Recent Research Grants and Awards

Faculty across the College of Computing and Information Sciences significantly impact the university's research portfolio, earning peer-reviewed federal, state, and private grants to support our students and research laboratories. Find recent research grants and awards below.

TitleThe Development of Smart Telehealth System to Improve Health Disparities in Rural Kansas 
Start Date: 03/19/2025
PI: KC, Dukka

Sponsors: National Institutes of Health

Title: Dynamic Scene Graphs for Extracting Activity-based Intelligence
Start Date: 02/20/2025
PI: Yu, Qi

Sponsors: Department of Defense

Title: Deep Learning-based Approaches for Protein Post-translational Modifications Site Prediction
Start Date: 02/12/2025
PI: KC, Dukka
Sponsors: NSF

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

Title: Supporting Project-Based Learning in Undergraduate Software Engineering Courses
Start Date: 01/15/2025
PI: Hao, Daqing
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