Research funding sources include a variety of federal agencies, as well as grants from business and industry. The following is a list of grants recently awarded to the College of Engineering and Computing faculty.
For more comprehensive and detailed information about grants, please contact the CEC Office of Research Administration cecrao@gmu.edu.
Marcos Zampieri receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Marcos Zampieri received funding from the NSF for Preparing Computer Science Students for Artificial Intelligence Assisted Software Development.
Anticipated funding: $188,367
September 8, 2026
Kun Sun and Xiaokuan Zhang received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Kun Sun and Xiaokuan Zhang received funding from the NSF for Collaborative Research: CyberAI Innovation: Building Cybersecurity Competence in the Era of Agentic AI: A Modular, Hands-on Curriculum with Low-Barrier Learning Platform.
Anticipated funding: $166,666
September 8, 2026
Holger Dannenberg and Giorgio Ascoli received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Holger Dannenberg and Giorgio Ascoli received funding from the NIH for From functional to dysfunctional neural network dynamics underpinning memory storage and retrieval across young adult and aged mice.
Anticipated funding: $759,292
September 8, 2026
Emma Zhang and Monique Van Hoek received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Emma Zhang and Monique Van Hoek received funding from the NSF for Collaborative Research: GCR: Bioengineered Approaches to Recover Critical Minerals and Produce Sustainable Silicon-Based Materials from Silicon-Rich Wastes.
Anticipated funding: $229,279
September 8, 2026
Xuesu Xiao received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (US DOE)
Xuesu Xiao received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (US DOE) for Radiation Monitoring Robot for Automated Site Surveys.
Anticipated funding: $60,000
August 24, 2026
Keren Zhou, Xiaokuan Zhang, Binqian Yin, and Songqing Chen received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Keren Zhou, Xiaokuan Zhang, Binqian Yin, and Songqing Chen received funding from the NSF for POSE: Phase I: Tile-Debugger: Enabling Accessible, Flexible, and Insightful Debugging for AI Workloads on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Accelerators.
Anticipated funding: $300,000
August 24, 2026
Zhi Tian received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Zhi Tian received funding from the NSF for CIF: Small: Robust decentralized constrained optimization with structurally guaranteed feasibility.
Anticipated funding: $423,309
August 24, 2026
Jianli Pan and Md Tanvir Arafin received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Jianli Pan and Md Tanvir Arafin received funding from the NSF for CyberAI Innovation: MOTIVE: Modernizing IoT/Edge Cybersecurity Curricula in the Embodied AI Era with Experiential Learning and Research Designs.
Anticipated funding: $500,000
August 24, 2026
Shanjiang Zhu received funding from the Virginia Transportation Research Council
Shanjiang Zhu received funding from the Virginia Transportation Research Council for WORK PLAN-RNS-26-4 Trip Generation and Traffic Prediction: Evaluating Alternative Traffic Prediction Methods for Traffic Impact Analysis.
Anticipated funding: $149,999
August 24, 2026
Mingrui Liu, Jie Xu receive funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Mingrui Liu, Jie Xu received funding from the (NSF) for Collaborative Research: MFAI: Conformality-Guided Learning with Evolving and Heterogeneous Data.
Anticipated funding: $550,000
August 17, 2026
Pouya Rezai receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Pouya Rezai received funding from the NSF for Design and Optimization of Imprinted Superabsorbent Polymers for Selective Pathogen Binding and Release: Integrating Materials Science, Fluid Dynamics, and Explainable AI.
Anticipated funding: $450,000
August 17, 2026
Qiang Zeng and Lannan Luo receive funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Qiang Zeng and Lannan Luo received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Semantics-Aware Security Assurance for Autonomous Data Center Infrastructure.
Anticipated funding: $100,000
August 17, 2026
Kai Zeng and Liling Huang receive funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Kai Zeng and Liling Huang receive funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Defense-in-Depth Cyber-Physical Security for AI Data Centers.
Anticipated funding: $100,000
August 17, 2026
Ray Bai receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Ray Bai received funding from the NSF for Collaborative Research: Generative Bootstrapping Methods for Massive Dependent Data.
