,899
July 10, 2023
Wing Ching Lam and Kevin Patrick Moran received funding from the National Science Foundation
Wing Ching Lam and Kevin Patrick Moran received funding from the National Science Foundation for Collaborative Research: CCRI: An Infrastructure and Dataset for Research in Android Testing & Analysis.
Anticipated funding: $66,250
July 10, 2023
Lap Fai Yu receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Lap Fai Yu receive funding from the National Science Foundation for FW-HTF-R: Collaborative Research: Worker-AI Teaming to Enable ADHD Workforce Participation in the Construction Industry of the Future
Anticipated funding: $462,501
July 10, 2023
Kathleen E. Wage received funding from the Office of Naval Research
Kathleen E. Wage received funding from the Office of Naval Research for Mode sensing and prediction in deep ocean environments.
Anticipated funding: $366,909
July 10, 2023
Celso Moller Ferreira receives funding from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
Celso Moller Ferreira received funding from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
for Shoreline Transformational Adaptation: Forward-Looking Nature-based Climate Resilience.
Anticipated funding: $123,473
July 2, 2023
Daigo Shishika receives funding from the US Department of the Army
Daigo Shishika received funding from the U.S. Department of the Army for Arches: Autonomous Resilient Cognitive Heterogeneous Swarms.
Anticipated funding: $52,294
July 2, 2023
Remi Veneziano receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Remi Veneziano received funding from the National Science Foundation for Towards a clinically translatable and standardized tissue ‘paint/contrast agent.
Anticipated funding: $50,000
July 2, 2023
Antonios Anastasopoulos receives funding from the National Security Agency
Antonios Anastasopoulos received funding from the National Security Agency for SCALE 2023.
Anticipated funding: $6,840
July 2, 2023
Qiliang Li receives funding from the National Institute of Standards & Technology
Qiliang Li received funding from the National Institute of Standards & Technology for Study of Ga2O3 Diodes and MOS Devices for Application in Power Devices and Sensors.
Anticipated funding: $22,434
June 21, 2022
Rochelle R. Jones receives funding from the Department of Defense
Rochelle R. Jones received funding from the Department of Defense for SOFSA 05 Efficient Warehouse.
Anticipated funding: $5,000
June 11, 2023
Pilgyu Kang receives funding from Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology
Pilgyu Kang receives funding from Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology for Nanostructuring and hybridization of porous polymers for stimuli-reponsive devicesdiagnostic, gold nanoparticle, graphene, surface enhanced plasomonics.
Anticipated funding: $30,811
June 11, 2023
Duminda Wijesekera and Eric W. Vollmecke receive funding from Air Force Research Laboratory
Duminda Wijesekera and Eric W. Vollmecke received funding from Air Force Research Laboratory for Phase II AF 21B-T001 Leveraging an Edge Based Cross-Domain Services Framework to Simplify Planning
Anticipated funding: $274,005
June 4, 2023
Yue Wang receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Yue Wang received funding from the National Science Foundation for CIF: Small: Signal Processing and Learning for NOMA Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Systems
Anticipated funding: $328,000
June 4, 2023
Qiliang Li receives funding from the U.S. Department of the Army
Qiliang Li received funding from the U.S. Department of the Army for Collaborative Capstone Projects with the Army C5ISR Center Research & Technology Integration Directorate
Anticipated funding: $8,500
May 30, 2023
Lucas R.F. Henneman receives funding from the Environmental Protection Agency
Lucas R.F. Henneman received funding from the Environmental Protection Agencyfor Accounting for the health benefits of air pollution regulations in China, 2008-2020.
Anticipated funding: $84,248
May 30, 2023
Bo Han, Parth Pathak, Lap Fai Yu, and Songqing Chen receive funding from the National Science Foundation
Bo Han, Parth Pathak Lap Fai Yu, and Songqing Chen received funding from the National Science Foundation for Collaborative Research: CCRI: New: CoMIC: A Collaborative MobileImmersive Computing Research Infrastructure for Multi-user XR.Anticipated funding: $1,500,000
May 30, 2023
Foteini Baldimtsi receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Foteini Baldimtsi received funding from the National Science Foundation for Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Cryptographic accumulators and revocation of credentials.
Anticipated funding: $239,970
May 30, 2023
Liza Price Wilson Durant received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Liza Price Wilson Durant received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Cyber Acceleration, Translation, and Advanced Prototyping for University Linked Technology (CATAPULT) 2023-2024
Anticipated funding: $200,000
May 15, 2023
Jonathan L. Auerbach receives funding from the American Statistical Association
Jonathan L. Auerbach received funding from the American Statistical Association for COVID-19 Research Database Grant Accelerator
Anticipated funding:$34,000
May 15, 2023
Wei Mingkui receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Wei Mingkui received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Using Code-Glyph Mismatched Fonts to Protect Websites from Web Scrapinganti-scraping,
Anticipated funding: $50,000
May 15, 2023
Samuel Dov Gordon receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Samuel Dov Gordon received funding from the National Science Foundation for SaTC: CORE: Medium: Collaborative: New Approaches for Large Scale Secure Computation
Anticipated funding: $402,009
May 15, 2023
Itamara Lochard receives funding from the Office of Naval Research
Itamara Lochard received funding from the Office of Naval Research for Habitus and the Information Environment: An ethnographic case study of digital anthropology
Anticipated funding: $810,104
May 15, 2023
Liza Price Wilson Durant receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Liza Price Wilson Durant received funding for CCI+A FY23 from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Anticipated funding: $243,332
May 8, 2023
Ali Khalid Raz receives funding from Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
Ali Khalid Raz received funding from Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
ARLIS Support for IARPA’s STG AI-ML Solutions Program
Anticipated funding: $100,000
May 8, 2023
Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao received funding from the National Science Foundation for Collaborative Research: EAGER: IC-Cloak: Integrated Circuit Cloaking against Reverse Engineering.
Anticipated funding: $140,976
April 24, 2023
Liza Wilson Durant receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Liza Wilson Durant received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for CCI NoVa Node Cybersecurity Traineeship.
Anticipated funding: $490,000
April 24, 2023
Eric W. Vollmecke receives funding from the U.S. Department of Defense
Eric W. Vollmecke received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense for Tentacle Demonstration and Architecture Support to FUSE.
Anticipated funding: $105,000
April 24, 2023
Myeong Lee receives funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Myeong Lee received funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for Mapping Information Ecology: Understanding the Fragmentation of Disability Service Information.
Anticipated funding: $149,921
April 24, 2023
Kamaljeet Sanghera, receives funding from U.S. Department of Defense
Kamaljeet Sanghera, received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense for Design and delivery a high-school student pilot of a summer, hands-on experience in AI and understanding of AI's ethical and social impact.
Anticipated funding: $150,000
April 17, 2023
Daigo Shishika receives funding from the Office of Naval Research
Daigo Shishika received funding from the Office of Naval Research for Distributed Intelligence with Lighter-Than-Air Vehicles.
Anticipated funding: $265,000
April 17, 2023
Vijay Shah receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Vijay Shah received funding from the National Science Foundation for Collaborative Research: Research Infrastructure: CCRI: New: Distributed Space and Terrestrial Networking Infrastructure for Multi-Constellation Coexistence.
Anticipated funding: $299,989
April 17, 2023
Qiang Zeng receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Qiang Zeng receives funding from the National Science Foundation for CCRI: Medium: Collaborative Research: Hardware-in-the-Loop and Remotely Accessible/Configurable/Programmable Internet of Things (IoT) Testbeds.
Anticipated funding: $320,545
April 17, 2023
Duminda Wijesekera receives funding from Hilton Worldwide
Duminda Wijesekera received funding from Hilton Worldwide for Card-Based Access Control, Cell phone-based access control, Connected Hotel Room.
Anticipated funding: $75,000
April 17, 2023
Sushil Jajodia receives funding from the Office of Naval Research
Sushil Jajodia received funding from the Office of Naval Research for Rethinking Adaptive Cyber Defense, Optimization, and Reinforcement Learning in an Adversarial Environment.
Anticipated funding: $140,000
April 10, 2023
Qiang Zeng, receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Qiang Zeng, received funding from the National Science Foundation for Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: Towards Understanding and Handling Problems Due to Coexistence of Multiple IoT Platforms.
Anticipated funding: $264,849
April 10, 2023
Jinwei Yereceives funding from the National Science Foundation
Jinwei Ye received funding from the National Science Foundation for Collaborative Research: RI: Small: Motion Field Understanding for Enhanced Long-Range Imaging.
Anticipated funding: $149,572
April 10, 2023
Ali Beheshti receives funding from the Office of Naval Research
Ali Beheshti received funding from the Office of Naval Research for Surface Integrity and Tribological Study of Propulsion Shaft Materials Subjected to Advanced Surface Strengthening Treatments.
Anticipated funding: $44,122
March 27, 2023
Moinul Hossain receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Moinul Hossain received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for CRII: CNS: Security Assessment of Spectrum Coexistence in Co-located Heterogeneous Wireless IoT Networks.
Anticipated funding: $134,706
March 27, 2023
Moinul Hossain receives funding from the U.S. Department of the Army
Moinul Hossain received funding from the U.S. Department of the Army for ArtlAMAS 2.12 Slicing-Enabled Private 5G Network to Support AI and Autonomy for Multi-Agent Systems.
Anticipated funding: $118,694
March 27, 2023
Duminda Wijesekera and Bo Yu receive funding from Peraton
Duminda Wijesekera and Bo Yu received funding from Peraton for Intelligent Edge with 5G Technology and Edge Security..
Anticipated funding: $50,009
March 27, 2023
Qiang Zeng receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Qiang Zeng received funding from the National Science Foundation for CAREER: Towards Secure and Usable IoT Authentication Under Constraints.
Anticipated funding: $92,257
March 20, 2023
Celso Moller Ferreira receives funding from the Environmental Protection Agency
Celso Moller Ferreira received funding from the Environmental Protection Agency
for Septic to Sewer? Justice-focused strategies for addressing coastal septic failures under sea-level rise and increased flooding.
Anticipated funding: $226,000
March 20, 2023
Ali Khalid Raz and Eric W. Vollmecke receive funding from the U.S. Department of Defense
Ali Khalid Raz and Eric W. Vollmecke received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense for Integrated Photonics for Sustained Operations.
Anticipated funding: $900,000
March 20, 2023
Eric W. Vollmecke receives funding from the U.S. Department of the Air Force
Eric W. Vollmecke received funding from the U.S. Department of the Air Force for
SAF/COM USCYBERCOM Operations and Maintenance Support
Anticipated funding: $4,941,325
March 20, 2023
Bo Yu, Nupoor Jalindre, and Nirup M. Menon receive funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Bo Yu, Nupoor Jalindre, and Nirup M. Menon received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Automated Privacy Positioning with Context-Awareness in Wearable Technology.
Anticipated funding: $60,000
March 6, 2023
Liza Wilson Durant receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Liza Wilson Durant received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for CCI’s Teacher Cybersecurity Professional Development Program FY23
Anticipated funding: $30,000
March 6, 2023
Liza Wilson Durant receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Liza Price Wilson Durant received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for the CCI Scholars Program – Undergraduate Research Opportunity
Anticipated funding: $90,000
February 27, 2023
Krzysztof M. Gaj receives funding from Virginia Tech
Krzysztof M. Gaj received funding from Virginia Tech for Resurrecting SIKE: Developing and Implementing New Isogeny-Based Post-Quantum Schemes implementation.
Anticipated funding: $34,999
February 20, 2023
Remi Veneziano receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation
Remi Veneziano received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation for A novel targeted near-infrared contrast agent (CA) platform for real-time intraoperative tumor margin imaging.
Anticipated funding: $74,954
February 20, 2023
Duminda Wijesekera and Cing-Dao Kan receive funding from the Federal Highway Administration
Duminda Wijesekera and Cing-Dao Kan received funding from the Federal Highway Administration for Driver Visual Searching Behavior when Navigating through Alternative Intersections.
Anticipated funding: $201,162
February 13, 2023
Kun Sun receives funding from the Office of Naval Research
Kun Sun received funding from the Office of Naval Research for Reference-based Automatic Security Patch Generation.
Anticipated funding: $50,000
February 13, 2023
Lance C. Sherry receives funding from US Department of Defense
Lance C. Sherry received funding from US Department of Defense for Electronic Operations Manual for Submersible Maritime Platform (“Everything Tablet”).
Anticipated funding: $5,000
February 13, 2023
Sushil Jajodia receives funding from the Office of Naval Research
Sushil Jajodia received funding from the Office of Naval Research for Rethinking Adaptive Cyber Defense, Optimization, and Reinforcement Learning in an Adversarial Environment.
Anticipated funding: $50,000
February 13, 2023
Leigh S. Weil McCue receives funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Leigh S. WeilMcCue Weil receives funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for Developing a Blueprint for r2p "Best Practice."
Anticipated funding: $8,776
February 13, 2023
Gregory Joseph Stein receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Gregory Joseph Stein received funding from the National Science Foundation for Fast and Reliable Online Retraining and Adaptation for Robot Planning Despite Missing World Knowledge.
Anticipated funding: $499,481
February 13, 2023
Ali Beheshti receives funding from the Office of Naval Research
Ali Beheshti received funding from the Office of Naval Research for Surface Integrity and Tribological Study of Propulsion Shaft Materials Subjected to Advanced Surface Strengthening Treatments.
Anticipated funding: $44,121
February 13, 2023
Guo Xiaonan receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Guo Xiaonan received funding from the NSF for Collaborative Research: CCRI: New: Nation-wide Community-based Mobile Edge Sensing and Computing Testbeds.
Anticipated funding $188,104
February 6, 2023
John Stufken receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
John Stufken received funding from the NSF for Collaborative Research: Design-Based Optimal Subdata Selection Using Mixture-of-Experts Models to Account for Big Data Heterogeneity.
Anticipated funding $149,961
February 6, 2023
Juan Raul Cebral receives funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Juan Raul Cebral received funding from the DHHS for Computational and Biological Approach to Flow Diversion
Anticipated funding $131,403
February 6, 2023
Henry J. Coffman receives funding from the U.S. Department of Defense
Henry J. Coffman received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense for U.S. Armed Services Friendly Forces Identification Using an Enhanced Technology Architecture and Methodology.
Anticipated funding: $3,400
January 30, 2023
Remi Veneziano, Jeffrey Lawrence Moran, and Pei Dong receive funding from the U.S. Department of the Army
Remi Veneziano, Jeffrey Lawrence Moran, and Pei Dong received funding from the U.S. Department of the Army for DNA-Based Hydrogels for Peripheral Nerve Repair
Anticipated funding: $317,781
January 24, 2023
Ziyu Yao receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Ziyu Yao receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Calibrating Trust in Human-Machine Interactions with Algorithm Transparency
Anticipated funding: $59,980
January 24, 2023
Sushil Jajodia receives funding from the Office of Naval Research
Sushil Jajodia received funding from the Office of Naval Research for Rethinking Adaptive Cyber Defense.
Award amount: $20,000
January 9, 2023
Bo Han, Hong Xue, and Songqing Chen, Songqing received funding from Virginia Innovative Partnership Authority
Bo Han, Hong Xue, and Songqing Chen, Songqing received funding from Virginia Innovative Partnership Authority for Privacy-preserving Mapping and Localization for Immersive Healthcare Applications.
Award amount: $60,000
January 9, 2023
Evgenios Kornaropoulos and Rebecca Elizabeth Sutter receive funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Evgenios Kornaropoulos and Rebecca Elizabeth Sutter receive funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Equitable Healthcare via Ethical and Provable De-identification MAP clinics.
Award amount: $60,000
January 9, 2023
Quentin Sanders receives funding from the American Society of Engineering Education (NSF)
Quentin Sanders received funding from the American Society of Engineering Education NSF)
for Gait Retraining.
Anticipated funding: $259,200
January 3, 2023
Thanhvu H. Nguyen receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Thanhvu H. Nguyen received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
For CRII: SHF: Analyzing the Linux's KBuild Makefile configurable system.
Anticipated funding: $32,798
January 3, 2023
Xuesu Xiao receives funding from the US Department of the Army
Xuesu Xiao received funding from the US Department of the Army for Learning Kinodynamics for Accurate, High-Speed, Off-Road Ground Maneuvers on Unstructured Terrain.
Anticipated funding: $276,117
January 3, 2023
Kun Sun receives funding from the Office of Naval Research
Kun Sun received funding from the Office of Naval Research for Reference-based Automatic Security Patch Generation.
Anticipated funding: $20,000
January 3, 2023
Zhi Tian and Yue Wang receive funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Zhi Tian and Yue Wang received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
For CCSS: Distributed Swarm Learning for Internet of Things at the Edge.
Anticipated funding: $400,000
January 3, 2023
Kai Zeng receives funding from Virginia Tech
Kai Zeng received funding from Virginia Tech for Federated and Secure Spectrum Learning for NextG Communications Systems.
Anticipated funding: $6,667
January 3, 2023
Jiayang Sun receives funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs
Jiayang Sun received funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs for Biomarkers for pressure injury risk following spinal cord injury: Development of a multi-scalar predictive model for personalized preventive health care.
Anticipated funding: $140,000
January 3, 2023
William H. Roeting, Duminda Wijesekera, and Joseph T. Kobsar receive funding from the US Department of the Army
William H. Roeting, Duminda Wijesekera, and Joseph T. Kobsar receive funding from the US Department of the Army for Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO) Other Transactional Agreement and Public Private Partnership .
Anticipated funding: 33,118,250
January 3, 2023
Jean-Pierre Auffret receives funding from George Mason Research Foundation
Jean-Pierre Auffret received funding from George Mason Research Foundation for Information Environment Assessment (IEA) Analytics Engine Prototype.
Anticipated funding: $687,000
January 3, 2023
Jie Xu, Wenying Ji, Fengxiu Zhang, Chaowei Yang, and David W. Wong receive funding from the National Science Foundation
Jie Xu, Wenying Ji, Fengxiu Zhang, Chaowei Yang, and David W. Wong received funding from the National Science Foundation for SAI-R : Strengthening American Electricity Infrastructure for an Electric Vehicle Future: An Energy Justice Approach.
Award amount: $749,999
December 5, 2022
Holger Dannenberg receives funding from the National Institutes of Health
Holger Dannenberg received funding from the National Institutes of Health for The Role of Sensory Inputs and Cholinergic Modulation for the Coding of Location and Movement Speed in the Entorhinal Cortex.
Award amount: $430,449
December 5, 2022
Kathleen E. Wage receives funding from the Office of Naval Research
Kathleen E. Wage received funding from the Office of Naval Research for Universal Spectral Estimation and Beamforming.
Award amount: $170,033
December 5, 2022
Duminda Wijesekera and Bo Yu receive funding from Hilton Worldwide
Duminda Wijesekera and Bo Yu receive funding from Hilton Worldwide for Connected Room Penetration Testing.
Award amount: $50,009
November 28, 2022
William F. Rosenberger receives funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
William F. Rosenberger receives funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) For Prospective Change in Preclinical MRI Markers of ADRD Risk and Brain Aging by Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Sex, Alzheimer's Disease.
Award amount: $29,687
November 28, 2022
Kun Sun, Max Albanese, and Jianli Pan receive funding from the National Security Agency (NSA)
Kun Sun, Max Albanese, and Jianli Pan received funding from the National Security Agency (NSA) for 2022 NCAE.
Award amount: $500,000
November 22, 2022
Siddhartha Sikdar receives funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Siddhartha Sikdar received funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for Multimodal imaging biomarkers for investigating fascia, muscle and vasculature in myofascial pain.
Award amount: $1,483,657
November 22, 2022
Daigo Shishika, Xuan Wang, and Xuesu Xiao, receive funding from the U.S. Department of the Army
Daigo Shishika, Xuan Wang, and Xuesu Xiao received funding from the U.S. Department of the Army for Tactical Behaviors for Autonomous Maneuver Collaborative Research Program (TBAM-CRP)-Cycle 1 Sprint Topic: Coordinated and adversarial tactical maneuver in complex terrains.
Award amount: $236,092
November 22, 2022
Parag Chitnis receives funding from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Parag Chitnis received funding from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for TRAUMAS: Treatment and recovery augmented with electrical and ultrasound-mediated actuation and sensing.
Award amount: $180,000
November 22, 2022
Parag Chitnis and Siddhartha Sikdar, receive funding from the U.S. Department of Defense (US DOD)
Parag Chitnis and Siddhartha Sikdar received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense (US DOD) for Wearable Ultrasound systems for Guiding Training and Recovery from Musculoskeletal Injury.
Award amount: $3,144,963
November 22, 2022
Jianli Pan receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Jianli Pan receives funding from the National Science Foundation for CNS Core: Small: DeepEdge: QoE-based Resource Allocation for Future Heterogeneous and Dynamic Edge-IoT Application.
Award amount: $129,887
November 22, 2022
Lannan Luo receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Lannan Luo received funding from the National Science Foundation for SaTC: CORE: Small: Semantics-Oriented Binary Code Analysis Learning from Recent Advances in Deep Learning.
Award amount: $338,993
November 22, 2022
Duminda Wijesekera, Santos Jha, and Matthew Jablonski receive funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Duminda Wijesekera, Santos Jha, and Matthew Jablonski received funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Creating a Cyber Security Foundational Basis for Virtualized End-to-End NextG Services.
Award amount: $80,000
November 22, 2022
Duminda Wijesekera and Bo Yu receive funding from Peraton
Duminda Wijesekera and Bo Yu received funding from Peraton for Provider-Agnostic Scalable Serverless Architecture.
Award amount: $49,742
November 22, 2022
Michael R. Hieb, Ali Khalid Raz, and Lance C. Sherry receive funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation
Michael R. Hieb, Ali Khalid Raz, and Lance C. Sherry receive funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation for Airspace Awareness Sensor Placement Modeling.
Award amount: $25,000
November 22, 2022
Cameron Nowzari and Feitian Zhang receive funding from the U.S. Department of the Navy
Cameron Nowzari and Feitian Zhang received funding from the U.S. Department of the Navy for Deployment of a Full-Scale Lighter-Than-Air (LTA) Swarm System.
Award amount: $1,970,208
November 22, 2022
Ozlem Uzuner receives funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ozlem Uzuner received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for Extraction of Symptom Burden from Clinical Narratives of Cancer Patients using Natural Language Processing.
Award amount: $80,362
November 22, 2022
Liza Price Wilson Durant receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Liza Price Wilson Durant received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for CCI FY22 Initiatives.
Award amount: $1,877,146
November 22, 2022
Lance C. Sherry, John Friedrich Shortle, and Jie Xu receive funding from the Federal Aviation Administration
Lance C. Sherry, John Friedrich Shortle, and Jie Xu received funding from the Federal Aviation Administration for Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics to Estimate Collision Risk during Departure and Arrival.
Grant total: $186,375
November 14, 2022
Robert P. Simon receives funding from Axiom, Inc.
Robert P. Simon received funding from Axiom, Inc. for Network Level Awareness for mobile 5G systems.
Award amount: $76,784
November 14, 2022
Anand N Vidyashankar receives funding from McKesson Corporation
Anand N Vidyashankar received funding from McKesson Corporation for Automating Continuous Privacy Monitoring and Policy Development (SOW title: De-identification Education and Training Services) Privacy and Security Risks.
Award amount: $725,000
November 14, 2022
Kai Zeng receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Kai Zeng received funding from the National Science Foundation for NSF Convergence Accelerator Track G: Secure Texting over Non-cooperative Networks and Anti-jamming Enhancement in 5G.
Award amount: $750,000
November 7, 2022
Bo Han receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Bo Han received funding from the National Science Foundation for Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: Innovating Volumetric Video Streaming with Motion Forecasting, Intelligent Upsampling, and QoE Modeling.
Award amount: $196,781
November 7, 202
Pei Dong receives funding from George Mason University Foundation
Pei Dong received funding from George Mason University Foundation for Thermal Conductivity Test for Shell
Award amount: $5,040
November 7, 2022
Antonios Anastasopoulos receives funding from Meta Platforms, Inc.
Antonios Anastasopoulos receives funding from Meta Platforms, Inc. for Machine Translation Beyond the Top-100 Languages
Award amount: $249,761
November 7, 2022
Kai Zeng receives funding from the US Department of the Navy
Kai Zeng received funding from the US Department of the Navy for “Spectrum-Efficient, Beam-Agile, Interference-Resilient Millimeter Wave Communications with Reconfigurable Antennas and Intelligent Surfaces.”
Award amount: $1,000,000
October 31, 2022
Ali Beheshti and Shaghayegh Bagheri receive funding from the US Department of Defense
Ali Beheshti and Shaghayegh Bagheri received funding from the US Department of Defense for Automotive Research Center (ARC) A Center for Excellence In Modeling and Simulation of Ground Vehicles. Supported by the National Automotive Center.
Award amount: $118,711
October 31, 2022
William H. Roeting, Duminda Wijesekera, and Joseph T. Kobsar receive funding from the US Department of the Army
William H. Roeting, Duminda Wijesekera, and Joseph T. Kobsar received funding from US Department of the Army for Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO) Other Transactional Agreement and Public Private Partnership US Department of the Army.
Award amount: 18,866,250
October 31, 2022
Paulo Cesar Costa receives funding from Virginia Tech
Paulo Cesar Costa received funding from Virginia Tech for DALNIM: Dependency-based Assessment of Litigious Network events Impacting the Mission.
Award amount: $85,000
October 31, 2022
Foteini Baldimtsi receives funding from Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Foteini Baldimtsi received funding from Silicon Valley Community Foundation for New Directions in Proof of Storage.
Award amount: $90,180
October 31, 2022
Parth Pathak receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Parth Pathak received funding from the National Science Foundation for CAREER: Unifying Millimeter-wave Networking and Sensing using Commodity Backscatter.
Award amount: $827,700
October 31, 2022
Liza Price Wilson Durant receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Liza Price Wilson Durant received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for CCI NoVa Node Cybersecurity Traineeship
Award amount: $242,000
October 31, 2022
David Lattanzi receives funding from the US Department of Energy
David Lattanzi received funding from the US Department of Energy for Educational Consortium for Energy-related Data Science & Computation in Building Engineering Programs.
Award amount $3,761
October 24, 2022
Pei Dong receives funding from the US Department of Energy
Pei Dong received funding from the US Department of Energy for “Development of Li-Air Batteries.”
Award amount $69,961
October 24, 2022
Lucas Henneman receives funding from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Lucas Henneman received funding (EPA) for “Air pollution source impacts at fine scales for long-term regulatory accountability and environmental justice.”
Award amount $159,626
October 17, 2022
Massimiliano Albanese, Khondkar Islam, Sushil Jajodia, and Ioulia Rytikova receive funding from US Department of Defense (US DoD)
Massimiliano Albanese, Khondkar Islam, Sushil Jajodia, and Ioulia Rytikova received funding from US Department of Defense (US DoD) for George Mason University Cybersecurity Scholarship Program.
Award amount Active $219,636
October 17, 2022
Kuo Tian receives funding from Raven Industries
Kuo Tian receives funding from Raven Industrie for “Service life prediction of reinforced geomembrane.”
Award amount$159,572
October 17, 2022
Jeffrey Moran, Remi Veneziano, and Monique van Hoek receive funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Jeffrey Moran, Remi Veneziano, and Monique van Hoek. received funding from NIH for “Enzyme-Powered Self-Propelled DNA Nanoparticles for Disruption and Antibiotic Delivery in Topical Biofilms.”
Award amount: $571,842.
October 17, 2022
Ozlem Uzuner receives funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ozlem Uzuner received funding from NIH for “Joint learning methods for event and relation extraction from clinical narratives.”
Award amount $424,874
October 17, 2022
Kathleen E Wage receives funding from the Office of Naval Research
Kathleen E Wage received funding from the Office of Naval Research for “Universal Spectral Estimation and Beamforming randommatrix theory.”
Award amount $760,414
October 17, 2022
Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao receives funding from the NSF for “Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Small: NV-RGRA: Non-Volatile Nano-Second Right-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture for Data-Intensive Machine Learning and Graph Computing.”
Award amount $309,261
October 17, 2022
Liza Wilson Durant receives funding from CCI NoVa Node/Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Liza Wilson Durant received funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for “NoVA Node CCY FY23 Initiatives.” Award amount $1,041,667
October 17, 2022
Duminda Wijesekera Brian Mark, Parth Pathak, Vijay Shah, Kai Zeng receive funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Duminda Wijesekera Brian Mark, Parth Pathak, Vijay Shah, Kai Zeng received funding from NSF for IUCRC for Planning Grant George Mason University: Center for Wireless Innovation Towards Secure, Pervasive, Efficient and Resilient Next G Networks (WISPER).
