Funding
PIs and Co-PIs only include members of the UMass Boston Computer Science department.
Digital Marker of Marijuana Intoxication: Measure of Dysfunctional Retinal Gangli
| Source of funds | IMMAD LLC |
| PI(s) | Marc Pomplun |
| Start Date | Dec. 15, 2018 |
| End Date | March 31, 2019 |
| Amount | $36,798 |
Supporting U.S.-Based Students to Participate in the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2018)
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation |
| PI(s) | Wei Ding |
| Start Date | June 1, 2018 |
| End Date | May 31, 2020 |
| Amount | $1,000 |
Supporting U.S.-Based Students to Participate in the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2018)
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation |
| PI(s) | Wei Ding |
| Start Date | June 1, 2018 |
| End Date | May 31, 2020 |
| Amount | $24,000 |
Data-Driven Automatic Interior
| Source of funds | Wayfair LLC |
| PI(s) | Craig Yu |
| Start Date | June 1, 2018 |
| End Date | Dec 31, 2018 |
| Amount | $33,039 |
EAGER: Advanced Machine Learning Techniques to Discover Disease Subtypes in Cancer
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation |
| PI(s) | Wei Ding |
| Start Date | July 1, 2017 |
| End Date | June 30, 2020 |
| Amount | $149,881 |
EAGER: Advanced Machine Learning Techniques to Discover Disease Subtypes in Cancer
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation |
| PI(s) | Wei Ding |
| Start Date | July 1, 2017 |
| End Date | June 30, 2020 |
| Amount | $16,000 |
Additive Manufactacturing Simulator (AMS)
| Source of funds | Product Innovation and Engineering |
| PI(s) | Kenneth FLetcher |
| Start Date | April 10, 2017 |
| End Date | April 9, 2019 |
| Amount | $100,000 |
NeTS: Small: Collaborative: Towards Privacy-Preserving Autonomous Vehicle
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation](https://www.nsf.gov) |
| PI(s) | Xiaohui Liang |
| Start Date | Sept 1, 2016 |
| End Date | Aug 31, 2020 |
| Amount | $135,348 |
CRII: CHS: Perceptual Data Guided Computational Design
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation](https://www.nsf.gov) |
| PI(s) | Marc Pomplun |
| Start Date | July 1, 2016 |
| End Date | June 30, 2019 |
| Amount | $158,806 |
Participant Support - CRII: CHS: Perceptual Data Guided Computational Design
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation](https://www.nsf.gov) |
| PI(s) | Marc Pomplun |
| Start Date | July 1, 2016 |
| End Date | June 30, 2019 |
| Amount | $27,900 |
Novel Approaches for Predicting Fee-Living Physical Activities in Youth
| Source of funds | University of Tennessee |
| PI(s) | Wei Ding |
| Start Date | June 6, 2016 |
| End Date | March 31, 2019 |
| Amount | $442,612 |
Women in Science: Extension Services for Undergraduate Services/Strategic Plan for Recruitment
| Source of funds | Stevens Institue of Technology |
| PI(s) | Wei Ding |
| Start Date | Jan. 14, 2016 |
| End Date | Jan. 13, 2017 |
| Amount | $8,000 |
NeTS: Small: New models and techniques for efficient communication in smartphone ad-hoc networks
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation](https://www.nsf.gov) |
| PI(s) | Bo Sheng |
| Start Date | Oct. 1, 2015 |
| End Date | Sept. 30, 2019 |
| Amount | $8,000 |
NeTS: Small: New models and techniques for efficient communication in smartphone ad-hoc networks
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation](https://www.nsf.gov) |
| PI(s) | Bo Sheng |
| Start Date | Oct. 1, 2015 |
| End Date | Sept. 30, 2019 |
| Amount | $199,998 |
SaTC: EDU: Capacity Building in Security, Privacy and Trust for Geospatial Applications
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation](https://www.nsf.gov) |
| PI(s) | Gabriel Ghinita |
| Start Date | Sept. 15, 2015 |
| End Date | Aug. 31, 2018 |
| Amount | $237,783 |