Anticipated funding: $100,000
August 10, 2026
Lucas R.F. Henneman and Jenna R. Krall received funding from the American Lung Association
Lucas R.F. Henneman and Jenna R. Krall received funding from the American Lung Association for Fossil fuels to wildfires: how shifting particulate composition will impact respiratory disease under climate change.
Anticipated funding: $50,000
August 10, 2016
Kun Sun and Xiaokuan Zhang receive funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Kun Sun and Xiaokuan Zhang receive funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Continuous Threat Detection and Autonomous Risk Response: AI-powered Security Operation Architecture for Data Centers.
Anticipated funding: $100,000
August 10, 2026
Parth Pathak receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Parth Pathak received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Securing Shared Data Center Timing Infrastructure.
Anticipated funding: $100,000
August 10, 2026
Mohamed Gebril receives funding from Virginia Military Institute
Mohamed Gebril received funding from Virginia Military Institute for Securing the Skies: A Drone-Centric Cybersecurity and AI Experiential Learning Program.
Anticipated funding: $25,000
August 3, 2026
Keren Zhou and Binqian Yin receive funding from the National Science Foundation
Keren Zhou and Binqian Yin receive funding from the National Science Foundation for Collaborative Research: SHF: Hierarchical Optimization of Ragged Tensor Operators for Deep Learning Workloads.
Anticipated funding: $362,095
July 27, 2026
Zhisheng Yan receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Zhisheng Yan receives funding from NSF for Collaborative Research: NeTS: Small: AI-driven Cross-camera Video Analytics through Networked Co-learning.
Anticipated funding: $269,000
July 27, 2026
Col of Engineering and Computing Ziyu Yao receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Col of Engineering and Computing Ziyu Yao receives funding from the NSF for CAREER: Towards Scalable and Actionable Interpretability of Language Models for Code Generation.
Anticipated funding: $674,100
July 27,2026
Liza Price Wilson Durant receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Liza Price Wilson Durant receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for NoVA Node CCI FY27 Initiatives.
Anticipated funding: $2,500,000
July 27, 2026
Jie Xu and Lance C. Sherry received funding from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Jie Xu and Lance C. Sherry received funding from the FAA for NEXTOR III: DO 38: FAA Maintenance Scheduling Optimization.
Anticipated funding: $86,000
July 20, 2026
Daigo Shishika receives funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
Daigo Shishika receives funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for Control Automation Research: Border Defense with Heterogeneous Teams
Anticipated funding: $287,500
July 13, 2026
Ali Khalid Raz, John Friedrich Shortle, Chi Yang, Matthew Amissah, and Chung-Kyu Park received funding from the U.S. Department of the Army
Ali Khalid Raz, John Friedrich Shortle, Chi Yang, Matthew Amissah, and Chung-Kyu Park received funding from the U.S. Department of the Army for Scalable Digital Engineering Workforce Training Pilot.
Anticipated funding: $509,242
July 13, 2026
Xuan Wang received funding from the National Science Foundation
Xuan Wang receives funding from the National Science Foundation CAREER: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Reliable and Efficient Knowledge Transfer in Robot Learning.
Anticipated funding: $639,870
July 13, 2026
Maryam Parsa receives funding from the National Science Foundation
Maryam Parsa received funding from the National Science Foundation CAREER: CORTEX: Next-Generation COmputing with Brain-Inspired Resilient, Transformative, and EXplainable Intelligence.
Anticipated funding: $655,286
July 13, 2026
Celso Moller Ferreira receives funding from the Town of Jarratt
Celso Moller Ferreira received funding from the Town of Jarratt for Stormwater Resilience: Building a Data-Driven Foundation.
Anticipated funding: $80,000
July 13, 2026
Nora McDonald receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Nora McDonald received funding from the NSF for CAREER: Resilience in the Age of AI: Helping Adolescents Manage Generative AI and Personalization.
Anticipated funding: $748,256
June 29, 2026
Remi Veneziano receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Remi Veneziano received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for Phase I: Redefining How PDMS Microfluidics Are Made Through Advanced 3D Printing to Facilitate Complex Biological Mechanism Studies.
Anticipated funding: $99,999
June 29, 2026
Kai Zeng receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Kai Zeng receives funding from the NSF for Secure ISAC in NextG through Resource Grid Obfuscation.
