Selected Current Research Grant and Contract Awards
CAREER: Unary Computing in Memory for Fast, Robust and Energy-Efficient Processing
Principal Investigator: M Hassan Najafi (Computing and Informatics)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2339701
Amount Awarded: $599,996.00
Grant Period: 03/01/2024 - 02/28/2029 (estimated)
Exploring the Potential of Hyperspectral EMIT data to Assess Phytoplankton Community Composition and Carbon Dynamics in the Wetland-Estuarine Systems of the northern Gulf of Mexico
Principal Investigator: Bingqing Liu (Geosciences); Co-PIs: Melissa M.Baustian (USGS) and Eurico J. D'Sa (LSU)
Sponsor: NASA NNH23ZDA001N-EMIT, Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES-2023) Award Number: 23-EMIT23-0047
Amount Awarded: $600,000.00
Grant Period: 04/01/2023 - 03/31/2027
Benefits of native seed mixes for pollinations in longleaf pine habitats
Principal Investigator: Mark Genung (Biology)
Sponsor: US Fish and Wildlife Service through the Louisiana State Wildlife Grants Program of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Amount Awarded: $82,616.00
Grant Period: 01/01/2024 - 12/31/2025
Conference: Lloyd Roeling Conference in Topology at UL Lafayette
Principal Investigator: Robin Koytcheff (math) Co-PIs: Philip Hackney (math) and Daniel Davis (math)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2341618
Amount Awarded: $14,931.00
Grant Period: 01/04/2024 - 12/31/2024
Coastal Hypoxia Research Program: Biological Vulnerability to Hypoxia from Climate Warming and Eutrophication in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
Principal Investigator: Junhong Liang (LSU); Co-PI's: Bingqing Liu (Geosciences); Cassie Glaspie (LSU), Nancy Rabalais (LSU) , Curtis A. Deutsch (Princeton), Melissa M. Baustian (USGS)
Sponsor: NOAA National Centers For Coastal Ocean Science
Amount Awarded: $1,563,015.00
Amount Awarded to UL Lafayette: $210,000.00
Grant Period: 09/01/2023 - 08/30/2027
Collaborative Research: Unraveling the Initial Charge Separation Mechanism in Photosystem I: A synergistic Approach
Principal Investigator: Wu Xu (Chemistry)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2313482
Amount Awarded: $450,000.00
Grant Period: 09/15/2023 - 08/31/2026
Predictive Link Analyses in Computer Network Domains
Principal Investigator: Mehmet E Tozal (CACS)
Sponsor: The MITRE Corporation Award Number: MITRE-1161269-A1
Amount Awarded: $225,000.00
Grant Period: 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2023
VAX-UP: A Strategic Partnership for Immunization
Principal Investigator: Ramesh Kolluru (CACS); Co-PI: Henry Chu (CACS);
Sponsor: Louisiana Department of Health
Amount Awarded: $9,500,000.00
Grant Period: 07/01/2023 - 06/30/2024
EDGE CMT: Predicting the evolution of disease resistance across heterogeneous landscapes
Principal Investigator: Loren Cassin-Sackett (Biology)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2220815
Amount Awarded: $1,030,611.00
Grant Period: 04/01/2023 - 03/31/2027
Sculpting sculpins: form and function of pectoral fin specialization in intertidal fishes
Principal Investigator: Emily Kane (Biology)
Sponsor: Louisiana Board of Regents, Research Competitiveness Subprogram
Amount Awarded: $159,000.00
Grant Period: 06/01/2023 - 06/30/2026
The effect of sewage effluent exposure on mosquitofish survival and prey capture
Principal Investigator: Emily Kane (Biology); Co-PI Nigel D'Souza (Gonzaga University)
Sponsor: St. Tammany Parish Mosquito Abatement District
Amount Awarded: $9,879.00
Grant Period: 03/15/2023 - 12/31/2023
Building a network of nutrient sensing in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Phase 1-2
