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External Research Grants and Contracts Awarded to Computer Science Faculty Since 9/1/2007

  1. Martin Burtscher (PI), Coplin - Graduate Research Fellowship Program, NSF, 6/1/2017 – 5/31/2020, $130k.
  2. Martin Burtscher (PI), Belcher - Graduate Research Fellowship Program, NSF, 6/1/2017 – 5/31/2020, $130k.
  3. Ziliang Zong (PI) and Qijun Gu (Co-PI), REU Supplement: II-NEW: Marcher, NSF, 9/1/2017 – 8/31/2018, $16k.
  4. Ziliang Zong (Co-PI), Coding Across the Discipline, Subaward of UTWeTeachCS, Texas Regional Collaboratives for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching (TRC), 2/1/2017 – 8/14/2017, $100k.
  5. Oleg Komogortsev (PI), Advanced Research and Validation of Techniques for Novel Eye-Tracking Techniques for Virtual Reality, Google, 4/1/2017 – 3/31/2019, $100k.
  6. Guowei Yang (PI) and Anne Ngu (Co-PI), REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Software Systems and Analysis, NSF, 3/1/2017 – 2/29/2020, $360k.
  7. Qijun Gu (PI), Developing a Modular Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Platform for Air Pollution Profiling and Emergency Monitoring, Subaward from University of Memphis, FedEx Institute of Technology, 2/16/2017 – 6/30/2018, $10k.
  8. Mina Guirguis (PI), Game-Theoretical Approach to Allocating Cybersecurity Analysis to Cyber Alerts, Department of Homeland Security, 1/9/2017 – 12/17/2017, $45k.
  9. Ziliang Zong (PI), Energy-efficient Load Balance Design, Huawei Technolgies, 1/1/2017 – 8/31/2017, $100k.
  10. Oleg Komogortsev (PI), Achieving Fingerprint Level Performance with Eye Movement-based Biometrics, NIST, 1/1/2017 – 12/31/2018, $200k.
  11. Oleg Komogortsev (PI), A Hybrid Technique for Eye-tracking on Wearable Headsets for 3-D/VR Interaction, Person Recognition and Health Screening, Google Focused Research Award, Google, 2016, $100k.
  12. Anne Ngu (PI), RET Supplement, NSF, 2016, $20k.
  13. Oleg Komogortsev (PI), Standardization and Quality Assessment Methods for the Enhancement of the Eye Movement Biometrics, NIST, 1/1/2016 – 12/31/2016, $100k.
  14. Oleg Komogortsev (PI), Extraction of Oculomotor Plant Characteristics on CUDA Architecture, NVIDIA, 4/15/2015 – 4/14/2016, $2.5k.
  15. Anne Ngu (PI), Developmental Leave Work at CSIRO, CSIRO (Australia), 9/1/2015 – 8/31/2016, $12k.
  16. Martin Burtscher (PI), REU Supplement: XPS: EXPL: CCA: Collaborative Research: Nixing Scale Bugs in HPC Applications, NSF, 9/1/2015 – 8/31/2016, $16k.
  17. Guowei Yang (PI), CRII: SHF: Scaling Systematic Software Analyses Using Memoization, NSF, 6/1/2015 – 5/31/2017, $175k.
  18. Oleg Komogortsev (PI), REU Supplement: CAREER: Secure and Trustworthy Ocular Biometrics, NSF, 9/1/2015 – 8/31/2016, $16k.
  19. Anne Ngu (PI), Pilot Implementation System for Innovation in Personalized Health Monitoring, 5/25/2015 – 8/31/2016, Genetic Eve, LLC, $11k.
  20. Ziliang Zong (PI) and Qijun Gu (Co-PI), I-Corps: A Cloud Based Framework to Enhance Green Software Design and Education, NSF, 2/1/2015 – 12/31/2015, $50k.
  21. Mina Guirguis (Co-PI with A. Ortiz as PI), Texas State STEM Rising Stars, NSF, 1/1/2015 – 12/31/2018, $1,500k.
  22. Oleg Komogortsev (PI), Efficient Analysis and Combination of Eye Movement Traits for Reliable Biometric Identification and Spoofing Protection, NIST, 1/1/2015 – 12/31/2015, $100k.
  23. Xiao Chen (PI), Hongchi Shi (Co-PI), and Ziliang Zong (SP), CC*IE Networking Infrastructure: Enabling and Improving Data-Driven Research at Texas State University, NSF, 10/1/2014 – 9/30/2016, $500k.
  24. Oleg Komogortsev (PI), Supplemental award for CAREER: Secure and Trustworthy Ocular Biometrics, NSF, 9/1/2014 – 8/31/2018, $103k.
  25. Oleg Komogortsev (PI), REU Supplement: CAREER: Secure and Trustworthy Ocular Biometrics, NSF, 9/1/2014 – 8/31/2015, $16k.