Award amount $20,000
October 17, 2022
Sanmay Das receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sanmay Das received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for FAI: FairGame: An Audit-Driven Game Theoretic Framework for Development and Certification of Fair AI
Award amount $50,000
October 17, 2022
Lei Yang receives funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Lei Yang received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for “Achieve Fairness in AI-Assisted Mobile Healthcare Apps through Unsupervised Federated Learning.”
Award amount $85,700
October 17, 2022
Parth Pathak receives funding from US Department of Army
Parth Pathak receives funding from US Department of Army for "Millimeter-wave Networking in Transient Topologies."
Award amount $66,000
October 17, 2022
Vijay K Shah receives funding from US Department of the Army
Vijay K Shah received funding from US Department of the Army for “5G Technology Platform for Military Base with a Resilient, Green, And Secure Electric Grid (5G-BASE).”
Award amount $10,000
October 17, 2022
Foteini Baldimtsi receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Foteini Baldimtsi received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for “Post-quantum proxy re-encryption used in privacy-preserving context.”
Award amount $50,000
October 17, 2022
Jinwei Ye receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Jinwei Ye received funding from the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Mobile Manufacturing in Uncertain Scenarios.”
Award amount: $40,489
October 3, 2022
Ningshi Yao receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Ningshi Yao received funding from the National Science Foundation for “Resolving Contentions for Complex Control System with Shared Resources using Robust Model Predictive Control”
Award amount: $329,694
October 3, 2022
Itamara Lochard receives funding from the Office of Naval Research
Itamara Lochard received funding from the Office of Naval Research for “Habitus and the Information Environment: An ethnographic case study of digital anthropology” from the Office of Naval Research
Anticipated funding: $810,104
October 3, 2022
Khaled Khasawneh receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Khaled Khasawneh received funding from the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: Approximate Computing for Machine Learning Security: Foundations and Accelerator Design
Award amount: $195,362
October 3, 2022
Xuan Wang receives funding from the Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education
Xuan Wang received funding from the Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education for “A Distributed Learning Framework for Multi-robot Cooperative Control.”
Award amount: $27,780
October 3, 2022
Myeong Lee receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Myeong Lee received funding from the NSF for “Collaborative Research: HCC: MEDIUM: Understanding the Present and Designing the Future of Risk Prediction IT in Fire Departments.”
Award amount: $264,614
September 26, 2022
Paulo Cesar Costa and Duminda Wijesekera receive funding from US Department of the Air Force (USAF)
Paulo Cesar Costa and Duminda Wijesekera received funding from the USAF for “ADS-Bsec Distributed Key Management for UAM Networks.”
Award amount: $75,000
September 26, 2022
Giorgio Ascoli receives funding from US Department of Energy (USDOE)
Giorgio Ascoli received funding from the USDOE for “Learning Rules in the Hippocampus and their Mapping to Neuromorphic Systems.”
Award amount: $81,335
September 26, 2022
Paulo Cesar Costa receives funding from the Brazilian Army Commission
Paulo Cesar Costa received funding from the Brazilian Army Commission for “System of Command and Control Systems S²C²”
Award amount: $21,890
September 26, 2022
Burak Tanyu receives funding from SOLMAX
Burak Tanyu received funding from SOLMAX for “Evaluating the Compatibility of PVC-coated Geogrid to be used in MSE structures that Contain Recycled Concrete Aggregate.”
Award amount: $198,637
September 26, 2022
Myeong Lee receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Myeong Lee received funding from the National Science Foundation for "DASS: Exploring how convergence methods foster shared accountability to reveal, map, and mitigate the sources and dynamics of bias across social service provisioning systems
Award amount: $306,880
September 12, 2022
Lily Wang receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Lily Wang received funding from the National Science Foundation for “Keeping Shelters in Place: Understanding the Impacts of Residential Landlord Decision-Making on Post-Disaster Housing Stability.”
Award amount: $146,519
August 15, 2022
Pramita Bagchi receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Pramita Bagchi received funding from the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research: Empirical Frequency Band Analysis for Functional Time Series.”
Award amount: $250,669
August 15, 2011
Evgenios Kornaropoulos receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Evgenios Kornaropoulos received funding from the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research : SaTC : CORE : Medium : The Next Generation of Leakage Attacks and Defenses for Encrypted Databases.”
Award amount: $114,466
August 15, 2022
Weiwen Jiang receives funding from US Department of Energy
Weiwen Jiang received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for "Intelligent Quantum Sensing with Quantum Neural Networks."
Award amount $40,000
August 8, 2022
Parth Pathak receives funding for MERL Cross Technology Wireless Research
Parth Pathak received funding for "MERL Cross Technology Wireless Research" from George Mason University Foundation
Award amount $5,000
June 13, 2022
Jinwei Ye receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Jinwei Ye received funding from the National Science Foundation for "RI: Small: Computational Imaging for Underwater Exploration computer vision."
Award amount: $499,495
June 6, 2022
Khaled Khasawneh receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Khaled Khasawneh received funding from the National Science Foundation
for Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Targeted Microarchitectural Attacks and Defenses in Cloud Infrastructure."
Award amount $600,000
June 6, 2022
Massimiliano Albanese receives funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Massimiliano Albanese received funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for "Preparing Virginia’s Workforce to Secure the Nation’s Election Infrastructure."
Award amount $35,985
June 6, 2022
Kevin Moran receives funding from GMU Foundation
Kevin Moran received funding from GMU Foundation for "Sage Research Lab."
Award amount $8,500
June 6, 2022
Bo Yu receives funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
"Bo Yu received funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Broadband Adoption Rise in Rural Communities Using Rail Tracks."
Award amount: $80,000
June 6, 2022
Leigh McCue received funding from NSF
Leigh McCue received funding from NSF for "BRITE Relaunch: Persistent and Accessible Maritime Monitoring (PAMM)."
Award total $8,000
May 24, 2022
Hemant Purohit receives funding from NSF
Purohit received funding from the National Science Foundation for “EAGER: Inclusive-ScamBuster: Inclusive Scam Detection Methods for Social Media to Design Assistive Tools for Protecting Individuals with Developmental Disabilities.”
Award total $299,248
May 24, 2022
Shanjiang Zhu receives funding from the Virginia Transportation Research Council
Shanjiang Zhu received funding from the Virginia Transportation Research Council for “Developing a Technical Memo on the Modeling of the I-66 Express Toll Lanes and a Plan for Model Update and Maintenance.”
Award total $33,757
May 24, 2022
John Shortle receives funding from GMU Foundation
John Shortle received funding from GMU Foundation for SEOR.
Award total $4,478
May 24, 2022
Ali Raz, Paulo Costa, and Lance Sherry receive funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Ali Khalid, Paulo Costa, and Lance Sherry received funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for “Cybersecurity Vulnerability Assessment Models for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems
Award total $80,000
May 24, 2022
Bo Han and Songqing Chen receive funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Bo Han and Songqing Chen received funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for “Securing the Metaverse: A Privacy-preserving Zero Trust Approach.”
Award total $30,000
May 24, 2022
Evgenios Kornaropoulos and Giuseppe Ateniese receive funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Evgenios Kornaropoulos and Giuseppe Ateniese received funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for “Hardware-Assisted Machine Learning on Encrypted Data in the Real World.”
Award total 80,000
May 24, 2022
Hemant Purohit receives funding from Western Norway Research Institute
Hemant Purohit received funding from the Western Norway Institute for his grant, “Violence-inducing Behaviour Prevention in Social-Cyber Space of Local Communities.”
Grant amount $380,860
May 5, 2022
Lance Sherry receives funding from NASA
Lance Sherry received funding from NASA for “Analytic Standard Operating Procedure Digital Assistant (ASOPDA)
Award amount: $219,967
April 25, 2022
Lucas Henneman receives funding from Environmental Protection Agency
Lucas Henneman received funding from the EPA for “Predictive, source-oriented modeling and measurements to evaluate community exposures to air pollutants and noise from unconventional oil and gas development.”
Grant amount $74,376
April 18, 2022
Lance Sherry, Ali Khalid Raz, Brett Berlin, John Shortle, James Baldo received funding from the Department of Defense
Lance Sherry, Ali Khalid Raz, Brett Berlin, John Shortle, and James Baldo received funding from the Department of Defense for “Holistic Assurance Framework: Fast Time Emergent Scenario Simulation.”
Grant amount $100,000
April 18, 2022
Michael Hieb receives funding from NATO
Michael Hieb received funding from NATO for “Support for C2SIM Sandbox Enhancement & Operation.”
Grant amount $22,500
April 18, 2022
Sai Manoj Pudukotia Dinakarrao receives funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority forn”Preserving NextG Cryptography for Power Constrained Devices.”
Award amount $100,000
April 11, 2022
Ali Beheshti receives funding from the Office of Naval Research
Ali Beheshti received funding from the Office of Naval Research for “Cracks initiation/propagation study for Propulsion Shaft Materials subjected to Laser Shock Peening,”
Award amount $35,553
April 11, 2022
Eric W. Vollmecke receives funding from Air Force Research Laboratory
Eric W. Vollmecke received funding for "Leveraging an Edge Based Cross-domain Service Framework to Simplify Planning" from the Air Force Research Laboratory.
$59,987
April 8, 2022
Kai Zeng receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Kai Zeng received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Secure Wireless Powered Backscatter Communication for IoT."
Award Amount $280,000
April 8, 2022
Cameron Nowzari receives funding from U.S. Navy
Cameron Nowzari received funding from the U.S. Navy for "The Cycle of Emergence: Structure, Agency, and the Environment." Grant total: $170,001
March 21, 2022
Hemant Purohit receives funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Hemant Purohit received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership for, “Characterizing Biases in Automated Scam Detection Tools for Social Media to Aid Individuals with Developmental Disabilities.”
Grant total: $40,000
March 21, 2022
Vijay Shah receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Vijay Shah received funding from the National Science Foundation
for Collaborative Research: SWIFT: Context-Aware Spectrum Coexistence dEsign aNd implemenTation in Satellite Bands (ASCENT) National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant total: $184,500
March 14, 2022
Xiang Chen receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Xiang Chen received funding from the National Science Foundation for "CAREER: "Adapt, Learn, Collaborate"" — Closing the Pervasive Edge AI Loop with Liquid Intelligence."
Grant total: $580,000
March 14, 2022
Juan Cebral receives funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Juan Cebral received funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
For “Computational and Biological Approach to Flow Diversion.”
Grant total: $149,550
March 14, 2022
Pei Dong receives funding from George Mason University Foundation
Pei Dong received funding from George Mason University Foundation for “Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids for Modern Engines and E-Vehicles Cooling System.”
Grant total: $14,580
March 14, 2022
Pei Dong receives funding from George Mason University Foundation
Pei Dong received funding from George Mason University Foundation for “Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids for Modern Engines and E-Vehicles Cooling System.”
Grant total: $2,500
March 14, 2022
Holger Dannenberg receives funding from the US Department of Health and Human Services
Holger Dannenberg received funding from the US Department of Health and Human Services for “The Role of Sensory Inputs and Cholinergic Modulation for the Coding of Location and Movement Speed in the Entorhinal CortexMemory-guided navigation.”
Grant amount $302,675
March 10, 2022
Vijay Shah receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Vijay Shah received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative research: CCRI: New: Open AI Cellular (OAIC): Prototyping Artificial intelligence-Enabled Control and Testing Systems for Cellular Communications Research."
Grant total $295,018
February 28, 2022
Pei Dong receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy
Pei Dong received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for "In-situ Characterization of Electrode/Electrolyte Interface."
Grant total $69,926.
February 28, 2022
Foteini Baldimtsi receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Foteini Baldimtsi received funding from the National Science Foundation for "CAREER: Privacy Preserving Transactions with Accountability Extensions." Grant total: $106,985.
February 21, 2022.
Pei Dong receives funding from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Pei Dong receives funding from the USDA for "Partnership: Biomass-based Nanocomposite Electrodes with Insertion Materials for Desalinating Brackish Agricultural Drainage."Grant total $46,107.
February 21, 2022.
Mohan Venigalla receives funding from the US Department of Transportation (USDOT)
Mohan Venigalla receives funding from the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) for "Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program Graduate Fellowship." Grant total: $35,000.
February 21, 2022.
Kuo Tian receives funding from Textiles Coated International
Kuo Tian receives funding from Textiles Coated International for "Response of Wrinkles of Everliner and HDPE GM under High Confining Stress." Grant total: $9,419.
February 21, 2022.
Liza Wilson-Durant receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Liza Wilson-Durant receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for "CCI Scholars Program – High School Experiential Learning Program." Grant total: $89,996.
February 16, 2022.
Kuo Tian receives funding from Textiles Coated International
Kuo Tian receives funding from Textiles Coated International for "Response of Wrinkles of Everliner and HDPE GM under High Confining Stress." Grant total: $9,419.
February 14, 2022.
Mohan Venigalla receives funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation
Mohan Venigalla receives funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP) Graduate Fellowship. Grant total: $35,000.
February 14, 2022.
Pei Dong receives funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Pei Dong receives funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for "Partnership: Biomass-based Nanocomposite Electrodes with Insertion Materials for Desalinating Brackish Agricultural Drainage." Anticipated funding: $165,000.
February 14, 2022.
Foteini Baldimtsi receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Foteini Baldimtsi received funding from the National Science Foundation for "CAREER: Privacy-Preserving Transactions with Accountability Extensions." Anticipated funding: $548,147.
February 14, 2022.
Kuo-Chu Chang receives funding from the U.S. Department of the Air Force
Kuo-Chu Chang received funding from the U.S. Department of the Air Force for "Explainable and Transparent Machine Learning for Autonomous Decision Making (EXTRA)." Award amount: $280,000.
February 9, 2022.
Stephanie Dailey and Kathryn Laskey receive funding from the MITRE Corporation
Stephanie Dailey and Kathryn Laskey receive funding from the MITRE Corporation for Simulation Experiments (SIMEX). Grant total: $123,905.
February 7, 2022.
Vivian Genaro Motti receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Vivian Genaro Motti received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for "Human-Centric Training for Privacy and Security Controls: Bridging the Awareness Gap for Diverse Populations. Grant total: $40,000.
January 28, 2022.
Eric Osterweil receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Eric Osterweil received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for "Enabling Invisible Security and Privacy for Resilient Human-Centric Cybersecurity Systems." Grant total: $40,000.
January 28, 2022.
Zhisheng Yan receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Zhisheng Yan received funding from the National Science Foundation for a CAREER award: "Machine-centered Cyberinfrastructure for Panoramic Video Analytics in Science and Engineering Monitoring." Anticipated funding: $500,000.
January 21, 2022.
Stephanie Dailey and Kathryn Laskey receive funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Stephanie Dailey and Kathryn Laskey received funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for "simulation experiments (SIMEX)." Grant total: $123,905.
January 21, 2022.
Kuo Tian receives funding from the Electric Power Research Institute
Kuo Tian received funding from the Electric Power Research Institute for the "evaluation of the degradation of HPDE geomembrane installed at a utility evaporation pond after 20-yr service." Grant total: $35,300.
January 20, 2022.
Khaled Khasawneh and Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao receive funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Khaled Khasawneh and Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for "Energy-Preserving NextG Cryptography for Power Constrained Devices." Grant total: $100,000.
January 18, 2022.
Vivian Genaro Motti receives funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation
Vivian Genaro Motti received funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation for "DoT Inclusive Design Challenge: ATLAS - Accessible Technology Leveraged for Autonomous Vehicle System." Grant total: $14,400.
January 13, 2022.
Ali Raz, Shou Matsumoto, Paulo Costa, and Ziyu Yao receive funding from the Air Force
Ali Raz, Shou Matsumoto, Paulo Costa, and Ziyu Yao received funding from the Air Force for "AI Engineering Seedlings." Anticipated funding: $100,000.
January 12, 2022.
Juan Cebral receives funding from the National Institutes of Health
Juan Cebral receives funding from the National Institutes of Health for "Bridging the Gap from Hemodynamic Stress to Intracranial Aneurysm Instability: An Integrated Multimodal Approach." Anticipated funding: $452,782.
January 6, 2022.
Massimiliano Albanese and Khondkar Islam receive funding from the National Security Agency
Massimiliano Albanese and Khondkar Islam receive funding from the National Security Agency for "VA-CNIP: A Coalition for the Virginia Cyber Navigator Internship Program." Grant total: $64,826.
January 6, 2022.
Bo Han and Songqing Chen receive funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Bo Han and Songqing Chen received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for "HEaaS: Securing Cyber-Physical Systems in NextG Using Homomorphic Encryption." Grant total: $100,000.
December 17, 2021.
Robert Simon receives funding from the U.S. Department of Defense
Robert Simon received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense for "time series analysis." Grant total: $149,720.
December 16, 2021.
Maryam Parsa receives funding from Intel Corporation
Maryam Parsa received funding from Intel Corporation for 'Learning Neuromorphic Physics-Informed Stochastic Regions of Attraction through Bayesian Optimization." Award amount: $63,202.
December 14, 2021.
Yue Cheng receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Yue Cheng received funding from the National Science Foundation for "FMSG: Cyber: Federated deep learning for future ubiquitous distributed additive manufacturing." Anticipated funding: $189,949.
December 10, 2021.
Thanhvu Nguyen receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Thanhvu Nguyen received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: Ensuring Safety and Liveness of Modern Systems through Dynamic Temporal Analysis." Anticipated funding: $399,879.
December 9, 2021.
Liza Wilson-Durant receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Liza Wilson-Durant received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for "CCI - Teacher Professional Development Program." Award amount: $25,000.
December 1, 2021.
Lily Wang receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Lily Wang received funding from the National Science Foundation for statistical modeling and interference for next-generation functional data. Anticipated funding: $124,999.
November 29, 2021.
Daigo Shishika receives funding from the U.S. Department of the Army
Daigo Shishika receives funding from the U.S. Department of the Army for "Arches: Autonomous Resilient Cognitive Heterogeneous Swarms." Grant total: $68,436.
November 17, 2021.
Antonios Anastasopoulos receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Antonios Anastasopoulos received funding from the National Science Foundation for "FAI: Quantifying and Mitigating Disparities in Language Technologies." Grant total: $105,000.
November 17, 2021.
Kevin Moran receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Kevin Moran received funding from the National Science Foundation for "collaborative research: CPS: Medium: Enabling Data-Driven Security and Safety Analyses for Cyber-Physical Systems." Grant total: $382,423.
November 12, 2021.
Xiang Chen receives funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory
Xiang Chen received funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory for "operating at the intersection of out-of-distribution detection and adversarial machine learning." Anticipated funding: $130,000.
November 12, 2021.
Lucas Henneman receives funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Lucas Henneman received funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for historical, social, and environmental determinants of memory decline and dementia among U.S. older adults. Grant total: $87,556.
November 5, 2021.
Aditya Johri receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Aditya Johri received funding from the National Science Foundation for Computing Innovation Fellows 2021 project. Grant total: $270,900.
November 5, 2021.
Zhi Tian and Yue Wang receive funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Zhi Tian and Yue Wang received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for "securing multi-access edge computing using artificial intelligence." Grant total: $125,000.
November 4, 2021.
Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for "user-behavior-aware real-time safety enhancement in vehicular networks." Grant total: $125,000.
November 4, 2021.
Aditya Johri receives funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Aditya Johri received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture. Grant total: $93,363.
November 3, 2021.
Naoru Koizumi, Hadi El Amine, and Chun-Hung Chen receive funding from the National Science Foundation
Naoru Koizumi, Hadi El Amine, and Chun-Hung Chen received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: SCH: Optimal Desensitization Protocol in Support of a Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) System." Grant total: $677,361.
November 3, 2021.
Pei Dong receives funding from the George Mason University Foundation
Pei Dong received funding from the George Mason University Foundation for "advanced heat transfer fluids for modern engines and e-vehicles cooling system." Grant total: $7,128.
October 29, 2021.
Lance Sherry receives funding from the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
Lance Sherry receives funding from the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia for "Smart City Infrastructure for Safeguarding Autonomous Vehicles Against Cyber Attacks." Grant total: $55,000.
October 26, 2021.
Leigh McCue-Weil and Nathan Kathir receive funding from the Central Intelligence Agency
Leigh McCue-Weil and Nathan Kathir received funding from the Central Intelligence Agency for CIA Capstone Project Support.
Grant total: $16,000.
October 25, 2021.
Shima Mohebbi receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Shima Mohebbi received funding from the National Science Foundation for "DISES: Conservation incentives and the socio-spatial dynamics of water sustainability." Grant total: $235,762.
October 25, 2021.
Zhisheng Yan receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Zhisheng Yan received funding from the National Science Foundation for "CRII: OAC: Data Collection Infrastructure for Panoramic Video Monitoring in Wildlife Science." Grant total: $171,838.
October 21, 2021.
Itamara Lochard receives funding from the George Mason University Foundation
Itamara Lochard received funding from the George Mason University Foundation for Information Environment Assessment (IEA) Analytics Engine Prototype. Grant total: $1,971,396.
October 21, 2021.
Antonios Anastasopoulos and Geraldine Walther receive funding from the National Science Foundation
Antonios Anastasopoulos and Geraldine Walther received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: Language Documentation with an Artificial Intelligence Helper." Grant total: $239,720.
October 21, 2021.
Michael Buschmann receives funding AexeRNA Therapeutics, LLC
Michael Buschmann received funding AexeRNA Therapeutics, LLC for lipid nanoparticle development. Grant total: $250,000.
October 21, 2021.
Carlotta Domeniconi receives funding from the National Institutes of Health
Carlotta Domeniconi received funding from the National Institutes of Health for "SBIR Phase I, Federated Automated Survey Tool (FAST)." Award amount: $72,698.
October 21, 2021.
Michael Buschmann, Patrick Gillevet, and Mikell Paige receive funding from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Michael Buschmann, Patrick Gillevet, and Mikell Paige received funding from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for "Manufacturing and Characterization of Potent mRNA Lipid Nanoparticle Vaccines at Multiple Scales." Anticipated funding: $1,489,271.
October 20, 2021.
Liza Wilson-Durant receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Liza Wilson-Durant receive funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for CCI Research Assistantships initiative. Grant total: $80,000.
October 13, 2021.
Leigh McCue-Weil receives funding from the U.S. Department of the Navy (Office of Naval Research)
Leigh McCue-Weil received funding from the U.S. Department of the Navy (Office of Naval Research) for "A Biologically-inspired, Lighter-than-air, Instructional, Mechatronics Program (BLIMP)." Grant total: $258,971.
October 13, 2021.
Behzad Esmaeili, Lap Fai Yu, Maurice Kugler, and Brenda Bannan receive funding from the National Science Foundation
Behzad Esmaeili, Lap Fai Yu, Maurice Kugler, and Brenda Bannan received funding from the National Science Foundation for "FW-HTF-R: Collaborative Research: Worker-AI Teaming to Enable ADHD Workforce Participation in the Construction Industry of the Future." Grant total: $1,200,000.
October 12, 2021.
Remi Veneziano and Farhang Alem receive funding from the U.S. Department of the Army
Remi Veneziano and Farhang Alem received funding from the U.S. Department of the Army for "DNA-Nanoparticles (DNA-NP) for antigen presentation and vaccine design for aerosolized pathogens." Grant total: $256,530.
October 6, 2021.
Carlotta Domeniconi, Sean Luke, and Hamdi Kavak receive funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Carlotta Domeniconi, Sean Luke, and Hamdi Kavak receive funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for detecting criminal disruption of supply chains study. Grant total: $1,000,000.
September 27, 2021.
John Shortle receives funding from the Federal Aviation Administration
John Shortle receives funding from the Federal Aviation Administration for an "uncertainty analysis and common cause failures for integrated safety assessment model." Grant total: $183,375.
September 24, 2021.
John Shortle receives funding from the Federal Aviation Administration
John Shortle receives funding from the Federal Aviation Administration for "simulation-based extensions and operational support for an integrated safety assessment model." Grant total: $84,375.
September 23, 2021.
Alok Berry receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Alok Berry received funding from the National Science Foundation for the Virginia-North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, 2017-2022. Grant total: $61,990.
September 23, 2021.
Ozelm Uzuner receives funding from the National Institutes of Health
Ozelm Uzuner received funding from the National Institutes of Health for the "extraction of symptom burden from clinical narratives of cancer patients using natural language processing." Anticipated funding: $20,093.
September 22, 2021.
Nathalia Peixoto receives funding from the U.S. Department of the Air Force
Nathalia Peixoto received funding from the U.S. Department of the Air Force for an integrated multi-sensor life detection system. Grant total: $224,770.
September 22, 2021.
Zhisheng Yan receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Zhisheng Yan received funding from the National Science Foundation for "EAGER: Collaborative Research: Augmented 360 Video for Situation Awareness in Firefighting." Award amount: $150,000.
September 15, 2021.
Leigh McCue-Weil receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Leigh McCue-Weil receives funding from the National Science Foundation for "BRITE Relaunch: Persistent and Accessible Maritime Monitoring (PAMM)." Award amount: $522,032.
September 14, 2021.
Ali Raz and Paulo Costa receive funding from the U.S. Department of the Navy
Ali Raz and Paulo Costa receive funding from the U.S. Department of the Navy for "Standardized High Level Data Fusion (HLDF) System Architecture for Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS)." Award amount: $123,940.
September 13, 2021.
Lucas Henneman receives funding from the Environmental Protection Agency
Lucas Henneman received funding from the Environmental Protection Agency for "accounting for the health benefits of air pollution regulations in China, 2008-2020." Grant total: $75,048.
September 10, 2021.
Martin Slawski receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Martin Slawski receives funding from the National Science Foundation for "Computational and Statistical Approaches to Regression Problems in the Presence of Linkage Errors." Award amount: $349,999.
September 7, 2021.
Yue Wang receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Yue Wang received funding from the National Science Foundation for "CIF: Small: Signal Processing and Learning for NOMA Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Systems." Award amount: $320,000.
September 7, 2021.
Zhi Tian receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Zhi Tian received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: SWIFT: Intelligent Dynamic Spectrum Access (IDEA): An Efficient Learning Approach to Enhancing Spectrum Utilization and Coexistence." Award amount: $300,000.
September 7, 2021.
Lance Sherry receives funding from the Department of Defense
Lance Sherry received funding from the Department of Defense for "a model to evaluate aviation detachment manpower options for Navy future vertical lift." Grant total: $10,000.
September 7, 2021.
Kai Zeng receives funding from the George Mason University Foundation
Kai Zeng receives funding from the George Mason University Foundation for a privacy-preserving and trustworthy spectrum. Grant total: $94,000.
September 7, 2021.
Kathryn Laskey receives funding from the George Mason University Foundation
Kathryn Laskey received funding from the George Mason University Foundation for building digital capacity. Grant total: $3,392.
September 7, 2021.
Kai Zeng receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Kai Zeng received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: NSF-AoF: CNS Core: Small: Secure Wireless PoweredBackscatter Communication for IoT." Grant total: $280,000.
September 3, 2021.
Duminda Wijesekera and Kai Zeng receive funding from Old Dominion University
Duminda Wijesekera and Kai Zeng received funding from Old Dominion University for secure and private 5G networks for connected vehicles. Grant total: $71,001.
September 3, 2021.
Massimiliano Albanese, Ioulia Rytikova, Sushil Jajodia, and Khondkar Islam receive funding from the Department of Defense
Massimiliano Albanese, Ioulia Rytikova, Sushil Jajodia, and Khondkar Islam received funding from the Department of Defense for 2021 George Mason University DoD CySP Grant. Grant total: $175,806.
September 2, 2021.
Burak Tanyu receives funding from the Virginia Transportation Research Council
Burak Tanyu received funding from the Virginia Transportation Research Council for "behavior of the EPS Elastic Inclusion at Integral Abutments." Grant total: $224,880.
September 1, 2021.
Jeffrey Moran and Geraldine Grant receive funding from the Commonwealth Health Research Board
Jeffrey Moran and Geraldine Grant received funding from the Commonwealth Health Research Board for "patient-driven hydrogel-based in vitro models of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis for assessment of targeted nanoparticle therapies." Anticipated funding: $200,000.
September 1, 2021.
Aditya Johri receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Aditya Johri received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Workshop: ProVis-EER: Developing Professional Vision into Empirical Practices within Engineering Education Research (EER) through Digital Apprenticeship." Grant total: $99,647.