Principal Investigators: Beth A. Stauffer (Biology); Co-PIs: E. Milbrandt (SCCF), E. Hall (Mote), B. Roberts (LUMCON)
Sponsor: NOAA National Ocean Service (via GCOOS)
Amount Awarded: $500,000.00
Grant Period: 2022 - 2025
Evaluation of OA impacts to plankton and fish distributions in the Gulf of Mexico during GOMECC-4 with a focus on HAB-interactions (Bio-GOMECC-4)
Named Collaborator for UL Lafayette: Beth A. Stauffer (Biology)
Principal Investigators: I L. Barbero (UM/CIMAS), F. Hernandez (USM), G. Zapfe (NOAA SEFSC), A. Schnetzer (NCSU)
Sponsor: NOAA Ocean Acidification Program (OAP)
Amount Awarded: $210,000.00 ($28,906.00 + 1 cruise berth to UL Lafayette)
Grant Period: 2021 - 2024
20,000 knots under the sea: toward AUVs AI/ML guided missions
Principal Investigator for UL Lafayette: Gabriele Morra (Physics)
Sponsor: NOAA - Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute
This is the UL Lafayette part of the NOAA grant
"Advancing AUV Autonomy with Machine Learning and CoExploration"
awarded to Leonardo Macelloni (Univ. Southern Miss.) and Mike Jakuba (Woods Hole)
Amount Awarded to UL Lafayette: $396,000.00
Grant Period: 08/01/2023 - 07/31/2025
A combined chemical and physical investigation of metal-silicate reactions in magma oceans
Principal Investigator: Colin Jackson (Tulane); Co-PIs: Bijaya Karki (LSU), Gabriele Morra (Physics), Kevin Righter (NASA JSC)
Sponsor: NASA Emerging World Program (20-EW20_2-0026)
Amount Awarded to UL Lafayette: $237,000.00
Grant Period: 08/01/2021 - 07/31/2024
Decoding the Unifying Microbial Metabolic Controllers on Soil Carbon Cycling Across Freshwater Wetlands
Principal Investigator: Kelly Wrighton (Colorado State U); Co-PIs: Jorge Villa (Geosciences), Bailey Fosdick (Colorado State U), Michael Wilkins (Colorado State U), Gil Bohrer (Ohio State U), Yu-Ping Chin (U Delaware), Sheel Bansal (USGS), Eric Ward (USGS), William Riley (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Christopher Henry (Argonne National Laboratory).
Sponsor: DOE Award: DE-SC0023084
Amount awarded: $399,380.00
Grant period: 9/2022 - 8/2025
Assessing greenhouse gas structural and functional resilience of freshwater coastal wetlands subject to persistent saltwater intrusion events
Principal Investigator: Jorge Villa (Geosciences)
Sponsor: DOE Award DE-SC0022972
Amount awarded: $749,956.00
Grant Period: 7/2022-6/2027
Functional-type modeling approach and data-driven parameterization of methane emissions in wetlands
Principal Investigator: Gil Bohrer (Ohio State U); Co-PIs: Jorge Villa (Geosciences), Kelly Wrighton (Colorado State U), William Riley (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Eric Ward (USGS)
Sponsor: DOE Award DE-SC0021067
Amount awarded: $ 215,545.00
Grant period: 10/2020 - 9/2023
SaTC: CORE: Small: Mitigating Threats of Physical-Domain Signal Injections on Security, Reliability, and Safety of Sensing and Control Systems
Principal Investigator: Xiali (Sharon) Hei (CACS); CoPI: Yazhou Tu (CACS)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2231682
Amount Awarded: $599,984.00
Grant Period: 07/01/2023 - 06/30/2026 (Estimated)
RII Track-4:NSF: Photochemical Studies of Isoprene Oxidation Products and their Atmospheric Implications
Principal Investigator: Tolga Karsili (Chemistry)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2229695
Amount Awarded: $201,579.00
Grant Period: 03/01/2023 - 02/28/2025 (Estimated)
Advanced Time-Lapse Seismic Characterization of a Methane Hydrate-Bearing System
Principal Investigator: Davide Oppo (geosciences)
Sponsor: ACS Petroleum Research Fund
Amount Awarded: $110,000.00