  26. Apan Qasem (PI), REU Supplement for NSF CAREER Award, NSF, 9/1/2014 – 8/31/2015, $16k.
  27. Apan Qasem (Co-PI), TexasMusicViz: Music Data and Storytelling, ONA Challenge Fund, 2014 – 2015, $35k.
  28. Apan Qasem (Co-PI), Developing High School Students’ Curiosity in Science and Technology in Capstone Design Day, Halliburton Foundation, 2014 - 2015, $9k.
  29. Oleg Komogortsev (PI), Eye Movement Driven Biometrics and Interaction on Google Glass, Google, 9/1/2014 – 8/31/2015, $69k.
  30. Martin Burtscher (PI), XPS: EXPL: CCA: Collaborative Research: Nixing Scale Bugs in HPC Applications, NSF, 9/1/2014 – 8/31/2016, $150k.
  31. Ted Lehr (PI) and Mina Guirguis (Co-PI), “Making” the World a Better Place, IEEE Foundation, 8/11/2014 – 5/29/2015, $21k.
  32. Martin Burtscher (PI), CSR: Medium: Collaborative Research: Programming Abstractions and Systems Support for GPU-based Acceleration of Irregular Applications, NSF, 7/1/2014 – 6/30/2018, $360k.
  33. Oleg Komogortsev (PI), User Experience Testing for McCoy’s Building Supply, McCoy, 3/15/2014 – 3/14/2015, $5k.
  34. Anne Ngu (PI), Byron Gao (Co-PI), Lucy Lu (SP), and Rodion Podorozhny (SP), REU SITE: Multidisciplinary Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Internet of Things, NSF, 3/1/2014 – 2/28/2017, $323k.
  35. Hongchi Shi (Co-PI with Y. Zhou of Hainan U. as PI), Research on Cognitive Communications for Marine Dynamic-spectrum Wireless Networks, NSFC, 1/1/2014 – 12/31/2014, ¥150k ($25k).
  36. Martin Burtscher (PI), REU Supplement: CSR: Small: Collaborative Research: Real-Time Unobstrusive Tracing in Multicore Embedded Systems, NSF, 9/1/2013 – 8/31/2014, $16k.
  37. Ziliang Zong (PI) and Qijun Gu (Co-PI), Collaborative Research: II-NEW: Marcher – A Heterogeneous High Performance Computing Infrastructure for Research and Education in Green Computing, NSF, 9/1/2013 – 8/31/2016, $412k.
  38. Apan Qasem (PI), Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplement, NSF, 9/1/2013 – 8/31/2014, $16k.
  39. Oleg Komogortsev (PI), REU Supplement: CAREER: Secure and Trustworthy Ocular Biometrics, NSF, 9/1/2013 – 8/31/2014, $16k.
  40. Lucy Lu (PI), Byron Gao (Co-PI), Anne Ngu (Co-PI), Xiao Chen (Co-PI), and Apan Qasem (Co-PI), II-NEW: Shared High Performance Data Center, NSF, 5/1/2013 – 4/30/2016, $376k.
  41. Apan Qasem (PI), CAREER: Autotuning for Multicore and Manycore Architectures: An Enhanced Feedback-Driven Approach, NSF, 6/1/2013 – 5/31/2018, $468k.
  42. Oleg Komogortsev (PI), CAREER: Secure and Trustworthy Ocular Biometrics, NSF, 9/1/2013 – 8/31/2018, $513k.
  43. Oleg Komogortsev (PI), Secure Person Authentication via Eye Movements and Iris Data, NIST, 1/1/2013 – 12/31/2014, $100k.
  44. Martin Burtscher (PI), CSR: Small: Collaborative Research: Real-Time Unobtrusive Tracing in Multicore Embedded Systems, NSF, 9/1/2012 – 8/31/2015, $173k.
  45. Mina Guirguis (PI), Control Theoretic Adaptive Monitoring Tools for the Android Platform, US Air Force, 9/1/2012 – 12/31/2012, $11k.
  46. Apan Qasem (PI), Martin Burtscher (Co-PI), Wuxu Peng (Co-PI), Hongchi Shi (Co-PI), and Dan Tamir (Co-PI), TUES: Preparing Computer Science Students for the Multi-core Era: Teaching Parallel Computing in the Undergraduate Curriculum Early and Often, NSF, 9/1/2012 – 8/31/2015, $149k.
  47. Lucy Lu (PI), Hongchi Shi (Co-PI), and Dan Tamir (Co-PI), Automated Crack Documentation Using Digital Images - Scoping Study, TxDOT, 9/1/2012 – 8/31/2013, $94k.
  48. Anne Ngu (co-PI with C. Novoa as PI) and Mina Guirguis (SP), SPARK - Increasing the Recruitment and Retention of Female Undergraduates in Engineering and Computer Science, NSF, 6/1/2012 – 5/31/2016, $600k.
