FUNDING

Since 2016, I have served as principal investigator on more than $16 million in funded research and as co-principal investigator on more than $18 million in funded research. Sponsors include NIH, NSF, DOE, USDOT, and the Florida Department of Transportation.

Active Awards

  • Co-Core Leader, Data Science and Applied Technology Core, University of Florida Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, National Institute of Aging (2022–2027), approx. $6,866,968 (total anticipated) (PI: Esser and Manini).
  • Co-PD/PI, Artificial Intelligence-based & Ethically-focused Multi-Modal Data Integration Framework for Screening, Diagnosing, and Caring for CKD Patients, NATL INST OF HLTH OD (2025–2026), approx. $2,084,185.
  • Principal Investigator, Computational Methods for Traffic Data Analytics and Digital Twins for Traffic Corridors, FL DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION (2025–2027), $500,000.
  • Co-PD/PI, Phase 2 Evaluation of the Florida Keys Connecting Overseas to Advance Safe Travel (Keys COAST) Post-deployment Phase, FL DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION (2024–2027), approx. $236,894.
  • Co-PD/PI, Interstate 4 (I-4) Florida’s Regional Advanced Mobility Elements Stakeholder Coordination for Phase II: Comprehensive Assessment of Before and After Conditions, FL DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION (2023–2028), approx. $527,682.
  • Principal Investigator, Before and After Evaluation of Smart Bay Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) for Advanced Safety and Mobility Along US 98, FL DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION (2023–2027), approx. $75,000.
  • Principal Investigator, Using Trajectory Data and Ground Sensor Data for Traffic Signal Policy Optimization, FL DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION (2022–2026), approx. $407,584.
  • Principal Investigator. (December 2025 – August 2027). REDWOOD: Advancing Near Real-Time Resilient Workflows. US DEPT OF ENERGY – OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY, $100K.
  • Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Anand Rangarajan). (2026 – 2030). MAGNET: MAthematics, ComputinG, and NETworking for Resource-Efficient Computational Science. US DEPT OF ENERGY – OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY, 2026-2030, approx. $500,000.
  • Principal Investigator. RAPIDS3 Project: The RAPIDS3 Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Data. US DEPT OF ENERGY – OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY, 2026-2030, $600K.
  • Principal Investigator, G-CAR²E – Gerontology Centers united to Aid Remote Research in Elders (Todd Manini is the other PI). National Institutes of Health (2026-2031), approx. $3.5 million.

Completed Awards

  • Principal Investigator, Wearable Technology Infrastructure to Enhance Capacity for Real-Time, Online Assessment and Mobility (ROAMM) of Intervening Health Events in Older Adults, National Institute of Aging (2019–2026), approx. $2.04 Million (Todd Manini is the other PI). R31 phase of this R31/R33 project ($0.45M) ended Feb. 2022.
  • Principal Investigator, Near-Miss Traffic Incident Identification System at Signalized Intersections, Broward County (2023–2025), approx. $415,000.
  • Principal Investigator, RAPIDS2: A SciDAC Institute for Computer Science, Data and Artificial Intelligence, DOE (2020–2025), $550,000.
  • Principal Investigator, Hybrid Learning Techniques for Data Reduction with Performance Guarantees, DOE (2021–2025), $900,000.
  • Principal Investigator, Video-Based Machine Learning for Smart Traffic Analysis and Management, National Science Foundation Smart Cities and Communities, (2019–2024), approx. $2 million.
  • Principal Investigator, Research on Artificial-Intelligence for Data Integration with State Highways, Florida Department of Transportation (2022–2024), $300,000.
  • Co-Core Leader OAIC Data Science and Applied Technology Core, National Institute of Aging (2017–2022), approx. $2 million, (PI: Pahor).
  • Principal Investigator, Video Analysis for Traffic Intersections in Seminole County, (2021–2023), FDOT D5, $70,000.
