Research Awards and Recognition


Research Awards and Recognition
RIT became recognized as a doctoral university by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education in 2016 because of its growing research activity.

Sponsored research awards
In millions of dollars

Research Expenditures
In millions of dollars

FY19 federal awards by agency
In millions of dollars
Major Grants
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January 11, 2021
RIT Sponsored Research garners $82 million
RIT had its best year ever for sponsored research funding. For fiscal year 2020, which ended June 30, RIT received 382 new awards totaling $82 million. The record funding follows almost $58 million in research expenditures in fiscal year 2019, also a record.
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October 14, 2020
RIT, URMC receive grant to study benefits of AI-enabled toilet seat technology
Toilet seats with high-tech sensors might be the non-invasive technology of the future that could help reduce hospital return rates of individuals with heart disease. A joint project by researchers at RIT and the University of Rochester Medical Center will determine if in-home monitoring can successfully record vital signs and reduce risk and costly re-hospitalization rates for people with heart failure. The five-year, $2.9 million venture is funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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October 14, 2020
National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator awards $1 million grant to team
Matt Huenerfauth, professor and expert in computing accessibility research, is part of a team that has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to use artificial intelligence to better understand the role of facial expressions in signed and spoken languages.
NSF CAREER Awards
2020
For “Computational Model of Perceived Color and Appearance in Augmented Reality”
2019
For “Learning to Solve Problems in context-rich environments: A Naturalistic study in STEM Workplaces, research labs, project-based and lab courses”
2015
For “Theory of Optomechanical Nanorotation Sensing – Approaching the Quantum Regime”
PI Millionaires
Since 2000, RIT has recognized principal investigators and researchers who have achieved $1 million or more in funding by inducting them into a class of “PI Millionaires.”
Current faculty in this group include:
- Irshad Altheimer
- Callie Babbitt
- Charles Bachman
- Margaret Bailey
- Gerald Bateman
- Stefi Baum
- Roy Berns
- Mishkat Bhattacharya
- Jean-Louis Bigourdan
- David Borkholder
- Scott Brown
- Belinda Bryce
- Vincenzo Buonomo
- Daniel Burge
- Donna Burnette
- Manuella Campanelli
- Christopher Collison
- Denis Cormier
- Steven Day
- Richard DeMartino
- Matthew Dye
- Lisa Elliot
- Mark Fairchild
- Donald Figer
- Scott Franklin
- Thomas Gaborski
- Matthew Ganter
- Bill Garno
- Michael Gartley
- Aaron Gerace
- Anne Haake
- Richard Hailstone
- Peter Hauser
- Karl Hirschman
- Joseph Hornak
- Seth Hubbard
- Matt Huenerfauth
- Emmett Ientilucci
- Keith Jenkins
- Daniel Johnson
- Satish Kandlikar
- Joel Kastner
- John Kerekes
- John Klofas
- Robert Kremens
- Santosh Kurinec
- Andres Kwasinski
- Brian Landi
- Donna Lange
- Christian Linte
- Carlos Lousto
- Marc Marschark
- Douglas Merrill
- David Messinger
- Casey Miller
- John Moore
- P.R. Mukund
- James Myers
- Darren Narayan
- Nabil Nasr
- Zoran Ninkov
- Richard Notargiacomo
- Jeff Pelz
- Stefan Preble
- Ryne Raffaelle
- S. Manian Ramkumar
- Andrew Robinson
- Risa Robinson
- Sean Rommel
- Charles Ruffing
- Eli Saber
- Carl Salvaggio
- Andreas Savakis
- Jennifer Schneider
- Nirmala Shenoy
- Bruce Smith
- Michael Stinson
- Grover Swartzlander
- Robert Teese
- Michael Thurston
- Thomas Trabold
- Gill Tsouri
- Jan Van Aardt
- Anthony Vodacek
- Linwei Wang
- Eric Williams
- James Winebrake
- Shanchieh Yang
- Bo Yuan
- Richard Zanibbi
- George Zion
- Ben Zwickl
Seed Funding
RIT awards researchers seed funding of $5,000 for proposals written during the fall semester and later refined over the course of a two-day Grant Writers’ Boot Camp.
For “Creating Informed and Engaged End Users in High-Performance Campus Buildings for Improved Energy Efficiency and Enhanced Comfort”
For “Monitoring and Improving Length of Stay and Readmission Rates Using Learn Management Techniques”
For “Advancing Culturally Relevant STEM Learning Experiences for Underrepresented Students”
For “The Use of Keyword Error Rate to Determine the Quality of Automated Speech Recognition Systems”
For “Highly Efficient Capture and Detection of Deadly Zaire Ebola virus (EBOV) via Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Hierarchical Nanostructures”
For “Chasing Ancestors, Part 2: Searching for the origins of American Sign Language in East Anglia, 1620-1851”
For “Robotic Collaborative Perception and object Manipulation for Effective and Affordable Elder Care”
For “Neurocognitively-Motivated Conversational Assistants Based on Distribution Representations”
For “Enabling Trusted Computing on Industrial IoT Devices: Software-only TPM on Microcontrollers”
NIH Boot Camp Seed Funding
RIT also offers an advanced boot camp focused on the National Institutes of Health. Participants in the NIH Boot Camp submitted proposals for seed funding to help develop competitive proposals or revise proposals to specific NIH programs in the coming year. 2019 awardees will receive up to $10,000 and include: