List of current KFSCIS Projects from Active Fiscal Year 2022 – Present
| SCIS Faculty | Title | Agency | Amount | Duration | ||
| Alex Afanasyev (PI) | ICN-WEN: Collaborative Research: ICN-Enabled Secure Edge Networking with Augmented Reality | UCLA/NSF & Intel | $335,160 | 2017-2024 | ||
| Alex Afanasyev (PI) | Named Data Networking for 5g C-V2X | Ford Motor Co. | $100,000 | 2018-2023 | ||
| Alex Afanasyev (PI), Julio Ibarra (Co-PI) | Fabric Adaptive programmaBle network Research Infrastructure for Computer science (FABRIC) | UNC/NSF | $300,001 | 2019-2022 | ||
| Alex Afanasyev (PI) | CC* Integration-Large: SCI-DRON: Scientific Distributed Data Repositories Over NDN | Texas Tech. Univ. / NSF | $78,457 | 2021-2023 | ||
| Mohammadhadi Amini (PI), Shabnam Rezapour Behnagh (Co-PI), Naphtali Rishe (Co-PI) | Agent-based Learning to Utilize Local Data for Activity Recognition | George Mason University / US DHS | $74,791 | 2021-2023 | ||
| Janki Bhimani (PI) | Collaborative Research: CNS core: OAC core: Small: New Techniques for I/O Behavior Modeling and Persistent Storage Device Configuration | NSF | $271,071 | 2020-2023 | ||
| Janki Bhimani (PI), Liting Hu (Former-PI) | RumorHunt: A Next-Generation Online Scalable Streaming System for Early Rumor Detection | USF/CyberFlorida | $75,000 | 2020-2022 | ||
| Leonardo Bobadilla (PI) | Collaborative Research: EAGER: Foundations of Secure Multi-Robot Computation | NSF | $97,494 | 2020-2023 | ||
| Leonardo Bobadilla (PI), Ryan Smith (Co-PI) | NRI: FND: Extending Autonomy in Seemingly Sensory-Denied Environments Applied to Underwater Robots | NSF | $605,569 | 2020-2023 | ||
| Leonardo Bobadilla (PI), Gregory Reis, Ryan Smith, Kevin Boswell, Henry Briceno, Camilo Road (Co-PIs) | Acquisition of a Combined Aerial and Underwater Motion Capture System | ARO | $599,253 | 2021-2023 | ||
| Bogdan Carbunar (PI) | SaTC: CORE: Small: Deconstructing and Neutralizing Search Rank Fraud | NSF | $450,644 | 2020-2023 | ||
| Bogdan Carbunar (PI), Peter Clarke (Co-PI) | Collaborative Research: EAGER: SaTC-EDU: Just-in-Time Artificial Intelligence-Driven Cyber Abuse Education in Social Networks | NSF | $192,921 | 2021-2023 | ||
| Bogdan Carbunar (PI) | A Distributed System for Early Intrusion Detection and Assessment of Cybersecurity Risks | US Dept of State CRDF Global | $75,000 | 2021-2022 | ||
| Bogdan Carbunar (PI) | Graduate Assistance in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence at Florida International University | US Dept of Education | $304,389 | 2021-2024 | ||
| Bogdan Carbunar (PI) | SaTC: CORE: Small: Efficient Plausible Deniability Systems | SUNY / NSF | $29,100 | 2022 | ||
| Dong Chen (PI) | Online Learning and Visualization for Intrusion Detection and Prevention in Privacy-Enhanced IoT Networks | USF/CyberFlorida | $37,500 | 2020-2022 | ||
| Shu-Ching Chen (Co-PI), Scott Graham (Sr. Inv.), Tao Li (Former Sr. Inv.) | CREST: Center for Aquatic Chemistry and the Environment (CAChE) | NSF | $5,480,149 | 2016-2023 | ||
| Shu-Ching Chen (Sr. Inv.), Scott Graham (Sr. Inv.), Leonardo Bobadilla (Sr. Inv.), Gregory Reis (Sr. Inv.) | CREST Phase II: Center for Aquatic Chemistry and Environment (CREST-CAChE) | NSF | $3,000,000 | 2021-2026 | ||