  • Principal Investigator, Interstate 4 Florida’s Regional Advanced Mobility Elements, (2021–2023), $185,000.
  • Principal Investigator, Machine Learning Algorithms for Improved Network Traffic Signal Policy Optimization (2020–2023), Florida Department of Transportation, $320,000.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, A Downscaling-Assimilation Framework for SMAP Observations to Obtain High-Resolution Crop Yields in Heterogeneous Agricultural Regions, NASA (2017–2022), approx. $450,000 (PI: Judge).
  • Principal Investigator, Bigdata Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Smart Intersections, Florida Department of Transportation (2019–2022), $750,000.
  • Principal Investigator, Parallel Study in Trusted AI to Support Sandia/UF Collaboration, UF VP of Research (2020–2021), $50,000.
  • Principal Investigator, Data Analytics and Evaluation of the Gainesville Trapezium Connected Vehicle Signal Phasing and Timing (SPaT) Deployment Project, Florida Department of Transportation, (2019–2020), $249,655.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, CPS: TTP Option: Synergy: Traffic Signal Control with Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in the Traffic Stream, National Science Foundation (2015–2021), approx. $1.6 million (PI: Elefeteriadou).
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Center for Compressible Multiphase Turbulence (CCMT), DOE/NNSA (2014–2020), approx. $11 million (PI: Bala Balachandar).
  • Principal Investigator, Traffic-event Unification System Highlighting Arterial Roads, FDOT (2017–2020), approx. $300,000.
  • Principal Investigator, Data Management and Analytics for UF Smart Testbed, FDOT, (2017-2020), approx. $540,000.
  • Principal Investigator, EAGER: Software-Hardware Co-Design Approaches for Multi-Level Memories, National Science Foundation (2017–2020), $300,000.
  • Principal Investigator, Machine Learning Algorithms for Demand and Turning Movement Count, FDOT (2018–2020), approx. $200,000.
  • Principal Investigator, Dynamic Intersection Learning Machine Optimization Real-time Engine, District 5 (Florida Department of Transportation) (2017–2019), approx. $230,000.
  • Principal Investigator, Truck Taxonomy and Classification Using Video and Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) Technology, Florida Department of Transportation (2017–2019), approx. $200,000.
  • Principal Investigator, Energy-Aware Time Change Detection Using Synthetic Aperture Radar on High-Performance Heterogeneous Architectures, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (2015–2019), approx. $705,000.
  • Principal Investigator, SparseKaffe: High-Performance, Auto-Tuned Energy-Aware Algorithms for Sparse Direct Methods on Modern Heterogeneous Architectures, National Science Foundation (2015–2019), $395,454.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, EAGER: Parallel Semi-supervised Machine Learning for Volumetric Datasets, National Science Foundation (2017–2019), $100,000 (PI: Rangarajan).
  • Investigator, Finding Super-utilizers in Texas Medicaid (effort in Texas External Quality Review Organization Vendor and Quality Vendor), Texas Health and Human Services (2014–2019), approx. $350,000 (PI: Shenkman) (Total Project Budget, $45+ million).
  • Co-PI, PCORI Health Systems Demonstration Project NYC Capricorn (2016–2018), $308,000 (PI: Shenkman).
  • Principal Investigator, Determining the Feasibility of Automatic Processing of Video Log Images for Detection of Key ADA Features, Florida Department of Transportation, (2016–2016) $9,000
  • Principal Investigator, Big Data in Transportation, District 5 (Florida Department of Transportation) (2016–2018), approx. $630,000.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, PEAKS: Validation of Mobile Technologies for Clinical Assessment, Monitoring and Intervention, Everyfit Inc (2016–2017) (PI: Todd Manini), approx. $35,000.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Development and Testing of Optimized Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Trajectories at Signalized Intersections, Florida Department of Transportation (2015–2017), $392,603 (PI: Elefeteriadou).
