Recent Research Funding
Highlights of major research funding secured by Computer Science Department Faculty
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
- Amount: $691,972
- 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
- Amount: $527,129
- Duration: July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2025
- Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF) Solar Terrestrial program
Seth Poulsen, Assistant Professor (USU Principal Investigator)
- Title: Collaborative Research: CUE-T: Theory-ABCs: Transforming Online Theory Instructions while Building Ability, Belonging, and Confidence
- Amount: $330.852
- Duration: September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2027 (estimated)
- Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Hamid Karimi, Assistant Professor (PI and Co-PI)
- Title: Learning Analytics for Process-driven Computer Programming Assignments
- Role: Principal Investigator
- 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
- Role: Co-Principal Investigator
- 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
- Role: Principal Investigator of Subaward
- 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
- Amount: $223,468
- Duration: September 1, 2023 - August 31, 2026 (estimated)
- Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Title: Dynamics Lab: Interactive Physics Simulations for Intermediate Classical Mechanics
- Amount: $299,649
- Duration: February 1, 2023 - January 31, 2026
- Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Shah Muhammad Hamdi, Assistant Professor (Principal Investigator)
- Title: SHINE: Understanding the Relationships of Photospheric Vector Magnetic Field Parameters in Solar Flare Occurrences using Graph-based Machine Learning Models
- Amount: $437,703
- 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
- Subaward Amount: $174,984 (USU portion: $132,965)
- Duration: June 1, 2022 - May 31, 2024
- Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen, Assistant Professor (PI and Co-PI)
- Title: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Collaborative: BaitBuster 2.0: Keeping Users Away From Clickbait
- Role: Lead Principal Investigator
- Amount: $899,714 (USU-part: $314,963)
- Duration: July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2025
- 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
- Role: Co-Principal Investigator
- Amount: $100,000
- Duration: 2021 - 2022
- Funding Organization: Facebook
- Collaborators: University of Toronto and Cornell University
- Contact: mahdi.al-ameen@usu.edu
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
- Amount: $299,687 USU; $600,000 total
- Duration: July 15, 2022 - June 30, 2025
- 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)
- Role: Principal Investigator
- Amount: $46,608.57
- Duration: August, 2023 - July 2024
- Funding Organization: U.S. Department of Energy
- Title: Real-D Visualization Tool Installation
- Role: Principal Investigator
- Amount: $88,901
- Duration: November, 2022 - October, 2023
- Funding Organization: Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
- Title: Contractor Support for Real-D Visualization Tool Installation
- Role: Lead Principal Investigator
- 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
- Role: Co-Principal Investigator
- 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
Shuhan Yuan, Assistant Professor (Principal Investigator)
- Title: SaTC: CORE: Small: Deep Learning for Insider Threat Detection
- Amount: $498,618
- Duration: June 1, 2021 – May 31, 2024
- Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF) Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace
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
- Amount: $749,996
- 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
- Amount: $50,000
- Duration: April 14, 2021 – December 31, 2022
- Funding Organization: Utah Department of Transportation
Stephen Clyde, Emeritus Associate Professor (Co-Principal Investigator)
- Title: Providing HiTrack and CHARMS Support for Early Hearing Detection and Intervention
- Amount: $201,700
- 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
- Amount: $799,438
- 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
- Amount: $283,231
- Duration: June 01, 2018 – May 31, 2021
- Funding Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)