Anticipated funding: $25,000
June 29, 2026
Antonis Anastasopoulos receives funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Antonis Anastasopoulos received funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for Developing a Model-to-Data Paradigm for Low-Resource and Indigenous Languages.
Anticipated funding: $198,894
June 29, 2026
Burak Tanyu receives funding from SOLMAX
Burak Tanyu received funding from SOLMAX for Evaluating the compatibility of H2Ri and RSi Geotextiles to be used in road applications that contain recycled concrete aggregate.
Anticipated funding: $267,499
Alexander Brodsky, Cameron Nowzari, and Daigo Shishika receive funding from the U.S. Department of the Army
Alexander Brodsky, Cameron Nowzari, and Daigo Shishika received funding from the U.S. Department of the Army for HMIF: Smart Swarms for Military Planners Command and Control Systems, Digital Transformation, Human-Machine Collaboration.
Anticipated funding: $966,836
June 22, 2026
Celso Moller Ferreira receives funding from the Town of Waverly
Celso Moller Ferreira received funding from the Town of Waverly for Building Flood Resilience in Waverly.
Anticipated funding: $400,000
June 29, 2026
Liling Huang receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy
Liling Huang received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for Small Modular Reactor (SMR) and Grid Operator Training Hub: Powering Virginia’s Grid and Data Center Workforce.
Anticipated funding: $228,188
June 22, 2026
Daigo Shishika receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Daigo Shishika received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for CAREER: Signaling through Motion: A Game-Theoretic Framework for Deception and Cooperation in Mobile Multi-Agent Systems.
Anticipated funding: $549,205
June 22, 2026
Juan Raul Cebral receives funding from The Bee Foundation
Juan Raul Cebral received funding from The Bee Foundation for Identifying Modifiable and Non-Modifiable Conditions Associated with Increased Aneurysm Rupture Risk in the Black, Hispanic, and Female Sub-Populations.
Anticipated funding: $15,000
June 22, 2026
Jose Bricio Neto and Ali Khalid Raz receive funding from the U.S. Department of the Army
Jose Bricio Neto and Ali Khalid Raz received funding from the U.S. Department of the Army for Unified Secure Research and Development Environment for Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC).
Anticipated funding: $599,996
June 15, 2026
Jose Bricio Neto, Vadim Sokolov and Ali Khalid Raz receive funding from the U.S. Department of the Army
Jose Bricio Neto, Vadim Sokolov and Ali Khalid Raz received funding from the U.S. Department of the Army for Virtual Prototyping of Mission and Formation Concepts with Autonomy Enabled Ground and Air Systems.
Anticipated funding: $303,886
June 15, 2026
Maryam Parsa and Ali Khalid Raz receive funding from the U.S. Department of the Army
Maryam Parsa and Ali Khalid Raz received funding from the U.S. Department of the Army for SIMAC: Secure and Intelligent Multi-Agent Collaboration for Autonomous UGV-UAV Formations Using Multimodal AI and Neuromorphic Perception.
Anticipated funding: $543,079
June 15, 2026
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 Commonwealth Cyber Initiative traineeship program in cybersecurity.
Anticipated funding: $442,000
June 15, 2026
Sanchari Das receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Sanchari Das received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Building the Healthcare Cybersecurity Workforce.
Anticipated funding: $100,000
June 15, 2026
Lance C. Sherry receives funding from the U.S. Department of the Army
Lance C. Sherry received funding from the U.S. Department of the Army for Collaborative STEM Talent Development Program (CSToP).
Anticipated funding: $259,000
June 1, 2026
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’s involvement with the development of a new RF shielding lab in FUSE.
Anticipated funding: $222,967
June 1, 2026
Jim Jones and Khaled Khasawneh receive funding from the U.S. Department of the Army
Jim Jones and Khaled Khasawneh received funding from the U.S. Department of the Army for Vehicle Network Security Architecture for Next-Generation Military Ground VehicleActive.
Anticipated funding: $499,364
May 27, 2026
Xuesu Xiao receives funding from the U.S. Department of the Army
Xuesu Xiao received funding from the U.S. Department of the Army for Vision-Language-Action Models for Off-Road Integrated Teams.
Anticipated funding: $517,604
May 27, 2026
Xuesu Xiao receives funding from the U.S. Department of the Army
Xuesu Xiao received funding from the U.S. Department of the Army for Hasty Defense with Attrition in Integrated Manned-Unmanned Formations.
