Grants

  • Schlumberger Foundation - Faculty for the Future Grant, \$50,000, 8/26-8/27
  • Chih Foundation Research Award, \$10,000, 11/25
  • DOD-Air Force (through Epitome Inc.), PI, ``Data-Centric AI in Multi-Domain Awareness", \$150,000 (My portion \$30,300), 12/24-6/25
  • NSF, Co-PI, ``NRT: Science, Technology, Engineering, Program for Upward Partnership (STEP-UP) for Advancing Microelectronics Education and Training", \$3,000,000 (My portion \$600,000), 9/24-8/29
  • Moffitt Cancer Center, PI, ``Automated Quantitative Measures of Breast Density", \$120,000 (My portion \$120,000), 8/24-8/28
  • DOD-Army, Co-PI, ``Additively Manufactured Multidimensional Cryptographic Physically Unclonable Functions for Wireless System Security", \$910,104 (My portion, \$300,000), 2/24-2/27
  • DOD-ACE (through University of Georgia), Co-PI, ``High resolution lidar and radar for machine learning-based terrain classification", \$480,583 (My portion \$86,941), 9/23-2/25
  • Chih Foundation Research Award, \$5,000, 11/23
  • DOD-USSOCOM, PI, iNur Technologies LLC, ``Feasibility Study for Portable Taiwan Hokkien Voice-To-Voice Translation", \$174,932, 9/23-4/24
  • Moffitt Cancer Center, PI, ``Federated Learning for Cancer Research", \$120,000 (My portion \$120,000), 8/23-8/27
  • USF Strategic Investment Pool Grant, Co-PI, ``Empowering AI+X Research: Upgrading the GAIVI (GPU-based AI Video Intelligence) Cluster for Enhanced Interdisciplinary Exploration", \$197,842, 7/23-7/24
  • Florida High Tech Corridor, Co-PI, ``Personalized aphasia communication assistant (AI-Phasia)", \$25,000 (My portion \$21,712), 3/23-9/23
  • NSF, Co-PI, ``SaTC: CORE: Medium: Physically Unclonable Wireless Systems (PUWS) for RF Fingerprinting and Physical Layer Security", \$1,200,000 (My portion \$600,000), 1/23-12/26
  • NSF-NIFA, PI, ``Collaborative Research: SitS: Wireless Soil Sensing and Advanced Data-Driven Analysis for Post-Wildfire Hazards and Recovery in Mountainous Landscapes", \$1,200,000 (My portion \$250,000), 1/23-12/25
  • DOD-ACE (through Northeastern University), Co-PI, ``Towards Ultra-High Performance Geodetic DEMs", \$1,200,000 (My portion \$110,000), 9/22-3/24
  • NSF, Senior Personnel, ``NSF Convergence Accelerator Track E: The BlueGreen Action Platform, connecting communities upstream and downstream to improve nitrogen management", \$5,000,000 (My portion \$50,000), 9/22-8/24
  • Moffitt Cancer Center, PI, ``Multimodal AI for Accurate Prediction of Cancer Cachexia", \$210,000 (My portion \$210,000), 8/22-8/29
  • Moffitt Cancer Center, PI, ``Multimodal AI Platform and Algorithms for Cancer Research", \$120,000 (My portion \$120,000), 8/22-8/26
  • DOD-MDA (through Epitome Inc.), PI, ``Object Detection, Tracking, and Identification in a Congested Environment Using Artificial Intelligence Enabled Algorithms", \$150,000 (My portion \$40,000), 7/22-1/23
  • Google Cloud Research Credits, \$5,000, 5/22-5/23
  • NSF STEER Course Improvement Grant, \$3,000, 3/22-9/22
  • NSF 2137891, Senior Personnel, ``NSF Convergence Accelerator Track E: Linking the Green Economy to the Blue Economy at the Coast", \$750,000 (My portion \$30,000), 9/21-8/22 
  • NSF ECCS-2040572, PI, ``Collaborative Research: Real-Time Data-Driven Anomaly Detection for Complex Networks", \$450,000 (My portion \$225,000), 8/21-7/24 
  • Moffitt Cancer Center, PI, ``Prostate Segmentation and Cancer Detection using Deep Neural Networks", \$120,000 (My portion \$120,000), 8/21-8/25
  • NSF ECCS-2029875, co-PI, ``Collaborative Research:SWIFT: SMALL: Understanding and Combating Adversarial Spectrum Learning towards Spectrum-Efficient Wireless Networking", \$506,000 (USF part \$324,000, My portion \$150,000), 9/20-8/23
  • DOD-USSOCOM, Senior Personnel, ``Data-Driven Intelligence for Active Identification and Characterization", \$2,000,000 (My portion \$127,463), 8/19-9/21
  • NIST, PI, ``Scalable Multimodal Data Representation from Video, Text, Audio for Real-Time Event Detection", \$30,000 (My portion \$30,000), 9/20-12/21
  • Florida Center for Cybersecurity, PI, ``Online Learning and Visualization for Intrusion Detection and Prevention in Privacy-Enhanced IoT Networks", \$75,000 (My portion \$37,500), 7/20-12/21
  • DOT-FRA, PI, ``Autonomous Track Inspection System based on Passive Sensing and Anomaly Detection - Phase 1", \$177,672 (My portion \$127,000), 5/20-7/21
  • NSF CNS-1737598, PI, ``SCC-Planning: Agent-Based Scenario Planning for a Smart \& Connected Community Against Sea Level Rise in Tampa Bay", \$100,000 (My portion \$75,000), 9/17-8/19
  • SCEEE Research Initiation Grant 17-03, Sole PI, ``Online Nonparametric Cyber-Attack Detection", \$24,599 (plus \$25,000 cost sharing), 7/17-12/18
  • USF Strategic Investment Pool (SIP) Awards, Co-PI, ``Center for Artificial Intelligence AI+X", \$120,000, 5/2019-4/20
  • USF Equipment Acquisition and Improvement Grant, Co-PI, ``Data-driven Intelligence for Cybersecurity and Privacy", \$40,000, 7/18-6/19