Grants and Funding

Current Grants

A Multi-Language Environment for Programmable Code Optimization and Empirical Tuning
Sponsor: DOE - Department of Energy
Grant: DE-SC0001770
Period: 09/14/09 – 09/14/10
Amount: $118,869.00
PI: Yi, Qing
Co-PI: Whaley, R. Clint

Computational Discovery and Analysis of Community Structures in Biology Networks - ARRA Award - Supplemental Funding
Sponsor: NIH - National Institute of Health
Grant: 3 SC3GM086305-01S1
Period: 9-30-09 – 8-31-11
Amount: $124,117.00
PI: Ruan, Jianhua

EAGER: Code-Improving Transformations for Branch Prediction
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CCF-0952604
Period: 09/15/09 – 02/28/11
Amount: $100,000.00
PI: Jimenez, Daniel A.

A combined biochemical, molecular and computational approach to understanding the regulation of gibberellin biosynthesis
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: IOS-0848135
Period: 09/01/09 – 08/31/10
Amount: $150,000.00
PI: Sponsel, Valerie
Co-PI: Sunter, Gary
Co-PI: Ruan, Jianhua

II-NEW: Enhanced Parallelization for High Performance Computing
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CNS-0855247
Period: 08/01/09 – 07/31/12
Amount: $227,178.00
PI: Psarris, Kleanthis
Co-PI: Tosun, Ali S.
Co-PI: Zhu, Dakai
Co-PI: Yi, Qing

Research for Undergraduate (REU) supplemental funding request for CAREER: Multilayer Code Synthesis for Correctness and Performance
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CCF-0747357
Period: 08/01/09 – 07/31/13
Amount: $16,000.00
PI: Yi, Qing

Research for Undergraduate (REU) supplemental funding request for CAREER: Application and Theory of Geometric Shape Handling
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CCF-0643597
Period: 08/01/09 – 02/28/10
Amount: $8,000
PI: Wenk, Carola

CAREER: Contingent Static Analysis for Dynamically Composed Systems
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CCF-0846010
Period: 07/01/09 – 06/30/14
Amount: $425,000.00
PI: von Ronne, Jeffery

Research for Undergraduate (REU) supplemental funding request for High Throughput I/O for Large Scale Data Repositories
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CCF-0702728
Period: 02/11/09 – 03/30/10
Amount: $6,000.00
PI: Tosun, Ali S.

Computational Discovery and Analysis of Community Structures in Biology Networks
Sponsor: NIH - National Institute of Health
Grant: 1 SC3 GM086305-01
Period: 01/01/09 – 12/31/12
Amount: $433,500.00
PI: Ruan, Jianhua

Teaching Computing to Biologists through Data Visualization
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: DUE-0837248
Period: 12/15/08 – 11/30/11
Amount: $146,646.00
PI: Robbins, Kay A.
Co-PI: Senseman, David
Co-PI: Pate, Priscilla

Formal Analysis of Secure Information Sharing
Sponsor: Faculty Research Award
Period: 11/21/08 – 08/31/09
Amount: $22,000.00
PI: Niu, Jianwei

Modeling Cyber Attacks
Sponsor: Faculty Research Award
Period: 11/21/08 – 08/31/09
Amount: $22,000.00
PI: Xu, Shouhuai

Prioritization-based QoS Support with Attack Resilience in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Sponsor: Department of Defense
Grant: W911NF-08-1-0507
Period: 09/23/08 – 09/22/11
Amount: $587,872
PI: Korkmaz, Turgay

Programmable Code Optimization and Empirical Tuning For High-end Computing
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CCF-0833203
Period: 09/01/08 – 08/31/11
Amount: $462,000
PI: Yi, Qing
Co-PI: Whaley, R. Clint
Co-PI: Quinlan, Daniel

Community Information Assurance Programs
Sponsor: Department of Homeland Security
Period: 09/01/08 – 03/31/10
Amount: $4,000,000
PI: White, Gregory B.