  • Co-Principal Investigator, MRI: Acquisition of GatorCloud: Enabling High-Impact Scientific Research and Collaboration via Software Defined Networks and Cloud Services, National Science Foundation (2012–2017), approx. $1.17 million + matching funds from the university (PI: Andy Li).
  • Principal Investigator, Thermal Aware Computing: Hardware Monitoring and Software Controls, UF Foundation/Harris Corporation (2016), $20,000.
  • Principal Investigator, Performance, Energy and Thermal Tradeoffs for Next Generation Intel Multicore Machines. Intel Corporation (2016), $100,000.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Engineering Informatics of Actigraphy for Preventing Mobility Incidents in Older Adults. UF Informatics Institute Seed Fund Grant (2014–2015), $37,838 (PI: Manini).
  • Principal Investigator, Student Travel Sponsorship for Third ACM BCB Conference 2012, National Science Foundation (2012–2013), $24,000.
  • Principal Investigator, Partitioning and Scheduling Real-time Applications for Multicore Mobile Devices and Hybrid Clouds, Samsung Corporation (2012), approx. $140,000.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Sparse Direct Methods on High-Performance Heterogeneous Architectures, National Science Foundation (2011–2015), $310,000 (PI: Davis).
  • Co-Principal Investigator, III: EAGER: A Framework for Large Data Analysis, National Science Foundation (2011–2013), $100,000 (PI: Dobra).
  • Co-Principal Investigator, CiC: EAGER: Inferring Patterns and Processes of Genome Evolution through Cloud Computing, National Science Foundation (2010–2012), $300,000 (PI: Burleigh).
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Ensuring Quality Care for Radiation Patients, Florida Department of Health (2010–2012), $740,838 (PI: Palta).
  • Principal Investigator, MCDA: Collaborative Research: A Multi-Element and Multi-Objective Optimization Approach for Allocating Tasks to Multi-Core Processors, National Science Foundation/Semiconductor Research Corporation (2009–2013), $300,000.
  • Principal Investigator, CSR: Medium: Collaborative Research: GridPac: A Resource Management System for Energy and Performance Optimization on Computational Grids (National Science Foundation), (2009–2014), $405,000.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Co-scheduler for High-Performance Computer Systems and Networks, UltraHiNet, 2008–2009, $52,000 (includes UF matching), (PI: S. Sahni).
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Advanced Scheduling of High-Speed Networks Advanced Algorithms and Systems, 2006–2007, $52,000 (includes UF matching), (PI: S. Sahni).
  • Principal Investigator, An Inter-Regional Grid-Enabled Center for HEP Research and Education Outreach (CHEPREO) at FIU, National Science Foundation (2007–2009), subcontract from FIU, approx. $103,800.
  • Principal Investigator, PLANETS: Physica Lambda Network System, subcontract from Caltech, National Science Foundation, $53,500 (Aug. 2007–July 2010)
  • Principal Investigator, Strategic Planning and Innovative Research, DTRA, 2007–2009, DTRA, approx. $13,665 (with T. Anderson) (subcontract from PSU).
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Advanced Scheduling of High-Speed Networks, DOE (subcontract from AAS), 2006–2007, $52,000 (includes UF matching), (PI: S. Sahni).
  • Co-Principal Investigator, SEI: Data Mining for Multiple Antibiotic Resistance (NSF), (2006–2009), $568,237 (PI: Jermaine).
  • Principal Investigator, Blue Team Plan for Knowledge Management, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, (2003–2006), $123,835.
  • Principal Investigator, Acquisition of CASTOR: A High-Performance Communication and Storage Backbone for Data-Intensive Science and Engineering Computing, (2004–2006) National Science Foundation, $600,000 (+ matching monies from UF).
  • Principal Investigator, An Inter-regional Grid-Enabled Center for HEP Research and Education Outreach (CHEPREO) at FIU, National Science Foundation (2003–2007), $116,970.
  • Investigator, Resource Center for Emerging Technologies, NIH (2002–2007) (PI: Palta), $2.65 million.
