Recent Research Grants and Awards

Title: Collaborative Research: SHF: Small: Toward Automated Testing of Augmented Reality Apps
Start Date: 02/01/2025
PI: Zhang, Xueling
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: REU Site: Trustworthy AI for Social Good
Start Date: 01/01/2025
PI: Hou, Daqing
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: SHOUT: Secure SMS based Communication Tool
Start Date: 12/17/2024
PI: Uzun, Ersin
Sponsors: OTF/​Gisa
 

Title: The National General Aviation Flight Information Database (NGAFID)
Start Date: 12/03/2024
PI: Desell, Travis
Sponsors: FAA
 

Title: Collaborative Research: Supporting Project-Based Learning in Undergraduate Software Engineering Courses
Start Date: 12/01/2024
PI: Hou, Daqing
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: Collaborative Research: SaTC-EDU: Integrating Cybersecurity in Computing Curricula: A Software PBL-Driven Approach with Focus on Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Start Date: 12/01/2024
PI: Hou, Daqing
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: Understanding Spiking Neuronal Dynamics and Reward-Modulated Control
Start Date: 10/08/2024
PI: Ororbia, Alexander
Sponsors: AFRL/​GRIFFISSIN
 

Title: Collaborative Research: Element: Lineage-Driven Checkpointing of Evolving States for Scalable Scientific Data Management
Start Date: 10/01/2024
PI: Rafique, Muhammad Mustafa
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Small: U.S.-lreland R&D Partnership: Robust Classification of Malware on loT Systems with DANGER-loT
Start Date: 10/01/2024
PI: Wright, Matthew
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: Collaborative Research: SaTC: EDU: Dual-track Role-based Learning for Cybersecurity Analysts and Engineers for Effective Defense Operation with Data Analytics
Start Date: 10/01/2024
PI: Pelletier, Justin
Sponsors: NSF/​GonzagaUni
 

Title: Collaborative Research: HCC: Small: Creative Accessibility Design Tools for Mobile App Creators: Enhancing Inclusion through Innovative Design Methods
Start Date: 10/01/2024
PI: Tigwell, Garreth
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: ReDDDoT Phase 2: VARUNA: A User-Centered All-in-One Media Forensics Platform
Start Date: 10/01/2024
PI: Wright, Matthew
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: Collaborative Research: FMitF:Track III: A Taste of Formal Methods for Different STEM Communities and Courses
Start Date: 10/01/2024
PI: Rivero Osuna, Carlos Rafael
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: Workforce Development Task Force
Start Date: 09/15/2024
PI: Pelletier, Justin
Sponsors: NSA/​University of West Florida
 

Title: Travel: NSF Student Travel Grant for the 2024 Conference on Accessibility and Computing (ASSETS)
Start Date: 09/01/2024
PI: Shinohara, Kristen
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: DoD Cyber Scholarship Program
Start Date: 08/19/2024
PI: Yuan, Bo
Sponsors: DOD
 

Title: The National General Aviation Flight Information Database - Aug 2024
Start Date: 08/01/2024
PI: Desell, Travis
Sponsors: FAA/​University
 

Title: Collaborative Research: Experiential 'Accessible Learning Labs' (ALL) for Promoting Inclusive Software Development
Start Date: 07/01/2024
PI: Krutz, Daniel
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: III: Small: Revisiting Experimental Evaluation Protocols for Link Prediction in Knowledge Graphs
Start Date: 06/01/2024
PI: Rivero Osuna, Carlos Rafael
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: Renewal: Cultivating Diverse Cybersecurity Perspectives
Start Date: 06/01/2024
PI: Meneely, Andrew
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: IUSE: EDU: Overcoming the Programming Barriers for Non-Computing Majors in Learning and Practicing Data Science
Start Date: 06/01/2024
PI: Liu, Xumin
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: CRII: SaTC: Enhancing Privacy Leak Detection through Source Discovery in Domain-Sensitive Data
Start Date: 05/15/2024
PI: Zhang, Xueling
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: GWBC: The Implications of Chat GPT For Multiple Language Learners
Start Date: 05/01/2024
PI: Beaton, Catherine
Sponsors: RIT
 

Title: GWBC: Communication Efficient Federated Learning at the Wireless Edge
Start Date: 05/01/2024
PI: Yang, Haibo
Sponsors: RIT
 

Title: Enabling Live 3D Digital Twins with Infrastructure Support
Start Date: 05/01/2024
PI: Ahmad, Fawad
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: Accelerating Distributed Training for Large Models
Start Date: 02/01/2024
PI: Yang, Haibo
Sponsors: RIT
 

Title: Generative AI to Support English as a Second Language College Students
Start Date: 02/01/2024
PI: Weeden, Elissa
Sponsors: RIT
 

Title: Robust Explainable Models for Reliable Deep Learning
Start Date: 02/01/2024
PI: Rastogi, Nidhi
Sponsors: RIT
 

Title: Quantifying and Contrasting Political Polarization in Large Language Models
Start Date: 02/01/2024
PI: KhudaBukhsh, Ashiqur
Sponsors: RIT
 

Title: RIT Machine Learning and FABRIC
Start Date: 02/01/2024
PI: Hartpence, Bruce
Sponsors: RIT
 

Title: Analyzing Privacy Threats in Virtual Reality Devices
Start Date: 02/01/2024
PI: De Oliveira Nunes, Ivan
Sponsors: RIT
 