Attack and Defend Exercises
Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory
Period: 09/01/08 – 09/01/09
Amount: $2,950,000
PI: White, Gregory B.

CAREER: Multilayer Code Synthesis for Correctness and Performance
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CCF-0747357
Period: 08/01/08 – 07/31/13
Amount: $399,953
PI: Yi, Qing

A Framework for Managing the Assured Information Sharing Lifecycle
Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)
Period: 07/01/08 – 06/30/13
Amount: $1,000,000
PI: Sandhu, Ravi
Co-PI: Xu, Shouhuai

Baby Face Crawler
Sponsor: Media Understanding Laboratory, HP Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
Period: 07/01/08 – Present
Amount: $1,000
PI: Tian, Qi

Research and Development of Wireless Network Protocols
Sponsor: Crane Wireless Monitoring Solutions, Crane Co.
Period: 06/01/08 – 05/31/09
Amount: $69,585
PI: Boppana, Rajendra V.

CRI: IAD Resources for Branch Prediction Research
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CNS-0751138
Period: 06/01/08 – 05/31/09
Amount: $233,730
PI: Jimenez, Daniel A.

Formal Methods in Security Policy Design and Analysis
Sponsor: ARP - Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Grant: ARP-010115-0037-2007
Period: 05/14/08 – 05/14/10
Amount: $145,999
PI: Niu, Jianwei
Co-PI: Winsborough, William H.

Research Experience for Undergraduates supplemental funding request for CNS-0551504
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CNS-0551504
Period: 04/22/08 – 02/28/09
Amount: $12,000
PI: Whaley, R. Clint
Co-PI: Yi, Qing

Program Analysis & Optimization for the Empirical Tuning of Scientific Applications
Sponsor: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Grant: Subctr #B574748
Period: 04/01/08 – 03/31/09
Amount: $51,710
PI: Yi, Qing
Co-PI: Quinlan, Daniel

Systems Research Mentoring Workshop
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CCF-0829760
Period: 04/01/08 – 03/31/09
Amount: $25,000
PI: Cavazos, John
Co-PI: Pollock, Lori
Co-PI: Jimenez, Daniel A.

Research for Undergraduate (REU) supplemental funding request for CAREER: Application and Theory of Geometric Shape Handling
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CCF-0643597
Period: 03/01/08 – 02/28/09
Amount: $12,000
PI: Wenk, Carola

Graph-theory Approaches to Knowledge Discovery from Gene Expression Microarray Data
Sponsor: Faculty Research Award
Period: 12/01/07 – 08/31/08
Amount: $5,000
PI: Ruan, Jianhua

Collaborative Research: CSR-EHS: Towards an Integrated Framework for Low-Power Reliable Real-Time Embedded Systems
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CNS-0720651
Period: 08/01/07 – 07/31/10
Amount: $179,983
PI: Zhu, Dakai

CT-ISG: Collaborative Research: A Framework For The Modeling and Management of Obligations in Security Policies
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CNS-0716750
Period: 08/01/07 – 07/31/09
Amount: $120,000
PI: Winsborough, William H.

Collaborative Research: Flow-Sensitive Program Analysis for Speculative Parallelization
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CCF-0702527
Period: 05/01/07 – 04/30/10
Amount: $200,000
PI: Psarris, Kleanthis

High Throughput I/O for Large Scale Data Repositories
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CCF-0702728
Period: 05/01/07 – 04/30/10
Amount: $299,926
PI: Tosun, Ali S.