| Shu-Ching Chen (PI) | Conference: Puerto Rico Honey Bee and Evolution of Invasive Organisms on Islands; August 13-15, 2019; San Juan, Puerto Rico | NSF | $50,000 | 2019-2021 | ||
| Shu-Ching Chen (Co-PI), Miguel Alonso, Jr. (Co-PI) | RAPID: A Platform for Mitigating the Impacts of COVID-19 on the Healthcare System | NSF | $159,300 | 2020-2022 | ||
| Shu-Ching Chen (PI), Miguel Alonso, Jr. (Co-PI), Steven Luis (Co-PI) | SCC-PG: JST: Multimodal Data Analytics and Integration for Emergency Response and Disaster Management | NSF | $75,000 | 2020-2022 | ||
| Shu-Ching Chen (Co-PI) | Public Hurricane Loss Model | Florida Dept. of Insurance Regulation | $1,058,042 | 2020-2022 | ||
| Shu-Ching Chen (Co-PI) | Development and Evaluation of a General Drag Mode for Gas-Solid Flows via Physics Informed Deep Machine Learning | US Dept. of Energy | $500,000 | 2020-2023 | ||
| Shu-Ching Chen (PI) | Conference: Island Population Responses to Environmental Stresses | NSF | $35,000 | 2021-2022 | ||
| Shu-Ching Chen (PI), Steven Luis (Co-PI) | SCC-IRG JST: Multimodal Data Analytics and Integration for Effective COVID-19, Pandemics and Compound Disaster Response and Management | NSF | $750,000 | 2021-2024 | ||
| Peter Clarke (PI) | Examining the Clinical Workflow and Outcomes of Integrating Health Information Technology | Univ. Of Alabama/AHRQ | $20,919 | 2019-2021 | ||
| Peter Clarke (PI), Debra Davis (Co-PI) | SCIS Subproject of Integration of Health Information Technology and Promotion of Personhood in Family-Centered Dementia Care | NIH | $223,975 | 2020-2025 | ||
| Peter Clarke (PI) | Catalyst Project: Development and Implementation of Intelligent Adaptive Cyberlearning System for Minority Freshmen Students | Alabama A&M Univ. / NSF | $60,000 | 2021-2023 | ||
| Mark Finlayson (PI) | CAREER: Learning Multi-Level Narrative Structure | NSF | $660,000 | 2018-2023 | ||
| Mark Finlayson (PI) | ACUMEN: Analyzing Cultural Motif Effects in Networks – Motif Influence Networks in Social Media | SIFT/DARPA | $669,794 | 2019-2022 | ||
| Mark Finlayson (PI) | Automated Timeline Summarization of Defendants | MITRE | $56,501 | 2020-2021 | ||
| Mark Finlayson (PI) | Moving Out on Vaccines (MOoV) | MITRE | $40,000 | 2021-2022 | ||
| Mark Finlayson (PI) | Building a Causal and Influence Network for Risk Prediction (NLP AI) | MITRE | $57,198 | 2021-2022 | ||
| Mark Finlayson (PI) | YFA: Computational Narrative Representations for Information Operations | DARPA | $465,821 | 2021-2023 | ||
| Mark Finlayson (PI) | RADII: Reticular Analysis of Discourse for Influence Indicators | SIFT/DARPA | $149,427 | 2021-2025 | ||
| Liting Hu (PI; transferred to VA Tech) | SPX: Collaborative Research: NG4S: A Next-Generation Geo-Distributed Scalable Stateful Stream Processing System | NSF | $315,266 | 2019-2022 | ||
| Liting Hu (PI; transferred to VA Tech) | CAREER: Scalable and Adaptive Edge Stream Processing | NSF | $197,598 | 2020-2025 | ||
| Julio Ibarra (PI) | Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) | Assoc of Univs for Rsrch in Astronomy | $17,802,500 | 2014-2022 | ||
| Julio Ibarra (PI), Russell Clark (Co-PI), Heidi Morgan (Co-PI) | IRNC: RXP: AtlanticWave-SDX: a distributed intercontinental experimental SDX | NSF | $4,128,522 | 2015-2022 | ||