September 1, 2021.
David Lattanzi receives funding from the National Science Foundation
David Lattanzi received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: HDR DSC: Infusion of data science and computation into engineering curricula. Grant total: $120,061.
September 1, 2021.
Behzad Esmaeili receives funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation
Behzad Esmaeili received funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the implementation and assessment of work zone intrusion technologies. Grant total: $50,000.
August 30, 2021.
Foteini Baldimtsi, Jiasun Li, and Maurice Kugler receive funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Foteini Baldimtsi, Jiasun Li, and Maurice Kugler received funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for "Money Laundering with Crypto Currencies: How widespread is it and how can it be detected through big-data analysis?" Grant total: $41,698.
August 27, 2021.
Liza Wilson Durant receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Liza Wilson Durant received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for CCY FY22 Initiatives. Anticipated funding: $2,500,000.
August 26, 2021.
Kathryn Laskey receives funding from People-Centered Internet
Kathryn Laskey receives funding from People-Centered Internet for building resiliency to COVID-19 by closing the digital divide in Native American communities. Grant total: $77,366.
August 23, 2021.
Antonios Anastasopoulos receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Antonios Anastasopoulos receives funding from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: RI: Small: NL(V)P: Natural Language (Variety) Processing." Grant total: $165,996.
August 20, 2021.
Amy Hutchison, Boris Gafurov, Anna Evmenova, Erdogan Kaya, and Jeff Offutt receive funding from the National Science Foundation
Amy Hutchison, Boris Gafurov, Anna Evmenova, Erdogan Kaya, and Jeff Offutt receive funding from the National Science Foundation for a partnership to implement the inclusive computer science model for professional development and a digital platform for PK-6 computer science teaching for students with disabilities. Grant total: $999,985.
August 20, 2021.
Robert Simon receives funding from the Department of Defense
Robert Simon receives funding from the Department of Defense for time series analysis. Grant total: $62,316.
August 20, 2021.
Dieter Pfoser and Antonios Anastasopoulos receive funding from the National Science Foundation
Dieter Pfoser and Antonios Anastasopoulos received funding from the National Science Foundation for "III: Small: From Spatial Language to Spatial Data - a simulation-based approach." Grant total: $489,141.
August 19, 2021.
Nadine Kabbani, Alessandra Luchini, and Amarda Shehu receive funding from the Virginia Center on Aging
Nadine Kabbani, Alessandra Luchini, and Amarda Shehu received funding from the Virginia Center on Aging for "mechanisms of amyloid interaction and signaling through the nicotinic receptor." Grant total: $45,000.
August 19, 2021.
Peggy Brouse, Paulo Costa, and Duminda Wijesekera receive funding from Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems
Peggy Brouse, Paulo Costa, and Duminda Wijesekera received funding from Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems for ride-sharing service model applied to military operations. Grant total: $50,000.
August 19, 2021.
Hemant Purohit receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy
Hemant Purohit receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for holistic human identity mapping. Grant total: $30,000.
August 19, 2021.
Stephanie Dailey, Kathryn Laskey, and Justin Ramsdell receive funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Stephanie Dailey, Kathryn Laskey, and Justin Ramsdell received funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for "support to NCR security SIMEX 21-4." Grant total: $75,303.
August 19, 2021.
Emanuela Marasco and Massimiliano Albanese receive funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund
Emanuela Marasco and Massimiliano Albanese received funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund for "a study on authentication usability of biometric-based multi-factor mechanisms. Grant total: $50,000.
August 19, 2021.
Celso Moller Ferreira receives funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Celso Moller Ferreira received funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for "Staying Afloat: Assessing the long-term financial impacts of sea-level rise adaptation solutions in a historic coastal community (Crisfield, MD)." Anticipated funding: $89,186.
August 18, 2021.
Vivian Genaro Motti, Sarah Wittman, and Richard Klimoski receive funding from George Mason University
Vivian Genaro Motti, Sarah Wittman, and Richard Klimoski received funding from George Mason University for advancing workplace accessibility by improving neurodiverse individuals' executive function via wearable technology. Grant total: $40,010.
August 18, 2021.
Viviana Maggioni, Alexander Brodsky, Yuan Xue, and Paul Houser receive funding from George Mason University
Viviana Maggioni, Alexander Brodsky, Yuan Xue, and Paul Houser receive funding from George Mason University for a decision guidance system for precision agriculture management in a nonstationary environment using advanced machine learning algorithms. Grant total: $39,829.
August 13, 2021.
Shuochao Yao receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Shuochao Yao received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: III: Medium: Principled Uncertainty Quantification in Deep Learning Models for Time Series Analysis." Anticipated funding: $325,933.
August 9, 2021.
Jana Kosecka receives funding from the George Mason University Foundation
Jana Kosecka received funding from the George Mason University Foundation. Grant total: $5,300.
August 6, 2021.
Shuochao Yao receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Shuochao Yao received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: CPS: Medium: Real-time Criticality-Aware Neural Networks for Mission-critical Cyber-Physical Systems." Grant total: $333,531.
July 28, 2021.
Parag Chitnis, Remi Veneziano, and John Cressman receive funding from the National Science Foundation
Parag Chitnis, Remi Veneziano, and John Cressman received funding from the National Science Foundation for a new class of DNA-templated near-infrared voltage-reporter for deep-brain imaging. Grant total: $498,166.
July 21, 2021.
Juan Cebral, Fernando Mut, and Martin Slawski receive funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Juan Cebral, Fernando Mut, and Martin Slawski received funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for improving cerebral aneurysm risk assessment through understanding wall vulnerability and failure modes. Anticipated funding: $856,255.
July 19, 2021.
Aditya Johri receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Aditya Johri received funding from the National Science Foundation for "CPS: Frontier: Collaborative Research: COALESCE: Context-Aware Learning for Sustainable Cyber-Agricultural Systems." Anticipated funding: $399,948.
July 13, 2021.
Piotr Pachowicz receives funding from the MITRE Corporation
Piotr Pachowicz receives funding from the MITRE Corporation for a solar energy test station for the evaluation of efficiency and accuracy of power generation. Grant total: $7,500.
July 9, 2021.
Duminda Wijesekera, Kai Zeng, Brian Mark, Yue Wang, Cing-Dao Kan, Bo Yu, Zoran Duric, Paulo Costa, Mingkui Wei, and Chi Yang receives funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund
Duminda Wijesekera, Kai Zeng, Brian Mark, Yue Wang, Cing-Dao Kan, Bo Yu, Zoran Duric, Paulo Costa, Mingkui Wei, and Chi Yang received funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund for enhancing the NOVA Node with 5GmmWave capabilities. Grant total: $150,000.
July 7, 2021.
Parth Pathak receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Parth Pathak received funding from the National Science Foundation for "CAREER: Unifying Millimeter-wave Networking and Sensing using Commodity Backscatter." Anticipated funding: $577,075.
June 30, 2021.
Taylor Anderson, Amira Roess, Sean Luke, Dieter Pfoser, and Andreas Zuefle receive funding from the National Science Foundation
Taylor Anderson, Amira Roess, Sean Luke, Dieter Pfoser, and Andreas Zuefle received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Data-Driven Modeling to Improve Understanding of Human Behavior, Mobility, and Disease Spread." Anticipated funding: $2,293,819.
June 30, 2021.
Kuo-Chu Chang receives funding from the U.S. Department of Defense
Kuo-Chu Chang received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense for "KG-KISS: Knowledge and Information Sharing System with Knowledge Graph." Grant total: $46,000.
June 29, 2021.
Remi Veneziano and Amanda Still receive funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Remi Veneziano and Amanda Still received funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for "New Hybrid Molecular Modalities Comprised of DNA-Origami and Interfering Peptides as Inhibitors of Protein-Protein Interactions." Anticipated funding: $528,033.
June 23, 2021.
Sanmay Das receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Sanmay Das received funding from the National Science Foundation for "RI: Small: Efficient and Just Allocation of Scarce Societal Resources, andApplications to Homelessness." Anticipated funding: $459,444.
June 21, 2021.
Hemant Purohit, Huzefa Rangwala, and Antonios Anastasopoulos receive funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund
Hemant Purohit, Huzefa Rangwala, and Antonios Anastasopoulos received funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund for "Designing Tools for Proactive Counter-disinformation Communication to Empower Local Government Agencies." Grant total: $64,971.
June 14, 2021.
Lucas Henneman and Jenna Krall receive funding from Jeffress Memorial Trust
Lucas Henneman and Jenna Krall receive funding from Jeffress Memorial Trust for "Detailed Emissions in Virginia (DEVA): Identifying Air Pollution Sources for Environmental Justice." Grant total: $100,000.
June 14, 2021.
Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao receives funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund
Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao received funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund for "Lightweight Resource-and-Workload-aware Malware Detection in IoT Networked Devices." Grant total: $49,624.
June 11, 2021.
Jean-Pierre Auffret and Jamil Jaffer receive funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund
Jean-Pierre Auffret and Jamil Jaffer receive funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund for "Collective and Collaborative Defense for Virginia Regional Cyber Ecosystems." Grant total: $29,493.
June 9, 2021.
Elise Miller-Hooks, David Lattanzi, and Jonathan Gifford receive funding from the Virginia Transportation Research Council
Elise Miller-Hooks, David Lattanzi, and Jonathan Gifford received funding from the Virginia Transportation Research Council for "approaches to support improved roadway performance in the Commonwealth." Grant total: $200,000.
June 3, 2021.
Sanmay Das receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Sanmay Das received funding from the National Science Foundation for "EAGER: AI-DCL: Exploratory research on the use of AI at the intersection of homelessness and child maltreatment." Anticipated funding: $299,996.
June 3, 2021.
Songqing Chen receives funding from the George Mason University Foundation
Songqing Chen received funding from the George Mason University Foundation. Grant total: $13,499.
June 2, 2021.
Shima Mohebbi receives funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation
Shima Mohebbi received funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the development of user-friendly tools and decision-making algorithms for the service life design of ABC bridges. Award amount: $30,000.
June 1, 2021.
Kirin Furst receives funding from George Mason University
Kirin Furst received funding from George Mason University for slow and steady wins the race: storm sewer baseflows as an untapped opportunity to mitigate urban water pollution. Grant total: $10,000.
June 1, 2021.
Wenying Ji receives funding from George Mason University
Wenying Ji received funding from George Mason University for "Emergency Response Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection under Extreme Events: Data-Driven Network Approach. Grant total: $10,000.
June 1, 2021.
Viviana Maggioni receives funding from George Mason University
Viviana Maggioni received funding from George Mason University for leveraging the next NASA mission to improve the monitoring and forecasting of coastal hazards. Grant total: $10,000.
June 1, 2021.
Ali Raz and Paulo Costa receive funding from the U.S. Department of Defense (DARPA)
Ali Raz and Paulo Costa received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense (DARPA) for AI and advanced analytics for SAFE-SIM. Grant total: $40,238.
June 1, 2021.
Yue Cheng receives funding from the George Mason University Foundation
Yue Cheng received funding from the George Mason University Foundation. Grant total: $5,360.
May 28, 2021.
Scott Bruce receives funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Scott Bruce received funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for "the optimal loop diuretic: mechanistic insights from longitudinal changes in blood and urine proteins to explain efficacy and safety of torsemide vs. furosemide after a heart failure hospitalization." Anticipated funding: $13,287.
May 26, 2021.
Yoo Chung, Lap Fai Yu, and Vivian Genaro Motti receive funding from George Mason University
Yoo Chung, Lap Fai Yu, and Vivian Genaro Motti received funding from George Mason University for context-aware wearable technology for augmentative and alternative communication team. Grant total: $16,550.
May 26, 2021.
Craig Yu and Behzad Esmaeili receive funding from George Mason University
Craig Yu and Behzad Esmaeili received funding from George Mason University for "Synthesizing Construction Safety Training Scenarios for Personalized VR Training." Grant total: $19,000.
May 24, 2021.
Hemant Purohit and Geraldine Walther receive funding from George Mason University
Hemant Purohit and Geraldine Walther received funding from George Mason University for "ScamBuster: Detecting Emergent Scam Networks on Social Media during Disasters." Grant total: $29,928.
May 24, 2021.
Thomas LaToza receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Thomas LaToza received funding from the National Science Foundation for "CAREER: SHF: Debugging Mental Models." Grant total: $322,574.
May 22, 2021.
Pei Dong receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy
Pei Dong received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for a study of high-performing and coking resistant electrocatalyst for non-oxidative aromatization of natural gas. Grant total: $59,917.
May 18, 2021.
Daigo Shishika receives funding from the U.S. Department of the Navy
Daigo Shishika received funding from the U.S. Department of the Navy for "Arches: Autonomous Resilient Cognitive Heterogeneous Swarms." Grant total: $99,998.
May 17, 2021.
Linton Wells and Jean-Pierre Auffret receive funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce
Linton Wells and Jean-Pierre Auffret received funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce for "Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust Resiliency & Business Innovation (RBI) Project." Grant total: $30,000.
May 17, 2021.
Ali Beheshti receives funding from the Office of Naval Research
Ali Beheshti received funding from the Office of Naval Research for "Surface Integrity and Microindentation Study of Propulsion Shaft Materials subjected to Laser Shock Peening." Grant total: $100,227.
May 17, 2021.
Eric Osterweil receives funding from the George Mason University Foundation
Eric Osterweil received funding from the George Mason University Foundation. Grant total: $4,250.
May 14, 2021.
Ali Raz receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy
Ali Raz received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for "novel hypersonic vehicle maneuvers via reinforcement learning techniques." Grant total: $50,000.
May 13, 2021.
Lucas Henneman receives funding from the Environmental Protection Agency
Lucas Henneman received funding from the Environmental Protection Agency for "Regional Air Pollution Mixtures: The Past and Future Impacts of Emission Controls and Climate Change on Air Quality and Health." Grant total: $24,992.
April 26, 2021.
Ozlem Uzuner receives funding from the National Institutes of Health
Ozlem Uzuner received funding from the National Institutes of Health for large-scale clinical and economic impact analysis of potentially malignant incidental findings in radiology reports. Grant total: $917,295.
April 26, 2021.
Shanjiang Zhu receives funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation
Shanjiang Zhu received funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation for "Developing an Android Platform for Targeted Public Outreach Regarding Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities." Grant total: $11,132.
April 26, 2021.
Behzad Esmaeili received funding from the National Science Foundation
Behzad Esmaeili received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: Improving Worker Safety by Understanding Risk Compensation as a Latent Precursor of At-risk Decisions." Anticipated funding: $42,811.
April 20, 2021.
Antonios Anastasopoulos received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Antonios Anastasopoulos received funding from the National Endowment for the HumanitiesAntonios Anastasopoulos received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for unlocking endangered language resources. Grant total: $349,283.
April 8, 2021.
Yue Cheng receives a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation
Yue Cheng received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation entitled "CAREER: Harnessing Serverless Functions to Build Highly Elastic Cloud Storage Infrastructure." Anticipated funding: $572,897.
April 5, 2021.
Vadim Sokolov receives funding from the U.S. Department of Defense
Vadim Sokolov received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense for "STTR Phase II Topic N19A-T017 - Predictive Graph Convolutional Networks." Anticipated funding: $600,005.
April 4, 2021.
Pei Dong receives funding from the US Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Direct
Pei Dong received funding from the US Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Direct for "Acquisition of a Remotely Operated Vehicle with Underwater GPS for Application of Microelectronic Sensors in Aquatic Environmental Monitoring." Grant total: $15,000.
April 4, 2021.
Duminda Wijesekera, Cing-Dao Kan, and Bo Yu receive funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund
Duminda Wijesekera, Cing-Dao Kan, and Bo Yu received funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund for "5GEM: 5G MEC-Enhanced C-V2X for Intersection Management." Grant total: $217,790.
April 1, 2021.
Vivian Genaro Motti receives funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund
Vivian Genaro Motti receives funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund for "User-Centric Privacy Controls for Smart Home Devices." Grant total: $135,489.
March 30, 2021.
Kai Zeng and Brian Mark receive funding from the Virginia Investment Research Fund
Kai Zeng and Brian Mark received funding from the Virginia Investment Research Fund for "Enhancing 5G Wireless Network Security with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces." Grant total: $220,000.
March 25, 2021.
Anand Vidyashankar receives funding from the McKesson Corporation
Anand Vidyashankar received funding from the McKesson Corporation for continuous privacy monitoring and implementation. Grant total: $580,000.
March 25, 2021.
Songqing Chen receives funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund
Songqing Chen received funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund for "RSA-DC Building Robust and Self-Adaptive Defense Capability in Cyber Systems." Grant total: $219,839.
March 22, 2021.
Stephanie Dailey, Brenda Bannan, Justin Ramsdell, and Kathryn Laskey receive funding from the US Department of Homeland Security
Stephanie Dailey, Brenda Bannan, Justin Ramsdell, and Kathryn Laskey received funding from the US Department of Homeland Security for law enforcement use of force SIMEX. Anticipated funding: $65,000.
March 19, 2021.
Mehdi Amiri Darehbidi receives funding from the Naval Air Warfare Center
Mehdi Amiri Darehbidi received funding from the Naval Air Warfare Center for "QPOF: A Multiphysics Analysis based Quenching Process Optimization Tool for Large Forging Parts." Award amount: $60,000.
March 19, 2021.
Wanli Qiao receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Wanli Qiao received funding from the National Science Foundation for "III: Small: Graph Generative Deep Learning for Protein Structure Prediction." Anticipated funding: $499,800.
March 15, 2021.
Paulo Costa, Peggy Brouse, and Duminda Wijesekera receive funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Paulo Costa, Peggy Brouse, and Duminda Wijesekera received funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for "Supporting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Vulnerability Management, Risk Modeling, and Analytics." Grant total: $48,000.
March 4, 2021.
Nathalia Peixoto receives funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory
Nathalia Peixoto received funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory for an integrated multi-sensor life detection system. Grant total: $50,000.
March 4, 2021.
Myeong Lee receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Myeong Lee received funding from the National Science Foundation for "SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B: A Visualization Tool and Assessment Framework for CivicTechnology Use in the DMV Area: The Case of 311 Systems During the COVID-19 Outbreak." Grant total: $49,846.
March 4, 2021.
Samuel Gordon receives funding from Tel Aviv University
Samuel Gordon received funding from Tel Aviv University for "differential privacy and secure computation." Grant total: $22,487.
February 26, 2021.
Yue Cheng receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Yue Cheng received funding from the National Science Foundation for "OAC Core: SMALL: DeepJIMU: Model-Parallelism Infrastructure for Large-scale Deep L." Grant total: $249,302.
February 25, 2021.
Kai Zeng receives funding from the Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation
Kai Zeng receives funding from the Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation for "Marine Corps Smart Warehouse Prototype(s) at Marine Corps Logistic Base Albany, GA." Grant total: $8,629.
February 22, 2021.
Arthur Pyster, Duminda Wijesekera, and Paulo Costa receive funding from the Department of Energy
Arthur Pyster, Duminda Wijesekera, and Paulo Costa received funding from the Department of Energy for CyManII. Grant total: $759,810.
February 18, 2021.
Lucas Henneman receives funding from the EPA
Lucas Henneman receives funding from the EPA for accounting for the health benefits of air pollution regulations in China, 2008-2020. Grant total: $72,805.
February 16, 2021.
Huzefa Rangwala, Mark Snyder, Ozlem Uzuner, Khondkar Islam, and David Rosenblum receive funding from Cornell University
Huzefa Rangwala, Mark Snyder, Ozlem Uzuner, Khondkar Islam, and David Rosenblum received funding from Cornell University for "Inclusive Computing at Mason: Get Cities Proposal." Anticipated funding: $2,835,565.
February 12, 2021.
Giorgio Ascoli receives funding from the National Institutes of Health
Giorgio Ascoli received funding from the National Institutes of Health for "Anatomical Characterization of Neuronal Cell Types of the Mouse Brain." Anticipated funding: $985,066.
February 12, 2021.
Pei Dong receives funding from the Department of Energy
Pei Dong received funding from the Department of Energy for a study on nanomaterials surface functionalization and characterization. Award amount: $30,00.
February 3, 2021.
Sungsoo Hong receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Sungsoo Hong received funding from the National Science Foundation for "FW-HTF-RL: Personalized Virtual Job Assistants to Prepare Individuals with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities for Entry Level IT Jobs." Grant total: $158,000.
February 3, 2021.
Paulo Costa receives funding from the Brazilian Army Commission
Paulo Costa received funding from the Brazilian Army Commission for artificial intelligence applied to multisensor data fusion systems. Grant total: $29,085.
January 29, 2021.
Martin Slawski and Emanuela Marasco receive funding from the U.S. Department of Justice
Martin Slawski and Emanuela Marasco received funding from the U.S. Department of Justice for "accounting for covariates in forensic error rate assessment and evidence interpretation." Grant total: $117,198.
January 29, 2021.
Elise Miller-Hooks receives funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation
Elise Miller-Hooks receives funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation for "CIAMTIS US DOT Center Base Funding Addition." Grant total: $300,000.
January 20, 2021.
Shima Mohebbi receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Shima Mohebbi received funding from the National Science Foundation for "CRISP Type II: Integrative Decision Making Framework to Enhance the Resiliency of Interdependent Critical Infrastructures." Grant total: $61,274.
January 18, 2021.
Brett Hunter receives funding from Inova Healthcare
Brett Hunter received funding from Inova Healthcare for GMU Statistical Support for the Virginia Pediatric Serology Project. Grant total: $9,400.
January 11, 2021.
Paul Houser and Viviana Maggioni receive funding from NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul Houser and Viviana Maggioni receive funding from NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center for the development of multidecadal land reanalysis over High Mountain Asia. Anticipated funding: $282,850.
December 11, 2020.
Jie Xu receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy
Jie Xu received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for large-scale simulation-based optimization and machine learning for resilient power grids. Grant total: $21,504.
December 4, 2020.
Brian Mark, Khaled Khasawneh, Kai Zeng, and Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao receive funding from DARPA
Brian Mark, Khaled Khasawneh, Kai Zeng, and Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao receive funding from DARPA for "EPIC SWaPD: Energy Preserving IoT Cryptography for Small Weight and Power Devices." Anticipated funding: $1,603,064.
December 3, 2020.
Sushil Jajodia and Massimiliano Albanese receive funding from the U.S. Air Force
Sushil Jajodia and Massimiliano Albanese received funding from the U.S. Air Force for cyber knowledge management for weapon systems, phase II. Grant total: $225,000.
November 24, 2020.
Robert Simon receives funding from the Department of Defense
Robert Simon received funding from the Department of Defense for interactive monitoring of IoT devices, phase II. Grant total: $51,416.
November 20, 2020.
Jiayang Sun receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Jiayang Sun received funding from the National Science Foundation for "genes, physiology, and reproductive fitness in high altitude environments," Grant total: $21,837.
November 20, 2020.
Scott Bruce receives funding from the National Institutes of Health
Scott Bruce received funding from the National Institutes of Health for adaptive frequency estimation and analysis. Anticipated funding: $1,152,925.
November 13, 2020.
Paulo Costa and John Shortle receive funding from the Air Force Research Lab
Paulo Costa and John Shortle received funding from the Air Force Research Lab for "Anytime Reasoning and Analysis for Kill-Web Negotiation and Instantiation across Domains (ARAKNID)." Grant total: $406,917.
November 13, 2020.
Jiayang Sun receives funding from the National Institutes of Health
Jiayang Sun received funding from the National Institutes of Health for identifying electronic phenotypes associated with patient health outcomes of interhospital transfer patients. Grant total: $28,422.
November 13, 2020.
Lance Sherry receives funding from the Federal Aviation Administration
Lance Sherry received funding from the Federal Aviation Administration for "NEXTOR III: DO 05: Airport Infrastructure Needs to Support Aeromedical and Disaster Preparedness – Phase II." Grant total: $210,375.
November 13, 2020.
Lance Sherry receives funding from NASA
Lance Sherry received funding from NASA for digital assistants for a mode-based systems engineer. Grant total: $20,000.
November 10, 2020.
Siddhartha Sikdar, Parag Chitnis, and Guoqing Diao receive funding from the Department of Defense
Siddhartha Sikdar, Parag Chitnis, and Guoqing Diao received funding from the Department of Defense for an integrated sonomyographic prosthetic control system. Anticipated funding: $1,490,735.
October 21, 2020.
Kevin Moran receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Kevin Moran received funding from the National Science Foundation for "SHF: Small: Towards a Holistic Causal Model for Continuous Software Traceability." Grant total: $269,807.
October 21, 2020.
Kevin Moran receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Kevin Moran received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: Bug Report Management 2.0." Anticipated funding: $256,559.
October 21, 2020.
Duminda Wijesekera, Peggy Brouse, and Paulo Costa receive funding from Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems
Duminda Wijesekera, Peggy Brouse, and Paulo Costa received funding from Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems for "Crocodilian: Space University Small Research Project." Grant total: $20,000.
October 7, 2020.
Juan Cebral receives funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Juan Cebral receives funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for a computational and biological approach to flow diversion. Grant total: $115,000.
September 30, 2020.
Xiang Chen and Zhi Tian receive funding from the National Science Foundation
Xiang Chen and Zhi Tian received funding from the National Science Foundation for "MLWiNS: Decentralized Heterogeneous Deep Learning for Efficient Wireless Spectrum Monitoring." Grant total: $499,999.
September 21, 2020.
Massimiliano Albanese, Khondkar Islam, Sushil Jajodia, and Ioulia Rytikova receive funding from the Department of Defense
Massimiliano Albanese, Khondkar Islam, Sushil Jajodia, and Ioulia Rytikova received funding from the Department of Defense for George Mason University's Cybersecurity Scholarship Program. Grant total: $128,189.
September 17, 2020.
Massimiliano Albanese and Foteini Baldimtsi receive funding from Hushmesh Inc.
Massimiliano Albanese and Foteini Baldimtsi received funding from Hushmesh Inc. for decentralized cryptographic security for everyone. Grant total: $50,000.
September 17, 2020.
Louise Shelley and Chien Chung Huang receive funding from the National Science Foundation
Louise Shelley and Chien Chung Huang received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: D-ISN: TRACK 1: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding, Modeling, and Disrupting Drug and Counterfeit Illicit Supply Chains." Grant total: $649,122.
September 17, 2020.
Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao receives funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao received funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for vaccinating integrated circuits interconnected with attack-immune architecture. Grant total: $19,950.
September 3, 2020.
Robert Elder and Alexander Levis receive funding from the Department of Defense
Robert Elder and Alexander Levis received funding from the Department of Defense for "DoD-SMA Strategic Outcomes." Grant total: $162,925.
September 3, 2020.
Michael Buschmann and Shani Ross receive funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Michael Buschmann and Shani Ross received funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for "Clinical Immersion with Health Professionals and Industry Advising in Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Capstone Design." Anticipated Funding: $198,000.
September 1, 2020.
Pramita Bagchi receives funding from Inova Healthcare
Pramita Bagchi receives funding from Inova Healthcare for "Clinical Data Analytics, Protein and Genomic Biomarkers in Heart Failure, Mechanical Support, and Cardiac Transplantation." Grant total: $32,500.
September 1, 2020.
Bernd-Peter Paris receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Bernd-Peter Paris receives funding from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: SWIFT: LARGE: Adaptive Interference Rejection with Synthetic Channel Diversity (AIR SynCD)." Award amount: $220,000.
September 1, 2020.
Duminda Wijesekera and Paulo Costa receive funding from the Federal Railroad Administration
Duminda Wijesekera and Paulo Costa received funding from the Federal Railroad Administration for positive train control safety – MBTA ACSES. Grant total: $200,000.
August 31, 2020.
Bijan Jabbari receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Bijan Jabbari received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: IRNC: Testbed: BRIDGES - Binding Research Infrastructures for the Deployment of Global Experimental Science." Anticipated funding: $2,036,291.
August 31, 2020.
Liang Zhao receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Liang Zhao received funding from the National Science Foundation for "III: Small: Deep Generative Models for Temporal Graph Generation and Interpretation." Grant total: $498,050.
August 31, 2020.
Viviana Maggioni receives funding from NASA
Viviana Maggioni received funding from NASA for mapping changes in hydroclimatic risk in High Mountain Asia. Grant total: $62,278.
August 31, 2020.
Jeffrey Moran receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Jeffrey Moran received funding from the National Science Foundation for EAGER: Collaborative Research: Feasibility of Self-Propelled Nanoparticles for Heat Transfer. Grant total: $71,807.