Title: From Bytes to Insights: A New Era of Malware Detection
Start Date: 02/01/2024
PI: Wright, Matthew
Sponsors: RIT
 

Title: AI Seed Funding: Realistic Splits for Evaluating Graph Neural Networks: a Generative Graph Modeling Approach
Start Date: 02/01/2024
PI: Bezakova, Ivona
Sponsors: RIT
 

Title: CRII: HCC: Practical Steps Toward Integrating the Tools of Emergency Management with Crisis Informatics Techniques
Start Date: 12/01/2023
PI: LaLone, Nicolas
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: Creating a Course on LLMs in Cybersecurity
Start Date: 11/03/2023
PI: Wright, Matthew
Sponsors: NSA/​Towson University
 

Title: Collaborative Research: HCC: Medium: Connecting Practitioners to Design: Methods and Tools for Live Participatory Design Fiction
Start Date: 10/01/2023
PI: LaLone, Nicolas
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: CRII: HCC: RUI: Visualization-Based Multimodal Data Analysis for Qualitative Research
Start Date: 10/01/2023
PI: Kong, Ha-Kyung
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: CIVIC-FA Track B: Bridging the Gap between Essential Emergency Resources and Services and the Deaf andHard of Hearing Community in Monroe County NY: A Geospatial-Visual Approach
Start Date: 10/01/2023
PI: Tomaszewski, Brian
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: Deep Neural Process Based Scientific Machine Learning For Non-Interacting Free-Energy Functional Prediction
Start Date: 10/01/2023
PI: Yu, Qi
Sponsors: DOE/​UR
 

Title: Collaborative research: IDEAS lab: ETAUS: Smarter Microbial Observatories for Realtime ExperimentS(SMORES)
Start Date: 09/01/2023
PI: Reznik, Leonid
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: DoD Cyber Scholarship Program: Basic Recruitment
Start Date: 08/31/2023
PI: Yuan, Bo
Sponsors: DOD
 

Title: Introductory Girls GenCyber Camp
Start Date: 08/28/2023
PI: Krutz, Daniel
Sponsors: NSA
 

Title: RIT Cybersecurity Clinic
Start Date: 08/17/2023
PI: Uzun, Ersin
Sponsors: Google Foundation/​Tides
 

Title: Mechanized Cryptographic Reasoning in Separation Logic
Start Date: 08/01/2023
PI: Azevedo de Amorim, Arthur
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: The National General Aviation Flight Information Database
Start Date: 08/01/2023
PI: Desell, Travis
Sponsors: FAA/​University
 

Title: Cyber GR&C Coalition
Start Date: 07/17/2023
PI: Pelletier, Justin
Sponsors: DOD
 

Title: Travel: NSF Student Travel Grant for 2023 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
Start Date: 07/01/2023
PI: Hu, Yidan
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: RAPID: DRL AI: Understanding and Supporting K-12 School Leaders AI-related Decision-making
Start Date: 07/01/2023
PI: Mason, Sharon
Sponsors: NSF/​UR
 

Title: Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Small: Towards Secure and Trustworthy Tree Models
Start Date: 06/15/2023
PI: Zhao, Weijie
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: CRII: SHF: Design Fairness Test Cases for Human-Centered Software
Start Date: 06/01/2023
PI: Yu, Zhe
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: GWBC23: Towards an Automated Deep Adversarial Training Architecture for Competitive Game Environments
Start Date: 05/01/2023
PI: Robertson, Joseph
Sponsors: RIT
 

Title: GWBC23: Towards Neural Control for Vision Language Modeling
Start Date: 05/01/2023
PI: Tao, Zhiqiang
Sponsors: RIT
 

Title: GWBC23: Towards Automated, Accurate, and Fine-grained Traffic Analytics Reporting
Start Date: 05/01/2023
PI: Ahmad, Fawad
Sponsors: RIT
 

Title: CRII: SaTC: Local Differential Privacy under Correlation
Start Date: 04/01/2023
PI: Hu, Yidan
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: A game to introduce cybersecurity careers to low-income community members
Start Date: 03/24/2023
PI: Pelletier, Justin
Sponsors: NSA/​USF
 

Title: CRII: SaTC: Reconciling Run-time Attestation Methods and Real-Time Embedded Applications
Start Date: 03/15/2023
PI: De Oliveira Nunes, Ivan
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: CAREER: Towards Reliable and Quantum-resistant Connected Vehicle Security
Start Date: 03/01/2023
PI: Rahbari, Hanif
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: Building an Analyst-Centered Deepfake Detection Tool
Start Date: 01/01/2023
PI: Wright, Matthew
Sponsors: DOD/​NCSU
 

Title: Resilience Game Design Research
Start Date: 12/15/2022
PI: Schwartz, David
Sponsors: DOD/USArmy
 

Title: CRII: RI: A Deep Gameplay Framework for Strong Story Experience Management
Start Date: 09/01/2022
PI: Robertson, Joseph
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: NSF Rotator - IPA (Aug 2022 - Aug 2023)
Start Date: 08/15/2022
PI: Kumar, Mohan
Sponsors: NSF
 

Title: National General Aviation Flight Information database (NGAFID)
Start Date: 08/01/2022
PI: Desell, Travis
Sponsors: FAA/​University