Grants

I would like to thank several sponsors for supporting my research, including ABOR, AFRL, ARL, DOE, NASA, and NSF.

• Collaborative Research: OAC Core: Exploiting SmartSSD-based Computational Storage Architectures for Large Scale Similarity and Range Searches
  Agency: National Science Foundation
  Role: PI (co-PIs: Satish Puri and Cris Ababei)
  Budget Period: 07/1/2025-06/30/2027
  Amount: $221,146
  Grant No. 2504716
  Note: Collaborative project with Satish Puri (2504718) and Cris Ababei (2504717).

• Early Solar System science with LSST
  Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) SSO Program
  Role: co-PI (PI: Trilling)
  Budget Period: 08/2025-07/2028
  Amount: $521,629
  Grant No. 80NSSC25K7728

• Collaborative Research: OAC Core: Efficient Indexing and Similarity Searches Exploiting Processing-in-Memory Architectures for Memory-Bound Scientific Workloads
  Agency: National Science Foundation
  Role: PI
  Budget Period: 07/15/2024-06/30/2027
  Amount: $296,664
  Grant No. 2402988
  Note: Collaborative project with Satish Puri, PI, $303,328 Grant No. 2402987.

• Research Opportunities in Data-Intensive Parallel Computing
  Agency: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Department of Energy
  Role: PI
  Budget Period: 05/24/2023-03/31/2028
  Amount: $373,711
  Grant No: B657367

• Cognitive Distributed Sensing in Congested Radio Frequency Environments
  Agency: Army Research Office (subcontract from Northeastern University)
  Role: co-PI (PI: Cambou; co-PIs: Heynssens, Nghiem, Yacaman)
  Budget Period: 03/31/2023-03/30/2027
  Amount: $5,400,000
  Note: Leading subproject on key distribution and recovery in noisy distributed networks which leverages high performance computing for communication in noisy environments.

• The Arizona Tree Stress Explorer and Alert System
  Agency: Arizona Board of Regents
  Role: co-PI (PI: Shenkin; co-PIs: Doughty, Goetz, Hakkenberg)
  Budget Period: 01/01/2023-12/31/2025
  Amount: $1,259,942

• Rapid response asteroid science from ZTF and LSST data
  Agency: National Science Foundation
  Role: Sr. Personnel (PI: David Trilling)
  Budget Period: 8/01/2022-7/31/2025
  Amount: $452,885
  Grant No. 2206796

• GPU-Accelerated Outlier Detection: Comparing Exact and Approximate Algorithms
  Agency: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Department of Energy
  Role: PI
  Budget Period: 08/19/2021-08/30/2022
  Amount: $48,898
  Grant No: B648568

• CAREER: Exploiting Parallel Heterogeneous Architectures to Enable Time-domain Astronomy in the LSST era
  Agency: National Science Foundation
  Role: PI, Collaborators: David Trilling, Tom Matheson, and Trent D’Hooge.
  Budget Period: 07/15/2021 - 06/30/2026
  Amount: $411,964
  Grant No.: 2042155
  Project Website

• HPC GPU Optimizations for K-means Clustering
  Agency: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Department of Energy
  Role: PI
  Budget Period: 08/20/2020 - 08/31/2021
  Amount: $49,894
  Grant No.: B643087

• Comprehensive development of ternary computing technology modules for the implementation of secure computational diversity
  Agency: Air Force Research Lab
  Role: co-PI (PI: Bertrand Cambou)
  Proposed Budget Period: 6/01/2019 - 5/31/2022
  Amount: $3,330,546
  Note: Leading subproject on high performance computing for cybersecurity.

• An Outlier Detection and Alert Processing System For Time-Domain Astronomy
  Agency: Arizona Board of Regents (Regents’ Innovation Fund)
  Role: Lead PI between NAU, ASU, and UA (PIs: John Kececioglu (UA), Nat Butler (ASU), co-PIs at NAU: David Trilling, Chad Trujillo, and Cristina Thomas)
  Budget Period: 7/1/2019 – 8/15/2021
  Amount: $299,000

• CRII: OAC: A Framework for Parallel Data-Intensive Computing on Emerging Architectures and Astroinformatics Applications
  Agency: National Science Foundation
  Role: PI (Collaborator: Chad Trujillo)
  Budget Period: 03/15/2019 – 02/28/2022
  Amount: $174,975
  Grant No. 1849559
  Project Website

• Interdisciplinary Research Metrics in Astrobiology
  Agency: NASA Astrobiology Institute Director’s Discretionary Fund
  Role: co-I (PI: Rich Gazan)
  Awarded: October, 2012. $29,849.