  • Principal Investigator, A Data Mining and Exploration Middleware for Distributed and Grid Computing, Collaborative NSF grant (2003–2008) (with Minnesota and Illinois Chicago: Total amount $1.5 million, UF portion; $535,000).
  • Co-Principal Investigator: Real-Time Dose Computation and Treatment Planning, NIH (1999–2004), (PI: Sahni). $1.362 million.
  • Co-Principal Investigator: High Performance Web-Centric Computing, IBM SUR Equipment Grant (1998–1999), approx. $625,000 (with Ritter and Fishwick).
  • Co-Principal Investigator: Integrating Randomization Techniques in the Undergraduate and Graduate Curricula, NSF (Aug. 1998–July 2001), $372,312 (excluding matching funds from University of Florida) (PI: Rajasekaran).
  • Co-Principal Investigator: A Framework for Matching Applications with Parallel Machines, U.S. ARMY (Oct. 1997–Sep. 1998), $50,000 (with Sahni and Peir).
  • Principal Investigator: Scalable Parallelization of Spatial Data Structures, BMDO/ARO (subcontract from NMSU), (1997–1999), approx. $73,960.
  • Co-Principal Investigator: Distributed Computing and Databases for High Energy Physics, NSF (subcontract from Cornell University) (Aug. 1997–July 1999), $381,923 (PI: Paul Avery).
  • Principal Investigator: Mainstreaming Parallel and Distributed Computing in the Computer Science Undergraduate Curriculum, NSF (Aug. 1996–July 1999), $391,565 (excluding matching funds from University of Florida; with T. Johnson, S. Rajasekaran, G. Ritter, and S. Sahni).
  • Principal investigator: Common Runtime Support for High Performance Languages, subcontract to University of Florida from Syracuse University ($126,708 for two years) (part of a $3.16 million grant with G. C. Fox et al. from ARPA for three years).
  • Co-Principal Investigator: High-Performance Computing and Parallel Processing in the Utility Industry, Niagara Mohawk (June 1993–Mar. 1994), $200,000 (with Geoffrey C. Fox, Paul D. Coddington, Alok C. Choudhary, Salim Hariri, and Michael S. Nilan).
  • Co-Principal Investigator: Software Environments and Scalable High-Level Data Structure Extensions of Fortran for Irregular Loosely Synchronous Problems on SIMD and MIMD Parallel Computers (Dec. 92–Dec. 95), $768,966 (subcontract to Rice University; with Geoffrey C. Fox and Alok C. Choudhary).
  • Co-Principal Investigator: Development of a Device Driver, Parasoft Corporation, $30,000 for six months (June 1992–Dec.1992) (with Geoffrey C. Fox).
  • Co-Principal Investigator: Fault Tolerance and Reliability Analysis of Neural Networks, New York State Center for Computer Applications and Software Engineering (July 1991–June 1992), $20,000 (with Chilukuri K. Mohan and Kishan G. Mehrotra).
  • Co-Principal Investigator: Development of Software and Applications for Parallel Computers, IBM Yorktown (May 1991–Oct. 1992), $95,652 (with Geoffrey C. Fox and Alok C. Choudhary).
  • Co-Principal Investigator: Fortran 77D and Fortran 90D: Scalable and Portable Software Module for SIMD and MIMD Distributed Memory Parallel Computers, DARPA (Sept. 1991–Aug. 1994), $1,581,033 (with Geoffrey C. Fox and Alok C. Choudhary).
  • Co-Principal Investigator: Fault Tolerance and Reliability Analysis of Neural Networks, Rome Laboratories (Jan. 1992–Dec. 1992), $100,000 (with Chilukuri K. Mohan and Kishan G. Mehrotra).
  • Principal Investigator: Performance Modeling of SIMD and MIMD Parallel Computers Using Neural Networks, NSF (July 1991–Dec. 1992), approx. $65,000.