August 26, 2020.
Kathryn Laskey receives funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Kathryn Laskey received funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the public school security simulation experiment (SIMEX). Grant total: $5,000.
August 26, 2020.
Foteini Baldimtsi receives funding from the George Mason University Foundation
Foteini Baldimtsi receives funding from the George Mason University Foundation for "Private User Authentication: Anonymous Credentials on FB's Libra Blockchain." Grant total: $50,000.
August 25, 2020.
Kuo Tian receives funding from Kuraray America, Inc.
Kuo Tian received funding from Kuraray America, Inc. for "Service Life Prediction Of Co-Extruded Geomembranes With An Ethylene Vinyl-Alcohol (Evoh) Layer." Grant total: $299,671.
August 21, 2020.
Brian Mark receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Brian Mark received funding from the National Science Foundation for "CCSS: Collaborative Research: Intelligent Full-Duplex Cognitive Radio Networks for Pervasive Heterogeneous Wireless Networking." Grant total: $241,361.
August 21, 2020.
Kathryn Laskey, Brenda Bannan, and Stephanie Dailey receive funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Kathryn Laskey, Brenda Bannan, and Stephanie Dailey received funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the public-school security simulation experiment (SIMEX). Grant total: $40,350.
August 14, 2020.
Yotam Gingold receives funding from the George Mason University Foundation
Yotam Gingold received funding from the George Mason University Foundation for GMUF/Gingold. Grant total: $19,449.
August 13, 2020.
Kuo-Chu Chang receives funding from the U.S. Navy
Kuo-Chu Chang received funding from the U.S. Navy for CRISIS: Knowledge Graph-Based Cyber Resilience Integrated Security Inspection System. Grant total: $45,000.
August 12, 2020.
Liza Wilson Durant and Kai Zeng receive funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund
Liza Wilson Durant and Kai Zeng received funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund for the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Fellowship. Award amount: $50,000.
August 5, 2020.
Foteini Baldimtsi, Jiasun Li, and Maurice Kugler receive funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Foteini Baldimtsi, Jiasun Li, and Maurice Kugler received funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for "CINA P13 - Money Laundering with Crypto Currencies: How widespread is it and how can it be detected through big-data analysis?" Grant total: $100,141.
August 5, 2020.
Robert Simon receives funding from the U.S. Department of Defense
Robert Simon received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense for "SCA 1182-00 Embedded System Software Architectural Analysis." Grant total: $11,129.
August 5, 2020.
Lance Sherry and Vivian Genaro Motti receive funding from the National Science Foundation
Lance Sherry and Vivian Genaro Motti received funding from the National Science Foundation for "I-Corps: Smart IoT Medicine Dispensing." Award amount: $50,000.
August 4, 2020.
Thomas LaToza receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Thomas LaToza received funding from the National Science Foundation for "CCRI: Planning: Collaborative Research: A Platform for Conducting Software Engineering User Studies." Grant total: $27,293.
July 25, 2020.
Kuo Tian receives funding from Bentonite Performance Minerals LLC
Kuo Tian received funding from Bentonite Performance Minerals LLC for investigation of chemical compatibility of new bentonite-polymer composite geosynthetic clay liner. Grant total: $122,106.
July 25, 2020.
Kuo-Chu Chang, Thomas Clemons, and Ran Ji receive funding from the U.S. Department of the Navy
Kuo-Chu Chang, Thomas Clemons, and Ran Ji received funding from the U.S. Department of the Navy for condition-based predictive maintenance for mission-critical systems with probabilistic knowledge graph and deep learning. Grant total: $480,000.
July 25, 2020.
Jonathan Bell receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Jonathan Bell received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: RAPID: Virtual Conference Platform." Grant total: $30,208.
July 25, 2020.
Elise Miller-Hooks, Maria Emelianenko, Yue Cheng, Jayshree Sarma, and Shobita Satyapal receive funding from the National Science Foundation
Elise Miller-Hooks, Maria Emelianenko, Yue Cheng, Jayshree Sarma, and Shobita Satyapal received funding from the National Science Foundation for "MRI: Acquisition of an Adaptive Computing Infrastructure to Support Compute- and Data-Intensive Multidisciplinary Research." Grant total: $750,000.
July 25, 2020.
Liza Wilson Durant and Duminda Wijesekera receive funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund
Liza Wilson Durant and Duminda Wijesekera received funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund for "CCI 5G Wireless Security Testbed." Award total: $240,000.
July 25, 2020.
Liza Wilson Durant and Duminda Wijesekera receive funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund
Liza Wilson Durant and Duminda Wijesekera receive funding from the Virginia Research Investment Fund for the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Fellowship. Award total: $50,000.
July 25, 2020.
Kuo Tian receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Kuo Tian received funding from the National Science Foundation for water retention behavior of polymer-modified GCL's. Grant total: $2,000.
July 25, 2020.
Robert Simon receives funding from the U.S. Department of Defense
Robert Simon receives funding from the U.S. Department of Defense for proposal information assurance methods and algorithms. Grant total: $125,000.
July 17, 2020.
Peter Pachowicz receives funding from the MITRE Corporation
Peter Pachowicz received funding from the MITRE Corporation for space research identifying gaps and opportunities. Grant total: $10,000.
July 16, 2020.
Emanuela Marasco receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Emanuela Marasco received funding from the National Science Foundation for "EAGER: COVID-19 Real-time Detection via Hyperspectral Analysis of Sweat Metabolite Biometrics." Grant total: $100,000.
July 10, 2020.
Zhi Tian receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Zhi Tian receives funding from the National Science Foundation for "CIF: Small: Communication-efficient and robust learning from distributed data." Grant total: $423,100.
July 1, 2020.
Liang Zhao and Yue Chen receive funding from the National Science Foundation
Liang Zhao and Yue Chen received funding from the National Science Foundation for "OAC Core: SMALL: DeepLEGO: Model-Parallelism for Large-scale Deep Learning by Gradient-free Optimization." Grant total: $498,609.
July 1, 2020.
Ioulia Rytikova, Mihai Boicu, Harry Foxwell, and James Baldo receive funding from George Mason University's Office of Undergraduate Education
Ioulia Rytikova, Mihai Boicu, Harry Foxwell, and James Baldo received funding from George Mason University's Office of Undergraduate Education for "Building a highly qualified, creative, and adaptable STEM workforce through collaborative multi-disciplinary research in data science graduate programs. Funding total: $22,000.
June 29, 2020.
Foteini Baldimtsi receives funding from George Mason University Foundation
Foteini Baldimtsi receives funding from the George Mason University Foundation for "IBM." Grant total: $6,438.
June 15, 2020.
Liang Zhao receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Liang Zhao received funding from the National Science Foundation for a CAREER award: "Spatial Network Deep Generative Modeling, Transformation, and Interpretation." Anticipated funding: $549,654.
June 15, 2020.
Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao received funding from the National Science Foundation for "RAPID/Collaborative Research: Developing Pandemics and Healing Models for Coronavirus COVID-19 to Assist in Policy Making." Grant total: $40,000.
June 10, 2020.
Hemant Purohit receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Hemant Purohit received funding from the National Science Foundation for a RAPID/Collaborative Research Grant: "Human-AI Teaming for Big Data Analytics to Enhance Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic." Grant total: $24,266.
June 2, 2020.
Kamaljeet Sanghera receives funding from the National Center for Women and Information Technology
Kamaljeet Sanghera received funding from the National Center for Women and Information Technology for "VA NCWIT Aspirations." Grant total: $2,550.
June 2, 2020.
Leigh McCue-Weil receives funding from the Center for Disease Control
Leigh McCue-Weil received funding from the Center for Disease Control for her low fidelity, stochastic modeling to assess COVID-19 mitigation strategies for H-2A farmworkers. Grant total: $15,000.
June 2, 2020.
Avesta Sasan receives funding from the U.S. Department of Defense
Avesta Sasan received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense for highly corruptive and hard to break obfuscation. Anticipated funding: $1,253,989.
May 29, 2020.
Cameron Nowzari receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Cameron Nowzari received funding from the National Science Foundation for a RAPID grant: "Networked Meta-Population Modeling and Analysis for COVID-19." Grant total: $150,000.
May 27, 2020.
Robert Elder and Alexander Levis receive funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory
Robert Elder and Alexander Levis received funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory for "Multi-domain C2 (MDC2)“Clean Sheet” Applications to Joint All Domain C2." Anticipated funding: $850,430.
May 27, 2020.
Aarthi Narayanan and Remi Veneziano receive funding from the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity
Aarthi Narayanan and Remi Veneziano receive funding from the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity for "DNA-Nanoparticles for antigen presentation and vaccine design for aerosolized pathogens." Grant total: $314,000.
May 20, 2020.
Qiliang Li receives funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Qiliang Li received funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for nanoengineered hybrid gas sensors for spacesuit monitoring. Grant total: $250,000.
May 20, 2020.
Samuel Gordon receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Samuel Gordon received funding from the National Science Foundation for "SaTC: CORE: Medium: Collaborative: New Approaches for Large Scale Secure Computation." Anticipated funding: $402,009.
May 20, 2020.
Sushil Jajodia, Kun Sun, Emanuela Marasco, Rajesh Ganesan, and Massimiliano Albanese receive funding from the National Science Foundation
Sushil Jajodia, Kun Sun, Emanuela Marasco, Rajesh Ganesan, and Massimiliano Albanese received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Phase II IUCRC George Mason University: Center for Cybersecurity Analytics and Automation CCAA." Grant total: $249,595.
May 20, 2020.
Peter Pachowicz, Peter Plavchan, and Shobita Satyapal receive funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Peter Pachowicz, Peter Plavchan, and Shobita Satyapal received funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration —Goddard Space Flight Center for "remote occulter—laser/AO sub-system." Grant total: $6,200.
May 20, 2020.
Kathryn Laskey receives funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Kathryn Laskey received funding from DARPA for post-doctoral research in prediction markets for confidence scores. Grant total: $30,994.
May 13, 2020.
Elise Miller-Hooks receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Elise Miller-Hooks received funding from the National Science Foundation for a RAPID grant: "A Portal to Support Models for Assessing Strategies for Hospitals in the COVID-19 and other Pandemics—MASH-Pandemics." Grant total: $200,000.
May 13, 2020.
Cameron Nowzari and Feitian Zhang receive funding from the U.S. Department of the Navy
Cameron Nowzari and Feitian Zhang received funding from the U.S. Department of the Navy for the deployment of a full-scale lighter-than-air swarm system. Anticipated funding: $751,667.
May 13, 2020.
Avesta Sasan and Liang Zhao receive funding from the General Services Administration
Avesta Sasan and Liang Zhao received funding from the General Services Administration for a secure model and learning protected hardware design. Grant total: $500,029.
May 13, 2020.
Sherry Crissman and William Roeting receive funding from the U.S. Air Force
Sherry Crissman and William Roeting received funding from the U.S. Air Force for "Multi-Spectral Transceiver Modeling and Simulation." Grant total: $65,000.
May 7, 2020.
David Lattanzi receives funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation
David Lattanzi received funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the University Transportation Center 2017-2023. Grant total: $69,112.
May 7, 2020.
Jonathan Gifford and Elise Miller-Hooks receive funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation
Jonathan Gifford and Elise Miller-Hooks received funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the University Transportation Center 2017-2023. Grant total: $133,334.
May 7, 2020.
Elise Miller-Hooks receives funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation
Elise Miller-Hooks received funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the University Transportation Center 2017-2023. Grant total: $66,666.
May 7, 2020.
Parag Chitnis receives funding from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)
Parag Chitnis received funding from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) for "TRAUMAS: Treatment and recovery augmented with electrical and ultrasound-mediated actuation and sensing." Anticipated funding: $1,199,994.
April 28, 2020.
Giorgio Ascoli receives funding from the United States Department of Health and Human Services
Giorgio Ascoli received funding from the United States Department of Health and Human Services for "Generation and Description of Neuronal Morphology and Connectivity." Anticipated funding: $1,844,750.
April 22, 2020.
Sushil Jajodia and Kun Sun receive funding from the Office of Naval Research
Sushil Jajodia and Kun Sun received funding from the Office of Naval Research for a distributional laboratory for automated document generation using large-scale computational methods. Grant total: $529,194.
April 22, 2020.
Liza Wilson Durant and Jonathan Katz receive funding from Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems
Liza Durant and Jonathan Katz receive funding from Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems for "Lockheed Martin Sponsorship Agreement - Eminent Research and new Institute for Cyber and Data Analytics." Grant total: $150,000.
April 9, 2020.
Kathryn Laskey and Stephanie Dailey receive funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Kathryn Laskey and Stephanie Dailey received funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for their public school simulation experiment. Grant total: $68,667.
April 1, 2020.
Aditya Johri, Huzefa Rangwala, and Alexander Monea receive funding from the National Science Foundation
Aditya Johri, Huzefa Rangwala, and Alexander Monea received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Situated Algorithmic Thinking: Preparing the Future Computing Workforce for Ethical Decision-Making through Role-Playing Scenarios." Grant total: $299,989.
March 25, 2020.
Naoru Koizumi and Hadi El Amine receive funding from KDI School of Public Policy
Naoru Koizumi and Hadi El Amine received funding from the KDI School of Public Policy for network labeling optimization for hidden population size estimation. Grant total: $20,000.
March 25, 2020.
Pei Dong receives funding from the U.S. Department of Interior
Pei Dong received funding from the U.S. Department of Interior for biomass enabled nanomaterials for capacitive desalination and water purification technologies. Grant total: $150,000.
March 16, 2020.
Jiayang Sun, Pramita Bagchi, Scott Bruce, and Guoqing Diao receive funding from Inova Healthcare
Jiayang Sun, Pramita Bagchi, Scott Bruce, and Guoqing Diao receive funding from Inova Healthcare for "The Integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV): Using Data to Improve Health." Anticipated funding: $144,050.
March 16, 2020.
Lap Fai Yu receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Lap Fai Yu received funding from the National Science Foundation for his CAREER Award: Performance-Guided Synthesis of Virtual Environments for Personalized Training. Anticipated funding: $533,321.
March 16, 2020.
Kim Blackwell receives funding from the National Institute of Health
Kim Blackwell received funding from the National Institute of Health for molecular, cellular and circuit effects of sleep deprivation on hippocampal function. Grant total: $89,648.
February 27, 2020.
Behzad Esmaeili receives funding from the Virginia Transportation Research Council
Behzad Esmaeili received funding from the Virginia Transportation Research Council for "Strategies to Reduce Truck-Mounted Attenuator (TMA) Crashes." Grant total: $27,000.
February 27, 2020.
Cameron Nowzari receives funding from the US Department of the Navy
Cameron Nowzari received funding from the US Department of the Navy for "Provably Correct Stigmergic Controllers for Enabling Emergent Behaviors in Swarms." Anticipated funding: $275,769.
February 25, 2020.
Liza Durant, Kai Zeng, Brian Mark, and Zhi Tian receive funding from the Virginia Investment Fund
Liza Durant, Kai Zeng, Brian Mark, and Zhi Tian receive funding from the Virginia Investment Fund for Commonwealth Cyber Initiative secure 5G wireless communications and workforce development. Grant total: $2,497,993.
February 18, 2020.
Kun Sun and Sushil Jajodia receive funding from the US Department of the Army
Kun Sun and Sushil Jajodia received funding from the US Department of the Army for "A Toolkit of Secret Security Patch Identification and Fixes." Anticipated funding: $699,844.
February 18, 2020.
Qiliang Li receives funding from the Department of Homeland Security
Qiliang Li received funding from the Department of Homeland Security for a "Robust Design of Chemical Gas Sensor Arrays (CGSA) using the Maximum Likelihood Estimator and Cramer-Rao Bound. Grant total: $30,000.
February 5, 2020.
Siddhartha Sikdar, Parag Chitnis, and Guoqing Diao receive funding from the National Institutes of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Siddhartha Sikdar, Parag Chitnis, and Guoqing Diao received funding from the National Institutes of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for "Sonomyogaraphic Upper Limb Prosthetics: A New Paradigm." Anticipated funding: $3,633,133.
February 5, 2020.
Samuel Gordon receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Samuel Gordon received funding from the National Science Foundation for a CAREER award: Trading Security for Efficiency in Secure Computation. Anticipated funding: $514,202.
January 29, 2020.
Robert Simon receives funding from the Department of Defense
Robert Simon received funding from the Department of Defense for Pattern Discovery 2020. Grant total: $166,517.
January 22, 2020.
Rainald Lohner and Girum Urgessa receive funding from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Rainald Lohner and Girum Urgessa receive funding from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for Complex Multiphysics on Future Exascale Systems. Grant total: $1,853,554.
January 22, 2020.
Robert Simon receives funding from the Department of Defense
Robert Simon received funding from the Department of Defense for research on the industrial internet of things. Grant total: $166,553.
January 22, 2020.
Foteini Baldimtsi, Jiasun Li, and Maurice Kugler receive funding from the US Department of Homeland Security
Foteini Baldimtsi, Jiasun Li, and Maurice Kugler received funding from the US Department of Homeland Security for Money Laundering with Crypto Currencies: How widespread is it and how can it be detected through big-data analysis. Grant total: $199,978.
January 14, 2020.
George Hazelrigg receives funding from the National Science Foundation
George Hazelrigg received funding from the National Science Foundation for working toward a theory of systems engineering. Grant total: $456,670.
January 14, 2020.
Kathryn Laskey receives funding from the Air Force Research Lab
Kathryn Laskey received funding from the Air Force Research Lab for online learning techniques for space situational awareness. Anticipated funding: $105,300.
December 20, 2019.
Vivian Genaro Motti and Anna Evmenova receive funding from the US Department of Health and Human Services
Vivian Genaro Motti and Anna Evmenova received funding from the US Department of Health and Human Services for assistive wearables to support self-regulation for neurodiverse post-secondary students. Grant total: $712,774.
December 20, 2019.
Setareh Rafatirad receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Setareh Rafatirad received funding from the National Science Foundation for EAGER: Towards Machine Learning Assisted Malware Detection: A Hardware Architecture-Based Approach. Grant total: $83,421.
December 20, 2019.
Sushil Jajodia and Kun Sun receive funding from the US Department of Energy
Sushil Jajodia and Kun Sun received funding from the US Department of Energy for a subcontract agreement. Grant total: $50,000.
December 20, 2019.
Parag Chitnis receives funding from Inova Healthcare
Parag Chitnis received funding from Inova Healthcare for research on vaginal birth induced pelvic floor muscle injuries and recovery. Grant total: $87,558.
December 2, 2019.
J. Mark Pullen receives funding from NATO
J. Mark Pullen received funding from NATO for C2SIM Sandbox. Grant total: $22,000.
November 18, 2019
Avesta Sasan receives funding from the US Department of Defense
Avesta Sasan received funding from the US Department of Defense for system engineering and program support services for the Aether Spy Program. Grant total: $2,085.
November 13, 2019
Celso Moller Ferreira receives funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Celso Moller Ferreira received funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for multi-scale, multi-temporal approaches for advancements in real-time total water flood forecasting. Anticipated funding: $79,938.
November 13, 2019
Shanjiang Zhu receives funding from the Federal Highway Administration
Shanjiang Zhu received funding from the Federal Highway Administration for modeling strategies for reflecting demand response to tolled and priced lanes framing paper. Grant total: $110,119.
November 13, 2019
Burak Tanyu and Aiyoub Abbaspour receive funding from the US Department of Transportation
Burak Tanyu and Aiyoub Abbaspour received funding from the US Department of Transportation for evaluating the longevity and condition of the geotextiles used in the past in geo-infrastructures that were constructed with recycled concrete aggregate. Grant total: $44,273.
November 13, 2019
Alexander Levis and Robert Elder receive funding from the Office of Naval Research
Alexander Levis and Robert Elder received funding from the Office of Naval Research for research on escalation management in the gray zone. Grant total: $74,524.
November 13, 2019
Lance Sherry receives funding from the University of Maryland, College Park
Lance Sherry received funding from the University of Maryland, College Park for airport infrastructure needs to support aeromedical and disaster preparedness. Grant total: $87,575.
November 8, 2019
Leigh McCue receives funding from Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital
Leigh McCue received funding from Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital for assessments of sleep deprivation and associated health and cognitive impacts in commercial fishermen. Grant total: $50,000.
November 8, 2019
Siddhartha Sikdar receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Siddhartha Sikdar received funding from the National Science Foundation for EAGER: An open data-sharing platform for substance use disorders. Grant total: $199,962.
October 22, 2019
Jie Xu receives funding from the US Department of the Air Force
Jie Xu received funding from the US Department of the Air Force for self-healing resilient microgrids using DDDAS. Grant total: $69,000.
October 21, 2019
Liza Wilson Durant receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Liza Wilson Durant received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the C-Accel Pilot – National Talent Ecosystem: Empowering a digital technology workforce through alignment and coordination of upskilling and reskilling opportunities. Grant total: $40,000.
October 15, 2019
Angelos Stavrou receives funding from the George Mason University Foundation
Angelos Stavrou received funding from the George Mason University Foundation for GMUF CARE. Grant total: $20,000.
October 14, 2019
Celso Moller Ferreira receives funding from the US Department of Defense
Celso Moller Ferreira received funding from the US Department of Defense (Army) for applied storm and recovery studies as part of the during nearshore event experiment (DUNEX) and Natural and nature-based coastal defenses: Closing the gap on the potential protection from marshes in the US east coast. Grant total: $199,995.
October 10, 2019
Behzad Esmaeili receives funding from the US Department of Labor
Behzad Esmaeili received funding from the US Department of Labor for the Susan Howard Training Grants. Grant Total: $74,635.
October 9, 2019
Pilgyu Kang receives funding from the Korea Research Insitute of Chemical Technology
Pilgyu Kang received funding from the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology for the development of smart materials for IoT devices. Grant total: $22,000.
October 3, 2019
Kai Zheng received funding from Protect our Power
Kai Zheng received funding from Protect Our Power for Best Practices in Cybersecurity for Utilities: Secure Remote Access. Grant total: $22,000.
October 3, 2019
Peggy Brouse receives funding from the National Security Agency
Peggy Brouse received funding from the National Security Agency for George Mason University CySP Grant. Grant total: $64,639.
September 25, 2019
Celso Moller Ferreira receives funding from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Celso Moller Ferreira received funding from National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for EESLR 2019 Quantifying the benefits of natural and nature-based features in Maryland’s Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays to inform conservation and management under future sea-level rise scenarios. Anticipated funding: $738,080.
September 25, 2019
Juan Cebral receives funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Juan Cebral received funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for Optimizing acute stroke outcomes using an image-guided, patient-specific, computational approach to thrombectomy: The role and potential efficacy of non-contact clot aspiration. Grant total: $115,000.
September 25, 2019
Sushil Jajodia and Massimiliano Albanese receive funding from the U.S. Air Force
Sushil Jajodia and Massimiliano Albanese received funding from the U.S. Air Force for Cyber Knowledge Management for Weapon Systems. Grant total $44,975
September 17, 2019.
Benoit Van Aken, Gregory Foster, Celso Moller Ferreira, Yi Ching Lee, Anna Pollack, Daniel Sklarew receive funding from George Mason University
Benoit Van Aken, Gregory Foster, Celso Moller Ferreira, Yi Ching Lee, Anna Pollack, Daniel Sklarew receive funding from George Mason University for ISE/Microplastics/FY20. Grant total: $40,000.
September 17, 2019
Rainald Lohner and Girum Urgessa received funding from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DOD)
Rainald Lohner and Girum Urgessa received funding from Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DOD) for Complex Multiphysics on Future Exascale Systems. Grant total $1,803,554.
September 17, 2019
Massimiliano Albanese, Sushil Jajodia, Ioulia Rytikova, and Khondkar Islam received funding from the National Security Agency
Massimiliano Albanese (PI), Sushil Jajodia (co-PI), Ioulia Rytikova (co-PI), and Khondkar Islam (Co-PI) received funding from the National Security Agency for George Mason University CySP Grant. Grant total: $152,995.
September 17, 2019
Peggy Brouse receives funding from the National Security Agency
Peggy Brouse received funding from the National Security Agency for George Mason University CySP Grant. Grant total: $64,640.
September 17, 2019
Jiayang Sun receives funding from the American Statistical Association
Jiayang Sun receives funding from the American Statistical Association for Science & Technology Policy Fellowships program (STPF). Grant total: $135,000.
September 11, 2019
Aditya Johri receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Aditya Johri received funding from the National Science Foundation for Workship: Building an Inclusive Foundation of Engineering Education Research Scholarship for future Growth. Grant total: $99,933.
September 11, 2019
Amarda Shehu, Brenda Bannan, David Lattanzi receive funding from George Mason University Office of the Provost
Amarda Shehu, Brenda Bannan, David Lattanzi received funding from George Mason University Office of the Provost for a Transdisciplinary Center for Advanced Study, Center for Advancing Human-Machine Partnership (CAHMP). Grant total: $165,000.
September 11, 2019
Kathy Laskey receives funding from George Mason University Office of the Provost
Kathy Laskey received funding from George Mason University Office of the Provost for Transdisciplinary Center for Advanced Study, Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities (C-RASC). Grant total: $165,000.
September 11, 2019
Siddhartha Sikdar receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Siddhartha Sikdar receives funding from the National Science Foundation for NRT-HDR: Transdisciplinary Graduate Training Program in Data-Driven Adaptive Systems of Brain-Body Interaction. Grant total: $2,999,928.
September 10, 2019
Shanjiang Zhu receives funding from the Virginia Transportation Research Council
Shanjiang Zhu received funding from the Virginia Transportation Research Council for "Guidelines for Prioritizing Curb Ramp Retrofits Under the Americans with Disabilities Act." Grant total: $10,016.
Qi Wei receives funding from the National Institutes of Health
Qi Wei received funding from the National Institutes of Health for Data-Driven Biomechanical Simulation of Eye Movement. Anticipated funding $$1,775,688.
September 6, 2019
Yue Cheng receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Yue Cheng received funding from the National Science Foundation for SPX: Collaborative Research: Cross-stack Memory Optimizations for Boosting I/O Performance of Deep Learning HPC Applications. Grant total: $320,603.
September 3, 2019
Itamara Lochard receives funding from NATO
Itamara Lochard received funding from NATO for Senior Leadership Roundtable on Information-Related Hybrid Threats in South-Eastern Europe. Grant total: $84,750.
September 3, 2019
Michael von Fricken, Nathalia Peixoto, Shani Ross and Maria Emelianenko receive funding from George Mason University
Michael von Fricken, Nathalia Peixoto, Shani Ross and Maria Emelianenko receive funding from George Mason University for ISE/TREMoR/FY20.
August 27, 2019
David Lattanzi receives funding from the US Department of Transportation
David Lattanzi received funding from the US Department of Transportation for the University Transportation Center 2017-2023. Grant total: $63,514
August 27, 2019
William Rosenberger receives funding from the US Department of Health and Human Services
William Rosenberger received funding from the US Department of Health and Human Services for Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center. Grant total: $26,613.
August 27, 2019
Jana Kosecka receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Jana Kosecka receives funding from the National Science Foundation for NRI: FND: Self-supervised Object Discovery, Detection and Visual Object Search. Grant total: $499,990.
August 27, 2019
Paul Houser and Viviana Maggioni receive funding from the NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul Houser and Viviana Maggioni receive funding from the NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center for ROSES 2015/HMA-LDAS: Hyper-resolution High Mountain Asia - Land Data Assimilation System. Grant total: $638,316.
August 27, 2019
Kim Blackwell receives funding from the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Kim Blackwell received funding from the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for Synaptic integration, calcium dynamics, and plasticity in striatum spiny projection neurons. Anticipated funding: $67,114.
August 21, 2019
Ozlem Uzuner receives funding from the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Ozlem Uzuner received funding from the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for Leveraging Unlabeled and Pseudo Data for Clinical Information Extraction. Grant total: $414,798.
August 21, 2019
Jonathan Bell receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Jonathan Bell received funding from the National Science Foundation for NSF Student Travel Grant for 2019 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH). Grant total: $30,000.
August 21, 2019
Songqing Chen receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Songqing Chen receives funding from the National Science Foundation for the 2019 Joint Computer Systems Research and Networking Technology and Systems PI Meeting. Grant total: $21,759.
August 21, 2019
Kamaljeet Sanghera receives funding from the National Center for Women & Information Technology
Kamaljeet Sanghera received funding from the National Center for Women & Information Technology for Rise Up 4 CS Program. Grant total: $15,980.