Anticipated funding: $513,248
May 27, 2026
Liza Price Wilson Durant receives funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Liza Price Wilson Durant received funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for The Cyber Acceleration, Translation, and Advanced Prototyping for University-Linked Technology (CATAPULT) and Academic Support for Cybersecurity Entrepreneurship (ASCEND) 2026-2027.
Anticipated funding: $300,000
May 27, 2026
Lucas R.F. Henneman receives funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Lucas R.F. Henneman received funding from the NIH for Housing insecurity, heat, and air pollution: Integrating housing and environmental policy for solution-focused work.
Anticipated funding: $25,672
May 21, 2026
Umit Karabiyik receives funding from the U.S. Department of Justice (US DOJ)
Umit Karabiyik receives funding from US DOJ for Crime Scene Surveying for IoT Investigations: National Training and Technical Assistance Program.
Anticipated funding: $88,272
May 21, 2026
Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao receives funding from the Office of Naval Research
Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao received funding from the Office of Naval Research for CogFuzz: Cognitive and Design-aware Scalable Golden Reference Model (GRM)-Free Hardware Fuzzing.
Anticipated funding: $405,000
May 21, 2026
Lily Wang and Wanli Qiao receive funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Lily Wang and Wanli Qiao received funding from the NSF for Conference: ICSA 2026 Applied Statistics Symposium.
Anticipated funding: $20,000
May 21, 2026
Kuo-Chu Chang receives funding from the U.S. Department of the Air Force (USAF)
Kuo-Chu Chang received funding from the USAF for PRECISION: Predictive Resilient Chain Intelligence with Secure Integrated Optimization Networks.
Anticipated funding: $60,000
May 4, 2026
Ningshi Yao receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Ningshi Yao received funding from the NSF for CAREER: A Unified Event-triggered Real-Time Scheduling and Control Co-Design Framework for Networked Safety-critical Control Systems.
Anticipated funding: $628,260
Matthew Jablonski receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Matthew Jablonski received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for BEHOLDER - Non-Invasive Timing‑First Cyber Event Detection for Substation Gateways and Edge Compute.
Anticipated funding: $75,000
May 4, 2026
Mingkui Wei receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for CAPCHA: Completely Automated Physical test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.
Anticipated funding: $75,000
Parth Pathak receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for From RFIDs to mmIDs: 5G-native Battery-less Tags for Tracking and Communication.
Anticipated funding: $75,000
May 4, 2026
Anomadarshi Barua receives funding from the Office of Naval Research
Anomadarshi Barua received funding from the Office of Naval Research for Extracting High Resolution Harmonic Fingerprinting From Sparse Sampling to Disaggregate Complex CVDs.
Anticipated funding: $840,636
April 27, 2026
Ningshi Yao receives funding from the Office of Naval Research Natural EXTension
Ningshi Yao received funding from the Office of Naval Research for Workforce Development of Mechatronics Engineering Technologists Competition.
Anticipated funding: $749,778
April 27, 2026
Khaled Khasawneh and Yicheng Zhang receive funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Khaled Khasawneh and Yicheng Zhang received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority Responsible AI Governance Through Cognitive Hardware Monitoring.
Anticipated funding: $75,000
April 27, 2026
Mingkui Wei receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Mingkui Wei received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Development of a secure website and user portal for Northern Virginia Vietnam Veterans.
Anticipated funding: $16,000
April 27, 2026
Celso Moller Ferreira receives funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Celso Moller Ferreira received funding from ONR for Advanced Arctic Coastal Erosion Modeling: Simulating Multiple Mechanisms and Mechanism Flipping in Support of DoD Coastal Resilience and Planning.
Anticipated funding: $25,000
April 13, 2026
Shivam Chaturvedi and Lance C Sherry receive funding from AirVani, Inc
Shivam Chaturvedi and Lance C Sherry receive funding from AirVani, Inc for Preliminary Design of Scalable Powerline Catenary System for Drones.
Anticipated funding: $75,000
April 27, 2026
Cameron Nowzari, Ningshi Yao, and Xuesu Xiao receive funding from Raytheon Systems
Cameron Nowzari, Ningshi Yao, and Xuesu Xiao receive funding from Raytheon Systems for Raytheon Drone Competition participation.
