Grants:

  • Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), U.S. Department of Energy. Project title: MicroCam: A Low Power and Privacy Preserving Multi-Modal Platform for Occupancy Detection. Principal Investigator. $1,200,000 for the period 5/15/2018 - 5/14/2021.
  • Department of Energy - Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies (BENEFIT). Project title: Aerial Intelligence for Retrofit Building Energy Modeling (AirBEM). Principal Investigator at Syracuse University with PI Tarek Rakha at Georgia Tech. $349,974 for the period 8/1/2019 - 7/31/2022.
  • Department of Transportation. Project title: Deep Insight - Deep-Net Driven Approach to Estimate Driver State in Naturalistic Data. Principal Investigator at Syracuse University with PI Anuj Sharma at Iowa State. $257,317 for the period 8/20/19 – 8/19/2022.
  • National Science Foundation, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. Project title: CHS: Small: Improved Cross-Subject Cognitive and Emotional State Classification Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Data for Deep Learning. Co-PI with L. Hirshfield (PI) and Michael Kalish (Co-PI). $494,374 for the period 08/15/2018 - 7/31/2021.
  • National Science Foundation, Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR). Project title: "SBIR Phase I: Autonomous, Reliable and Advanced Perceptive Navigation of Drones for Precise Asset Inspection", Principal Investigator at SU, joint project with AutoModality. $74,783 for the period 01/01/2018 - 12/31/2018.
  • National Science Foundation, CAREER Award, Division of Computer and Network Systems. Project title: CAREER: Smart Cameras Getting Smarter: Detecting High-level Events Across Battery-powered Wireless Embedded Smart Cameras. $400,000 for the period 8/6/2011 -12/31/2017.
  • National Science Foundation, Division of Computer and Network Systems. Project title: CSR: Medium: Collaborative Research: Self-Coordination in Cooperative Smart Camera Networks Incorporating System-On-Chip Reconfiguration. Principal Investigator at SU. $340,766 for the period 10/01/2013 - 12/31/2017.
  • Syracuse University, Collaboration for Unprecedented Success and Excellence (CUSE) Grant. Project title: SWAM: A Smart Wearable Assistance and Monitoring System. Principal Investigator. $29,985 for the peroid 5/1/2018 - 4/30/2020.
  • Syracuse University, Collaboration for Unprecedented Success and Excellence (CUSE) Grant. Project title: Content Delivery over Wireless Device-to-Device (D2D) Networks: From Optimization to Machine Learning. Co-PI (with PI M. Cenk Gursoy). $29,998 for the peroid 5/1/2018 - 4/30/2020.
  • Syracuse University, Collaboration for Unprecedented Success and Excellence (CUSE) Grant. Project title: Safe and Secure Computer-Vision Based Building Performance Inspection Using Drones. Co-PI (with PI T. Rakha). $30,000 for the peroid 5/1/2018 - 4/30/2020.
  • Syracuse University, Campus as Laboratory for Sustainability (CALS) Award. Project title: South Campus as a Lab for Building Envelope Diagnostics using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). Co-PI with PI Tarek Rakha. $24,739 for Summer 2017 and Fall 2017.
  • Phase 1 of Upstate Revitalization Initiative, New York State Department of Economic Development, Gryphon Sensors, LLC. Project title: Towards Fully Onboard Autonomy for Unmanned Vehicles in GPS-denied Environments. Co-PI with PI A. Sanyal. $39,823 for the period 10/24/2016 - 3/31/2017.
  • Phase 1 of Upstate Revitalization Initiative, New York State Department of Economic Development, Gryphon Sensors, LLC. Project title: Building Envelope Energy Performance and Privacy Diagnostics using Unmanned Aerial Systems. Co-PI with PI T. Rakha. $43,162 for the period 10/24/2016 - 3/31/2017.
  • National Science Foundation, Division of Computer and Network Systems. Grant no: CNS - 0834753. Project title: CSR-DMSS,SM: Cooperative Activity Analysis in Wireless Smart-Camera Networks (Wi-SCaNs). Principal Investigator (with co-PI M. C. Gursoy). $300,000 for the period 9/1/2008 -8/31/2011.

  • National Science Foundation, Division of Computer and Communication Foundations. Grant no: CCF - 0917265. Project title: CIF: Small: Energy Efficiency in Wireless Communications under Queueing Constraints. Co-Principal Investigator (with PI M. C. Gursoy). $335,856 for the period 9/1/2009 -8/31/2012.

  • EPSCoR First Award. Project Title: Peer-to-peer Detection of User-defined and Semantically High-level Events Spanning Multiple Camera Views. Principal Investigator. $19,970 for the period 5/18/2009 - 5/17/2010.

  • Mid-America Transportation Center. Project Title: Effect of Freeway Level of Service and Driver Education on Truck Driver's Stress - Phase 1. Co-Principal Investigator (with PI Anuj Sharma). $61,662 for the period 08/01/2009 - 03/01/2012.

  • Layman Award, Layman Funds. University of Nebraska Internal Grant. Project title: Driver and Passenger Stress Sensing and Modeling to Improve Traffic Signal Control Strategies. Co-Principal Investigator (with PI Anuj Sharma). $10,000 for the period 06/1/2009 - 5/31/2010.

  • Layman Award, Layman Funds. University of Nebraska Internal Grant. Project title: Peer-to-peer Object Tracking and Event Detection in Wireless Vision Sensor Networks. Principal Investigator. $10,000 for the period 6/1/2007 - 5/31/2008.