Leveraging Expertise in Neurotechnologies to Study Individual Differences
| Source of funds | University of Florida |
| PI(s) | Matthew Schneps |
| Start Date | Sept. 15, 2015 |
| End Date | Aug. 31, 2018 |
| Amount | $250,000 |
EAGER: Harnessing Dependency to Achieve Efficient Resource Management in Scalable Multi-stage Data Processing Systems
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation](https://www.nsf.gov) |
| PI(s) | Bo Sheng |
| Start Date | Sept. 1, 2015 |
| End Date | Dec. 31, 2017 |
| Amount | $124,998 |
EAGER: Harnessing Dependency to Achieve Efficient Resource Management in Scalable Multi-stage Data Processing Systems
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation](https://www.nsf.gov) |
| PI(s) | Bo Sheng |
| Start Date | Sept. 1, 2015 |
| End Date | Dec. 31, 2017 |
| Amount | $16,998 |
A Virtual Reality Platform for Visual Attention Research
| Source of funds | UMass Boston Healey Grant |
| PI(s) | Marc Pomplun Craig Yu |
| Start Date | July. 1, 2015 |
| End Date | June. 30, 2016 |
| Amount | $11,599 |
Software-Defined Privacy-Preserving Network Measurement Instrument
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation](https://www.nsf.gov) |
| PI(s) | Gabriel Ghinita |
| Start Date | April. 1, 2015 |
| End Date | March. 31, 2019 |
| Amount | $416,574 |
Privacy-Preserving Protocols for Network Measurement to Support Data-Driven Science Discovery
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation](https://www.nsf.gov) |
| PI(s) | Gabriel Ghinita |
| Start Date | March. 31, 2015 |
| End Date | March. 31, 2018 |
| Amount | $416,574 |
Towards Context-Sensitive Forecasting
| Source of funds | Ford Motor Company |
| PI(s) | Ming Ouyang |
| Start Date | Jan. 1, 2015 |
| End Date | Dec. 31, 2015 |
| Amount | $10,000 |
Advanced Data Mining to Discover Disease Subtypes in Cancer
| Source of funds | Dana Farber Cancer Institute |
| PI(s) | Wei Ding Craig Yu |
| Start Date | Dec. 1, 2014 |
| Amount | $91,000 |
Computational Assessment of Landing Performance
| Source of funds | Federal Aviation Administration] |
| PI(s) | Ming Ouyang Craig Yu |
| Start Date | Aug. 1, 2014 |
| End Date | Oct. 31, 2015 |
| Amount | $122,467 |
A Prototypical Ontology-supported Intelligent Geospatial Feature Discovery System
| Source of funds | [George Mason University]] |
| PI(s) | Wei Ding Craig Yu |
| Start Date | July. 27, 2014 |
| End Date | July. 26, 2015 |
| Amount | $61,521 |
Computational Framework for Characterizing Protein Conformational Landscapes
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation |
| PI(s) | Nirut Haspel |
| Start Date | July 1, 2014 |
| End Date | June 30, 2018 |
| Amount | $320,000 |
Video Categorization Using Spatio-Temporal Pattern Features w/ Ensemble Learning
| Source of funds | TCL Research America |
| PI(s) | Wei Ding |
| Start Date | June 1, 2014 |
| End Date | Aug, 31, 2020 |
| Amount | $87,500 |
Analysis of the Wet Chemistry Data from the Phoenix Mission
| Source of funds | National Aero and Space Administration |
| PI(s) | Wei Ding |
| Start Date | July 1, 2013 |
| End Date | May 31, 2016 |
| Amount | $305,268 |
A Prototypical Ontology-supporA Prototypical Ontology-supported Intelligent Geospatial Feature Discovery System
| Source of funds | George Mason University |
| PI(s) | Kenneth Fletcher |
| Start Date | Sept 2, 2012 |
| End Date | July 26, 2015 |
| Amount | $59,752 |
Developing Novel Computational Methods for Investigating Protein Dynamics Using a Multi-Scale Approach
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation](https://www.nsf.gov) |
| PI(s) | Nirut Haspel |
| Start Date | Sept. 1, 2011 |
| End Date | Aug. 31, 2014 |
| Amount | $249,774 |
Investigating a Framework for STEM-Reading to Support Secondary School Students
| Source of funds | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| PI(s) | Marc Pomplun |
| Start Date | Sept. 1, 2011 |
| End Date | Aug. 31, 2014 |
| Amount | $9,000 |
NeTS: Small: Target Monitoring with Low-Cost Sensor Networks
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation |
| PI(s) | Duc Tran |
| Start Date | Sept. 1, 2011 |
| End Date | Aug. 31, 2014 |
| Amount | $383,887 |
Privacy Enhanced Secure Data Provenance
| Source of funds | Purdue University |
| PI(s) | Gabriel Ghinita |
| Start Date | Aug. 1, 2011 |
| End Date | July 31, 2016 |
| Amount | $186,500 |
Electronics for Education Grant
| Source of funds | Enterasys, a Siemens Enterprise Communications Company |
| PI(s) | Bill Campbell, Ron Chueng, Duc Tran |
| Start Date | April 4, 2011 |
| Amount | $40,000 |
Consortium on Anytime-Anywhere-Anyway (AAA) Transportation Information
| Source of funds | UMass Presidents 2010 Science & Technology (S&T Initiatives) |
| PI(s) | Wei Ding |
| Start Date | Dec. 1, 2010 |
| End Date | Nov. 30, 2011 |
| Amount | $100,000 |
Establishment of the Northeast Coastal Watershed Geospatial Data Network
| Source of funds | Department of Energy |
| PI(s) | Wei Ding |
| Start Date | Sept. 15, 2010 |
| End Date | Sept. 15, 2011 |
| Amount | $291,600 |
Outreach: Crater Seeker for Mars and Beyond
| Source of funds | Supplemental Outreach Awards for ROSES Investigators (OUTREACH) Program |
| PI(s) | Wei Ding |
| Start Date | Sept. 1, 2010 |
| End Date | Aug. 31, 2014 |
| Amount | $80,000 |
Towards Rational Design of Amyloid-based Peptides to Self-assemble into Ordered Nano- or Micro-structures with Distinct Morphology
| Source of funds | UMass Boston Proposal Preparation Grant Program |
| PI(s) | Nirut Haspel |
| Start Date | July 1, 2010 |
| End Date | Dec. 31, 2011 |
| Amount | $10,000 |
Identification and Characterization of Biologically Active Metabolic Fragments of Pituitary Hormones: Has an Entire Area of Cell Signaling Been Missed?
| Source of funds | UMass Boston Healey Grant |
| PI(s) | Nirut Haspel |
| Start Date | July 1, 2010 |
| End Date | June 30, 2011 |
| Amount | $12,000 |
The Remapping of Visual-Perceptual Space by Saccadic Adaptation
| Source of funds | National Institute of Health |
| PI(s) | Marc Pomplun |
| Start Date | April 1, 2010 |
| End Date | March 31, 2012 |
| Amount | $279,645 |
A Generic and Extensible Model Transformation Framework (the 16th phase)
| Source of funds | OGIS Interantional, Inc. |
| PI(s) | Jun Suzuki |
| Start Date | Oct 1, 2009 |
| End Date | March 31, 2015 |
| Amount | $10,645 |
Automatic Detection of Sub-Kilometer Craters in High Resolution Planetary Images
| Source of funds | NASA |
| PI(s) | Wei Dinf |
| Start Date | Sept. 1, 2009 |
| End Date | Aug 31, 2012 |
| Amount | $285,163 |
Common Sense: Quantitative Reasoning in the Undergraduate Curriculum
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation |
| PI(s) | Ethan Bolker |
| Start Date | Jan. 5, 2009 |
| End Date | Dec 30, 2010 |
| Amount | $190,813 |
A Generic and Extensible Model Transformation Framework
| Source of funds | OGIS International |
| PI(s) | [Jun Suzuki(put link here) |
| Start Date | Oct. 1, 2007 |
| End Date | Sept. 30, 2008 |
| Amount | $20,000 |
A General Model for Saccadic Selectivity in Visual Search
| Source of funds | National Eye Institute |
| PI(s) | [Marc Pomplun(put link here) |
| Start Date | Sept. 1, 2007 |
| End Date | Aug. 30, 2009 |
| Amount | $207,810 |
A Biologically-inspired Autonomic Architecture for Self-Managing Wireless Sensor Networks
| Source of funds | UMass Boston Proposal Preparation Grant |
| PI(s) | [Jun Suzuki(put link here) |
| Start Date | April. 1, 2007 |
| End Date | March. 31, 2008 |
| Amount | $6,754 |
A Generic and Extensible Model Transformation Framework
| Source of funds | OGIS International, Inc. |
| PI(s) | [Jun Suzuki(put link here) |
| Start Date | Oct. 1, 2006 |
| End Date | Sept. 31, 2007 |
| Amount | $25,000 |
CSR-PDOS: A Scalable and Self-Organizing System Architecture for Fast and Efficient Information Retrieval in Large-Scale Decentralized Networks
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation |
| PI(s) | [Duc Tran(put link here) |
| Start Date | Sept. 1, 2006 |
| End Date | Aug. 31, 2009 |
| Amount | $225,000 |
Support for Doctoral Students
| Source of funds | Vertica Corportaion |
| Start Date | June 1, 2006 |
| Amount | $165,000 |
A Software Plug-and-Play Framework for Next Generation Power Delivery Systems
| Source of funds | Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry |
| PI(s) | [Jun Suzuki(put link here) |
| Start Date | June 1, 2006 |
| End Date | March. 31, 2007 |
| Amount | $47,571 |
A Generic and Extensible Model Transformation Framework
| Source of funds | OGIS International, Inc. |
| PI(s) | [Jun Suzuki(put link here) |
| Start Date | April 1, 2005 |
| End Date | Sept. 30, 2006 |
| Amount | $20,000 |
SEI(BIO)+II: Metadata-Rich Image Databases for Biodiversity
| Source of funds | National SCience Foundation |
| PI(s) | [Robert Morris(put link here) |
| Start Date | Oct 1, 2004 |
| End Date | Sept. 30, 2007 |
| Amount | $300,000 |
DBI Electronic Field Guides: Building Partnerships and Informatics Tools for Species Identification and Biodiversity Monitoring
| Source of funds | National SCience Foundation |
| PI(s) | [Robert Morris(put link here) |
| Start Date | Sept. 1, 2004 |
| End Date | Aug. 31, 2007 |
| Amount | $1,090,000 |
Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need
| Source of funds | Department of Education |
| PI(s) | [Peter Fejer(put link here) |
| Start Date | Aug. 15, 2004 |
| End Date | Aug. 15, 2009 |
| Amount | $413,880 |
Developing a New Infrastructure for Dynamic Access to Multi-institutional Biodiversity Data
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation |
| PI(s) | [Rober Morris(put link here) |
| Start Date | Feb. 1, 2004 |
| End Date | April. 30, 2007 |
| Amount | $202,209 |
Model-Driven Development of Autonomous Adaptive Network Applications
| Source of funds | Electric Power Development Co., Ltd., Japan |
| PI(s) | Jun Suzuki |
| Start Date | Jan. 1, 2004 |
| Amount | $13,000 |
Collaborative Research: Development of New Digital Library Applications in the Context of a Basic Ontology for Biosystematics Information Using the Literature of Entomology (ants)
| Source of funds | The American Museum of National History |
| PI(s) | [Robert Morris(put link here) |
| Start Date | Dec. 1, 2003 |
| End Date | Nov. 30, 2006 |
| Amount | $110,060 |
Implementation of EyeLink Programming Interfaces to Presentation and E-Prime Applications
| Source of funds | SR Research, Toronto, Canada |
| PI(s) | [Marc Pomplun(put link here) |
| Start Date | Aug. 1, 2003 |
| End Date | Aug. 31, 2004 |
| Amount | $13,200 |
Electronic Field Guides for Auditory Neuroscience
| Source of funds | Boston University |
| PI(s) | [Marc Pomplun(put link here) |
| Start Date | Jan. 1, 2002 |
| End Date | Aug. 31, 2006 |
| Amount | $173,242 |
Electronic Field Guide: Leveraging Biodiversity Data with the web and Mobile Tools
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation |
| PI(s) | Robert Morris |
| Start Date | Sept. 1, 2001 |
| End Date | July 31, 2004 |
| Amount | $621,910 |
Biodiversity Data Discovery and Integration
| Source of funds | Information Technology Research Grant (ITR) |
| PI(s) | Robert Morris |
| Start Date | Sept. 1, 2001 |
| End Date | July 31, 2004 |
| Amount | $621,910 |
The Isolation Testing Project
| Source of funds | National Science Foundation |
| PI(s) | Elizabeth O’neil, Patrick O’neil](put link here) |
| Start Date | Sept. 1, 1997 |
| End Date | Aug 31, 2004 |
| Amount | $360,000 |