Gift to Support ATLAS Research
Sponsor: SICortex Research Gift
Period: 04/01/07 – Present
Amount: $10,000
PI: Whaley, R. Clint

CAREER: Application and Theory of Geometric Shape Handling
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CCF-0643597
Period: 03/01/07 – 02/28/12
Amount: $400,468
PI: Wenk, Carola

Multi-modal Information Access and Synthesis Center (MIAS)
Sponsor: Department of Homeland Security
Grant: N0014-07-1-0151
Period: 12/01/06 – 11/30/09
Amount: $240,000
PI: Roth, Dan
Co-PI: Chang, Devin Chen-Chuan
Co-PI: Doan, Anhai
Co-PI: Forsyth, David
Co-PI: Tian, Qi
Comments: Total grant amount $2,400,000. Additional Co-Pis: Han, Jiawei; Heeren, Cinda; Hsu, William H.; Pitt, Lenny; Zhai, Changxiang

Development of Community Cyber Security Training Courses
Sponsor: Department of Homeland Security
Period: 10/01/06 – 09/01/09
Amount: $3,100,000
PI: White, Gregory B.

ATLAS: Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software
Sponsor: Department of Defense Maryland Procurement
Grant: H98230-06-C-0443
Period: 07/31/06 – 07/31/10
Amount: $790,446
PI: Whaley, R. Clint

CRI: Experimental Research in High-Performance Computing and Wireless Networking
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CNS-0551501
Period: 06/01/06 – 05/31/09
Amount: $500,317
PI: Raju, G.V.S.
Co-PI: Boppana, Rajendra V.
Co-PI: Korkmaz, Turgay

Collaborative Research: Design and Analysis of High-Performance, Energy-Efficient, and Secure Clusters
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CCF-0541384
Period: 04/01/06 – 03/31/09
Amount: $60,000
PI: Yum, Ki Hwan

CAREER: Branch Prediction
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CCF-0545898
Period: 04/01/06 – 03/31/11
Amount: $400,000
PI: Jimenez, Daniel A.

CRI: ATLAS Support and Development
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CNS-0551504
Period: 03/01/06 – 02/28/09
Amount: $100,000
PI: Whaley, R. Clint

Self-Supervised Learning and Information Fusion for Multimodal Systems
Sponsor: Army Research Office
Grant: W911NF-05-1-0404
Period: 08/01/05 – 07/31/09
Amount: $282,536
PI: Tian, Qi

RCMI Center Grant Computational Biology/Bioinformatics Core
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Grant: 2 G12RR013646-06A1
Period: 08/01/04 – 07/31/09
Amount: $1,166,391
PI: Bower, James
Co-PI: Robbins, Kay A.
Co-PI: Wang, Yufeng

Structural Visualization for Bioinformatics
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Grant: 2 G12RR013646-06A1
Period: 07/01/04 – 08/31/09
Amount: $900,545
PI: Robbins, Kay A.

Urban Planning with Multi-Disciplinary Competing Objectives
Sponsor: Brigham Young University through the NSF - National Science Foundation
Amount: $72,100
PI: Winsborough, William H.

Past Grants

Exploiting Chip-Multiprocessors (CMPs) in Real-Time Embedded Systems
Sponsor: Faculty Research Award
Period: 12/01/07 – 08/31/08
Amount: $5,000
PI: Zhu, Dakai

CT-T: Flexible, Decentralized Information-Flow Control for Dynamic Environments
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CCF-0629996
Period: 07/01/06 – 08/31/08
Amount: $242,945
PI: Winsborough, William H.

ITR: Automated Trust Negotiation in Open Systems
Sponsor: Brigham Young University (as part of a National Science Foundation grant)
Grant: 06-0154 (NSF Grant Number CNS-0325951)
Period: 01/01/06 – 08/31/08
Amount: $100,660
PI: Winsborough, William H.

Collaborative Research: CT-ISG: Secure Knowledge Management: Models and Mechanisms
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: IIS-0524612
Period: 09/01/05 – 08/31/08
Amount: $300,000
PI: Xu, Shouhuai
Co-PI: Zhang, Weining

Developing Computer Science Career Paths
Sponsor: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Grant: Technology Workforce Development Program
Period: 05/01/05 – 08/31/08
Amount: $280,187
PI: Psarris, Kleanthis
Co-PI: Robbins, Kay A.