August 21, 2019
Kenneth De Jong receives funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Kenneth De Jong received funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for Cognitive Maps in Rats, Robots and Men: A Brain-Inspired, Neuroevolutionary Approach. Anticipated funding $51,316.
August 21, 2019
Giorgio Ascoli receives funding from the National Institutes of Health
Giorgio Ascoli received funding from the National Institutes of Health for Cytoskeletal Mechanisms of Dendrite Arbor Shape Development. Anticipated funding $804,623.
August 21, 2019
Aditya Johri receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Aditya Johri received funding from the National Science Foundation for Collaborative EAGER: Novel Ethnographic Investigations of Engineering Workplaces to Advance Theory and Research Methods for Preparing the Future Workforce. Grant total: $80,582.
August 6, 2019
Ji Xu receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Ji Xu received funding from the National Science Foundation for Collaborative Research: Improving Power Grids Weather Resilience through Model-free Dimension Reduction and Stochastic Search for Optimal Hardening. Grant tota: $72,508.
August 6, 2019
Amarda Shehu receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Amarda Shehu received funding from the National Science Foundation for FET: Medium: Collaborative Research: Automated Analysis and Exploration of High-dimensional and Multimodal Molecular Energy Landscapes. Grant total: $580,000.
August 6, 2019
Elise Miller-Hooks receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Elise Miller-Hooks received funding from the National Science Foundation for NNA Track 1: Arctic impacts and reverberations of expanding global maritime trade routes. Grant total $3,000,000.
August 6, 2019
Mohan Venigalla receives funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation
Mohan Venigalla received funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation for a Shared Mobility Services Fellowship. Award amount $82,232.
August 6, 2019
Amarda Shehu and Liang Zhao receive funding from the National Science Foundation
Amarda Shehu and Liang Zhao received funding from the National Science Foundation for III: Small: Graph Generative Deep Learning for Protein Structure Prediction, Total award: $499,800.
July 25, 2019
Elise Miller-Hooks and David Lattanzi receive funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation
Elise Miller-Hooks and David Lattanzi received funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation for "Strategic Prioritization and Planning of Transportation Infrastructure Maintenance, Rehabilitation, and Improvements Incorporating Continuously-Sensed Data." Grant total: $261,511.
July 25, 2019
Burak Tanyu receives funding from Huesker, Inc.
Burak Tanyu receives funding from Huesker, Inc. for "Stabilization with Geosynthetics of Foundation Soils in Roadway Systems." Total award: $40,353.
July 11, 2019
Wenying Ji and Noseong Park receive funding from the Jeffress Memorial Trust
Wenying Ji and Noseong Park receive funding from the Jeffress Memorial Trust for "Decision Support System for Enhanced Infrastructure System Serviceability Following Natural Disasters: A Social Media Mining Approach." Total award: $120,000.
July 11, 2019
Liang Zhao, and Amarda Shehu receive funding from the Jeffress Memorial Trust
Liang Zhao and Amarda Shehu received funding from the Jeffress Memorial Trust for "Evaluation of Molecular Structures via Deep Learning." Total award: $120,000.
July 11, 2019
Feitian Zhang, David Lattanzi and Jill Nelson receive funding from the Jeffress Memorial Trust
Feitian Zhang, David Lattanzi and Jill Nelson receive funding from the Jeffress Memorial Trust for "A Computational Approach to Autonomous Monitoring of Subsea Infrastructure." Total award: $120,000.
July 11, 2019
Qiliang Li receives funding from Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate
Qiliang Li received funding from Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate for "Novel cross-reactive chemical sensor arrays based on metal oxides and nanomaterials." Grant total: $15,000.
June 2019
Parag Chitnis receives funding from George Mason University
Parag Chitnis received funding from George Mason University for CASBBI Summer. Award total $5,000.
June 2019
Siddhartha Sikdar receives funding from the Center for Innovative Technology
Siddhartha Sikdar received funding from the Center for Innovative Technology for "Wearable Ultrasound System for Robust Sensing of Muscle Activation." Grant total: $98,456.
June 2019
Nathalia Peixoto receives funding from the University of Bath
Nathalia Peixoto received funding from the University of Bath for "Hybrid electrophysiology platform to selectively record both glial and nueronal activity." Award amount $7,820.
June 2019
John Shortle receives funding from the Federal Aviation Administration
John Shortle received funding from the Federal Aviation Administration for "Risk Indicators and Common Cause Failures for the Integrated Safety Assessment Model." Anticipated funding $136,163.
June 2019
John Shortle receives funding from the Federal Aviation Administration
John Shortle received funding from the Federal Aviation Administration for "Operational Support for Integrated Safety Assessment Model and Airport Surface Anomaly Investigation Capability," Anticipated funding $144,022.
June 2019
Celso Moller Ferreira receives funding from First Street Foundation
Celso Moller Ferreira received funding from First Street Foundation for "Towards the next generation of U.S. historical coastal flooding record: Hydrodynamic modeling of historical storm surges." Grant total: $39,150.
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Mulpur receives funding from Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate
Rao V. Mulpur received funding for "Germanium Pinned Photo-diode for Image Sensors" from Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate. Grant total: $50,000.
June 2019
Robert Handler receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Rober Handler received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: Targeting Turbulence Using Smart Particles." Grant total: $243,687.
May 2019
Ozlem Uzuner receives funding from the US Department of Health and Human Service
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r received funding US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for "National NLP Clinical Challenges (n2c2): Challenges in Natural Language Processing for Clinical Narratives." Grant total: $20,000.
May 2019
Noseong Park receives funding from the National Security Research Institute, Korea
Noseong Park received funding for "A Study of the Next-gen SOC Framework" from the National Security Research Institute, Korea. Grant total: $80,000.
May 2019
Robert Simon receives funding from the George Mason University Foundation
Robert Simon received funding from the George Mason University Foundation for "Resiliency of IOT Systems." Grant total: $11,267.
May 2019
Jonathan Bell receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Jonathan Bell received funding from the National Science Foundation for "Amplifying Developer-Written Tests for Code Injection Vulnerability Detection." Anticipated funding: $500,000.
May 2019
Behzad Esmaeili receives funding from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Behzad Esmaeili received funding for "Using Unmanned Aerial Systems for Automated Fall Hazards Monitoring in High-rise Construction Projects." Grant total: $10,000.
May 2019
Burak Tanyu receives funding from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation
Burak Tanyu received funding from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for "Suitability of using Recycled Concrete Aggregate (RCA) as suitable backfill in Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) walls reinforced with geotextiles." Grant total: $75,437.
May 9, 2019
Jessica Lin receives funding from the Department of Energy
Jessica Lin received funding from the Department of Energy for “Anomaly Detection and Surety for Safeguards Data” Anticipated funding: $285,000.
May 1, 2019
Jie Xu receives funding from the Department of Energy
Jie Xu received funding from the Department of Energy for “Simulation-based Optimization for Optimal Power Line Hardening.” Award amount: $19,801.
April 25, 2019
Alexander Levis and Robert Elder receive funding from the U.S. Air Force
Alexander Levis and Robert Elder received funding from the U.S. Air Force for “Multi-domain C2 (MD-C2) "Clean Sheet" Implementation.” Grant total: $184,000.
April 11, 2019
Bill Rosenberger receives funding from the National Institutes of Health
Bill Rosenberger received funding from NIH for “Defining the Neural Circuitry of Agency Deficits in Psychotic Disorders.” Anticipated funding: $81,666.
April 11, 2019
Cameron Nowzari receives funding from the U.S. Department of the Navy
Cameron Nowzari received funding from the Navy for “Enabling Emergent Behaviors in Unmanned Robotic Swarm Systems.” Award amount: $110, 025.
April 11, 2019
Jyh-Ming Lien receives funding from the U.S. Army
Jyh-Ming Lien received funding from the U.S. Army for Modeling of Laser Formed Structures.” Grant total: $60,000.
April 4, 2019
Leigh McCue-Weil receives funding from the Department of Health and Human Services
Leigh McCue-Weil received funding from DHS for “Acceptance and Use of Mobile Apps for Commercial Fishing Safety.” Grant total: $11,775.
April 4, 2019
Angelos Stavrou and Jean-Pierre Auffret receive funding from DARPA
Angelos Stavrou and Jean-Pierre Auffret receive funding from DARPA for “Enhanced Cyber Defense by Leveraging Involuntary Analog Emissions.” Grant total: $1,074,331.
April 4, 2019
Jonathan Bell, Thomas LaToza, and Foteini Baldimtsi receive funding from the NSA
Jonathan Bell, Thomas LaToza, and Foteini Baldimtsi received funding from the NSA for their grant Blockchaining Collaborative Data Management. Anticipated funding: $236,213.
March 20, 2019
Elise Miller-Hooks, David Lattanzi, and Jonathan Gifford receive funding from the Virginia Transportation Research Council
Elise Miller-Hooks, David Lattanzi, and Jonathan Gifford received funding from the Virginia Transportation Research Council for their grant “Accounting for Downtime Effects in Maintenance & Restoration Scheduling for Routing, Periodic & Post Disaster Events.” Anticipated funding: $300,000.
March 20, 2019
Mark Pullen receives funding from NATO
Mark Pullen received funding from NATO for his grant “C2SIM Sandbox.” Award amount: $22,500.
March 20, 2019
Celso Moller Ferreira receives funding from Alexandria Renew Enterprises
Celso Moller Ferreira received funding from Alexandria Renew Enterprises for his grant “Combined Sewer Overflow Monitoring in Alexandria, Virginia.” Award amount: $164,429.
March 20, 2019
George Hazelrigg receives funding from NSF for Proposal Writing Workshop
George Hazelrigg from the Department of Mechanical Engineering received $6,595 from the NSF.
February 28, 2019
Martin Slawski receives funding from NSF
Martin Slawski, assistant professor in the Department of Statistics, received $174,942 from the National Science Foundation for “New Directions in Learning from Data with Faulty Correspondence.”
February 14, 2019
Thomas LaToza receives funding from NSF
Thomas LaToza, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for “Debugging Mental Models.” Anticipated funding is $514,962.
February 14, 2019
Vadim Sokolov receives funding from the US Department of Transportation
Vadim Sokolov was awarded $50,000 from the US DOT for the Eisenhower Fellowship.
January 24, 2019
Behzad Esmaeili receives funding from the US Department of Labor
Behzad Esmaeili was awarded $34,985 in funding from the US Department of Labor for “Silica Protection in the Construction Industry.”
January 24, 2019
Liansheng Tang receives funding from the US Department of Justice (Office of Justice Programs)
Liansheng Tang was awarded $197,669 from the US Department of Justice (Office of Justice Programs) for “Statistical Infrastructure for the Use of Error Rate Studies in the Interpretation of Forensic Evidence”
January 24, 2019
Robert Simon receives funding from the Department of Defense
Robert Simon was awarded $76,786 from the Department of Defense for “Industrial Internet of Things.”
January 24, 2019
Robert Elder and Alexander Levis receive funding from the US Army
Robert Elder and Alexander Levis receive $155,000 from the US Army for “Strategic Multilayer Assessment (SMA): Strategic Outcomes.”
December 6, 2018
Daniel Barbara received funding from DTRA
Daniel Barbara received $302,376 from DTRA for “Parsing and Role Labeling in Combination Effort.”
December 6, 2018
Massimiliano Albanese received funding from AFRL
Massimiliano Albanese received the first installment of $32,104 from AFRL for “Configuration Security.” Anticipated funding for the grant is $609,611.
December 6, 2018
Sushil Jajodia and Massimiliano Albanese received funding from Army Research Lab
Sushil Jajodia and Massimiliano Albanese received $50,006 from Army Research Lab for “Statement of Work for ARL BAA W911NF-14-R-0001 TaksOrder3, Cyber Security Applied Research and Experimentation Partner.”
December 6, 2018
Angelos Stavrou received funding from DARPA
Angelos Stavrou received $86,924 from DARPA for “Enhanced Cyber Defense by Leveraging Involuntary Analog Emissions.”
December 6, 2018
Kamaljeet Sanghera recieves funding from Go Virginia Foundation
Kamaljeet Sanghera was awarded $3,000 for “Go Virginia NVTTP Mason”
November 8, 2018
Duminda Wijesekera receives funding from the Federal Railroad Administration
Duminda Wijesekera was awarded $145,651 from the Federal Railroad Administration for “Technical Support for DOT Positive Train Control Program.”
November 8, 2018
Elise Miller-Hooks recieves funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation
Elise Miller-Hooks of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering was awarded $150,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
November 1, 2018
Siddhartha Sikdar receives funding from the National Institutes of Health
Siddhartha Sikdar was awarded $58,877 for “Sonomyographic Control of Fiber-Optically Sensorized Prosthetic Fingers for Graded Force Actuation” from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Ocotber 10, 2018
Juan Cebral receives funding from the National Institutes of Health
Juan Cebral was awarded $115,000 for “Computational and Biological Approach to Flow Diversion” from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
ANTICIPATED FUNDING: $575,000
October 10, 2018
Behzad Esmaeili receives funding from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Behzad Esmaeili was awarded $24,581 for “Construction Solutions: ROI Calculators For Prevention Through Design (PtD) And Noise Protection” by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
October 10, 2018
David Lattanzi receives funding from U.S. Department of Transportation
David Lattanzi, from the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering received $124,469 for "Data Fusion and Visualization for Bridge Management."
September 27, 2018
William Roeting, Mark Pullen, and Sherry Crissman received funding from the U.S. Department of the Air Force (USAF)
William Roeting, Mark Pullen, and Sherry Crissman received $20,481,000 for MUDLAN Enhanced Rapid Integration for Transition (MERIT)."
September 27, 2018
Jens-Peter Kaps and Krzysztof Gaj received funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce
Jens-Peter Kaps and Krzysztof Gaj from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department received $164,694 for "Lightweight Cryptography in Hardware and Embedded Systems."
September 27, 2018
Sushil Jajodia receives funding from US Department of the Navy
Sushil Jajodia from the Center for Secure Information Systems recieved $7,500,000 for "Generating Documents that are Consistent with a Knowledge Base."
September 20, 2018
Kun Sun receives funding from the Office of Naval Research
Kun Sun received $943,375 for "A Scalable High Fidelity Decoy Framework against Decoy Evasion Techniques."
September 20, 2018
Jim Jones recieves funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Jim Jones of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department received $150,000 for "CINA P2: Digital Media Sector Hashing for Evidence Correlation."
September 20, 2018
Kuo Tian and Burak Tanyu receive funding from the Virginia Transportation Research Counci
Kuo Tian and Burak Tanyu of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure received $175,772 for "Existing Condition, Assessment, Remaining Service Life Prediction and Evaluation of Repair Methods for VDOTs Salt Water Detention Ponds."
September 20, 2018
Amarda Shehu receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Amarda Shehu from the Computer Science Department recieved $397,243 (Anticipated Funding: $449,074) for her grant titled, "III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Guiding Exploration of Protein Structure Spaces with Deep Learning."
Donald Gantz recieves funding from the US Department of Justice (Office of Justice Programs)
Donald Gantz of the Department of Information Sciences and Technology recieved 470,372 from the US Department of Justice (Office of Justice Programs) for his grant "Statistical Error Estimation for an Objective Measure of Similarity to a Latent Image."
September 13, 2018
Krzysztof Gaj; Jens-Peter Kaps receive funding from NSF
Krzysztof Gaj; Jens-Peter Kaps from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department recieved $105,571 (Anticipated funding: $450,000) from the National Science Foundation for their grant "SaTC: CORE: Medium: Collaborative: Countermeasures Against Side-Channels Attacks Targeting Hardware and Embedded System Implementations of Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithms."
September 13, 2018
Qiliang Li and Dimitrios Ioannou Receive Funding from NSF
Qiliang Li and Dimitrios Ioannou of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department received $360,000 from the National Science Foundation for their project, “Topological Insulator Field Effect Transistors for Memory and Sensors.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Sushil Jajodia Receives Funding from NIST
Sushil Jajodia of the Information Sciences and Technology Department received $50,558 from the US Department of Commerce (NIST) for his project, “Hardening Cloud Infrastructures against Insider Attacks and Evolving Attack Surface.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Kathleen Wage Receives Funding from U.S. Navy
Kathleen Wage of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department received $47,000 (with $571,994 anticipated funding) from the U.S. Department of the Navy for her project, “Random Matrix Theory Analysis of Adaptive Beamformers.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Özlem Uzuner Receives Funding from MIT
Özlem Uzuner of the Information Sciences and Technology Department received $67,179 from the MIT for her project, “NLP-driven Predictive Models for Patient Deterioration and Therapy Response.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Robert Handler Receives Funding from Alaire Technologies, Inc. and NRL
Robert Handler of the Mechanical Engineering Department received $12,000 from Alaire Technologies, Inc. and Naval Research Laboratory for his project, “Atmospheric Boundary Layer Simulations.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Feitian Zhang Receives Funding from UCF
Feitian Zhang of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department received $25,499 from the University of Central Florida for his project, “Realtime Distributed Flow Sensing: Algorithms and Its Application in Aquatic Environmental Monitoring Using AUVs.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Behzad Esmaeili Receives Funding from NSF
Behzad Esmaeili of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering received $121,986 from the National Science Foundation for his project, “Collaborative Research: Measuring Attention, Working Memory, and Visual Perception To Reduce Risk of Injuries in the Construction Industry.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Jonathan Bell Receives Funding from NSF
Jonathan Bell of the Department of Computer Science received $191,274 (with $399,591 anticipated funding) from the National Science Foundation for his project, “SHF: Medium: Collaborative Research: Enhancing Continuous Integration Testing for the Open-Source Ecosystem.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Alexander Levis and Robert Elder Receive Funding from UMD and ONR
Alexander Levis and Robert Elder of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department received $72,579 from the University of Maryland and the Office of Naval Research for their project, “Escalation Management in the Gray Zone.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Kai Zeng Receives Funding from Army Research Office
Kai Zeng of the Department of Computer Science received $21,214 from the Army Research Service for his project, “Conference and Symposia Grants: IEEE CNS Conference Student Travel Support Proposal.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Jonathan Bell Receives Funding from NSF
Jonathan Bell of the Department of Computer Science received $30,000 from the National Science Foundation for his project, “NSF Student Travel Grant for 2018 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH).”
Sept. 6, 2018
Ali Beheshti Receives Funding from Dept. of Energy & Texas A&M University
Ali Beheshti of the Department of Mechanical Engineering received $134,700 from the Department of Energy and Texas A&M University for his project, “High Temperature Tribological Performance of Ni Alloys Under Helium Environment for Very High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors (VHTRs).”
Sept. 6, 2018
Kun Sun Receives Funding from NSF
Kun Sun of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $48,500 from the National Science Foundation for his project, “Visioning Workshop on Programmable Security in a Software-Defined World.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Elise Miller-Hooks and Vadim Sokolov Receive Funding from NSF
Elise Miller-Hooks of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering and Vadim Sokolov of the Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department received $488,501 from the National Science Fundation for their project, “Data-enabled Decision-Making in Emerging Co-opetitive Transportation Markets with Ambiguity.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Sushil Jajodia, Massimiliano Albanese, Ioulia Rytikova, and Khondkar Islam Receive Funding from NSA
Sushil Jajodia, Massimiliano Albanese, Ioulia Rytikova, and Khondkar Islam of the Information Sciences and Technology Department received $159,612 for their DoD Cybersecurity Scholarship Program.
Sept. 6, 2018
Duminda Wijesekera Receives Funding from NIST
Duminda Wijesekera of the Center for Assured Research and Engineering received $85,023 from the U.S. Department of Commerce for his project, “Cloud Forensic Analysis using Volatile Memory, System calls and IDS Alerts.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Robert Elder and Alexander Levis Receive Funding from Johns Hopkins Univ. and NAVSEA
Robert Elder and Alexander Levis of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department received $50,000 from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and NAVSEA for their project, “National C3 (NC3) Architecture Modernization.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Wanli Qiao and Amarda Shehu Receive Funding from NSF
Wanli Qiao of the Statistics Department and Amarda Shehu of the Computer Science Department received $118,718 from the National Science Foundation for their project, “Statistical Inference for Molecular Landscapes.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Amarda Shehu and J Chen Receive Funding from NSF
Amarda Shehu of the Computer Science Department and J Chen from the University of Missouri received a Collaborative Medium Grant from the National Science Foundation for her project, “Guiding Exploration of Protein Structure Spaces with Deep Learning.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Rao V. Mulpuri Receives Funding from NSF
Rao V. Mulpuri of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department received $150,000 from the National Science Foundation for his project, “EAGER: Exploratory Research on Developing Low-cost Sensors for Mobile Devices.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Laurence Bray, Qi Wei, and Jill Nelson Receive Funding from NSF
Laurence Bray and Qi Wei of the Bioengineering Department and Jill Nelson of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department received $299,951 for their project, “Life STEM EAGER: Exploring the Relationship between High School Mathematics and Bioscience, Standardized Testing and College Performance in Biotechnology-related Fields.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Louise Shelley and Chien Chung Huang Receive Funding from NSF
Louise Shelley of the Schar School of Policy and Government and Chien Chung Huang of the Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research received $295,968 from the National Science Foundation for their project, “EAGER: ISN: A New Multi-Layered Network Approach for Improving the Detection of Human Trafficking.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Parth Pathak Receives Funding from NSF
Parth Pathak of the Computer Science Department received $263,116 from the National Science Foundation for his project, “NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Reliable 60 GHz WLANs through Coordination: Measurement, Modeling, and Optimization.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Kun Sun Receives Funding from NSF
Kun Sun of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $489,287 from the National Science Foundation for his project, “SaTC: TTP: Small: Enhancing Container Security via Fine-Grained System Resource Constraints.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Jill Nelson Receives Funding from U.S. Navy
Jill Nelson of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department received $86,402 for her project, “Building a Goal Reasoning Architecture for Cognitive Active Sonar.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Lance Sherry Receives Funding from ASSETT, Inc. and DOD
Lance Sherry of the Center for Air Transportation Systems Research received $37,500 from ASSETT, Inc. and the Department of Defense for his project, “Situational Awareness for Mission Critical Ship Systems.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Shanjiang Zhu Receives Funding from Virginia Transportation Research Council
Shanjiang Zhu of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering received $72,866 from Virginia Transportation Research Council for his project, “Improving Inventory and Investment of Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities Through Targeted Public Outreach.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Hemant Purohit Receives Funding from NSF
Hemant Purohit of the Information Sciences and Technology Department received $259,701 from the National Science Foundation for his project, “III: Small: Collaborative Research: Summarizing Heterogenous Crowdsourced and Web Streams Using Uncertain Concept Graphs.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Sushil Jajodia and Kun Sun Receives Funding from Intelligent Automation, Inc. and Air Force
Sushil Jajodia and Kun Sun of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $50,000 from Intelligent Automation, Inc. and the U.S. Air Force for their project, “Requirement Analysis on SDN Deployment in Federal Agency Network Operation Environment.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Krzysztof Gaj and Jens-Peter Kaps Receive Funding from NIST
Krzysztof Gaj and Jens-Peter Kaps of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department received $161,918 (with $500,000 anticipated funding) for their project, “Post-Quantum Cryptography in Hardware and Embedded Systems.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Sushil Jajodia, Massimiliano Albanese, Rajesh Ganesan, Emanuela Marasco, and Kun Sun Receive Funding from NSF
Sushil Jajodia and Kun Sun of the Center for Secure Information Systems, Massimiliano Albanese and Rajesh Ganesan of the Center for Secure Information Systems, and Emanuela Marasco of the Information Sciences and Technology Department received $99,994 (with $499,604 anticipated funding) from the National Science Foundation for their project, “Phase II IUCRC George Mason University: Center for Cybersecurity Analytics and Automation CCAA.”
Sept. 6, 2018
William Roeting, Mark Pullen, and Sherry Crissman Receive Funding from USAF
William Roeting, Mark Pullen, and Sherry Crissman of the C4I and Cyber Center received $18,663,000 from the U.S. Department of the Air Force for their project, “MUDLAN Enhanced Rapid Integration for Transition (MERIT).”
Sept. 6, 2018
Jill Nelson, Jaime Lester, Jessica Rosenberg, Robert Sachs, and Stephanie Foster Received Funding from NSF
Jill Nelson of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Jaime Lester of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jessica Rosenberg of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Robert Sachs of the Mathematical Sciences Department, and Stephanie Foster of the Office of Undergraduate Education received $1,745,118 from the National Science Foundation for their project, “Collaborative Research: Building a Culture of Active Learning through Course-Based Communities of Transformation.”
Sept. 6, 2018
Peggy Brouse, Kai Zeng, and James Jones Receive Funding from NSA
Peggy Brouse of the Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department with Kai Zeng and James Jones of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department received $396,205 from the National Security Agency for their Cyber P3 Scholarship Program.
Sept. 6, 2018
Lian Zhao Receives Funding from National Science Foundation
Liang Zhao of the Department of Information Science and Technology has been awarded $174,990 from the National Science Foundation for “CRII: III: Interpretable Models for Spatio-Temporal Event Forecasting using Social Sensors.”
August 9, 2018
Karla Hoffman Receives Funding from US Department of the Navy
Karla Hoffman of the Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research has been awarded $65,000 from the US Department of the Navy for “Managing Wireless Networks on the Battlefield and Combatting Jamming Attacks.”
August 9, 2018
Kenneth Hintz Is Awarded Funding from the US Department of the Navy
Kenneth Hintz of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been awarded $105,408 from the US Department of the Navy(NPS) for “Developing SIEV-nets from non-Bayesian Resources."
August 9, 2018
Rochelle Jones Receives Funding from TECHSOURCE, Inc. and the US Department of Energy
Rochelle Jones of the Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research has been awarded $33,000 from TECHSOURCE, Inc. and the US Department of Energy for “Systems Engineering Support for National Nuclear Safety.”
August 9, 2018
Oscar Barton Receives Funding from the Office of Naval Research
Oscar Barton of the Department of Mechanical Engineering has been awarded $65,000 from Office of Naval Research (ONR) for “Enhancing Opportunities for Outreach and Workforce Development between George Mason University and the U.S. Navy.”
August 9, 2018
Guonqing Diao Receives Funding from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Guoqing Diao of the Department of Statistics has been awarded $13,878 from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for “Methods for Interim Analysis with Incomplete Adjudication of Events.”
August 9, 2018
Xinyuan Wang Receives Funding from CyberRock and the US Army
Xinyuan Wang of the Department of Computer Science has been awarded $280,352 from CyberRock, Inc and the US Army for “Tactical Immune System based on Dynamically Assigned Sense of Self (Phase II).”
August 9, 2018
Anand Vidyashankar Recieves Funding from McKesson Corp.
Anand Vidyashankar of the Department of Statistics has been awarded $37,500 from McKesson Corporation for “Security Analytics for Sensitive Healthcare Data.”
August 9, 2018
Anand Vidyashankar Recieves Funding from McKesson Corp.
Anand Vidyashankar of the Department of Statistics has been awarded $120,000 from McKesson Corporation for “Hypothesis Testing Framework for Evaluating Risk.”
Siddhartha Sikdar Is Awarded Funding from the National Science Foundation
Siddhartha Sikdar of the Department of Bioengineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been awarded $415,931 from the National Science Foundation for “CPS:Synergy: Collaborative Research: Closed-loop Hybrid Exoskeleton utilizing Wearable Ultrasound Imaging Sensors for Measuring Fatigue.”
August 9, 2018
Mark Pullen & Nicholas Clark Receive Funding from COLSA Corp. & U.S. Army
Mark Pullen & Nicholas Clark of the C4I & Cyber Center received $152K from COLSA Corporation and the U.S. Army for their project, “C2SIM Cyber Prototype.”
April 30, 2018
George Hazelrigg Receives Funding from NSF
George Hazelrigg of the Mechanical Engineering Department received $17K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “Workshop/Collaborative Research: NSF Proposal Writing Workshop at 46th SME NAMRC and ASME MSEC 2018; Texas A&M University; College Station, Texas; June 18, 2018.”
April 23, 2018
Sherry Crissman, Bill Roeting & Mark Pullen Receive Major Funding from AFRL
Sherry Crissman, Bill Roeting & Mark Pullen of the C4I & Cyber Center received $24.5M from the Air Force Research Laboratory for their project, "MUDLAN JCTD"
April 16, 2018
Mark Pullen Receives Funding from NATO
Mark Pullen of the C4I & Cyber Center received $12K from NATO for his project, “C2SIM Sandbox.”