Anticipated funding: $15,000
April 6, 2026
Ningshi Yao receives funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Ningshi Yao received funding from ONR for Natural EXTension: Workforce Development of Mechatronics Engineering Technologists.
Anticipated funding: $749,778
March 31, 2026
Jose Bricio Neto and James Baldo receive funding from the U.S. Department of Defense (US DOD)
Jose Bricio Neto and James Baldo receive funding from the U.S. Department of Defense (US DOD) for Forged Insights Classification, Communications, Networks.
Anticipated funding: $165,808
March 23, 2026
Jose Bricio Neto receives funding from Commonwealth Ctr for Advanced Logistics Systems (CCALS)
Jose Bricio Neto received funding from CCALS for Architecture and Workforce Development for Energy Centric UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) Research, Innovation, and Training for Critical Infrastructure Applications.
Anticipated funding: $100,000
March 23, 2026
Ziyu Yao receives funding from Foresight Institute
Ziyu Yao receives funding from Foresight Institute for Agentic Mechanistic Interpretation of Language Models.
Anticipated funding: $100,000
March 23, 2026
Shanjiang Zhu receives funding from Virginia Transportation Research Council
Shanjiang Zhu receives funding from Virginia Transportation Research Council for Evaluating Fuzzed CV Data to Support Travel Demand Modeling.
Anticipated funding: $72,374
March 23, 2026
Kai Zeng and Brian L. Mark receive funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Kai Zeng and Brian L. Mark received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Covert Communication, Generative AI, Steganography.
March 17, 2026
Anticipated funding: $50,000
Anomadarshi Barua receives funding from the Office of Naval Research
Anomadarshi Barua received funding from the Office of Naval Research for Extracting High Resolution Harmonic Fingerprinting from Sparse Sampling to Disaggregate Complex CVDs
Anticipated funding: $25,000
March 9, 2026
Jose Bricio Neto and James Baldo receive funding from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
Jose Bricio Neto and James Baldo received funding from the U.S. DOD for 2496-030/Forged Insights.
Anticipated funding: $100,000
March 2, 2026
Remi Veneziano and Parag Chitnis receive funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation
Remi Veneziano and Parag Chitnis received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation for Scaling-up the Production of a Novel Contrast Agent Platform for Photoacoustic Imaging.
Anticipated funding: $200,000
March 2, 2026
Khaled Khasawneh receives funding from Old Dominion University Research Foundation
Khaled Khasawneh received funding from Old Dominion University Research Foundation for Intelligent Framework for Securing IoT Systems in Critical Infrastructure.
Anticipated funding: $50,000
March 2, 2026
Lei Yang receives funding from Virginia Tech
Lei Yang receives funding from Virginia Tech for Resilient Neuromorphic-NextG IoT Framework for Secure and Autonomous Water Infrastructure Cybersecurity.
Anticipated funding: $25,000
March 2, 2026
Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao receives funding from the University of Virginia
Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao received funding from the University of Virginia for Bastion: Scalable Assurance for Critical Infrastructure through Generative Hardening and Robust Detection.
Anticipated funding: $50,000
February 23, 2026
Parth Pathak received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Parth Pathak received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Secure Spectrum Analytics on the Edge using Deep Learning.
Anticipated funding: $50,000
January 16, 2026
Ali Beheshti receives funding from the Office of Naval Research
Ali Beheshti receives funding from the Office of Naval Research for Novel Surface Engineering Process to Improve High-Temperature Contact Creep Resistance of Superalloys.
Anticipated funding: $54,756
February 9, 2026
Hemant Purohit, Lin Wells, Kathryn B. Laskey, Paul R. Houser receive funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Hemant Purohit, Lin Wells, Kathryn B. Laskey, Paul R. Houser receive funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Building Capacity for Rapid Situational Awareness to Manage National Security Threats through a Resilient Emergency Communication Infrastructure with AI.
Anticipated funding: $50,000
February 9, 2026
Matthew Jablonski receives funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Matthew Jablonski receives funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Phase Space Physics Derived Modeling for Anomaly Detection in Manufacturing System.