Computationally Efficient Methods for Power Control in Wireless Systems
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CCF-0312323
Period: 08/01/03 – 07/31/08
Amount: $150,000
PI: Chronopoulos, Anthony T.
Co-PI: Popescu, Dimitrie

Scenario-Based Model-Driven Engineering Framework
Sponsor: Microsoft Inc.
Grant: VSX
Period: 07/01/07 – 07/01/08
Amount: $15,000
PI: Niu, Jianwei

Research and Development of Wireless Networking Protocols
Sponsor: Signal Technology Corporation
Grant: PO# D138136
Period: 06/01/07 – 05/31/08
Amount: $67,616
PI: Boppana, Rajendra V.

Developing New Spot Detection Algorithms for 2-Dimensional Gel Electrophoresis Image Analysis
Sponsor: UTSA RCMI Center
Period: 09/01/06 – 05/31/08
Amount: $10,000
PI: Wenk, Carola
Co-PI: Weintraub, Susan T.

SuE: A Framework for Survivable Tactical Information Systems
Sponsor: Army Research Office
Period: 04/01/05 – 01/31/08
Amount: $260,000
PI: Xu, Shouhuai

Monitoring Support for Intrusion Detection
Sponsor: The Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security
Period: 01/01/07 – 12/31/07
Amount: $85,000
PI: Tosun, Ali S.

Integrated QoS and Security Mechanisms to Support Mission Critical Applications in MANETs
Sponsor: Center for Information Assurance and Security
Period: 12/01/06 – 12/01/07
Amount: $78,291
PI: Korkmaz, Turgay

Conducting Attack and Defend Exercises
Sponsor: Department of Defense, Air Force Research Laboratory
Grant: F30602-02-1-0001
Period: 10/01/05 – 09/30/07
Amount: $2,100,000
PI: White, Gregory B.

Support for the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security
Sponsor: Department of Defense, Air Force Research Laboratory
Grant: F30602-02-1-0001
Period: 10/01/05 – 09/30/07
Amount: $1,000,000
PI: White, Gregory B.

Community Cyber Exercise Training Program
Sponsor: Department of homeland Security
Period: 10/01/05 – 09/01/07
Amount: $1,000,000
PI: White, Gregory B.

Self-Supervised Learning for High-Throughput Data for Multimodal Systems
Sponsor: San Antonio Life Sciences Institute
Period: 09/01/05 – 08/31/07
Amount: $85,657
PI: Tian, Qi
Comments: Only UTSA portion. Total amount $118157. UTHSCSA PI Feng Liu.

Map-Matching and Reactive Routing Algorithms for Traffic
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CCF-0628809
Period: 06/01/06 – 05/31/07
Amount: $25,480
PI: Wenk, Carola

Building Strategic Pathways to the Baccalaureate Degree in Computer Science
Sponsor: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Grant: Technology Workforce Development Program
Period: 03/01/02 – 03/01/07
Amount: $487,102
PI: Psarris, Kleanthis
Co-PI: Robbins, Kay A.

Semantics-driven Optimization of Scientific Applications
Sponsor: University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Grant: B555671
Period: 01/01/06 – 12/31/06
Amount: $60,110
PI: Yi, Qing

Cellular Basis of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Sponsor: San Antonio Life Sciences Institute
Period: 01/01/04 – 12/31/06
Amount: $83,397
PI: Senseman, David M.
Co-PI: Robbins, Kay A.
Comments: Only UTSA portion; UTHSCSA PI David Senseman and Co-PI James Bower.

Support for the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security
Sponsor: Department of Defense, Air Force Research Laboratory
Grant: F30602-02-1-0001
Period: 10/01/04 – 09/30/06
Amount: $1,800,000
PI: White, Gregory B.

Training Materials for Conducting Cyber Terrorism Exercises
Sponsor: Department of Homeland Security
Grant: 2004-GT-T4-K002
Period: 10/01/04 – 09/30/06
PI: White, Gregory B.