| Julio Ibarra (PI) | Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing (PATh) | Univ. of Wisconsin Madison / NSF | $32,026 | 2022 | ||
| Julio Ibarra (PI) | Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) – Track 3: Operations & Integration Services | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / NSF | $216,655 | 2022-2023 | ||
| Julio Ibarra (PI), Heidi Morgan (Co-PI), Donald Cox (Co-PI), Luis Lopez (Co-PI), Jeronimo Bezerra (Co-PI) | IRNC: Core Improvement: Americas-Africa Lightpaths Express and Protect (AmLight ExP) | NSF | $3,115,366 | 2020-2025 | ||
| Julio Ibarra (PI), Heidi Morgan (Co-PI), Yufeng Xin (Co-PI), Jeronimo Bezerra (Co-PI) | IRNC: Core Improvement: AtlanticWave-SDX: A Distributed Experimental SDX Supporting Research, Experimental Deployments, and Interoperability Testing on Global Scales | NSF | $5,254,543 | 2020-2025 | ||
| S. S. Iyengar (PI) | STIR: COVERT ID: Cybersecurity Operations Vectors: Verifying External Resilience of Transgressors and their Identification through Cybersecurity Forensics | Army Research Office | $60,000 | 2021-2022 | ||
| S. S. Iyengar (PI), Kemal Akkaya, Jose Almirall, Kevin Lothridge (Co-PIs), Jerry Miller, Monique Ross (Key Personnel) | The Forensic Investigations Network in Digital Sciences (FINDS) Research Center | Army Research Office | $915,000 | 2021-2026 | ||
| S. S. Iyengar (PI) | AI Learned: Cyber Forensics for Defense (CYFORD) | US Army XTech Search | $5,000 | 2021-2025 | ||
| Amin Kharraz (PI) | WEBHASH: A Spatio-Temporal Deep Learning Approach for Detecting Social Engineering Attacks | Microsoft | $150,000 | 2021-2022 | ||
| Amin Kharraz (PI) | GRIDSHIELD: Detecting Patient Zero Threats in Distributed Energy Ecosystem | Members of I/UCRC Phase I University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Center for Infrastructure Trustworthiness in Energy Systems (CITES) | $62,000 | 2022-2023 | ||
| Jason Liu (PI), Leonardo Bobadilla, Bogdan Carbunar, Mark Finlayson, Scott Graham, Liting Hu, S.S. Iyengar, Monique Ross, Ning Xie (Co-PIs) | Center for Advancing Education and Studies on Critical Infrastructures Resilience (CAESCIR) | DHS | $1,200,000 | 2017-2023 | ||
| Jason Liu (PI) | Collaborative Research: SHF: Small: Optimization of Memory Architectures: A Foundation Approach | NSF | $225,000 | 2020-2023 | ||
| Jason Liu (PI), Julio Ibarra (Co-PI), Jayanath Obeysekera (Co-PI), Cassian D’Cunha (Co-PI), Yuepeng Li (Co-PI) | NSF CC* Compute: RAPTOR – Reconfigurable Advanced Platform for Transdisciplinary Open Research | NSF | $400,000 | 2021-2023 | ||
| Ananda Mondal (PI) | CAREER: RUI: NetDA — Protein Network-Based Software for Disease Analysis Using Cliques, Bipartite Graphs, and Diffusion Kernels | NSF | $505,491 | 2018-2023 | ||
| Ananda Mondal (PI) | Deep Learning to Discover the Disparities in Lung Cancer between African American and European American Males | NIH/FIU RCMI | $73,250 | 2021-2022 | ||
| Giri Narasimhan (Co-PI) | CyberTraining: Implementation: Medium: Advanced Cyber Infrastructure Training in Policy Informatics | NSF | $1,016,000 | 2019-2023 | ||
| Giri Narasimhan (PI), Ananda Mondal (Co-PI), Kalai Mathee (Co-PI), Prem Chapagain (Co-PI), Jessica Liberies (Co-PI) | RAPID: Bioinformatic Search for Epitope-based Molecular Mimicry in the SARS-CoV-2 Virus Using Chameleon | NSF | $239,797 | 2020-2022 | ||
| Giri Narasimhan (PI) | HDR Institute: Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment | UIUC/NSF | $97,731 | 2021-2026 | ||
| Giri Narasimhan (PI), Miguel Alonso, Jr. (Former PI) | Neural network-assisted identification of parameters affecting mycotoxin risk in US wines | USDA | $258,253 | 2017-2022 | ||
| Niki Pissinou (PI), S.S. Iyengar (Co-PI) | REU SITE: ASSET: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Advanced Secured Sensor Enabling Technologies | NSF | $397,684 | 2019-2023 | ||
| Niki Pissinou (PI), S.S. Iyengar (Co-PI) | RET in Engineering and Computer Science SITE: Research Experience for Teachers on Cyber-Enabled Technologies | NSF | $600,000 | 2018-2022 | ||
| Niki Pissinou (PI) | RET in Engineering and Computer Science SITE: Research Experience for Teachers on Cyber-Enabled Technologies | NSF | $600,000 | 2021-2024 | ||
| Niki Pissinou (PI), Sheila Alemany (Fellow) | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Support | NSF | $57,383 | 2021-2022 | ||
| Christian Poellabauer (PI) | CHS: Small: Emotion-Aware Internet-of-Things Based on Analysis of Speech and Physiological Data | NSF | $278,398 | 2021-2022 | ||
| Christian Poellabauer (PI) | Personalized Mobility Interventions using Smart Sensor Resources for Lower-limb Prostheses Users | Shirley Ryan Ability Lab | $100,922 | 2021-2022 | ||
| Christian Poellabauer (PI), Selcuk Uluagac (Co-PI), Md Tauhidur Rahman (Co-PI) | Project HaHa: Low-Cost Hands-on Hardware Security Education | CyberFlorida | $1,413,129 | 2022-2023 | ||
| Raju Rangaswami (PI), Jason Liu (Co-PI), Giri Narasimhan (Co-PI) | CNS Core: Medium: Collaborative Research: Generalized Caching-As-A-Service | NSF | $649,131 | 2020-2023 | ||
| Raju Rangaswami (PI) | Scale-out Distributed Systems | Seagate | $29,100 | 2022 | ||
| Naphtali Rishe (PI), Scott Graham, S.S. Iyengar (Co-PIs) | I/UCRC: Phase II: Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement | NSF | $1,267,835 | 2013-2022 | ||
| Naphtali Rishe (PI) – CFO Kenneth Jessell is Institutional Lead | UniversityCity Prosperity Project | USDOT | $11.4M | 2014-2024 | ||
| Naphtali Rishe (Co-PI) | MRI: Development of an Integrated Neuroimaging Instrument with Temporal and Spatial Alignments for Brain Research | NSF | $3,955,110 | 2015-2021 | ||
| Naphtali Rishe (Co-PI) | MRI: Development of an Instrument for a Comprehensive Study of Alzheimer’s Disease: Multimodal Imaging, Visualization, Machine Learning and Therapeutic Brain Stimulation | NSF | $3,423,641 | 2019-2024 | ||
| Naphtali Rishe (PI), Todd Crowl (Co-PI), S.S. Iyengar (Co-PI), Shahin Vassigh (Co-PI), Daniel Gann (Co-PI) | MRI: Development of an Instrument for Student and Faculty Research on Multimodal Environmental Observations | NSF | $2,610,307 | 2020-2025 | ||
| Monique Ross (PI) | CAREER: Cracking the Diversity Code: Understanding Computing Pathways of those Least Represented | NSF | $694,310 | 2019-2024 | ||
| Monique Ross (PI) | The Path Least Travelled: An Exploration of the experiences of Hispanic students traversing the barriers from a 2-year program to 4-year program as transfer students to careers in computer science | Duke Univ./Google | $96,996 | 2020-2022 | ||