Anticipated funding: $50,000
February 2, 2026
Songqing Chen receives funding from the University of Virginia
Songqing Chen received funding from the University of Virginia for FORTAI AI-Enabled Zero-Trust Security Framework for Agentic AI Serving Infrastructures Active.
Anticipated funding: $50,000
February 2, 2026
Sanchari Das received funding from Google
Sanchari Das received funding from Google for "Scammed by Love: Toward Mitigating AI-Facilitated Romance Scams Against Older Adults Through Empirical and Cross-National Studies."
Anticipated funding: $100,000
January – December 2026
Sanchari Das received funding from CCI Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Call for Proposals
Sanchari Das received funding through the CCI Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Call for Proposals for “Explainable LSTM-Based Anomaly Detection for Operating Room HVAC and ICU Power Systems in Hospitals.”
Anticipated funding: $100,000
January – December 2026
Jim Jones receives funding from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
Jim Jones received funding from the US DOD for SDR Analysis.
Anticipated funding: $37,630
January 26, 2026
Lizhi Wang receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Lizhi Wang received funding from the NSF for LEAP-HI/GOALI: Engineering Crops for Genetic Adaptation to Changing Environments.
Anticipated funding: $399,355
January 20, 2026
Celso Moller Ferreira receives funding from the U.S. Geological Survey
Celso Moller Ferreira received funding from the U.S. Geological Survey for Sanitation infrastructure in vulnerable communities: Current and future risks to water security.
Anticipated funding: $24,821
January 20, 2026
Massimiliano Albanese receives funding from New Push for Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Industry Collaboration.
Anticipated funding: $25,000
January 20, 2026
Lance C. Sherry receives funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Lance C. Sherry received funding from NASA for Regulatory Ontology and Compliance Assessment Suite (ROCAS).
Anticipated funding: $45,000
January 12, 2026
Kai Zeng receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Kai Zeng received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Secure 6G Infrastructure for Integrated Sensing and Communication.
Anticipated funding: $100,000
January 12, 2026
Lannan Luo receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Lannan Luo received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for AI-Powered Video and Audio Side Channels for Cyber-Physical Anomaly.
Anticipated funding: $100,000
January 12, 2026
Lizhi Wang receives funding from BARD
Lizhi Wang received funding from BARD for Creation and validation of a digital twin model for improving almond production.
Anticipated funding: $160,000
January 12, 2026
Liza Price Wilson Durant receives funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Liza Price Wilson Durant received funding from Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for CCI Scholars – High School Experiential Learning Program.
Anticipated funding: $150,793
January 12, 2026
Sean O. Luke receives funding from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
Sean O. Luke received funding from DOD for Uses of OSINT & PAI in Conjunction with AI/LLMs for Decision Support Modeling.
Anticipated funding: $41,666
January 5, 2026
Jose Bricio Neto receives funding from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
Jose Bricio Neto received funding from the DOD for Quick Look Study of U.S. Marine Corps Wargaming and Analysis Capability with Recommendations.
Anticipated funding: $98,500
January 5, 2026
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 NoVA Node CCI FY26 Initiatives.
Anticipated funding: $2,500,000
January 5, 2026
Michael Atef Yassa Girgis receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation
Michael Atef Yassa Girgis receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation for Quantitative Isotopically Labeled Tags for Precise Proteomic Analysis via Mass Spectrometry.
Anticipated funding: $100,000
January 5, 2026
Shima Mohebbi and Babak Aslani received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership
Shima Mohebbi and Babak Aslani received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for Scalable AI-driven Cybersecurity for Small and Medium Critical Manufacturing.
Anticipated funding: $100,000
January 5, 2026
Kai Zeng receives funding from Virginia Tech
Kai Zeng received funding from Virginia Tech for O-RAN-Compatible Software Radio for Secure and Resilient Mid- to High-Frequency Spectrum Operation.
Anticipated funding: $15,000
January 5, 2026
Md Tanvir Arafin receives funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority
Md Tanvir Arafin received funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for CASPER: Cyber-Analog Sensing for Protecting Critical Energy Infrastructure.
Anticipated funding: $100,000
January 5, 2026
Liling Huang receives funding from Virginia Energy Department of Energy
Liling Huang received funding from Virginia Energy Department of Energy for Funding Virginia Research AI Data Center Lab.
Anticipated funding: $1,500,000
January 5, 2026