Grant Period: 05/01/2023 - 08/31/2025
RII Track-4:NSF: Fundamentals of Creating Trustworthy Medical Cyber-Physical Systems Under EMI Attacks
Principal Investigator: Xiali (Sharon) Hei (CACS)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2229752
Amount Awarded: $286,453.00
Grant Period: 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2024 (Estimated)
Collaborative Research: ORCC: Harnessing Adaptive Variation in Drought Resistance Strategies to Manage Populations Under Climate Change
Principal Investigator: Nicholas Kooyers (Biology)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2222466
Amount Awarded: $178,638.00
Grant Period: 11/01/2022 - 10/31/2026 (estimated)
US:UK Collab: Multi-scale infection dynamics from cells to landscapes: FMD in African buffalo
Principal Investigator: Anna Jolles (Oregon State University) Co-PIs: Jan Medlock, Brianna Beechler, Hayriye Gulbudak (Mathematics)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2208087
Amount Awarded: $2,608,206.00
Grant Period: 10/01/2022 - 08/31/2027
CAREER: Holistic Framework for Constructing Dynamic Malicious Knowledge Bases in Social Networks
Principal Investigator: Xu Yuan (CACS)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2146447
Amount Awarded: $98,988.00
Grant Period: 10/01/2022 - 03/30/2027 (Estimated)
Improving Inductive Reasoning Skills in Polymer Science Through Open Virtual Experiment Simulator Education Tools
Principal Investigator: Yu Wang (Chemistry); Co-PIs: Manyu Li (Psychology)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2142043
Amount Awarded: $299,832.00
Grant Period: 07/01/2022 - 06/30/2025 (Estimated)
Inventory of Heavy Metal Soil Concentrations in Lafayette, Louisiana Using X-ray Fluorescence Analysis, Geographic Information Systems, and Geostatistical Interpolation Methods
Principal Investigator: Anna Paltseva (Geosciences)
Sponsor: Louisiana Board of Regents Research and Development Program ‐ Research Competitiveness Subprogram
Amount Awarded: $78,467.00
Grant Period: 2022 - 2024 (Estimated)
Improving Engineering Education and the Pipeline of Engineering Majors Through a Preservice Teacher Bioinspired Engineering Maker Space and Curricular Enhancements
Principal Investigator: Douglas Williams (Education) Co-PIs: Mark Genung (Biology), Aimee Barber (Education)
Sponsor: Louisiana Board of Regents Departmental Enhancement Program
Amount Awarded: $94,476.00
Grant Period: 2022 - 2025
CAREER: Empirically evaluating the genomic consequences of assisted migration in heterogeneous environments
Principal Investigator: Nicholas Kooyers (Biology)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2045643
Amount Awarded: $440,668.00
Grant Period: 04/01/2021 - 03/31/2026 (Estimated)
Development of a new computational method for predicting drug - target interactions using a TSR-based representation of 3-D structures
Principal Investigator: Wu Xu (Chemistry)
Sponsor: NIH: National Institute Of General Medical Sciences Project Number: 1R15GM144944-01
Amount Awarded: $420,456.00
Grant Period: 09/15/2021 - 08/31/2024
MRI: Development of High-Confidence Medical Cyber-Physical System Research Instrument with Benchmark Security Software
Principal Investigator: Xiali (Sharon) Hei (CACS) Co-PIs: Zhongqi Pan (CACS), Christoph Borst (CACS), Raju Gottumukkala (CACS), and Mohsen Amini Salehi (CACS)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2117785
Amount Awarded: $1,134,297.00
Grant Period: 10/01/2021 - 09/30/2024 (Estimated)
(DEPSCOR) Gliders Deepwater Hurricane Reconnaissance in the Gulf of Mexico
Principal Investigator: Sidorovskaia, N. (Physics) Co-PIs: Griffin, S. and Ioup, J.