  49. Mina Guirguis (PI), Qijun Gu (Co-PI), Hongchi Shi (SP), Xiao Chen (SP), and Wuxu Peng (SP), REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Mobile CPSs, NSF & DoD, 6/1/2012 – 5/31/2015, $340k.
  50. Oleg Komogortsev (PI), Holland - Biometric Identification via Eye Movements on Mobile Devices (GRFP), NSF, 6/1/2012 – 5/31/2015, $132k.
  51. Lucy Lu (PI), HSAP: Visual Context Learning for Image Retrieval Applications, Army Research Office, 4/15/2012 – 4/14/2013, $9k.
  52. Mina Guirguis (PI), CAREER: Securing Mobile CPSs Against Stealthy Attacks, NSF, 1/1/2012 – 12/31/2016, $458k.
  53. Lucy Lu (PI), Large-Scale Partial-Duplicate Image Retrieval and Its Applications, DOD, 1/1/2012 – 12/31/2014, $489k.
  54. Martin Burtscher (PI), Academic Partnership Award, NVIDIA, 1/1/2012 – 12/31/2012, $25k.
  55. Ziliang Zong (PI), CSR: Small: Collaborative Research: FastStor: Data Mining Based Multilayer Prefetching for Hybrid Storage Systems, NSF, 9/1/2011 – 11/30/2014, $170k.
  56. Ziliang Zong (PI), CSR: Small: Collaborative Research: EEDAG: Exploring Energy-Efficient Parallel Tasks Generation and Scheduling for Heterogeneous Multicore Systems, NSF, 9/1/2011 – 8/31/2013, $73k.
  57. Martin Burtscher (PI), Molly - Developing General Strategies for GPU-Based Acceleration (GRFP), NSF, 6/1/2011 – 5/31/2014, $130k.
  58. Mark McKenney (PI), Byron Gao, Lucy Lu, and Anne Ngu, II-NEW: Shared High Performance Data Center, NSF, 5/1/2011 – 4/30/2012, $50k.
  59. Dan Tamir (PI) and Apan Qasem (Co-PI), Power Consumption Based Multicore Task Scheduling and Load Balancing, SRC, 4/1/2011 – 3/31/2014, $184k.
  60. Anne Ngu (PI), Byron Gao (Co-PI), and Lucy Lu (SP), REU SITE: Research Experiences in New Paradigms of Information Retrieval from Diverse Data, NSF, 2/1/2011 – 1/31/2014, $360k.
  61. Oleg Komogortsev (PI), Usability Evaluation of Biometric Identification via Eye Tracking with an Oculomotor Plant Model, NIST (subcontract from University of Washington), 1/1/2011 – 12/31/2013, $164k.
  62. Dan Tamir (PI), Carl Mueller (Co-PI), and Oleg Komogortsev (Co-PI), Development of a pinpoint analysis tool and its implementation for user interface problem determination, Emerson, 10/1/2010 – 6/15/2011, $50k.
  63. Byron Gao (PI), Collaborative Research: Inter-Agency "Co-opetition" via Hidden Web Databases, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 9/1/2010 – 8/31/2011, $50k.
  64. Byron Gao (PI), LDRD: Rapid Exploitation and Analysis of Documents (READ), LLNL, 6/1/2010 – 5/31/2011, $34k.
  65. Apan Qasem (PI), A Multi-Language Environment for Programmable Code Optimization and Empirical Tuning, DoE (subcontract from University of Texas at San Antonio), 9/15/2009 – 9/14/2012, $44k.
  66. Qijun Gu (PI), NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Secure and Resilient Channel Allocation in Multi-Radio Wireless Networks, NSF, 9/1/2009 – 8/31/2012, $150k.
  67. Dan Tamir (co-PI with W. Geerts as PI), MRI: Development of a Complex Topography Photolithography Tool for Micro-patterning on Non-flat Substrates, NSF, 8/1/2009 – 7/31/2012, $99k.
  68. Dan Tamir (PI), Carl Mueller (Co-PI), and Oleg Komogortsev (Co-PI), Usability Assessment Project, Emerson, 7/9/2009 – 10/1/2010, $39k.
  69. Anne Ngu (PI), Context-Aware Generic Actors, Battelle Memorial Institute, 11/1/2008 – 10/31/2010, $80k
  70. Apan Qasem (PI), IBM Faculty Award, IBM, 2008, $12k.
  71. Xiao Chen (Co-PI with J. Shen as PI), Small Grants for Exploratory Research – Networking Technology and Systems, NSF, 9/1/2008 – 2/28/2010, $76k.
  72. Apan Qasem (PI), A Loop Transformation Tool for Improving Application Performance, DoE (subcontract from Rice University), 6/1/2008 – 5/31/2009, $43k.
  73. Hongchi Shi (PI), Wireless Sensor Networks: Middleware and Applications, NSF (subcontract from University of Missouri, 9/1/2007 – 8/31/2008, $30k.