April 16, 2018
Robert Gallo Receives Funding from BEST & DoD
Robert Gallo of the Mechanical Engineering Department received $18K from Building Engineering and Science Talent (BEST) and the Department of Defense for his project, “Dept of Defense Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Outreach.”
April 16, 2018
Fei Li Receives Funding from Health Network Resource Group & NSF
Fei Li of the Computer Science Department received $68K from Health Network Resource Group LLC and the National Science Foundation for his project, “STTR Phase I: Accelerating the dissemination of healthcare interventions that improve care for high-need/high-cost patients.”
April 9, 2018
Song Min Kim Receives Funding from NSF
Song Min Kim of the Computer Science Department received $266K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Transparent Cross-technology Communication in Wireless Networks.”
April 9, 2018
Juan Cebral Receives Funding from Travis C. Valentine Memorial Aneurysm Research Fund
Juan Cebral of the Bioengineering Department received $24K from the Travis C. Valentine Memorial Aneurysm Research Fund for his project, “Neuroscience and Brain Aneurysm Research.”
April 9, 2018
Vadim Sokolov Receives Funding from RPI & Dept. of Energy
Vadim Sokolov of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $112K from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the U.S. Department of Energy for his project, “Energy Efficient Logistics: Behavior-Based Policymaking at NYC-Albany Corridor.”
April 2, 2018
Bill Roeting Receives Funding from Foundry Defense Systems & U.S. Air Force
Bill Roeting of the C4I & Cyber Center received $19K from Foundry Defense Systems, Inc., and the U.S. Air Force for his project, “Resilient Autonomous Secure Common Operating Picture.”
March 19, 2018
Alex Brodsky & Danny Menascé Receive Funding from NIST
Alex Brodsky & Danny Menascé of the Computer Science Department received $145K from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for their project, “Manufacturing model repository: methods and standards for construction, reuse, and decision support.”
March 19, 2018
Angelos Stavrou & Dan Fleck Receive Funding from Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc.
Angelos Stavrou & Dan Fleck of the Center for Assured Research & Engineering received $23K from Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc. for their project, “Anti-Ransomware Testing.”
March 19, 2018
Houman Homayoun Receives Funding from U California (San Diego) & DARPA
Houman Homayoun of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $60K from the University of California, San Diego, & DARPA for his project, “Mobilizing the Micro-Ops: Securing Processor Architectures via Context-Sensitive Decoding.”
March 19, 2018
Huzefa Rangwala, Mark Snyder, Aditya Johri, & Jaime Lester Receive Funding from NSF
Huzefa Rangwala & Mark Snyder of the Computer Science Department, Aditya Johri of the Information Sciences and Technology Department, and Jaime Lester of the College of Humanities & Social Sciences received $360K from the National Science Foundation for their project, “REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Educational Data Mining.”
March 19, 2018
Mohan Venigalla Receives Funding from U.S. Dept. of Transportation
Mohan Venigalla of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $5K from the U.S. Department of Transportation for his project, “Dwight Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program Graduate Fellowship.”
March 5, 2018
Özlem Uzuner Receives Funding from National Library of Medicine
Özlem Uzuner of the Information Sciences and Technology Department received $20K from the National Library of Medicine for her project, “Challenges in Natural Language Processing in Clinical Text.”
March 5, 2018
Burak Tanyu Receives Funding from Virginia Transportation Research Council
Burak Tanyu of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $28K from the Virginia Transportation Research Council for his project, “Evaluating the Contribution of Geotextile to the Performance of the Roadways.”
February 26, 2018
Giorgio Ascoli, Diek Wheeler, & Ruben Armananzas Receive Funding from USC & NIH
Giorgio Ascoli of the Bioengineering Department, and Diek Wheeler, & Ruben Armananzas of the Krasnow Institute received $2.4M from the University of Southern California and the National Institutes of Health for their project, “Anatomical Characterization of Neuronal Cell Types of the Mouse Brain.”
February 26, 2018
Avesta Sasan Receives Funding from AFRL & DARPA
Avesta Sasan of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $375K from the Air Force Research Laboratory and DARPA for his project, “Advanced Voltage Variation Aware Timing Analysis & Reporting (AVATAR).”
February 19, 2018
Larry Tang Receives Funding from MITRE & US Dept. of Treasury
Larry Tang of the Statistics Department received $30K from MITRE and the U.S. Department of the Treasury for his project, “IRS Stratified Sampling Methods.”
February 19, 2018
Nitin Agrawal & Ramin Hakami Receive Funding from NIH
Nitin Agrawal of the Bioengineering Department and Ramin Hakami of the College of Science received $430K from the National Institutes of Health for their project, “Exosomes on a Chip: Real-time monitoring of intercellular communication and immune responses during infections.”
February 12, 2018
Avesta Sasan, Kris Gaj, & Houman Homayoun Receive Funding from AFRL & DARPA
Avesta Sasan, Kris Gaj, & Houman Homayoun of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $495K from the Air Force Research Laboratory and DARPA for their project, “3D Split of Obfuscation, Authentication and Licensing (3D-SOUL).”
February 12, 2018
Behzad Esmaeili Receives Funding from U Florida & US Dept. of Labor
Behzad Esmaeili of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $17K from the University of Florida and the U.S. Department of Labor for his project, “Using 360 Panoramic Augmented Reality to Create a Fall Prevention Training Platform.”
February 12, 2018
Huzefa Rangwala Receives Funding from DHS
Houman Homayoun of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $210K from the Department of Homeland Security for his project, “CINA P1: Tracing Networks of Gangs using Data Analytics.”
February 5, 2018
Houman Homayoun Receives Funding from NSF
Houman Homayoun of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $15K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “Planning IUCRC George Mason University: Center for Hardware and Embedded System Security and Trust (CHEST).”
February 5, 2018
Guoqing Diao Receives Funding from Otsuka Pharmaceuticals
Guoqing Diao of the Statistics Department received $56K from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization Inc. for his project, “Academic Research Collaboration between Otsuka and GMU.”
January 22, 2013
Celso Ferreira Receives Funding from The Nature Conservancy
Celso Ferreira of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $21K from The Nature Conservancy for his project, “Marsh Resilience.”
January 22, 2018
Paul Ammann Receives Funding from MITRE
Paul Ammann of the Computer Science Department received $34K from the MITRE Corportation for his project, “Automated Test Decision Framework.”
January 16, 2018
Kuo Tian Receives Funding from Environmental Research & Education Foundation
Kuo Tian of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering received $150K from the Environmental Research & Education Foundation for his project, “Liner Systems for Aggressive Leachates from Coal-Fired Power Plant Wastes.”
January 8, 2018
Laurence Bray Receives Funding from Manufacturing Techniques Inc. & US Army
Laurence Bray of the Bioengineering Department received $20K from Manufacturing Techniques Inc. & the U.S. Army for her project, “Wearable Sensing Technology for Neuronal Training and Rehabilitation.”
January 8, 2018
Daniel Lofaro Receives Funding from Amazon Robotics
Daniel Lofaro of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $20K from Amazon Robotics LLC for his project, “Autonomous Robotic Manipulation and Stowing System for Warhorse Settings.”
Dec. 18, 2017
Behzad Esmaeili Receives Funding from CPWR & NIOSH
Behzad Esmaeili of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $10K from the Center for Construction Research and Training and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health for his project, “Construction Solutions Project: Struck-by Incidents and Impact Measurement.”
Dec. 12, 2017
Duminda Wijisekera Receives Funding from Rutgers U & Federal Railroad Administration
Duminda Wijisekera of the Center for Assured Research & Engineering received $300K from Rutgers University and the Federal Railroad Administration for his project, “Cyber Security Risk Management for Connected Railroads.”
Dec. 4, 2017
Lance Sherry & John Shortle Receive Funding from Intelligent Automation & NASA
Lance Sherry & John Shortle of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $75K from Intelligent Automation Inc. & NASA for their project, “Metrosim and ACES Testing to Support New York Novel Airspace Configurations (NYNAC).”
Nov. 20, 2017
David Lattanzi Receives Funding from ONR
David Lattanzi of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $391K from the Office of Naval Research for his project, “High-dimensional Life-Cycle Modeling for Naval Survey Assessments.”
Nov. 13, 2017
Lance Sherry & John Shortle Receive Funding from U Maryland & FAA
Lance Sherry & John Shortle of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $150K from the Naval Postgraduate School for his project, “Research Support Services for Cross-Domain Pseudo-Sensor for Enhanced ORM.”
Nov. 6, 2017
Ken Hintz Receives Funding from Naval Postgraduate School
Ken Hintz of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $150K from the Naval Postgraduate School for his project, “Research Support Services for Cross-Domain Pseudo-Sensor for Enhanced ORM.”
Oct. 30, 2017
Siddhartha Sikdar Receives Funding from U Maryland, Baltimore
Siddhartha Sikdar of the Bioengineering Department received $28K from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, for his project, “ACCOF (Asymptomatic Cartoid Stenosis: Cognitive Function and Plaque Correlates).”
Oct. 30, 2017
Kun Sun Receives Funding from Colorado School of Mines & Army Research Office
Kun Sun of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $43K from the Colorado School of Mines & the Army Research Office for his project, “Enabling and Securing Robotic Team Situational Awareness.”
Oct. 30, 2017
John Shortle Receives Funding from U Maryland & FAA
John Shortle of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $90K from the University of Maryland and the Federal Aviation Administration for his project, “NEXTOR II: DO44: Wake Turbulence Research: Phase 4- 3rd Year.”
Oct. 23, 2017
Carolina Salvador-Morales Receives Funding from NSF
Carolina Salvador-Morales of the Bioengineering Department received $50K from the National Science Foundation for her project, “I-Corps: Engineering Polymeric Nanoparticles as Contrast Agents.”
Oct. 23, 2017
Avesta Sasan & Kris Gaj Receive Funding from Semiconductor Research Corp.
Avesta Sasan & Kris Gaj of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $150K from the Semiconductor Research Corporation for their project, “SaTC: STARSS: Small: IoT Circuit Locking, Obfuscation & Authentication Kernel (CLOAK), A compilable architecture for secure IoT device production, testing, activation & operation.”
Oct. 23, 2017
Girum Urgessa Receives Funding from Mason’s Center for Research Estate Entrepreneurship
Girum Urgessa of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $5K from Mason’s Center for Research Estate Entrepreneurship.
Oct.23, 2017
Elham Sahraei Receives Funding from MIT & Battery Consortium
Elham Sahraei of the Mechanical Engineering Department received $573K from the MIT and the Battery Consortium for her project, “Modeling of Lithium Ion Batteries under Mechanical Abuse.”
Oct. 16, 2017
Houman Homayoun, Setareh Rafatirad, & Avesta Sasan Receive Funding from AFRL
Houman Homayoun & Avesta Sasan of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department and Setareh Rafatirad of the Information Sciences and Technology Department received $1.5M from the Air Force Research Laboratory for their project, “Logical Vanishability through Hybrid STT LUT Technology to Prevent Reverse Engineering.”
Oct. 9, 2017
Sushil Jajodia, Max Albanese, & Ioulia Rytikova Receive Funding from NSA
Sushil Jajodia, Max Albanese, & Ioulia Rytikova of the Center for Secure Information Systems and the Information Sciences and Technology Department received $63K from the National Security Agency for their project, “DoD Information Assurance Scholarship Program.”
Oct. 9, 2017
JP Auffret & Angelos Stavrou Receive Funding from NSA
JP Auffret & Angelos Stavrou of the Center for Assured Research & Engineering received $153K from the National Security Agency for their project, “George Mason University CyberSecurity Curricula Development.”
Sept. 25, 2017
Bill Roeting, Sherry Crissman, & Mark Pullen Receive Major Funding from Alion Science & Technology Corp. & US. Dept. of Defense
Bill Roeting, Sherry Crissman, & Mark Pullen of the C4I & Cyber Center received $3.9M from Alion Science & Technology Corporation and the U.S. Department of Defense for their project, MUDLAN, Joint Capabilities Technology Demonstration (JCTD) Phase.
Sept. 18, 2017
Alok Berry Receives Funding from Univ. of Virginia & NSF
Alok Berry of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $62K from the University of Virginia and the National Science Foundation for his project, “Virginia-North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, 2017-2022.”
Sept. 18, 2017
Thomas LaToza Receives Funding from NSF
Thomas LaToza of the Computer Science Department received $593K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “SHF: Medium:Collaborative Research: Programming Strategies.”
Sept. 18, 2017
Kathy Laskey, Abbas Zaidi, & Edward Huang Receives Funding from Innovative Decisions & IARPA
Kathy Laskey, Abbas Zaidi, & Edward Huang of the C4I & Cyber Center and the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $1.2M from Innovative Decisions, Inc. & IARPA for their project, “Interference Enterprise Multi-Modeling.”
Sept. 18, 2017
Sushil Jajodia Receives Funding from US Army
Sushil Jajodia of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $25K from the U.S. Army for his project, “Foundations of Autonomous Adaptive Cyber Systems.”
Sept. 18, 2017
Anand Vidyashankar Receives Funding from McKesson Corp.
Anand Vidyashankar of the Statistics Department received $160K from McKesson Corporation for his project, “Statistical Methods for Identifying Sources of Privacy Risk and Metrics for Complex Longitudinal Data.”
Sept. 11, 2017
Elham Sahraei & Damoon Soudbakhsh Receive Funding from ONR
Elham Sahraei & Damoon Soudbakhsh of the Mechanical Engineering Department received $931K from the Office of Naval Research for their project, “Safety Evaluation of Lithium-ion Batteries Under Combined Mechanical and Electrical Abuse Conditions.”
Sept. 5, 2017
Gerry Tian Receives Funding from NSF
Gerry Tian of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $283K from the National Science Foundation for her project, “BIGDATA: F: Collaborative Research: Acquisition, Collection and Computation of Dynamic Big Sensory Data in Smart Cities.”
September 5, 2017
Margret Hjalmarson, Marvin Powell, & Jill Nelson Receive Funding from Spencer Foundation
Margret Hjalmarson & Marvin Powell of the College of Education and Human Development, and Jill Nelson of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $50K from Spencer Foundation for their project, “Developing a Measure of Student Three-Dimensional Engagement from the Situational Perspective in Undergraduate Mathematics: A Qualitative Phase.”
August 21, 2017
Vasiliki Ikonomidou & Laurence Bray Receive Funding from U. Virginia & U.S. Army
Vasiliki Ikonomidou & Laurence Bray of the Bioengineering Department received $20K from the University of Virginia and the U.S. Army for their project, “VMEC Night Vision Proposal.”
August 21, 2017
Viviana Maggioni, Paul Houser, & Tim Sauer Receive Funding from NASA
Viviana Maggioni of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering, and Paul Houser & Tim Sauer of the College of Science received $882K from NASA for their project, “Integrating remotely sensed phenology observations in a multi-model land data assimilation system.”
August 21, 2017
Song Min Kim Receives Funding from NSF
Song Min Kim of the Computer Science Department received $250K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Transparent Cross-technology Communication in Wireless Networks.”
August 21, 2017
Parth Pathak, Bob Simon, Brian Mark, & Gerry Tian Receive Funding from NSF
Parth Pathak & Bob Simon of the Computer Science Department, and Brian Mark & Gerry Tian of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $844K from the National Science Foundation for their project, “II-NEW: 60 GHz Millimeter-wave Testbed for Multi-gigabit Wireless Networking.”
August 21, 2017
Xiang Chen Receives Funding from NSF
Xiang Chen of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $250K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “CSR: Small: Collaborative Research: EUReCa: Enabling Untethered VR/AR System via Human-centric Graphic Computing and Distributed Data Processing.”August 21, 2017
Daniel Lofaro Receives Funding from NSF
Daniel Lofaro of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $25K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “Doctoral Consortium at the 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2017.”
August 21, 2017
Foteini Baldimtsi Receives Funding from NSF
Foteini Baldimtsi of the Computer Science Department received $250K from the National Science Foundation for her project, “SaTC:CORE:Small:Collaborative: A Broad Treatment of Privacy in Blockchains.”
August 21, 2017
Paulo Costa Receives Funding from Raytheon & Air Force Research Lab
Paulo Costa of the C4I & Cyber Center and the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $275K from Raytheon and the Air Force Research Laboratory for his project, “Derived and Integrated Cyber Effects (DICE).”
August 21, 2017
Hakan Aydin Receives Funding from U Texas (San Antonio) & NSF
Hakan Aydin of the Computer Science Department received $7K from the University of Texas at San Antonio & the National Science Foundation for his project, “Energy-aware standby-sparing for periodic real-time applications on heterogeneous chip multiprocessor systems.”
July 31, 2017
Giorgio Ascoli Receives Funding from Dept. of Health & Human Services
Giorgio Ascoli of the Bioengineering Department received $1.7M from the Department of Health & Human Services for his project, “Generation and Description of Neuronal Morphology and Connectivity.”
July 31, 2017
Gerry Tian Receives Funding from NSF
Gerry Tian of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $277K from the National Science Foundation for her project, “SaTC: CORE: Medium: Collaborative: Privacy Attacks and Defense Mechanisms in Online Social Networks.”
July 31, 2017
Aditya Johri Receives Funding from NSF
Aditya Johri of the Information Sciences and Technology Department received $300K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “Deeper Learning of Data Science (DLDS): Studying Real-world Experiences of Engineering Professionals to Prepare the Future Workforce.”
July 31, 2017
Nitin Agrawal Receives Funding from NSF
Nitin Agrawal of the Bioengineering Department received $88K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “Cellular Biomanufacturing Workshop.”
July 31, 2017
Kris Gaj & Avesta Sasan Receive Funding from NSF
Kris Gaj & Avesta Sasan of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $300K from the National Science Foundation for their project, “SaTC: STARRS: Small: IoT Circuit Locking, Obfuscation & Authentication Kernel (CLOAK).”
July 31, 2017
Viviana Maggioni & Paul Houser Receive Funding from NASA
Viviana Maggioni of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering and Paul Houser of the College of Science received $60K from the NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center for their project, “Next-Generation Large-Scale Fractional Freeze/Thaw Analysis.”
July 31, 2017
Robert Elder Receives Funding from Johns Hopkins Univ. & NAVSEA
Robert Elder of the Mechanical Engineering Department received $110K from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory & NAVSEA for his project, “National C3 (NC3) Architecture Modernization.”
July 31, 2017
Itamara Lochard Receives Funding from ONR
Itamara Lochard of the C4I & Cyber Center received $525K from the Office of Naval Research for their project, “Command and Control of the Information Environment (C2 of IE): Understanding the Social and Technical Aspects of IE in Hybrid Warfare and Complex Operations.”
July 31, 2017
Kathleen Wage Receives Funding from ONR
Kathleen Wage of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $150K from the Office of Naval Research for her project, “BRC: Co-Prime Sensor Array Signal Processing.”
July 31, 2017
Daniel Lofaro Receives Funding from IEEE
Daniel Lofaro of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $3K from the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his project, “SIGHT Project-Smart Hive.”
July 31, 2017
Sean Luke, Bob Simon, & Andrew Crooks Receive Funding from NSF
Sean Luke & Bob Simon of the Computer Science Department and Andrew Crooks of the College of Science received $896K from the National Science Foundation for their project, “CI-EN: Enhancement of a Large-scale Multiagent Simulation Tool.”
July 31, 2017
Mohan Venigalla & Shanjiang Zhu Receive Funding from Howard Univ. & DDOT
Mohan Venigalla & Shanjiang Zhu of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $25K from Howard University & the District Department of Transportation for their project, “Analysis Per Ride Fare Data for Capital Bike Share.”
July 31, 2017
Carolina Salvador Morales & Juan Cebral Receive Funding from NIH
Carolina Salvador Morales & Juan Cebral of the Bioengineering Department received $437K from the National Institutes of Health for their project, “Engineering a novel theranostic device for breast cancer treatment based on multiplexing semiconducting patchy polymeric particles.
July 10, 2017
Kathy Laskey Receives Funding from Baies LLC
Kathy Laskey of the C4I & Cyber Center and Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $30K from Baies, LLC for her project, “Development of a Planning System using Mulit-Entity Bayesian Networks.”
July 10, 2017
Duminda Wijisekera Receives Funding from Dept. of Commerce
Duminda Wijisekera of the Center for Assured Research & Engineering received $70K from the Department of Commerce (NIST) for his project, “A Forensic Framework for Cloud Computing.”
June 19, 2017
Aditya Johri & Hemant Purohit Receive Funding from NSF
Aditya Johri & Hemant Purohit of the Information Sciences and Technology Department received $299K from the National Science Foundation for their project, “EAGER: Social Media Participation as Indicator of Actors, Awareness, Attitudes, and Activities Related to STEM Education.”
June 19, 2017
Avrama Blackwell Receives Funding from Burroughs Welcome
Avrama Blackwell of the Bioengineering Department received $5K from the Burroughs Welcome Fund for her project, “The Role of the Dorsal Striatum During Short-term Motor Adaptation.”
June 19, 2017
Jie Xu Receives Funding from Jeffress Trust
Jie Xu of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $100K from the Jeffress Trust for his project, “Increasing Power Grids Resilience To Weather Via Optimal Power Line Hardening.”
June 17, 2017
Wanli Qiao & Amarda Shehu Receive Funding from Jeffress Trust
Wanli Qiao of the Statistics Department & Amarda Shehu of the Computer Science Department received $100K from the Jeffress Trust for their project, “ High-dimensional Statistics and Biomolecular Modeling as a Powerful Microscope over Pathogenic Mutations in Proteinopathies.”
June 17, 2017
Carolina Salvador-Morales Receives Funding from CIT
Carolina Salvador-Morales of the Bioengineering Department received $100K from the Center for Innovative Technology for her project, “A Multiplexing Photoacoustic Thernostic System for Treatment of Breast Cancer.”
June 19, 2017
Ken Ball Receives Funding from CIT
Ken Ball, Dean of VSE, received $250K from the Center for Innovative Technology for his project, “Recruitment of Eminent Scholar in Bioengineering in partnership with INOVA Health System.”
June 17, 2017
Burak Tanyu, Celso Ferreira, & Liza Durant Receives Funding from Jeffress Trust
Burak Tanyu, Celso Ferreira, & Liza Durant of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $100K from the Jeffress Trust for their project, “Evaluating the Potential of Bio-Inspired Soils to Enhance Nature Based Coastal Resiliency Systems by Combining Experimental and Computational Methods.”
June 19, 2017
Lance Sherry Receives Funding from Booz Allen Hamilton & National Academy of Sciences
Lance Sherry of the Center for Air Transportation Systems Research received $25K from Booz Allen Hamilton & the National Academy of Sciences for his project, “ACRP 03-45 Collecting and Sharing of Operational and Safety Data.”
June 19, 2017
Nitin Agrawal Receives Funding from NSF
Nitin Agrawal of the Bioengineering Department received $307K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “Eager: Biomanufacturing: Liposome mediated targeted expansion and stimulation of CD8+ cytotoxic T-cells.”
May 22, 2017
Jessica Lin Receives Funding from Strategic Analysis & NRL
Jessica Lin of the Computer Science Department received $51K from Strategic Analysis, Inc. and the Naval Research Laboratory for her project, “Trajectory Pattern Mining and user Behaviour Characterization on Large-Scale Track Data.”
May 22, 2017
Alex Levis & Robert Elder Receive Funding from Griffiss Institute & U.S. Air Force
Alex Levis & Robert Elder of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $245K from Griffiss Institute, Inc., and the U.S. Air Force (AFRL) for their project, “Architectural Design Support to Air Force Multi-domain Command and Control Study.”
May 15, 2017
Jyh-Ming Lien Receives Funding from U. Arizona & AFOSR
Jyh-Ming Lien of the Computer Science Department received $136K from the University of Arizona and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for his project, “DDDAMS-Based Urban Surveillance and Crowd Control via UAV's and UGV's.”
May 15, 2017
Sharon Caraballo Receives Funding from Dept. of Commerce (NIST)
Sharon Caraballo, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, received $9K from the U.S. Department of Commerce (NIST) for her project, “SURF Boulder: Experience for Mason Undergraduates - Doreen Joseph.”
May 15, 2017
Sharon Caraballo Receives Funding from Dept. of Commerce (NIST)
Sharon Caraballo, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, received $21K from the U.S. Department of Commerce (NIST) for her project, “FY 2017 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship EL, ITL.”
May 11, 2017
Aditya Johri Receives Funding from NSF
Aditya Johri of the Information Sciences and Technology Department received $50K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “RAPID: Collaborative Research: Technology Adoption during Environmental Jolts: Mobile Phone Use and Digital Services Appropriation during India's Demonetization Crisis.”
May 11, 2017
Daniel Barbará Receives Funding from Decisive Analytics Corp. & Dept. of Defense
Daniel Barbará of the Computer Science Department received $28K from Decisive Analytics Corporation and the Department of Defense for his project, “Advanced Predictive Analysis Capabilities.”
May 2, 2017
John Shortle Receives Funding from U Maryland & FAA
John Shortle of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $135K from the University of Maryland and the Federal Aviation Administration for his project, “Barrier Analysis of Event Tree Models for Aviation Safety.”
April 24, 2017
Sushil Jajodia Receives Funding from General Dynamics Information Technology
Sushil Jajodia of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $50K from General Dynamics Information Technology for his project, “Collaborative Research: I/UCRC Program Center for Configuration Analytics and Automation - Membership Agreement.”
April 24, 2017
Peter Paris, Cameron Nowzari, Jill Nelson, & Brian Mark Receive Funding from NSF
Peter Paris, Cameron Nowzari, Jill Nelson, & Brian Mark of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $100K from the National Science Foundation for their project, “EAGER: SC2: Efficient, Collaborative Spectrum Sharing through a Systems and Optimal Control Approach.”
April 10, 2017
Mark Pullen & Nick Clark Receive Funding from NATO
Mark Pullen & Nick Clark of the C4I & Cyber Center received $21K from NATO for their project, “C2SIM Sandbox.”
April 10, 2017
Hemant Purohit Receives Funding from Western Norway Research Institute
Hemant Purohit of the Information Sciences and Technology Department received $23K from Western Norway Research Institute for his project, “Transnational Partnership for Excellent Research and Education in Big Data and Emergency Management.”
April 10, 2017
Kai Zeng Receives Funding from NSF
Kai Zeng of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $241K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “EARS: Collaborative Research: Intelligence Measure of Cognitive Radio Networks.”
March 28, 2017
Kathy Laskey, Abbas Zaidi, & Edward Huang Receive Funding from Innovative Decisions & IARPA
Kathy Laskey, Abbas Zaidi, & Edward Huang of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department and the Center for C4I & Cyber received $927K from Innovative Decisions, Inc. and IARPA for their project, “Interference Enterprise Multi-Modeling.”
March 28, 2017
John Shortle Receives Funding from NSF
John Shortle of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $5K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “Workshop: Towards an Ecosystem of Simulation Models and Data; 5th INFORMS Simulation Society Research Workshop; University of Durham; United Kingdom; July 31 to August 2, 2017.”
March 20, 2017
Qiliang Li Receives Funding from VMEC
Qiliang Li of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $15K from the Virginia Microelectronics Consortium for his project, “Graphene Chemical Vapor Sensor Measurement System.”
March 20, 2017
Dimitrios Ioannou Receives Funding from VMEC
Dimitrios Ioannou of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $15K from the Virginia Microelectronics Consortium for his project, “Junctionless FET-based FeRAM with Glassy-Polymer Electret Gate Dielectrics.”
March 20, 2017
Hemant Purohit Receives Funding from NSF
Hemant Purohit of the Information Sciences and Technology Department received $175K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “CRII: CHS: Mining Intentions on Social Media to Enhance Situational Awareness of Crisis Response Organizations.”
March 13, 2017
Duminda Wijisekera Receives Funding from NCSU & Dept. of Defense
Duminda Wijisekera of the Center for Assured Research & Engineering received $85K from North Carolina State University and the Department of Defense for his project, “Global Impact of Conflict Economies Due to Evolving Clandestine Organ Trade.”
February 28, 2017
Lance Sherry & John Shortle Receive Funding from MITRE
Lance Sherry & John Shortle of the Center for Air Transportation Systems Research and the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $35K from the MITRE Corporation for their project, “Design of a sUAS Airworthiness Assessment Tool.”
February 28, 2017
Qiliang Li Receives Funding from N5 Sensors & NASA
Qiliang Li of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $255K from N5 Sensors, Inc. and NASA for his project, “Nanoengineered Hybrid Gas Sensors for Spacesuit Monitoring”.
February 16, 2017
Alex Brodsky Receives Funding from NSF
Alex Brodsky of the Computer Science Department received $30K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “Student Support: NIST-ASTM-NSF-ASME Workshop & Competition on Formalizing Manufacturing Processes for Structured Sustainability Assessments; Los Angeles, California; June 4-8, 2017.”