Sponsor: DOD Project: FA95502110215
Amount Awarded: $598,977.00
Grant Period: 06/01/2021 - 05/31/2024
GP-UP: Geosciences Students Excelling in Real, Vital Investigations with Community Engagement (GEO SERVICE)
Principal Investigator: Brent Yantis (Regional Application Center) Co-PIs: Jennifer Hargrave (Geosciences), and Brittany Cook (College of Liberal Arts)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2120015
Amount Awarded: $364,874.00
Grant Period: 09/01/2021 - 08/31/2024 (Estimated)
CAREER: Integrating Seascapes and Energy Flow: learning and teaching about energy, biodiversity, and ecosystem function on the frontlines of climate change
Principal Investigator: James Nelson (Biology)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2046460
Amount Awarded: $227,697.00
Grant Period: 05/01/2021 - 04/30/2026
CAREER: Developing a Flexible Serverless Multimedia Streaming Cloud Platform
Principal Investigator: Mohsen Amini Salehi (CACS)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2047144
Amount Awarded: $231,642.00
Grant Period: 02/15/2021 - 01/31/2026 (Estimated)
LO-SPAT: Leveraging Opportunities and Strategic Partnerships to Advance Tolerant Oysters for Restoration
Principal Investigator: Beth Stauffer (Biology) Co-PIs: Durga Poudel (Geosciences), Natalia Sidorovskaia (Physics), and Geoffrey Steward, G. (Business)
Sponsor: Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Amount Awarded: $14,065,204.00
Grant Period: 04/01/2021 - 03/31/2024
RCN-HERS: Research Coordination Network for Hurricane Ecosystem Response Synthesis
Principal Investigator: Christopher Patrick (VIMS) Co-PIs: Beth Stauffer (Biology), William McDowell (UNH), John Kominoski (FIU)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2003292
Amount Awarded: $489,960.00
Grant Period: 01/15/2021 - 12/31/2024 (Estimated)
Uncovering the Genetic Basis of Survival from Plauge in Gunnison's Prairie Dogs
Principal Investigator: Loren D. Cassin-Sackett (Biology)
Sponsor: Arizona Game and Fish Department Heritage Fund
Amount Awarded: $69,925.00
Grant Period: 03/19/2021 - 03/18/2024
Exploring the Role of Emerging Technologies in Digital Health Interventions for Older Adults
Principal Investigator: Beenish M. Chaudhry (CACS)
Sponsor: --
Amount Awarded: $145,199.00
Grant Period: 06/01/2021 - 06/30/2024
Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Small: SmartSight: an AI-Based Computing Platform to Assist Blind and Visually Impaired People.
Principal Investigator: Mohsen Amini Salehi (CACS)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2007209
Amount Awarded: $249,687.00
Grant Period: 10/01/2020 - 09/30/2023
RII Track-1: Louisiana Materials Design Alliance (LAMDA)
Principal Investigator: Michael Khonsari (LSU); Co-PIs: Guoqiang Li (LSU), Shengmin Guo (LSU), Miao Jin (CACS), Arden Moore (Louisiana Tech)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1946231
Amount Awarded: FY 2020 $4,334,558.00, FY 2021 $8,128,786.00
Grant Period: 07/01/2020 - 06/30/2025 (Estimated)
RII Track-2 FEC: Precise Regional Forecasting via Intelligent and Rapid Harnessing of National Scale Hydrometeorological Big Data
Principal Investigator: Nian-Feng Tzeng (CACS); Co-PIs: Sytske Kimball (South Alabama), Eric Rappin (Western Kentucky), Stuart Foster (Former Co-PI), Richard Day, Xu Yuan (CACS)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2019511
Amount Awarded:$2,509,859.00
Grant Period: 09/01/2020 - 08/31/2024 (Estimated)
Multi-Scale Structured Models of Infectious Disease Dynamics
Co-Principal Investigator: Hayriye Gulbudak (math)
Sponsor: Simons Foundation Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians
Amount Awarded: $42,000
Grant Period: 09/01/2019-08/31/2024
Collaborative Proposal: MSB-FRA: Scaling Climate, Connectivity, and Communities in Streams