CRCNS: Collaborative Research: How is Information Coded in Turtle Visual Cortex?
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: EIA-0217884
Period: 01/01/02 – 09/30/06
Amount: $181,274
PI: Robbins, Kay A.
Co-PI: Senseman, David M.

HPNC: Internet 2 Connectivity for UTHSCSA and UTSA
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: ANI-0228927
Period: 09/01/02 – 08/31/06
Amount: $75,000
PI: Boppana, Rajendra V.
Co-PI: Korkmaz, Turgay
Comments: Only UTSA portion. Overall grant amount $150,000 with PI Borries Demeler from UTHSCSA.

Research Experience for Minority Students in High-Performance Computing and Communications
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: EIA-0117255
Period: 09/01/01 – 08/31/06
Amount: $1,499,877
PI: Psarris, Kleanthis
Co-PI: Boppana, Rajendra V.

Power-efficient Mechanisms for Detecting Replay-based Intruders in Wireless ad hoc Networks
Sponsor: The Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security
Period: 06/01/04 – 08/01/06
Amount: $55,792
PI: Korkmaz, Turgay

Foundation of Multiple Classifier Systems and Active Learning
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: CCR-0208935
Period: 06/01/02 – 05/31/06
Amount: $207,658
PI: Kwek, Stephen

Privacy-preserving Database Operations
Sponsor: The Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security
Period: 06/01/03 – 12/31/05
Amount: $45,587
PI: Tosun, Ali S.

High Performance Network Intrusion Detection
Sponsor: The Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security
Period: 01/01/04 – 12/31/05
Amount: $92,940
PI: Lo, Chia-Tien Dan

Learning Semantic Content for Image Indexing
Sponsor: The Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security
Period: 01/01/04 – 12/31/05
Amount: $58,567
PI: Tian, Qi

Hiding Information from Machines
Sponsor: The Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security
Period: 01/01/04 – 12/31/05
Amount: $16,000
PI: Wagner, Neal R.
Comments: Plus additional amount for student support.

Design and Analysis of Embedded Software Solutions in Wireless Environments
Sponsor: Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Grant: TEES 25701
Period: 05/01/05 – 12/01/05
Amount: $30,000
PI: Yum, Ki Hwan

Improving Bayesian Filtering for Spam Detection
Sponsor: The Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security
Period: 07/01/04 – 06/30/05
Amount: $68,946
PI: Bylander, Thomas

Countering Malicious and Fast-Spreading Worms
Sponsor: The Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security
Period: 07/01/04 – 06/30/05
Amount: $80,000
PI: Xu, Shouhuai
Co-PI: Maynard, Hugh

Experiments, Analysis and Visualization of the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Premixed Flames
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Grant: ONR-N00014-97-0029
Period: 09/01/01 – 08/01/04
Amount: $84,000
PI: Robbins, Kay A.
Co-PI: Gorman, Michael
Comments: Only UTSA portion. Total amount $249663.

A Course in Experimental Techniques for Computer Science Majors: Proof of Concept
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: DUE-0088769
Period: 06/01/01 – 08/01/04
Amount: $75,000
PI: Robbins, Steven

Spatiotemporal Structure of Visually Evoked Cortical Waves
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Grant: G12_RR13646
Period: 01/01/98 – 12/31/03
Amount: $393,589
PI: Senseman, David M.
Co-PI: Robbins, Kay A.
Comments: Direct cost.

Changing the Paradigm: Preparing Students for the Computing Profession in the 21st Century
Sponsor: National Aeronautical and Space Agency
Grant: NAG2-6040
Period: 08/01/99 – 07/31/03
Amount: $198,000
PI: Robbins, Kay A.

Real Time Visualization and Analysis of Scientific Video Data
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: ACI-9721348
Period: 06/01/98 – 05/30/03
Amount: $134,608
PI: Robbins, Kay A.

A Web-based Electronic Laboratory for Operating Systems and Computer Networks
Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
Grant: DUE-9752165
Period: 09/01/98 – 08/31/01
Amount: $202,568
PI: Robbins, Steven