Recent Research Funding
Highlights of major research funding secured by Computer Science Department Faculty
Hamid Karimi, Assistant Professor (PI and Co-PI)
- Title: Learning Analytics for Process-driven Computer Programming Assignments
Amount: $349,847
Duration: October 1, 2023 - September 30, 2026 (estimated)
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Title: Collaborative Research: BPE Track 2: Disability DCL - Capturing Narratives that Characterize Neurodivergent Strengths and Weaknesses
Amount: $186,754 Dr. Karimi; $373,508 total
Duration: July 15, 2023 - June 30, 2026
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Title: A Smart Toolkit for Knowledge Brokers to Visualize Social Opportunity Spaces
Subaward Amount: $74,000 (Interdisciplinary project amount: $2M)
Duration: November 2021 - November 2024
Funding Organization: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
John Edwards, Assistant Professor (Principal Investigator)
- Title: How Novices Write Code: Discovering Best Practices and How They Can Be Adopted
Duration: September 1, 2023 - August 31, 2026 (estimated)
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Title: Dynamics Lab: Interactive Physics Simulations for Intermediate Classical Mechanics
Duration: February 1, 2023 - January 31, 2026
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Isaac Cho, Assistant Professor (PI and Co-PI)
- Title: A Visualization System Prototype for LOcalized Constructed Analogs 2 (LOCA2)
Amount: $46,608.57
Duration: August, 2023 - July 2024
Funding Organization: U.S. Department of Energy
- Title: Real-D Visualization Tool Installation
Amount: $88,901
Duration: November, 2022 - October, 2023
Funding Organization: Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
- Title: Contractor Support for Real-D Visualization Tool Installation
Amount: $88,900
Duration: July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023
Funding Organization: Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
- Title: Real-Time Analysis with Visual Analytics for Enhanced Decision-Making and Situational Awareness in Modern Power System
Amount: $78,114 USU; $299,237 total
Duration: July 1, 2021 - September 30, 2022
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Collaborators: The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Shah Muhammad Hamdi, Assistant Professor (Principal Investigator)
- Title: SHINE: Understanding the Relationships of Photospheric Vector Magnetic Field Parameters in Solar Flare Occurences using Graph-based Machine Learning Models
Duration: June 1, 2023 - May 31, 2026 (estimated)
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Title: CRII: OAC: Cyberinfrastructure for Machine Learning on Multivariate Time Series Data and Functional Networks
Duration: June 1, 2022 - May 31, 2024
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi, Assistant Professor (Principal Investigator)
- Title: CAREER: End-to-End Active Region-based Heliospheric Forecasting System Using Multi-Spacecraft Data and Machine Learning
Duration: April 1, 2023 - March 31, 2028 (estimated)
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant
- Title: Combining Physics and Machine Learning-based Models for Full-Energy-Range Solar Energetic Particles Events Prediction
Duration: July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2025
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF) Solar Terrestrial program
Xiaojun Qi, Professor (Co-Principal Investigator)
- Title: NSF Convergence Accelerator Track H: Automating Transportation Affordances for People Living with Disabilities Using a Machine Learning Approach
Duration: December 15, 2022 - November 30, 2023 (estimated)
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF) ITE Innovation and Technology Ecosystems
- Title: Exploring the Feasibility and Accuracy of Low-Cost LiDAR Technology for Traffic Monitoring
Duration: April 14, 2021 – December 31, 2022
Funding Organization: Utah Department of Transportation
Steve Petruzza, Assistant Professor (USU Principal Investigator)
- Title: Collaborative Research: SHF: Small: Scalable and Extensible I/O Runtime and Tools for Next Generation Adaptive Data Layouts
Duration: July 15, 2022 - June 30, 2025
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Mario Harper, Assistant Professor (USU Co-Principal Investigator)
- Title: UNDERMS iCommunity: Utility Managed Distributed Energy Resources Intelligent Community
Duration: 2022 - 2027
Funding Organization: U.S. Department of Energy
Shuhan Yuan, Assistant Professor (Principal Investigator)
- Title: SaTC: CORE: Small: Deep Learning for Insider Threat Detection
Duration: June 1, 2021 – May 31, 2024
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF) Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace
Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen, Assistant Professor (PI and Co-PI)
- Title: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Collaborative: BaitBuster 2.0: Keeping Users Away From Clickbait
Amount: $899,714 (USU-part: $314,963)
Duration: July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2024
REU award: $16,000
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF) Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace
Contact: mahdi.al-ameen@usu.edu
- Title: Understanding the Digital Privacy of the Rural Women in Bangladesh
Amount: $100,000
Duration: 2021 - 2022
Funding Organization: Facebook
Collaborators: University of Toronto and Cornell University
Contact: mahdi.al-ameen@usu.edu
Stephen Clyde, Emeritus Associate Professor (Co-Principal Investigator)
- Title: Providing HiTrack and CHARMS Support for Early Hearing Detection and Intervention
Duration: Fall 2020 - 2024
Funding Organization: Utah Department of Health
Vladimir Kulyukin, Associate Professor (Co-Principal Investigator)
- Title: Mobile Instructional Particle Image Velocimetry (mI-PIV): Hands-on Flow Visualization and Experimentation for Improved Student Interest and Technical Capacity in Navy-relevant Engineering Careers
Duration: Sept 01, 2018 – August 31, 2021
Curtis Dyreson, Professor (Principal Investigator)
- Title: ABI Development: Collaborative Research: Symbiota2: Enabling greater collaboration and flexibility for mobilizing biodiversity data
Duration: June 01, 2018 – May 31, 2021
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)