Principal Investigator: Katie Costigan (biology)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1802855
Amount Awarded: $308,466.00
Grant Period: 01/01/2019 - 12/31/2023 (estimated), last amended 08/06/2018
Recently Ended
Quantum Chemical Studies of the Thermal and Photo-induced Chemistry of Criegee Intermediates
Principal Investigator: Tolga Karsili (Chemistry)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2003422
Amount Awarded: $248,499.00
Grant Period: 09/01/2020 - 08/31/2023
Functional-type modeling approach and data-driven parameterization of methane emissions in wetlands
Principal Investigator: Gil Bohrer (Ohio State) Co-PIs: Kelly Wrighton (Colorado State), Jorge Villa (Geosciences), William Riley (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), Eric Ward (USGS)
Sponsor: DOE Award: DE-SC0021067
Amount Awarded: $808,246.00
Grant Period: 08/15/2020 - 08/14/2023
High-Efficiency Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 to Ethylene
Principal Investigator: Zhou, X.-D. (Chemical Engineering) Co-PIs: Depan, D. (Chemical Engineering), Karsili, T. (Chemistry), and Wang, Y. (Chemistry), and Jingjie Wu (U. Cincinnati)
Sponsor: DOE Synthesis of Value-Added Organic Products Award
Amount Awarded: DOE Funding: $1,000,000.00; Non-DOE Funding: $250,000.00
Grant Period: 09/01/2020 - 08/31/2023
Patch-scale effects of acute saltwater intrusion on carbon fluxes in a simulated coastal freshwater marsh environment
Principal Investigator: Jorge Villa; CoPI: Diana Taj (GRA)
Sponsor: RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana Award: CPRA-2020-COE-JH
Amount awarded: $86,250.00
Grant period: 9/2021 - 8/2023
Combining Physical and Numerical Models to Characterize the Contribution of Semi-Brittle Rheology to Deformation Dynamics
Principal Investigator for UL Lafayette: Gabriele Morra (Physics)
Sponsor: NSF
This is the UL Lafayette part of the NSF grant
"CAREER: Combining physical and numerical modes to characterize the contribution of semi-brittle rheology to deformation dynamics and strain transients" NSF Award Number:1843676; Principal Investigator:Jacqueline Reber (Iowa State Univ.)
Amount Awarded to UL Lafayette: $27,000.00
Grant Period: 08/01/2021 - 07/31/2023
CRII: SaTC: Empowering Elastic-honeypot as Real-time Malicious Content Sniffers for Social Networks
Principal Investigator: Xu Yuan (CACS)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1948374
Amount Awarded: $175,000.00
Grant Period: 03/01/2020 - 02/28/2023 (Estimated)
Unsuspected eukaryotic life inhabits rhodolith-forming coralline algae (Hapalidiales, Rhodophyta), a remarkable marine benthic microhabitat
Principal Investigator: Suzanne Fredericq (Biology), co-PI: Sherry Krayesky-Self (Biology)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1754504
Amount Awarded: $928,161.00
Grant Period: 05/15/2018 - 04/30/2023
The effects of environmental salinity changes on eco-mechanical performance in mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)
Principal Investigator: Emily Kane (Biology)
Sponsor: Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute
Amount Awarded: $17,872.00
Grant Period: 09/01/2022 - 08/31/2023
Restoration of Gulf of Mexico Islands and Beaches for Wildlife: Reducing the Uncertainty
Principal Investigator: James Nelson (Biology)
Sponsor: NOAA RESTORE Science Program
Amount Awarded: $102,694.00
Grant Period: 09/01/2021 - 08/31/2022
Acquisition of a tabletop SEM/EDS system at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Principal Investigator: Eric Ferre (Geosciences) Co-PIs: Brian Schubert (Geosciences), Raphael Gottardi (Geosciences), Aubrey Hillman (formerly Geosciences), Davide Oppo (Geosciences)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2041040
Amount Awarded: $162,850.00
Grant Period: 06/01/2021 - 05/31/2023 (Estimated)
