Selected Current Research Grant and Contract Awards
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)
Establishment of a visual effects curriculum at UL Lafayette
Principal Investigator: Arun Kulshreshth (Computing and Informatics)
Sponsor: Louisiana Economic Development - Entertainment Development Fund
Amount Awarded: $920,000.00
Grant Period: 2022 - 2027
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)
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
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)
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
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)
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
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
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)
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
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)
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
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
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)
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
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
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)
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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)
