Projects


Year Project Title Funding
2021-2024 MRI: Development of a High‑Confidence Medical Cyber‑physical Research Instrument with Benchmark Security Software, NSF Division of Computer and Network Systems, Project Role: Co‑PI $ 1,134,297
2021-2022 Partnership for COVID‑19 Vaccination of Underserved Populations (VAX‑UP), Louisiana Department of Health, Project Role: Co‑PI $ 21,900,000
2021-2022 Digital Image Standards for Use with AI, Entergy, Project Role: Co‑PI $ 37,000
2021-2022 AnonyTrack: A privacy‑aware people localization and tracking within buildings with multi‑modal learning, Haltian through NSF CVDI, Project Role: PI $ 75,000
2021-2022 Improving Drowsiness and Fatigue Prediction of Drivers with Multi‑modal Representation Learning and Information Fusion: Application to Traffic Safety, TietoEvry through NSF CVDI, Project Role: PI $ 50,000
2020-2022 RAPID: Visual Analytics Approach to Real‑Time Tracking of COVID‑19, NSF Division of Computer and Network Systems, Project Role: PI $ 187,477
2020-2022 OneTConnect: A Wearable Telehealth Solution for Psychiatric Patient Care, One Telemed LLC, Project Role: PI $ 119,930
2019-2020 Visual Analytics of Online Streams at the Edge: Application To Hospital Emergency Department Operations, Schumacher Clinical Partners & Tieto through NSF CVDI, Project Role: PI $ 100,000
2019-2020 Privacy‑aware stress & activity prediction using multi‑modal sensing: Application to smart hospitals, Haltian through NSF CVDI, Project Role: PI $ 50,000
2018-2019 Emergency Department Volume & Revenue Forecasting, Schumacher Clinical Partners, Project Role: PI $ 49,725
2018-2019 Fault‑tolerance Strategies for Handling Data‑streams on Edge‑Networks: Application to Smart Buildings, Tieto through NSF CVDI, Project Role: PI $ 39,531
2018-2021 I/UCRC Phase II: Supplements for International Site and Research Experience for Undergraduates: Center for the Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI), NSF, Division of Computer and Network Systems, Project Role: Co-PI $ 40,000
2017-2018 Ontology‑based Fast Semantic Indexing for Structured and Unstructured Data in HealthCare, Schumacher Clinical Partners through NSF CVDI, Project Role: Co‑PI $ 38,000
2017-2018 An Ontology based Architecture for Providing Insights, CVDI Industry Advisory Board for NSF I/UCRC, Schumacher Clinical Partners through NSF CVDI, Project Role: PI $ 40,000
2018-2019 Automated Live Video Prioritization System for Public Safety, US Ignite, Project Role: Co-PI $ 10,000
2017-2018 Smart and Secure Energy Assessment, Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, Project Role: Co-PI $ 38,000
2017-2018 Ralph E. POWE Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, ORAU, ORAU, Project Role: Principal Investigator $ 10,000
2017-2019 Secure Information Sharing for Proactive Detection of Criminal Activities, Louisiana Board of Regents ITRS, Project Role: Co-PI $ 252,000
2017-2018 CrisisEye ‑ Smart Video‑based Information Sharing Platform for Public‑Safety, US Ignite, Project Role: Co-PI $ 10,000
2017-2018 Dynamic Video Analytics for Public Safety: A Fog Computing Approach, US Ignite, Project Role: Co-PI $ 10,000
2017-2018 Supporting US Based Students to Attend the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2017), NSF Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, Project Role: PI $ 24,000
2017-2021 I‑UCRC Phase II: Center for the Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI), NSF, Division of Computer and Network Systems, Project Role: Co-PI $ 500,000
2016-2019 Diagnostic Security Modules for the Electric Vehicle to Building Integration, Department of Energy Vehicle Technology Office / Idaho National Laboratory, Project Role: PI $ 290,000
2014-2019 Major Research Instrumentation: Development of A Distributed Visual Analytics Sandbox for High Volume Data Streams, National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems, Project Role: PI $ 515,998
2014-2018 EAGER: A Virtual Crisis Information Sharing and Situational Awareness Platform for Collaborative Disaster Response, NSF, Division of Computer and Network Systems, Project Role: PI $ 329,763
2014-2018 EAGER:Collaborative Exploration in Networked VR Environments, and Application to Remotely‑Guided Classroom, NSF, Division of Computer and Network Systems, Project Role: Co-PI $ 294,000
2014-2018 CC*IIE Networking Infrastructure: Cyber infrastructure ‑ Creation of Science DMZ at UL Lafayette), NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, Project Role: Co-PI $ 292,000
2012-2017 I/UCRC Phase I: Center for the Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI), National Science Foundation, Industrial Innovation Division ($1.72M with industrial partners’ funding), Project Role: Co-PI $ 400,000
2012-2012 Evaluation Of Unified Incident Command And Decision Support (V1.2.1) For Information Exchange Between EOC and BEOC, The National Institute For Hometown Security / Department of Homeland Security, Project Role: Principal Investigator $ 48,150
2012-2014 Visual Analytic Approaches to Mining Large Scale Time‑evolving Graphs, Industry Advisory Board sponsored through NSF CVDI, Project Role: PI $ 180,000
2014-2015 Data Management Strategy for Water Institute, Water Institute, Project Role: PI $ 45,000
2013-2015 An Information Sharing Platform for Enhanced Business Disaster Resilience, Louisiana Office of Community Development, Disaster Recovery Unit, Project Role: Co-PI $ 300,000
2012-2015 Community Education and Outreach: Hazard Mitigation, Risk Management and Disaster Analytics Assistance Governor’s Office of Homeland Security an Emergency Preparedness, Louisiana Governers Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, Project Role: Co-PI $ 1,300,000
2013-2014 iLevee: intelligent Levee Monitoring System”, funded by GeoComp Corporation/Louisiana Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration, Project Role: Key Peronnel $ 237,101