The Eighth International Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Populations in Biological Systems
Principal Investigator: Amy Veprauskas (Math) Co-PI: Azmy Ackleh (Math)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2137047
Amount Awarded: $26,247.00
Grant Period: 10/01/2021 - 09/30/2022
Modeling Across-Scale Feedback of Pathogen Virulence, Host Immunity, and Disease Control
Principal Investigator: Hayriye Gulbudak (Math)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1951759
Amount Awarded: $239,939.00
Grant Period: 08/01/2020 - 07/31/2023
MRI: Acquisition of a Closed-Loop PPMS Enhanced for Multidisciplinary Research and Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Principal Investigator: Gabriela Petculescu (Physics) Co-PIs: Carl Richter (Geosciences), Ling Fei (Chemical Engineering), Michalis Charilaou (Geosciences), Jonathan Raush (Mechanical Engineering)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2018984
Amount Awarded: $362,772.00
Grant Period: 09/01/2020 - 08/31/2022
Understanding the Effects of Varying Prey Assemblages on Oyster Feeding in Restoration and Climate-Impacted Estuaries
Principal Investigator: Beth Stauffer (Biology) Co-PIs: Jerome LaPeyre, (LSU AgCenter)
Sponsor: Louisiana Sea Grant - Omnibus Research Project
Amount Awarded: --
Grant Period: 2020 - 2022
Optimizing the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVS) to Identify and Track Finfish Schools for the Commercial Fishing Industry
Principal Investigator: Kelly Robinson (Biology) Co-PIs: James Nelson (Biology), Guillaume Rieucau, (LUMCON)
Sponsor:Louisiana SeaGrant
Amount Awarded: $49,989.00
Grant Period: 08/01/2020 - 07/31/2022
Algebraic structures and geometric phenomena in spaces of embeddings
Principal Investigator: Robin Koytcheff (math)
Sponsor: Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund, Research Competitiveness Subprogram
Amount Awarded: $137,644.00
Grant Period: 07/01/2019 - 06/30/2022
RII Track-2 FEC: Consortium for Plant Invasion Genomics (CPING): Combining Big Data and Plant Collections to Understand Invasiveness
Principal Investigator: Nicholas Kooyers (biology) Co-PIs: Maribeth Latvis, Erin Sigel (biology), Michael McKain (biology), Craig Barrett
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1920858
Amount Awarded: $2,039,766.00
Grant Period: 08/01/2019 - 07/31/2023 (Estimated), last amended 08/08/2019
Structure and Cohomology in Fusion Systems
Principal Investigator: Justin Lynd (math)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1902152
Amount Awarded: $135,000.00
Grant Period: 08/01/2019 - 07/31/2022 (estimated), last amended 07/11/2019
Collaborative Proposal: Fluid flow metamorphism and strain localization in mid-crustal shear zones
Principal Investigator: Raphael Gottardi (geosciences)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1849812
Amount Awarded: $319,973.00
Grant Period: 08/01/2019 - 07/31/2022 (estimated), last amended 05/20/2019
Collaborative Research: Coupling and Cohesion as Factors Affecting Vulnerability to Abrupt Climate Change
Principal Investigator: Aubrey Hillman (geosciences)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1848722
Amount Awarded: $33,106.00
Grant Period: 07/01/2019 - 06/30/2023 (estimated), last amended 04/09/2019
Expanding COVID-19 Vaccinations for Underserved Populations of Louisiana (VAX-UP Louisiana)
Principal Investigator: Ramesh Kolluru (CACS); Co-PI: Henry Chu (CACS) Sponsor: Louisiana Department of Health
Amount Awarded: $15,000,000.00
Grant Period: 08/01/2022 - 06/30/2023
Development of High-Performance Metal-Supported Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells (MS-SOECs) and Innovative Diagnostic Methodologies
Principal Investigator: Xiao-Dong Zhou (Chemical Engineering); Co-PI's: Thomas Pesacreta (Biology), Henry Chu (CACS) Sponsor: United States Department of Energy