February 16, 2017
Dov Gordon Receives Funding from NRL
Dov Gordon of the Computer Science Department received $157K from the Naval Research Laboratory for his project, “Applying Secure Multiparty Computation to the Secure Evaluation of Tor Network Statistics.”
January 30, 2017
Mike Hieb, Jan Allbeck, Andrew Crooks, and Mark Pullen Receive Funding from DARPA
Mike Hieb and Mark Pullen of the C4I & Cyber Center, Jan Allbeck of the Computer Science Department, and Andrew Crooks of the College of Science received $375K from DARPA for their project, “Megacities Command and Control Assessment Capability.”
January 30, 2017
George Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, and Dorin Marcu Receive Funding from Air Force
George Tecuci of the Learning Agents Center (LAC) and the Computer Science Department, Mihai Boicu of LAC and the Information Sciences and Technology Department, and Dorin Marcu of LAC received $650K from the U.S. Air Force (AFRL) for their project, “Agile Cognitive Assistants for Advanced Persistent Threat Detection.”
January 23, 2017
Kathy Laskey Receives Funding from SETechnology, Ltd.
Kathy Laskey of the C4I & Cyber Center and the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $68K from SETechnology, Ltd. for her project, “Post-doctoral research in smart manufacturing.”
January 23, 2017
Mohan Venigalla, Mark White, & Terry Clower Receive Funding from Howard University & DDOT
Mohan Venigalla of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering and Mark White & Terry Clower of the Schar School of Policy and Government received $193K from Howard University and the District of Columbia Department of Transportation for their project, “DDOT Freight Trip Generation ON-SITE BERTHS AND CURBSIDE IMPLICATIONS.”
January 23, 2017
Andy Loerch Receives Funding from ONR
Andy Loerch of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $5K from the Office of Naval Research for his project, “Combinatorial Optimization.”
January 18, 2017
Guoqing Diao Receives Funding from Otsuka
Guoqing Diao of the Statistics Department received $32K from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization Inc. for his project, “Academic Research Collaboration between Otsuka and GMU.”
January 18, 2017
KC Chang Receives Funding from Dept. of the Navy
KC Chang of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $118K from the Department of the Navy (NAVSUP) for his project, “Developing An Analytic Model of Success for Acquisition Decision Making.”
January 18, 2017
Itamara Lochard Receives Funding from NATO
Itamara Lochard of the C4I & Cyber Center received $70K from NATO for her project, “Senior Leadership ATC on Military and Defence Aspects of Border Security in South East Europe.”
January 10, 2017
Jessica Lin & Huzefa Rangwala Receive Funding from Strategic Analysis Inc. & NRL
Jessica Lin and Huzefa Rangwala of the Computer Science Department received $44K from Strategic Analysis,Inc. and the Naval Research Laboratory for their project, “Trajectory Pattern Mining and User Behavior Characterization on Large-Scale Track Data.”
January 10, 2017
Mike Hieb Receives Funding from EOIR Technologies Inc. & Dept. of Defense
Mike Hieb of the C4I & Cyber Center received $54K from EOIR Technologies, Inc. and the Department of Defense for his project, “Simulation Interoperability to Mission Control (SIMCI).”
January 10, 2017
Celso Ferreira Receives Funding from Virginia Inst. of Marine Science & Dept. of Commerce
Celso Ferreira of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $5K from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the U.S. Department of Commerce for his project, “Assessing Future Storm Surge Flooding with Projected Climate Change and Sea Level Rise: Bringing Ecosystem Services into Mainstream Decision Making Processes for a Climate Resilient Coastal Virginia.”
January 10, 2017
Tod Levitt & Kathy Laskey Receive Funding from Opto-Knowledge Systems Inc. & Missile Defense Agency
Tod Levitt & Kathy Laskey of the C4I & Cyber Center received $78K from Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc. and the Missile Defense Agency for their project, “Post Intercept Assessment (PIA).”
January 10, 2017
Bob Elder Receives Funding from Johns Hopkins Univ. & NAVSEA
Bob Elder of the C4I & Cyber Center received $100K from The Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory and NAVSEA for his project, “National C3 (NC3) Architecture Modernization.”
December 13, 2016
Jessica Lin & Huzefa Rangwala Receive Funding from Strategic Analysis, Inc. & NRL
Jessica Lin and Huzefa Rangwala of the Computer Science Department received $74K from Strategic Analysis, Inc. and the Naval Research Laboratory for their project, “User Information Demand Modeling.”
December 5, 2016
Elise Miller-Hooks Receives Funding from U Maryland and U.S. Dept. of Transportation
Elise Miller-Hooks of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $148K from the University of Maryland and the U.S. Department of Transportation for her project, “University Transportation Centers Program - National.”
December 5, 2016
David Lattanzi Receives Funding from NSF
David Lattanzi of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $50K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “I-Corps: Bringing Digital Twin Technology to the Asset Management Community.”
December 5, 2016
Siddhartha Sikdar, Parag Chitnis, and Wil Joiner Receive Funding from NSF
Siddhartha Sikdar, Parag Chitnis, and Wil Joiner of the Bioengineering Department received $400K from the National Science Foundation for their project, “CPS:Synergy:Collaborative Research: Closed-loop Hybrid Exoskeleton utilizing Wearable Ultrasound Imaging Sensors for Measuring Fatigue.”
December 5, 2016
Duminda Wijisekera Receives Funding from Logistics Management Institute Research Institute
Duminda Wijisekera of the Center for Assured Research & Engineering received $150K from the Logistics Management Institute Research Institute for his project, “Sharing Human Genomic Data.”
November 29, 2016
Vadim Sokolov Receives Funding from Univ. Chicago / Argonne and U.S. Dept. of Energy
Vadim Sokolov of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $75K from the University of Chicago / Argonne and the U.S. Dept. of Energy for his project, “Development Support for POLARIS Transportation System Model.”
November 29, 2016
Robert Gallo Receives Funding from SAFE, Inc. and U.S. Dept. of Defense
Robert Gallo of the Mechanical Engineering Department received $20K from SAFE, Inc. and the U.S. Dept. of Defense for his project, “Mechanical Engineering Senior Capstone Design: NACE Design Challenge.”
November 29, 2016
Xinyuan (Frank) Wang Receives Funding from CyberRock Inc. & US Army
Xinyuan (Frank) Wang of the Computer Science Department received $65K from CyberRock, Inc. and the U.S. Army his project, “Tactical Immune System (TIS) Based on Dynamically Assigned Sense of Self.”
November 21, 2016
Lance Sherry Receives Funding from U of Iowa & NASA
Lance Sherry of Center for Air Transportation Systems Research received $365K from the University of Iowa and NASA for his project, “Enhancing Airplane State Awareness for Current and Future Operations.”
November 14, 2016
Vadim Sokolov Receives Funding from U of Chicago & US Dept. of Transportation
Vadim Sokolov of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $228K from the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Transportation for his project, “Coordinated Transit Response Planning and Operations Support Tools for Mitigating Impacts of All-Hazard Emergency Events.
November 14, 2016
Peggy Brouse, Jim Jones, and Kai Zeng Receive Funding from NSA
Peggy Brouse of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department, and Jim Jones & Kai Zeng of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $304K from the National Security Agency for their project, “U.S. Army Reserve Cyber P3 Program.”
November 14, 2016
Sushil Jajodia, Kun Sun, & Kai Zeng Receive Funding from Progeny Systems & ONR
Sushil Jajodia, Kun Sun, & Kai Zeng of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $449K from the Office of Naval Research for their project, “COTS Approach to Information Security.”
November 7, 2016
Giorgio Ascoli Receives Funding from NSF
Giorgio Ascoli of the Bioengineering Department received $300K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “EAGER: Enabling Discovery and Scientific Collaboration on Human Memory via the Web-Based Atlas and Tissue Bank for Patient H.M.'s Brain.”
November 7, 2016
Edward Huang, Lance Sherry, & John Shortle Receive Funding from Intelligent Automation Inc. & NASA
Edward Huang, Lance Sherry, & John Shortle of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $249K from Intelligent Automation Inc. and NASA for their project, “Developing a Safe Architecture for a Million-Flight National Airspace System (NAS).”
November 7, 2016
Kun Sun Receives Funding from ONR [award #1]
Kun Sun of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $589K from the Office of Naval Research for his project, “Design and Implementation of Decoy Enhanced Dynamic Virtualization Networks.”
October 10, 2016
Kun Sun Receives Funding from ONR [award #2]
Kun Sun of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $541K from the Office of Naval Research for his project, “Cyber Moat: Adaptive Virtualized Network Framework for Deception and Disinformation.”
October 10, 2016
Duminda Wijisekera & Paolo Costa Receive Funding from Syntek & FRA
Duminda Wijisekera of the Computer Science Department and Paolo Costa of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $318K from Syntek Technologies and the Federal Railroad Administration for their project, “Technical Support for DOT Positive Train Control Program.”
October 10, 2016
Gheorghe Tecuci & Others Receive Funding from NSF
Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, and Dorin Marcu of the Learning Agents Center; James Trefil of the College of Science; and Nancy Holincheck of the College of Education and Human Development received $300K from the National Science Foundation for their project, “Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in Science with sInvestigator.”
October 10, 2016
Vivian Motti Receives Funding from Clemson University & NSF
Vivian Motti of the Information Sciences and Technology Department received $14K from Clemson University and the National Science Foundation for her project, “ABR: Collaborative research: Computational Jewelry for Mobile Health.”
October 3, 2016
Siddhartha Sikdar & Others Receive Funding from US Army
Siddhartha Sikdar, Parag Chitnis, & Wilsaan Joiner of the Bioengineering Department; Guoqing Diao of the Statistics Dept.; and Michelle Harris-Love of the College of Health and Human Services received $995K from the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) for their project, “Intuitive Control of Upper Extremity Prostheses Using Novel Ultrasonic Sensing of Residual Muscle Activity.”
October 3, 2016
Jim Jones & Kathy Laskey Receive Funding from US Navy
Jim Jones of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department and Kathy Laskey of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $135K from the U.S. Department of the Navy (NAVSUP) for their project, “Inferring Past Mobile Device Activity from Partial Digital Artifacts.”
September 19, 2016
Mark Pullen & Nick Clark Receive Funding from NATO
Mark Pullen & Nick Clark of the C4I & Cyber Center received $23K from NATO for their project, “C2SIM Sandbox.”
September 19, 2016
Ken De Jong, Huzefa Rangwala, and James Kinter Receive Funding from NSF
Ken De Jong & Huzefa Rangwala of the Computer Science Department, and James Kinter of the College of Science received $450K from the National Science Foundation for their project, “MRI: Acquisition of a Shared Scalable Research Storage System.”
September 19, 2016
Robert Handler Receives Funding from NSF
Robert Handler of the Mechanical Engineering Department received $42K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “Collaborative Research: Thermal Transport in Elastic Turbulence.”
September 12, 2016
Viviana Maggioni & Paul Houser Receive Funding from NASA
Viviana Maggioni of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering and Paul Houser of the College of Science received $233K from the NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center for their project, “ROSES 2015/HMA-LDAS: Hyper-resolution High Mountain Asia - Land Data Assimilation System.”
September 12, 2016
Siddhartha Sikdar & James Thompson Receive Funding from NSF
Siddhartha Sikdar of the Bioengineering Department and James Thompson of the Psychology Department received $1.6M from the National Science Foundation for their project, “MRI: Acquisition of a 3-T MRI for Integrative Brain-Body Imaging.”
September 12, 2016
Angelos Stavrou Receives Funding from NIST
Angelos Stavrou of the Center for Assured Research & Engineering received $474K from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for his project, “Towards Measuring Security for IoT.”
August 29, 2016
Jill Nelson & Laura Lukes Receive Funding from NSF
Jill Nelson of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department and Laura Lukes of the Center for Teaching and Faculty Excellence received $54K from the National Science Foundation for their project, “Collaborative Research: RAPID--EclipseMob - Crowdsourcing a Spatial Temporal Study of Low Frequency Propagation Effects Due to a Total Solar Eclipse.”
August 29, 2016
Sushil Jajodia Receives Funding from NIST
Sushil Jajodia of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $50K from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for his project, “Securing Cloud Infrastructure through Quantitative Threat Models and Optimization.”
August 29, 2016
Kai Zeng Receives Funding from NSF
Kai Zeng of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $499K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “TWC:Small:Secure Near Field Communications between Mobile Devices.”
August 29, 2016
Viviana Maggioni & Paul Houser Receive Funding from NASA
Viviana Maggioni of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering and Paul Houser of the College of Science received $280K from NASA for their project, “Hyper-Resolution Hyrdologic Modeling Enabled by SMAP Observations.”
August 29, 2016
Duminda Wijisekera Receives Funding from NIST
Duminda Wijisekera of the Computer Science Department received $60K from the National Institute for Standards & Technology (NIST) for his project, “A Three-level Graph Based Model for Forensic Analysis on Planned Missions.”
August 22, 2016
Kamaljeet Sanghera Receives Funding from National Center for Women & IT
Kamaljeet Sanghera of the Information Sciences and Technology Department received $3K from National Center for Women & Information Technology for her project, “Girls Code IT Camp.”
August 22, 2016
Bob Elder & Alex Levis Receive Funding from the University of Maryland & the Department of Homeland Security
Bob Elder & Alex Levis of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $200K> from the University of Maryland and the Department of Homeland Security for their project, “Research Support for SOCOM: Shadows of Violence: Empirical Assessments of Threats, Coercion and Gray Zones.
August 22, 2016
Jessica Lin & Huzefa Rangwala Receive Funding from Strategic Analysis Inc. & NRL
Jessica Lin & Huzefa Rangwala of the Computer Science Department received $139K from Strategic Analysis Inc. & the Naval Research Laboratory for their project, “Trajectory Pattern Mining and User Behavior Characterization on Large-Scale Track Data.”
August 15, 2016
Shanjiang Zhu Receives Funding from NSF
Shanjiang Zhu of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $50K from <AGENCY> for his project, “RAPID: Transit Network Disruption, Service Reliability, and Travel Behavior.”
August 15, 2016
Giorgio Ascoli Receives Funding from Burroughs-Wellcome
Giorgio Ascoli of the Bioengineering Department received $5K from Burroughs-Wellcome for his project, “Barcode sequencing of axonal projections to classify long-range cortical neurons.”
August 15, 2016
Gerry Tian Receives Funding from NSF
Gerry Tian of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $400K from the National Science Foundation for her project, “CIF: Small: Task-Cognizant Sparse Sensing for Inference.”
August 8, 2016
Bill Roeting & Mark Pullen Receive Funding from Air Force
Bill Roeting & Mark Pullen of the C4I & Cyber Center received $1.5M from the U.S. Air Force for their project, “Close Air Support Experimentation Campaign - Travel.”
August 8, 2016
Sean Luke Receives Funding from NSF
Sean Luke of the Computer Science Department received $475K from NSF for his project, “CI-EN: Enhancement of ECJ, A High-Performance Community Metaheuristics Library for Stochastic Optimization Research.”
August 8, 2016
Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, & Dorin Marcu Receive Funding from MITRE & National Reconnaissance Office
Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, & Dorin Marcu of the Learning Agents Center received $100K from The MITRE Corporation and the National Reconnaissance Office for their project, “Towards Persistent Intelligence Processing.”
August 8, 2016
Carlotta Domeniconi Receives Funding from FedSavvy Strategies
Carlotta Domeniconi of the Computer Science Department received $53K from FedSavvy Strategies, LLC for her project, “Development of Competitive Intelligence Analysis Enhancement Using Structured and Unstructured Data.”
August 8, 2016
Sushil Jajodia, Rajesh Ganesan, & Hemant Purohit Receive Funding from ONR
Sushil Jajodia of the Center for Secure Information Systems, Rajesh Ganesan of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department, and
Hemant Purohit of the Information Sciences and Technology Department received $1.2M from Office of Naval Research for their project, “Believable Fake Scientific Document Generation by Exploring Data Semantics.”
July 25, 2016
Max Albanese Receives Funding from Vencore Labs & Army Research Office
Max Albanese of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $10K from Vencore Labs, Inc. and the Army Research Office for his project, “Visiting Scientist: A Framework for Evaluating Botnet Detection Strategies.”
July 25, 2016
Ken Hintz Receives Funding from U.S. Navy
Ken Hintz of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $452K from the U.S. Department of the Navy (NAVSUP) for his project, “The Automatic SIEV-Net Instantiation for Collection Planning and Execution by ORM.”
July 25, 2016
Angelos Stavrou & J.P. Auffret Receives Funding from NSF
Angelos Stavrou & J.P. Auffret of the Center for Assured Research & Engineering received $300K from the National Science Foundation for their project, “City and County Cross Jurisdiction Cybersecurity Collaboration Capacity Building.”
July 11, 2016
Siddhartha Sikdar Receives Funding from Department of Veterans Affairs
Siddhartha Sikdar of the Bioengineering Department received $80K from the Department of Veterans Affairs for his project, “ACCOF (Asymptomatic Cartoid Stenosis: Cognitive Function and Plaque Correlates).”
July 05, 2016
John Shortle Receives Funding from LMI & NASA; University of Maryland & FAA
John Shortle of the Center for Air Transportation Systems Research and Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $49K from the Logistics Management Institute and NASA for his project, “Systems Analysis Benefits Metrics.” Shortle also received $79K from the University of Maryland and the Federal Aviation Administration for his project, “NEXTOR II: DO33: Wake Turbulence Research: Phase 4 - 2nd Year.”
July 05, 2016
Vasiliki Ikonomidou, Andre Manitius, Monty Hayes, & Jill Nelson Receive Funding from Micron Technology
Vasiliki Ikonomidou of the Bioengineering Department, and Andre Manitius, Monty Hayes, & Jill Nelson of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $140K from Micron Technology Inc. for their project, “MicronTechnology/AcousticDiagnostic.”
July 05, 2016
Bob Simon Receives Funding from Axiom, Inc.
Bob Simon of the Computer Science Department received $36K from Axiom, Inc. for his project, “Design and evaluation of address-agile multicasting for disruption-tolerant networking.”
June 27, 2016
Celso Ferreira Receives Funding from University of Michigan & NSF
Celso Ferreira of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $183K from the University of Michigan and the National Science Foundation for his project, “Hazard SEES Type 2: Modeling to Promote Regional Resilience to Repeated Heat Waves and Hurricanes.”
June 22, 2016
Shanjiang Zhu Receives Funding from University of Maryland, College Park & US DOT
Shanjiang Zhu of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $100K from the University of Maryland, College and the U.S. Department of Transportation for his project, “Advancing Travel Behavior Information Gathering Through Public Domain Data.”
June 22, 2016
Carolina Salvador-Morales & Juan Cebral Receive Funding from Jeffress Trust
Carolina Salvador-Morales & Juan Cebral of the Bioengineering Department received $100K from the Jeffress Trust for their project, “Using Computational Modeling for the Design and Optimization of Novel Cancer Thernostics.”
June 22, 2016
David Lattanzi Receives Funding from the Jeffress Trust
David Lattanzi of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $100K from the Jeffress Trust for his project, “Connecting 3D Imaging and Computational Mechanics for Next-generation Civil Infrastructure Assessment.”
June 22, 2016
Amarda Shehu & Ken De Jong Receive Funding from NSF
Amarda Shehu & Ken De Jong of the Computer Science Department received $8K from the National Science Foundation for their project, “REU Supplement for CCF: AF: Small: Novel Stochastic Optimization Algorithms to Advance the Treatment of Dynamic Molecular Systems.”
June 22, 2016
Songqing Chen Receives Funding from US Dept. of Commerce (NIST)
Songqing Chen of the Computer Science Department received $50K from the U.S. Department of Commerce (NIST) for his project, “DDos Detection and Mitigation via Programmable SDN Traffic Measurement.”
June 22, 2016
Kathy Laskey, Abbas Zaidi, & Edward Huang Receive Funding from Innovative Decisions & IARPA
Kathy Laskey, Abbas Zaidi, & Edward Huang of the C4I & Cyber Center and the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $613K from Innovative Decisions, Inc. and IARPA for their project, “Inference Enterprise Multi-Modeling.”
June 22, 2016
Amarda Shehu Receives Funding from NSF
Amarda Shehu of the Computer Science Department received $8K from the National Science Foundation for her project, “REU Supplement for CAREER: Probabilistic Methods for Addressing Complexity and Constraints in Protein Systems.”
June 22, 2016
Jill Nelson Receives Funding from ONR
Jill Nelson of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $221K from Office of Naval Research for her project, “Developing Frameworks and Modeling Behavior for Cognitive Sonar.”
June 22, 2016
Alex Brodsky & Danny Menascé Receive Funding from US Department of Commerce
Alex Brodsky & Danny Menascé of the Computer Science Department received $145K from the U.S. Department of Commerce for their project, “Decision Support Systems for Smart Manufacturing Processes: Toward Standards on Reusable Knowledge Base for Analytics and Optimization.”
June 22, 2016
Anand Vidyashankar Receives Funding from McKesson Corporation
Anand Vidyashankar of the Statistics Department received $140K from McKesson Corporation for his project, “New Re-identification Risk Measures for Complex Health Care Data.”
June 22, 2016
Angleos Stavrou & J.P. Auffret Receive Funding from PFP Cybersecurity & DARPA
Angelos Stavrou and J.P. Auffret of the Center for Assured Research & Engineering received $1.5M from PFP Cybersecurity and DARPA for their project, “Enhanced Cyber Defense by Leveraging Involuntary Analog Emissions.”
May 30, 2016
Dov Gordon Receives Funding from NSF
Dov Gordon of the Computer Science Department received $371K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “TWC: Medium: Collaborative: New Protocols and Systems for RAM-Based Secure Computation.”
May 23, 2016
Nitin Agrawal and Robert Cressman Receive Funding from NSF
Nitin Agrawal of the Bioengineering Deparment and Robert Kressman of the Krasnow Institute received $157K from the National Science Foundation for their project, “EAGER: An Integrated Multi-Sensing Platform for Real Time Hypoxia Studies.”
May 23, 2016
Tod Levitt and Kathy Laskey Receive Funding from Opto-Knowledge Systems Inc. & Missile Defense Agency
Tod Levitt and Kathy Laskey of the C4I & Cyber Center received $38K from Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc., and the Missile Defense Agency for his project, “Interactive Context-Aware Discrimination (ICAD).”
May 23, 2016
Zhi (Gerry) Tian Receives Funding from NSF
Zhi (Gerry) Tian of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $50K from the National Science Foundation for her project, “Workshop: Promoting Broader Impacts of Research on Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems; Holiday Inn Hotel, Arlington, Virginia.”
May 12-13, 2016
Bijan Jabbari Receives Funding from Naval Research Lab
Bijan Jabbari of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $277K from the Naval Research Laboratory for his project, “Secure MAC Wireless Network Protocols.”
May 16, 2016
Burak Tanyu Receives Funding from NSF
Burak Tanyu of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $80K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “Investigation of Physical and Chemical Clogging Phenomena in Underdrain Stormwater Systems Utilizing Geotextiles.”
May 16, 2016
Sean Luke Receives Funding from NSF
Sean Luke of the Computer Science Department received $16K from the National Science Foundation for his project, “REU supplement: NRI: Small: Online Training of Hierarchical Multirobot Teams.”
May 16, 2016
Jessica Lin Receives Funding from Strategic Analysis & NRL
Jessica Lin of the Computer Science Department received $8K from Strategic Analysis, Inc. and the Naval Research Laboratory for her project, "Trajectory Pattern Mining for Proactive Decision Support."
May 2, 2016
Lance Sherry & John Shortle Receive Funding from MITRE
Lance Sherry and John Shortle of the Center for Air Transportation Systems Research received $58K from the MITRE Corporation for their project, "sUAS Airworthiness Risk Methodology."
May 2, 2016
Angelos Stavrou & Dan Fleck Receive Funding from Vencore & DARPA
Angelos Stavrou and Dan Fleck of the Center for Assured Research & Engineering received $944K from Vencore, Inc. and DARPA for their project, "Extreme DDoS Defense- TA3."
May 2, 2016
Siddhartha Sikdar Receives Funding from Inova Healthcare
Siddhartha Sikdar of the Bioengineering Department received $70K from Inova Healthcare for his project, "Novel Methods for Sonographic Evaluation of Blunt Cervical Vascular Injuries."
April 18, 2016
Jim Jones & Houman Homayoun Receive Funding from MITRE & University of Maryland
Jim Jones & Houman Homayoun of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $75K from MITRE and the University of Maryland for their project, "Persistence and Extraction of Digital Artifacts from Embedded Systems."
April 18, 2016
Vasiliki Ikonomidou Receives Funding from ARO
Vasiliki Ikonomidou of the Bioengineering Department received $49K from the Army Research Office for her project, "Information Processing and Fusion: Change Point Detection for Video-Based Stressor Identification."
April 11, 2016
Kathy Laskey, Abbas Zaidi, and Edward Huang Receive Funding from Innovative Decisions & IARPA
Kathy Laskey, Abbas Zaidi, and Edward Huang of the C4I & Cyber Center and the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $153K from Innovative Decisions, Inc., and IARPA for their project, "Inference Enterprise Multi-Modeling."
April 11, 2016
Sushil Jajodia & Rajesh Ganesan Receive Funding from Pennsylvania State University & Army Research Office
Sushil Jajodia of the Center for Secure Information Systems and Rajesh Ganesan of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $162K from Pennsylvania State University and the Army Research Office for their project, "Recognizing Unexplained Behavior in Network Events."
December 14, 2015
Dov Gordon Receives Funding from Galois Inc. & DARPA
Dov Gordon of the Computer Science Department received $416K from Galois Inc. and DARPA for his project, "Jana: Ensuring Secure, Private, and Flexible Data Access."
December 14, 2015
Bill Roeting, Mark Pullen, Tod Levitt & Nicolas Clark Receive Funding from Alion Science & Technology Corp. and DTIC
Bill Roeting, Mark Pullen, Tod Levitt & Nicolas Clark of the C4I Center received $1.09M from Alion Science & Technology Corporation and DTIC for their project, "Close Air Support (CAS) Experimentation Campaign."
December 7, 2015
Kamaljeet Sanghera Receives Funding from National Center for Women and IT
Kamaljeet Sanghera of the Information Sciences and Technology Department received $3K from National Center for Women and Information Technology for her project, " Aspire IT: techBloom Camp."
November 16, 2015
Burak Tanyu Receives Funding from Virginia Dept. of Transportation
Burak Tanyu of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $257K from the Virginia Department of Transportation for his project, "Developing a Design Methodology & Quality Control Measures to Use Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) in Unbound Base Aggregate in Flexible Pavement Systems."
November 2, 2015
Danny Menascé & Hassan Gomaa Receive Funding from AFOSR
Danny Menascé and Hassan Gomaa of the Computer Science Department received $1.02M from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for their project, "RASS: Resilient Autonomic Software Systems."
November 2, 2015
Houman Homayoun & Jens-Peter Kaps Receive Funding from Air Force Research Lab
Houman Homayoun and Jens-Peter Kaps of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $330K from the Air Force Research Laboratory for their project, "Logical Vanishability through Hybrid STT LUT Technology to Prevent Reverse Engineering."
Andy Loerch & Liansheng Tang Receives Funding from ManTech Intl. & Dept. of Defense
Andy Loerch of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department and Liansheng Tang of the Statistics Department received $31K from ManTech International Corporation and the Department of Defense for their project, "Support to US Marine Corps Gender Integration Experiment."
Anand Vidyashankar Receives Funding from McKesson
Anand Vidyashankar of the Statistics Department received $70K from McKesson Corporation for his project, "Statistical Issues in Re-Identification Risk in Healthcare."
Robert Elder & Alex Levis Receive Funding from Exelis & Naval Research Lab
Robert Elder and Alex Levis of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $133K from Exelis and the Naval Research Laboratory for their project, "Kinetic/Non-Kinetic Integrated Force Effects (KNIFE) JCTD Transition Activities."
Bill Roeting, Mark Pullen, Tod Levitt, & Nicholas Clark Receive Funding from Alion Science & Technology Corporation and U.S. Air Force
Bill Roeting, Mark Pullen, Tod Levitt, & Nicholas Clark of the C4I Center received $70K from Alion Science & Technology Corporation and the U.S. Air Force for their project, "Close Air Support (CAS) Experimentation Campaign."
October 6, 2015
Kamaljeet Sanghera Receives Funding from National Center for Women and Information Technology
Kamaljeet Sanghera of the Information Sciences and Technology Department received $2K from National Center for Women and Information Technology for her project, "CS Unplugged and Cool Gadgets Workshop."