| Monique Ross (Former PI, now Co-PI), Mark Finlayson (Co-PI), Selcuk Uluagac (Former Co-PI, now PI) | EAGER: SaTC-EDU: Designing and Evaluating Curriculum Modules for Inclusive Integration of AI into Cybersecurity | NSF | $308,000 | 2020-2022 | ||
| Monique Ross (PI), Kathleen Quardokus Fisher (Co-PI) | EAGER: Broadening the Pathway: A case study analysis of the implications of math and science on computer science graduates’ employability | NSF | $300,000 | 2020-2022 | ||
| Monique Ross (PI) | Characterizing Postdoctoral Education, Mentorship, Gender, and Race in the Formation of Academic Engineers and Computer Scientists | PSU/NSF | $41,495 | 2020-2023 | ||
| Monique Ross (PI), Jasmine Batten (Fellow) | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Support | NSF | $46,883 | 2021-2022 | ||
| Monique Ross (PI) | Linking Interested Females to Technology (LIFT) | Reboot Representation Tech Coalition | $250,000 | 2021-2025 | ||
| Fahad Saeed (PI) | CAREER: Towards Fast and Scalable Algorithms for Big Proteogenomics Data Analytics | NSF | $415,950 | 2018-2022 | ||
| Fahad Saeed (PI), Shu-Ching Chen (Co-I), Francisco Fernandez-Lima (Co-I), Jason Liu (Co-I) | Multimodal Machine-Learning and High Performance Computing Strategies for Big MS Proteomics Data with Alzheimer’s & Computing Cluster supplements | NIH | $949,695 | 2020-2023 | ||
| Fahad Saeed (PI) | NSF I-Corps Utilizing Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Early Detection and Identification of Mental Disorders | NSF | $50,000 | 2021-2022 | ||
| Fahad Saeed (PI) | PFI-TT: Artificial Intelligence-enabled Real-time System for Early Epileptic Seizure Detection and Prediction | NSF | $250,000 | 2022-2024 | ||
| Mo Sha (PI) | CAREER: Advancing Network Configuration and Runtime Adaptation Methods for Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks | NSF | $171,815 | 2021-2026 | ||
| Mark Weiss (PI), Monique Ross (Co-PI) | Collaborative Research: Florida IT Pathways to Success (Flit-Path) | NSF | $1,944,118 | NSF | $1,944,118 | 2016-2022 |
| Mark Weiss (PI) | Developing a 15-Year Agenda for Computing Education Research | NSF | $79,378 | 2020-2022 | ||
| Mark Weiss (PI), Monique Ross (Co-PI), Maria Cristy Charters (Key Person), Tiana Solis (Key Person) | SCIS Center for Inclusive Computing Best Practices | Northeastern Univ. Center for Inclusive Computing | $625,000 | 2021-2023 | ||
| Mark Weiss (PI), A. Selcuk Uluagac (Co-PI), Liting Hu (Co-PI), Stephen Secules (Co-PI), Tiana Solis (Co-PI) | Collaborative Research: Florida Information Technology Graduation Attainment Pathways (Flit-GAP) | NSF | $1,898,240 | 2021-2026 | ||
| Mark Weiss (PI), Jason Liu (Co-PI), Giri Narasimhan (Co-PI), Steven Luis (Co-PI), Peter Clarke (Co-PI), Masoud Sadjadi (Co-PI) | Break Through Tech – Miami | Cornell University / Pivotal Ventures / Cognizant Foundation | $1,463,367 | 2022-2023 | ||
| Ning Xie (PI), S.S. Iyengar (Co-PI) | Graph Theoretic Approaches for Cyber Physical Security in Networks | USC/ARO | $222,855 | 2019-2022 | ||
| Ning Xie (PI) | Novel Fast Algorithms for Linear Algebra Problems | US Army XTech Search | $20,000 | 2021-2025 |