Amount Awarded: $1,000,000.00
Grant Period: 09/10/2021 - 09/09/2023
Partnership for COVID-19 Vaccination of Underserved Populations (VAX-UP)
Principal Investigator: Ramesh Kolluru (CACS); Co-PI's: Henry Chu (CACS), Raju Gottumukkula (Mechanical Engineering), David Kim (Communications) Sponsor: Louisiana Department of Health
Amount Awarded: $21,900,000.00
Grant Period: 08/01/2021 - 07/31/2022
Predicting Dynamic Communication Links in IT Systems
Principal Investigator: Mehmet E Tozal (CACS)
Sponsor: The MITRE Corporation Award Number: MITRE-1161269
Amount Awarded: $106,683.00
Grant Period: 01/01/2022 - 12/31/2022
Collaborative Research: TIDE: Legacy effects of long-term nutrient enrichment on recovery of saltmarsh ecosystems
Principal Investigator: James Nelson (biology)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1902704
Amount Awarded: $100,041.00
Grant Period: 05/01/2019 - 04/30/2023 (estimated), last amended 03/12/2020
III: Medium: Collaborative Research: KMELIN: Knowledge Mining and Embedding Learning for Complex Dynamic Information Networks
Principal Investigator: Xindong Wu (CACS) Co-PIs: Louis Caillouet
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1763620
Amount Awarded: $600,000.00
Grant Period: 06/01/2018 - 05/31/2022 (estimated), last amended 09/13/2018
CAREER: Making Type Error Debugging Work
Principal Investigator: Sheng Chen (CACS)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1750886
Amount Awarded: $242,421.00
Grant Period: 02/01/2018 - 01/31/2023 (estimated), last amended 02/11/2019
I/UCRC Phase II Renewal: Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI)
Principal Investigator: Vijay Raghavan (CACS) Co-PIs: Xindong Wu (CACS), Christoph Borst (CACS), Raju Gottumukkala, Jian Chen (CACS), Mehmet Tozal (CACS)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1650551
Amount Awarded: $406,996.00
Grant Period: 03/01/2017 - 02/28/2022 (estimated), last amended 04/12/2019
Spatial Eco-epidemiology of Tick-Borne Rickettsial Pathogens
Principal Investigator: Holly Gaff (Old Dominion University); Co-Principal Investigator: Scott Duke-Sylvester (Biology)
Sponsor: NIH: National Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases Project number: 1R01AI136035-01.
Amount Awarded: $2,455,904 (total), $248,000 (Scott Duke-Sylvester - UL Lafayette)
Grant Period: 8/18/2017 - 7/31/2022
I/UCRC Phase II Renewal: Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI)
Principal Investigator: Vijay Raghavan (CACS); Co-PIs: Miao Jin (CACS), Mehmet Tozal (CACS), Christoph Borst (CACS), Raju Gottumukkala (Mechanical Engineering); Former Co-PIs: Jian Chen, Xindong Wu
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1650551
Amount Awarded: $656,994.00
Grant Period: 03/01/2017 - 02/28/2023 (Estimated)
Fast and Efficient Scheduler for Deep Learning in GPU Cluster
Principal Investigator: Li Chen (CACS)
Sponsor: --
Amount Awarded: $39,990.00
Grant Period: 06/01/2021 - 06/30/2022
Acquiring a Gas Analysis System Integrated to Materials Characterization Suite for In-Situ Research in Chemistry
Principal Investigator: Hui Yan (Chemistry)
Sponsor: --
Amount Awarded: $72,557.00
Grant Period: 06/01/2021 - 06/30/2022
RAPID: Visual Analytics Approach to Real-Time Tracking of COVID-19
Principal Investigator: Raju Gottumukkala (Mechanical Engineering); Co-PIs: Satya Katragadda, Vijay Raghavan (CACS), Ravi Teja Bhupatiraju; former Co-PI: Ziad Ashkar
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2027688
Amount Awarded: $187,477.00
Grant Period: 06/01/2020 - 5/31/2022 (Estimated)
RII Track 4: Heavy Element Isotopic Characterization of Stardust
Principal Investigator: Manavi Jadhav (Physics)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2033380
Amount Awarded: $232,500.00
Grant Period: 02/01/2021 - 01/31/2023 (Estimated)