October 6, 2015
K.-C. Chang Receives Funding from Intelligent Fusion Technology & U.S. Air Force
K.-C. Chang of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $220K from Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc., and the U.S. Air Force for his project, "Dynamic Spectrum Access in Space Application."
October 6, 2015
Juan Cebral Receives Funding from Mayo Clinic & NIH
Juan Cebral of the Bioengineering Department received $230K from the Mayo Clinic and the National Institutes of Health for his project, "Computational and Biological Approach to Flow Diversion."
October 6, 2015
Zhi (Gerry) Tian Receives Funding from NSF
Zhi (Gerry) Tian of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $296K from the National Science Foundation for her project, "EARS: Collaborative Research: Spectrum Sensing for Coexistence of Active and Passive Radio Services."
Duminda Wijisekera Receives Funding from Department of Transportation
Duminda Wijisekera of the Center for Assured Research & Engineering received $228K from Department of Transportation for his project, "Providing PTC Subject Matter Expertise to the FRA."
September 21, 2015
Robert Elder & Alex Levis Receives Funding from Univ. of Maryland & DHS
Robert Elder and Alex Levis of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $100K from the University of Maryland and the Department of Homeland Security for their project, "The Re-awakened Bear: Emerging Threats and Opportunities in Eurasia."
K.C. Chang, C.-H. Chen, Jie Xu, & Edward Huang Receive Funding from NSF & AFOSR
K.C. Chang, C.-H. Chen, Jie Xu, and Edward Huang of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $249K from the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for their project, “EAGER-Dynamic Data: Scalable Multi-Model Data Acquisition and Resource Allocation via Adaptive Multi-Fidelity Simulation and Optimization in Dynamic Data Systems.”
September 14, 2015
Nitin Agrawal & John Cressman Receive Funding from NSF
Nitin Agrawal of the Bioengineering Department and John Cressman of the College of Science received $150K from the National Science Foundation for their project, "An Integrated Biosensing Platform for Real-Time Hypoxia Studies."
Kris Gaj & Jens-Peter Kaps Receive Funding from McQ & Dept. of Defense
Kris Gaj and Jens-Peter Kaps of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $125K from McQ, Inc. and the Department of Defense (MDA) for their project, “Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) for Unique and Robust Encryption Key Generation (Phase II).”
August 31, 2015
Houman Homayoun & Siddhartha Sikdar Receive Funding from NSF
Houman Homayoun of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department and Siddhartha Sikdar of the Bioengineering Department received $288K from the National Science Foundation for their project, "CSR:Small:Collaborative Research: Heterogeneous Ultra Low Power Accelerator for Wearable Biomedical Computing."
Paulo Costa & Duminda Wijisekera Receive Funding from Fundação Casimiro Montenegro Filho
Paulo Costa and Duminda Wijisekera of the C4I Center received $26K from Fundação Casimiro Montenegro Filho for their project, "Cyber Security in Air Transportation Course."
Jana Košecká Receives Funding from NSF
Jana Košecká of the Computer Science Department received $267K from the National Science Foundation for her project, "NRI: Collaborative Research: Task Dependent Semantic Modeling for Robot Perception."
Peter Paris and Kai Zeng Receive Funding from MITRE
Peter Paris and Kai Zeng of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $50K from the MITRE Corporation for their project, "Secure Communications in Wireless Environments."
Zhi (Gerry) Tian Receives Funding from NSF
Zhi (Gerry) Tian of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $245K from the National Science Foundation for her project, "EAGER: Energy-Efficient Massive MIMO Processing for Millimeter-Wave Communications."
August 17, 2015
Kamaljeet Sanghera Receives Funding from NCWIT
Kamaljeet Sanghera of the Information Sciences and Technology Department received $3K from National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) for her project, "NCWIT ASPIRE IT Program."
August 17, 2015
Tod Levitt & Brian Mark Receive Funding from Echo Ridge LLC & Air Force Research Laboratory
Tod Levitt of the C4I Center and Brian Mark of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $30K from Echo Ridge, LLC, and the Air Force Research Laboratory for their project, "Trade Space Analysis for PNT Spectrum Sharing.
KC Chang Receives Funding from Army Research Office
KC Chang of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $50K from the Army Research Office for his project, "Distributed Fusion with Copula."
August 3, 2015
Viviana Maggioni and Paul Houser Receives Funding from NOAA
Viviana Maggioni of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering and Paul Houser of the College of Science received $239K from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for their project, "Optimal Precipitation Estimation for Land Surface Modeling."
August 3, 2015
Ken Hintz Receives Funding from Dept. of the Navy and Dept. of Defense
Ken Hintz of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $152K from the Department of the Navy (NPS) and the Department of Defense for his project, "Improving ORM Utilizing Implicit Collaboration & Context Sensitive Fusion."
Amarda Shehu Receives Funding from NSF
Amarda Shehu of the Computer Science Department received $22K from the National Science Foundation for her project, “Travel Awards for 2015 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM-2015).”
June 8, 2015
Jeff Offutt Receives Funding from Google
Jeff Offutt of the Computer Science Department received $900K from Google for his project, "Self-Paced Learning Increases Retention and Capacity (SPARC)."
Carlotta Domeniconi Receives Funding from Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
Carlotta Domeniconi of the Computer Science Department received $68K from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) for her project, "Summarization, Profiling, and Community Detection in Large Semi-Structured Graph Data."
June 2, 2015
Songqing Chen and Fei Li Receive Funding from Army Research Office
Songqing Chen and Fei Li of the Computer Science Department received $390K from the Army Resesarch Office for their project, "Moving Target Defense Through Dynamic Virtual Machine Placement in Clouds."
June 2, 2015
Duminda Wijisekera Receives Funding from the U.S. Dept. of Transportation
Duminda Wijisekera of the Center for Assured Research & Engineering received $550K from the U.S. Dept. of Transportation for his project, "Secure SDR Communication Protocols and Configuration Management for PTC."
June 2, 2015
Jonathan Gifford and Shanjiang Zhu Receive Funding from Booz Allen Hamilton and US Dept. of Transportation
Jonathan Gifford of the School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs and Shanjiang Zhu of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $8K from Booz Allen Hamilton and US Dept. of Transportation for their project, "Development of Framework and Educational Tool to Assess the Benefits and Costs of Highway Public-Private Partnerships (P3)."
May 10, 2015
Jessica Lin Receives Funding from Semiconductor Research Corporation
Jessica Lin of the Computer Science Department received $240K from Semiconductor Research Corporation for her project, "Scalable Multivariate Temporal Pattern Discovery."
May 10, 2015
Burak Tanyu Receives Funding from Virginia Dept. of Transportation
Burak Tanyu of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $23K from the Virginia Department of Transportation for his project, "Equipment Grant to Instrument Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil Structure Integrated into VDOT Bridge Abutment in Staunton, VA."
May 4, 2015
Sushil Jajodia Receives Funding from NIST
Sushil Jajodia of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $50K> from National Institute of Standards and Technology for his project, "Securing Cloud Infrastructure through Improving Network Diversity and Moving Target Defense."
May 4, 2015
Jessica Lin & Huzefa Rangwala Receive Funding from Strategic Analysis & NRL
Jessica Lin and Huzefa Rangwala of the Computer Science Department received $92K from Strategic Analysis, Inc., and the Naval Research Laboratory for their project, "Trajectory Pattern Mining for Proactive Decision Support."
May 4, 2015
Edward Huang, Chun-Hung Chen, & Jie Xu Receive Funding from NSF
Edward Huang, Chun-Hung Chen, and Jie Xu of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $459K from the National Science Foundation for their project, "Improving Search Efficiency in Engineering Design by Integrating Multiple Models at Different Fidelities."
May 4, 2015
Karla Hoffman Receives Funding from ONR
Karla Hoffman of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $267K from the Office of Naval Research for her project, "Optimal Spectrum Allocation to Support Tactical Mobile Ad-hoc Networks."
May 4, 2015
Kathleen Wage Receives Funding from Office of Naval Research
Kathleen Wage of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $16K from the National Science Foundation.
April 27, 2015
Viviana Maggioni & Others Receive Funding from VentureWell
The following faculty members received $32K from VentureWell for their project, "Classroom to Makers Week (C2MW): A Year-Long Journey from Idea to Implementation at George Mason University":
Viviana Maggioni – Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering
Max Albanese & Mihai Boicu – Applied Information Technology Department
Nathalia Peixoto – Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
Colin Reagle – Mechanical Engineering Department
Mahesh Joshi – School of Business
Betsy Schmidt – College of Humanities and Social Sciences
William Roeting Receives Funding from Parsons Govt. Systems Corp. & Dept. of Defense
William Roeting of the C4I Center received $125K from Parsons Government Systems Corp. and the Department of Defense for his project, "Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK) - Integrated Automated Intelligence Workflow."
February 23, 2015
Jan Allbeck Receives Funding from Entertainment Software Association
Jan Allbeck of the Computer Science Department received $20K from the Entertainment Software Association for her project, "ESA Anti-Piracy Game."
February 23, 2015
Robert Elder & Alex Levis Receive Funding from Exelis and Naval Research Lab
Robert Elder & Alex Levis of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $30K from Exelis Inc. and the Naval Research Laboratory for their project, "Kinetic/Non-Kinetic Integrated Force Effects (KNIFE) JCTD Transition Activities."
February 9, 2015
William Roeting Receives Funding from Webworld Technologies & Air Force
William Roeting of the C4I Center received $278K from Webworld Technologies, Inc. and the U.S. Air Force for his project, "Smart Node Pod Initiative."
February 9, 2015
Sushil Jajodia Receives Funding from U.S. Dept. of the Navy
Sushil Jajodia of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $1.2M from the U.S. Department of the Navy for his project, "ASSERT: Automated Security System Event Response Techniques."
February 2, 2015
John Miller Receives Funding from South Dakota State Univ. & Dept. of Justice
John Miller of the Statistics Department received $96K from South Dakota State University and the U.S. Department of Justice for his project, "The Value of Evidence."
Burak Tanyu Receives Funding from Univ. of Texas at Austin and U.S. Dept. of Transportation
Burak Tanyu of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $102K from the University of Texas at Austin and the U.S. Department of Transportation for his project, "Defining the Boundary Conditions for Composite Behavior of Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil (GRS) Structures."
Max Albanese & Sushil Jajodia Receive Funding from Sandia & Dept. of Defense
Max Albanese and Sushil Jajodia of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $120K from Sandia Research Corporation and the U.S. Department of Defense for their project, "Effective CSA Assessment and Training."
Qiliang Li Receives Funding from N5 Sensors, Inc. & Army Research Office
Qilian Li of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $49K from N5 Sensors, Inc. and the Army Research Office for his project, "Large-area MoS2 RF devices."
Dan Carr & David Wong Receive Funding from Univ. of Texas, Dallas, & NIH
Dan Carr of the Statistics Department and David Wong of the Geography & Geoinformation Science Department received $414K from University of Texas at Dallas and the National Institutes of Health for their project, "Uncertainty in Spatial Data: Identification, Visualization and Utilization."
Burak Tanyu Receives Funding from Univ. of Wisconsin & U.S. Dept. of Transportation
Burak Tanyu of the Sid & Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, & Infrastructure Engineering received $51K from the University of Wisconsin and the U.S. Department of Transportation for his project, "Use of Recycled Materials as Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) Retaining Wall Reinforced Backfills."
Jyh-Ming Lien Receives Funding from Virginia Tech & U.S. Geological Survey
Jyh-Ming Lien of the Computer Science Department received $40K from Virginia Tech and the U.S. Geological Survey for his project, "Development of Dynamic Gridding Tools for the USGS MODFLOW-USG Computer Program for Simulating Groundwater Flow."
Kai Zeng Receives Funding from NSF
Kai Zeng of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $225K from the National Science Foundation for his project, "EARS: Collaborative Research: Intelligence Measure of Cognitive Radio Networks."
Oct. 27, 2014
Siddhartha Sikdar Receives Funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs
Siddhartha Sikdar of the Bioengineering Department received $42K from the Department of Veterans Affairs for his project, "Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis and Cognitive Correlates of Function (ACCOF)."
Juan Cebral Receives Funding from Mayo Clinic & NIH
Juan Cebral of the Bioengineering Department received $201K from the Mayo Clinic and the National Institutes of Health for his project, "Computational and Biological Approach to Flow Diversion."
Jessica Lin and Huzefa Rangwala Receive Funding from Strategic Analysis & NRL
Jessica Lin and Huzefa Rangwala of the Computer Science Department received $37K from Strategic Analysis, Inc., and the Naval Research Laboratory for their project, "Contextual Anomaly Detection in Medical Applications."
Qi Wei Receives Funding from Northwestern University & NIH
Qi Wei of the Bioengineering Department received $20K from Northwestern University and the National Institutes of Health for h34 project, "The Neural Control of Internal Joint State Variables."
Max Albanese and Mihai Boicu Receive Funding from National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
Max Albanese and Mihai Boicu of the Applied Information Technology Department received $23K from National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance for their project, "Extra-Curricular Activities to support Educational Programs in Information Technology Entrepreneurship."
Parag Chitnis Receives Funding from U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
Parag Chitnis of the Bioengineering Department received $223K from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services for his project, "An All-Optical Photoacoustic Imaging System for the Eye."
Shanjiang Zhu Receives Funding from Virginia Tech and Virginia Ctr. for Transportation Innovation & Research
Shanjiang Zhu of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $20K from Virginia Tech and the Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research for his project, "Transportation System Impact of the Opening of Phase 1 of the Silver Line."
Sam Malek Receives Funding from Dept. of Homeland Security
Sam Malek of the Computer Science Department received $500K from the Department of Homeland Security for his project, "Tools for Automated Detection and Assessment of Security Vulnerabilities in Mobile Applications."
Vasiliki Ikonomidou and Margret Hjalmarson Receive Funding from NSF
Vasiliki Ikonomidou of the Bioengineering Department and Margret Hjalmarson of the College of Education & Human Development received $150K from the National Science Foundation for their project, " Research Initiation Grant: Student-directed differentiated learning in college-level engineering education."
Huzefa Rangwala, Aditya Johri & Jaime Lester Receive Funding from NSF
Huzefa Rangwala (Computer Science Department), Aditya Johri (Applied Information Technology Department), and Jaime Lester (Higher Education Program) received $766K from the National Science Foundation for their project, "BIGDATA: IA: DKA: Collaborative Research: Learning Data Analytics: Providing Actionable Insights to Increase College Student Success."
Yotam Gingold Receives Funding from NSF
Yotam Gingold of the Computer Science Department received $70K from the National Science Foundation for his project, "Improving the Quality and Editability of 2D and 3D Shapes via Crowdsourcing and Self-Crowdsourcing."
Nathalia Peixoto Receives Funding from NSF
Nathalia Peixoto of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $100K from the National Science Foundation for her project, "Bioimpedance of stimulating electrodes for the safe placement of retinal implants."
Brian Mark Receives Funding from NSF
Brian Mark of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $472K from the National Science Foundation for his project, "NeTS: Small: Spectrum Sensing and Resource Allocation for Cognitive Radio Networks."
Khondkar Islam Receives Funding from Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Khondkar Islam of the Applied Information Technology Department received $50K from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation for his project, "A Framework to Expand Outreach via the Virtual Learning Model."
Max Albanese Receives Funding from Northrop Grumman
Max Albanese of the Applied Information Technology Department received $7K from Northrop Grumman Corporation for his project, "Cybersecurity Engineering of Transportation Systems."
Kai Zeng Receives Funding from NSF
Kai Zeng of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $225K from the National Science Foundation for his project, "Collaborative Research: Intelligence Measure of Cognitive Radio Networks."
Angelos Stavrou Receives Funding from NSF
Angelos Stavrou of the Center for Assured Research & Engineering received $175K from the National Science Foundation for his project, "TWC: TTP Option: Small: Collaborative: Scalable Techniques for Better Situational Awareness: Algorithmic Frameworks and Large-Scale Empirical Analyses."
Jan Allbeck and Michael Hieb Receive Funding from CACI & US Dept. of Defense
Jan Allbeck of the Computer Science Department and Michael Hieb of the C4I Center received $120K from CACI Technologies, Inc. and the U.S. Department of Defense for their project, "NVESD Virtual Worlds."
Amarda Shehu Receives Funding from NSF
Amarda Shehu of the Computer Science Department received $217K from the National Science Foundation for her project, "Collaborative: A plug-and-play software platform of robotics-inspired algorithms for mapping protein structures and motions."
Hakan Aydin Receives Funding from NSF
Hakan Aydin of the Computer Science Department received $270K from the National Science Foundation for his project, "CSR: Small: Collaborative Research: Dependable Real-Time Computing on Heterogeneous Chip Multiprocessor."
Dimitris Ioannou Receives Funding from US Dept. of Commerce
Dimitris Ioannou of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $38K from the U.S. Department of Commerce for his project, "Glassy-polymer Electret Random Access Memory (GeRAM)."
Jana Košecká Receives Funding from US Dept. of Commerce
Jana Košecká of the Computer Science Department received $73K from the U.S. Department of Commerce for her project, "Confidence Based Segmentation and Labeling on Spatio-Temporal Imagery."
Tod Levitt and Kathy Laskey Receive Funding from Systems & Technology Research and Missile Defense Agency
Tod Levitt and Kathy Laskey of the C4I Center and the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $30K from Systems & Technology Research and Missile Defense Agency for their project, "Decision Making Under Uncertainty for Missile Defense."
Andrew Loerch and Liansheng Tang Receive Funding from ManTech Systems Engineering Company
Andrew Loerch of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department and Liansheng Tang of the Statistics Department received $110K from ManTech Systems Engineering Company for their project, "Support to USMC Gender Experimentation."
Joe Pancrazio Receives Funding from Virginia Center on Aging
Joe Pancrazio of the Bioengineering Department received $45K from Virginia Center on Aging for his project, "Analysis of Amyloid Beta Effects with Living Neuronal Networks."
Paulo Costa, Kathy Laskey, and Jie Xu Receives Funding from Office of Naval Research
Paulo Costa, Kathy Laskey, & Jie Xu of the C4I Center and the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $20K from the Office of Naval Research for their project, "Context-Based Decisions with Multi-Entity Decision Graphs."
Sam Malek Receives Funding from Carnegie Mellon U. & NSA
Sam Malek of the Computer Science Department received $85K from Carnegie Mellon University and the National Security Agency for his project, "Science of Secure Frameworks."
Duminda Wijesekera Receives Funding from US Dept. of Commerce
Duminda Wijesekera of the Center for Assured Research & Engineering received $132K from the U.S. Department of Commerce for his project, "Using the Policy Machine to Enforce Access to Health Records."
Jana Košecká Receives Funding from Object Video & IARPA
Jana Košecká of the Computer Science Department received $99K from the Object Video, Inc., and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity for her project, "FINDER Phase 2A."
Max Albanese Receives Funding from NCIIA
Max Albanese of the Applied Information Technology Department received $5K from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance for his project, "E-Mow: Biomass-Powered Robot Harvester."
Amarda Shehu and Ken DeJong Receive Funding from NSF
Amarda Shehu and Ken DeJong of the Computer Science Department received $400K from the National Science Foundation for their project, "CCF: AF: Small: Novel Stochastic Optimization Algorithms to Advance the Treatment of Dynamic Molecular Systems."
Liansheng (Larry) Tang Receives Funding from US Dept. of Health & Human Services
Liansheng (Larry) Tang of the Department of Statistics received $78K from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services for his project, "IPA for Liansheng Tang."
Kamaljeet Sanghera Receives Funding from National Center for Women and Information Technology
Kamaljeet Sanghera of the Applied Information Technology Department received $6K from National Center for Women and Information Technology for her projects, "Game Programming using Microsoft Kodu" and "Cyber Security."
Qiliang Li Receives Funding from NSF
Qiliang Li of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $190K from the National Science Foundation for his project, "Collaborative Research: Surface Engineering and Atomic Layer Deposition of Dielectrics on Two-Dimensional Atomic Crystals for Device Application."
David Lattanzi Receives Funding from NSF
David Lattanzi of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $265K from the National Science Foundation for his project, "Comprehensive Structural Assessments Through Hierarchical Computer Vision."
Sushil Jajodia Receives Funding from National Security Agency
Sushil Jajodia of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $283K from the National Security Agency for his project, "2014-2015 IASP Scholarship Program."
Kamaljeet Sanghera Receives Funding from National Center for Women and Information Technology
Kamaljeet Sanghera of the Applied Information Technology Department received $3K from National Center for Women and Information Technology for her project, "APP Development with Social Entrepreneurship."
Tod Levitt and Kathy Laskey Receive Funding from ExoAnalytic Solutions and Missile Defense Agency
Tod Levitt and Kathy Laskey of the C4I Center received $225K from ExoAnalytic Solutions and the Missile Defense Agency for their project, "Uncertainty Characterization in RF/EO Track Correlation."
Angelos Stavrou and J.P. Auffret Receive Funding from Agency for Defense Development
Angelos Stavrou of the Center for Assured Research & Engineering and J.P. Auffret of the School of Business received $268K from Agency for Defense Development for their project, "Technical consulting on the test and evaluation methodology for cyber-security technologies."
Qilian Li and Dimitris Ioannou Receive Funding from Center for Innovative Technology
Qilian Li and Dimitris Ioannou of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $100K from the Center for Innovative Technology for their project, "Manufacture Large-Area Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Materials for Portable, Flexible and Transparent Electronics."
Qi Wei and Siddhartha Sikdar Receive Funding from Jeffress Trust
Qi Wei and Siddhartha Sikdar of the Bioengineering Department received $100K from the Jeffress Trust for their project, "A Novel Computational Model to Study Human Eye Movement Disorders."
Douglas Corner, Michael Hieb, and Mark Pullen win NATO Award
Douglas Corner, Michael Hieb, and Mark Pullen of the C4I Center were selected to receive the Science & Technology Organization (STO) 2013 Scientific Achievement Award from NATO. The announcement states:
"This Award recognizes exceptional effort in significant STO activities, excellence and originality in the scientific and technical content therein, outstanding results in terms of military benefit and, since it was about a team award, quality and degree of collaboration."
Rao Mulpuri Receives Funding from NSF
Rao Mulpuri of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $10K from the National Science Foundation for his project, "Funding for Student Participation at the 20th International Conference on Ion Implantation Technology, Portland, Oregon."
John Shortle Receives Funding from the University of Maryland and FAA
John Shortle of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department and the Center for Air Transportation Systems Research received $119K from the University of Maryland and the Federal Aviation Administration for his project, "Fast-time simulation and sensitivity analysis for event sequence diagrams in the Integrated Safety Assessment Model."
Aditya Johri Receives Funding from NSF
Aditya Johri of the Applied Information Technology Department received $428K from the National Science Foundation for his project, "TILES: Trajectories of Informal Learning among Engineering Students."
Aditya Johri Receives Funding from NSF
Aditya Johri of the Applied Information Technology Department received $372K from National Science Foundation for his project, "Collaborative Research: Deep Insights Anytime, Anywhere (DIA2).
Kris Gaj and Jens-Peter Kaps Receive Funding from McQ and Missile Defense Agency
Kris Gaj and Jens-Peter Kaps of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $35K from McQ and the Missile Defense Agency for their project, "Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFS) for Unique and Robust Encryption Key Generation."
Robert Elder and Alex Levis Receive Funding from University of Maryland and U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security
Robert Elder and Alex Levis of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $200K from the University of Maryland and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for their project, "SMA 2014 Pacific Strategic Risk Study."
Qiliang Li Receives Funding from NIST
Qilian Li of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $50K from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for his project, "Two-Dimensional Atomic Crystal Field Transistors with Ultra-High Sensitivity."
Ken Hintz Receives Funding from FirstGuard Technologies and ONR
Ken Hintz of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $27K from FirstGuard Technologies Corp. and the Office of Naval Research for his project, "Pre-Shot Sniper Detection Data Analysis."
Sushil Jajodia Receives Funding from U.S. Dept. of Commerce (NIST)
Sushil Jajodia of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $50K from the U.S. Department of Commerce (NIST) for his project, "Network Diversity and Network Attack Surface Metrics and Their Applications to Cloud Computing and Moving Target Defense."
Daniel A. Menasce named Fellow of the IEEE
Daniel A. Menasce, a University Professor of Computer Science, has been named a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to research and education in performance evaluation of computer systems.
Yotam Gingold Receives Funding from Google
Yotam Gingold of the Computer Science Department received $42K from the Google Research Awards program for his project, "Diamonds from the Rough: Improving Creative Performance via Aggregation."
Mark Pullen and Nicholas Clark Receive Funding from Truestone & U.S. Army
Mark Pullen and Nicholas Clark of the C4I Center received $17K from Truestone and the U.S. Army for their project, "AMSO - Intergrated Standards."
Daniel Fleck and Angelos Stavrou Receive Funding from Invincea Labs and DARPA
Daniel Fleck and Angelos Stavrou of the Computer Science Department received $744K from Invincea Labs and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for their project, "TAPIO: Targeted Attack Premonition using Integrated Operational data sources."
Sushil Jajodia Receives Funding from Army Research Office
Sushil Jajodia of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $24K from the Army Research Office for his project, "Cyber Warfare: Building the Scientific Future."
Ariela Sofer, Edward Huang, and Abbas Zaidi Receive Funding from Pohang University
Ariela Sofer, Edward Huang, and Abbas Zaidi of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $100K from Pohang University of Science and Technology for their project, " A Case Study: Designing an Electric Power Plant Using Model-Based Systems Engineering Techniques."
Arun Sood and Duminda Wijisekera Receive Funding from the Cyber Security Research Alliance
Arun Sood and Duminda Wijisekera of the Computer Science Department and the International Cyber Center received $60K from the Cyber Security Research Alliance for their project, "A Survey and Taxonomy on the Roots of Trust in Cyber-Physical Systems."
KC Chang Receives Funding from Intelligent Fusion Technology and US Air Force
KC Chang of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $60K from Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc. and the U.S. Air Force for his project, "Decision Making under Uncertainty for Dynamic Spectrum Access Systems in Space Application."
Duminda Wijisekera Receives Funding from Howard University and US Dept. of Transportation
Duminda Wijisekera of the Computer Science Department received $386K from Howard University and the U.S. Department of Transportation (FRA) for his project, "PTC Systems Identity Management."
Jie Xu Receives Funding from Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Jie Xu of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department received $5K from Oak Ridge Associate Universities for his project, "Revenue Management in the Cloud."
Duminda Wijisekera Receives Funding from US Dept. of Transportation
Duminda Wijisekera of the Computer Science Department received $330K from the U.S. Department of Transportation for his project, "Mapping GSM-R into US Wireless Frequency Intervals for High-Speed Rail."
Sam Malek Receives Funding from USC and US Space & Naval Warfare Systems Command
Sam Malek of the Computer Science Department received $84K from the University of Southern California and the U.S. Space & Naval Warfare Systems Command for his project, "Testing Privacy-Preserving Distributed Systems on DETERLab."
Aditya Johri Receives Funding from the National Science Foundation
Aditya Johri of the Applied Information Technology Department received $150K from the National Science Foundation for his project "Collaborative Research (EAGER): Data Ecosystem for Catalyzing Transformative Research in Engineering Education."
Krishna Kant Named Fellow of IEEE
Krishna Kant of the Center for Secure Information Systems has been named a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to enterprise server performance, power management technologies and domain name system robustness.
Kun Sun & Max Albanese Receive Funding from University of Washington and Dept. of the Army
Kun Sun and Max Albanese of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $115K from the University of Washington and the U.S. Department of the Army for his project "Modeling and Analysis of Moving Target Defense Mechanisms in MANET."
Kathleen Wage Receives Funding from ONR
Kathleen Wage of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $6K from the Office of Naval Research for her project "Partial Underwriting for the 2013 IEEE Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Workshop."
Nathalia Peixoto, John Cressman, and Tim Sauer Receive Funding from NSF
Nathalia Peixoto of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, John Cressman of the Krasnow Institute, and Tim Sauer of the Mathematical Sciences Department received $360K from the National Science Foundation for their project "Identification and Control for Pattern Steering in Dynamical Networks."
Ken Hintz is Issued a Patent
Ken Hintz of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department was issued the following patent by the US PTO. Title: Cavity Detection Inventors: Kenneth J. Hintz Number: 8,599,061 B2 Issue date: December 3, 2013
Amarda Shehu & Huzefa Rangwala Receive Funding from NSF
Amarda Shehu and Huzefa Rangwala of the Computer Science Department received $74K from the National Science Foundation for their project "2014 NSF CISE CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop."