Computer Science
Research Grants

MRI: Acquisition of a GPU-based High Performance Computing Instrumentation for Smart City Research at Cleveland State University
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Role: Zicheng Chi (Co-PI), Sathish Kumar (Co-PI)
Start/End Date: 10/01/22 - 09/30/25
Award Amount: $434,431.00

Wireless Sensing based User Identification and Privacy Preserving
Sponsor: GE Lighting
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 02/01/22 - 12/31/2022
Award Amount: $25,000.00

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CIC-Complexity Reduction of BSCS Curriculum
Sponsor: Bill and Melinda Foundation
Role: Co-PI
Start/End Date: 06/3/24 - 04/30/26

NSF Engineering Plus: Proposal for Stem Peer Program, “Modeling Tech Talent Pipelining with Teaching AI and Data Science for Minority and Female Students to Increase Diversity in Regional Stem Workforce
Sponsor: National Science Foundation: Engineering Plus
Role: Co-PI
Start/End Date: 06/1/23 - 04/30/26

Establishing a Pipeline for CS/AI to Increase the Diversity of the STEM Workforce
Sponsor: National Science Foundation Stem Engineering PLUS
Role: Co-PI
Start/End Date: 06/01/22 - 05/01/25
Award Amount: $10,000.00

Protect Privacy in a Distributed Learning Platform with a Natural Language Processing Example
Sponsor: IoT Collaborative Case Western University: Cleveland Foundation
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 11/1/18 - 10/31/19
Award Amount: $20,000.00

IoT Collaborative Pilot Grant Proposal: Protect Privacy in a Distributed Learning Platform with a Natural Language Processing Example
Sponsor: Cleveland Foundation
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 11/1/18 - 12/4/19
Award Amount: $20,000.00

University Tech Grant for Big Data Analytics Lab
Sponsor: Cleveland State University
Role: PI
Start Date: 08/02/18
Award Amount: $12,360.00

IoT Collaborative: Federated EXperimental Cyber Infrastructure Testbed (EXCIT)
Sponsor: Cleveland Foundation
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 06/17/17 - 08/31/17
Award Amount: $10,000.00

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SMART Corridor
Sponsor: Department of Transportation
Role: Co-PI
Start/End Date: 07/1/24 - 04/1/25
Award Amount: $362,966.67

Modification of the Computer Science Curriculum
Sponsor: Northeastern University
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 05/1/24 - 05/31/25
Award Amount: $350,469.00

Security Information and Event Management with "Splunk" and "Mobile Hacking and Security" Lab Material
Sponsor: Ohio Cyberrange Institute
Role: Co-PI
Start/End Date: 05/15/23 - 07/31/2024
Award Amount: $20,000.00

Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA): Federated Learning to Improve the Performance of Pre-Trained Encoders for Microscopy Image Tasks
Sponsor: Cleveland State University
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 05/15/23 - 08/18/23
Award Amount: $4,914.00

Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA): Quantum Neural Network for Cancer Detection
Sponsor: Cleveland State University
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 05/15/23 - 08/18/23
Award Amount: $4,914.00

Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA): Performance Analysis of a Redundant Controller in a Load Balanced Software Defined Networking Environment
Sponsor: Cleveland State University
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 05/15/23 - 08/18/23
Award Amount: $4,914.00

Purchase equipment to improve CSU’s cybersecurity training capabilities
Sponsor: Ohio Department of Higher Education
Role: Co-I
Start/End Date: 11/15/22 - 03/31/2025
Award Amount: $227,318.00

CSUO-NR The PIT Quantum Computing Training Pipeline
Sponsor: Public Interest Technology University Network
Role: Co-PI
Start/End Date: 11/15/22 - 04/30/24
Award Amount: $180,000.00

Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA): Quantum Support Vector Machine Approach for Detecting DDoS Attacks
Sponsor: Cleveland State University
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 06/01/22 - 08/31/22
Award Amount: $4,914.00

Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA): Graph-Based Deep Learning Techniques for Cybersecurity
Sponsor: Cleveland State University
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 06/01/22 - 08/31/22
Award Amount: $4,914.00

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for Smart Home
Sponsor: GE Lighting, A Savant Company 
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 01/1/22 - 12/31/22
Award Amount: $20,295.00

Establishing Linkage to Care
Sponsor: Center for Disease Control Grant through Cuyahoga County Board of Health
Role: Co-PI
Start/End Date: 09/1/21 - 08/31/22
Award Amount: $198,817.00

Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA): Identification of Cancerous Tissues from Histopathological Images using Deep Learning
Sponsor: Cleveland State University
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 05/15/21 - 08/31/21
Award Amount:  $4,914.00

Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace - Education (SATC-EDU): Interdisciplianry Law and Engineering Cybersecurity Framework
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Role: Co-PI
Start/End Date: 05/1/21 - 04/30/24
Award Amount:  $397,826.01

Technologies to improve Mental and Behavioral Health Service Delivery during Disasters in Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Sponsor: Cleveland State University - Center for Behavioral Health Sciences
Role: Co-PI
Start/End Date: 01/1/21 - 06/30/22
Award Amount: $5,000.00

Cuyahoga County Overdose Data to Action Initiative
Sponsor: Center for Disease Control through Cuyahoga County 
Role: Co-PI
Start/End Date: 09/1/20 - 08/31/22
Award Amount: $234,043.00

Securing Lightweight Blockchain-based Internet of Things
Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 05/18/20 - 08/7/20
Award Amount: $23,040.00

Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA): Algorithmic Fairness in Cyberbullying Detection
Sponsor: Cleveland State University
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 05/15/20 - 08/31/20
Award Amount: $4,914.00

COVID-19 Rapid Response Research Grant (CR3) Program ($2,992.5) – Cleveland State University – Project, “CR3- Investigation of Sensor and Decision Technologies to Improve Mental and Behavioral Health Crisis During COVID-19”
Sponsor: Cleveland State University 
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 05/11/20 - 12/15/20
Award Amount: $2,992.50

REU Site: Computing and Geosciences in the Coastal Carolina Region
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 08/15/16 - 12/31/19
Award Amount: $324,783.00

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Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA): Side-Channel Attacks and Countermeasures
Sponsor: Cleveland State University
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 05/15/24 - 08/31/24
Award Amount: $5,000.00

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU): TUES: Type 1: Collaborative: An Integrative Hands-on Approach to Security Education for Undergraduate Students
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Role: PI 
Start/End Date: 09/9/15 - 08/31/19
Award Amount:  $16,000.00

Enhancement of Security Education for Undergraduate and graduate Students by Fabricating Custom Boards for Hands-on Experiments
Sponsor: Center for Faculty Development and Leadership (CFD&L) of Cleveland State University
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 12/5/14 - 05/15/15
Award Amount: $4,560.00

TUES:Type1:Collaborative: An Integrative Hands-on Approach to Security Education for Undergraduate Students
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 09/11/13 - 08/31/19
Award Amount: $200,000.00

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ECEP Common Metrics Project
Sponsor: Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP)
Role: Co-PI
Start/End Date: 11/01/23 - 10/31/24
Award Amount: $10,000.00

Impact of Mobile Devices on High School Students Abilities
Sponsor: Collaborative Action Research Center 
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 03/17/23 - 10/13/23
Award Amount: $1,028.04

Expanding a Statewide Pathway for CS Teacher Certification: A Curriculum Model for Secondary Education Teacher Candidates (UA SEED)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Role: Co-PI
Start/End Date: 10/1/21 - 09/30/25
Award Amount: $978,930.00 

The Cleveland Tech Talent Pipeline (CLE TTP)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 11/1/20 - 10/31/25
Award Amount: $1,999,998.00 

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Parallel Selection Algorithms on GPGPU: Implementation and Performance Comparison
Sponsor: CSU Undergraduate Summer Research Award Program
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 05/25/15 - 08/7/15
Award Amount: $3,780.00

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SMART Corridor
Sponsor: US Department of Transportation / City of Cleveland 
Role: Co-PI
Start/End Date: 01/15/25 - 12/15/25
Amount Award: $460,000.00

Delivering Cyber Security Through the OCRI-RPC Ecosystem
Sponsor: Ohio Department of Higher Education
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 02/8/24 - 06/30/25
Amount Award:  $4,000.00

Zero-Knowledge Proof Introduction and Practices
Sponsor: University of Cincinnati / Ohio Department of Higher Education 
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 07/1/22 - 06/30/23
Amount Award: $10,000.00

Game-Based Cyber Security Education on Anonymous Communication
Sponsor: National Science Foundation SaTC: EDU
Role: Co-PI
Start/End Date: 09/1/18 - 09/1/20
Amount Award:  $295,000.00

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Computing the center of uncertain points on a cactus graph
Sponsor: Cleveland State University 
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 05/21/22 - 08/14/22
Amount Award: $5,000.00

Line-Constrained L_∞ One-Median on Uncertain Points in the Plane
Sponsor: Cleveland State University
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 05/15/21 - 08/15/21
Amount Award: $5,000.00

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CRII: CNS: A Systematic Multi-Task Learning Framework for Improving Deep Learning Efficiency on Edge Platforms
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 06/01/23 - 05/31/26
Award Amount: $174,233.00

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MRI: Acquisition of a 4G/LTE Wireless Communications Test Set
Sponsor: National Science Foundation 
Role: PI
Start/End Date: 10/1/13 - 09/30/17
Amount Award: $252,699.00

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