research support

Current and Past Research Funding

Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)

  • 2024-2026 – Co-PI, ARPA-H: Sprint for Women’s Health

National Science Foundation (NSF)

  • 2024-present – Senior Investigator, NSF Institute of Artificial Intelligence for Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI)
  • 2024-2025 – NSF X-AI, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (Minority Serving Institution)
  • 2023-2026 – Co-PI, NSF-DMS, “Towards Harmonic Analysis in Wasserstein Space: Low-Dimensional Structures, Learning, and Algorithms”, Award 2309519
  • 2019-2023 – Co-PI, NSF RAISE, “A Flexible Framework for Instrumented Learning Environments: Enhanced Learning Through Advanced Sensing, Processing, and Cognitive Technologies”, Award 1931978
  • 2020-2022 – Co-PI, NSF ERC Planning Grant, “Engineering Tools for Education Research (EnTER)”, Award 1937057
  • 2016-2023 – PI, NSF-CCF CAREER Award (+ REU supplements), “Advancing Multidimensional Data Science via New Algebraic Models and Scalable Algorithms”
  • 2020-2021 – NSF Tufts TRIPODS, Participant, funding for one TRIPODS RA Fellow (1 year)
  • 2014-2017 – PI, NSF-CCF, “Optimal Sampling and Recovery of Multilinear Signals and Systems”, Award 1319653

Air Force and U.S. Army

  • 2018-2023 – Co-PI, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, “Enabling Trusted Human-Like Artificial Teammates”, FA9550-18-1-0465
  • 2019-2029 – Co-PI, U.S. Army, “Applied Brain and Cognitive Science Collaborative Effort”, Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences (CABCS) and Natick Soldier Systems Center, A452001 AR9006
  • 2017-2020 – PI, U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, “Statistical Methods for Brain and Cognitive Sciences”

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

  • 2017-2020 – PI, Department of Homeland Security, Vehicle Infrared Chemical Threat ObserveR (VICTOR) System – Phase I, U.S. subcontract from Pendar Technologies

Department of Energy (DOE)

  • 2022-2026 – Co-PI, Department of Energy, Artificial Intelligence Research for High Energy Physics (DE-FOA-2705), “Improving Unfolding and Systematic Uncertainty Estimation using Generative Diffusion Networks”

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

  • 2020-2022 – PI, NIH U19 Pilot, “Analysis of epithelial cell responses to bacterial challenges using optimal transport approaches”

Industrial Funding

  • 2019-2020 – PI, Pendar Technologies, “Fast Scanning Strategies for Chemical Species Identification”
  • 2016-2017 – PI, Schlumberger-Doll Research, “Event Description Using Distributed Acoustic Sensors”
  • 2015-2016 – PI, Schlumberger-Doll Research, “Machine Learning for Geophysics”
  • 2013-2014 – PI, Schlumberger-Doll Research, “Compressive Data Acquisition for Acoustic Borehole Imaging”

International Funding

  • 2019-2021 – Co-PI, Government of India (DST and MHRD), SPARC Program, collaborative grant with IIT Bombay, India