Research Funding

Principal Investigator

(As of August 2026, total of $3.28 M as a Principal Investigator)

• "Towards AI-enhanced tabletop campus accelerator facilities via the accelerator cluster", Principal Investigator, ODU DIVRED (STaR program), 01/01/2026 - 07/01/2026, $50,000.

• "Elements: Cyber infrastructure for efficient, large-scale simulation of inverse Compton sources", Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, 08/01/2025 - 07/31/2028, $600,000.

• "REU Site: Accelerator and nuclear physics", Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, 05/01/2024 - 04/30/2027, $406,983.

• "REU Site: Accelerator and nuclear physics", Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, 05/01/2020 - 04/30/2024, $339,080.

• "CAREER: Comprehensive paradigm for computation of spectra in inverse Compton sources", Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, 07/01/2019 - 06/30/2024, $500,000.

• "High-fidelity simulations of long-term beam-beam dynamics and beam synchronization scheme at JLEIC", Principal Investigator,  Jefferson Lab, 08/01/2018 - 07/31/2020, $115,000.

• "REU Site: Accelerator and nuclear physics", Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, 05/01/2017 - 04/30/2020, $259,050.

• "Feasibility study of remote sensing by Compton sources", Principal Investigator, Virginia Space Grant Consortium (New Investigator Program), 06/01/2016 - 05/31/2017, $10,000 (+1:1 ODU cost share).

• "High-fidelity simulations of long-term beam-beam dynamics and beam synchronization scheme at JLEIC", Principal Investigator,  Jefferson Lab, 01/01/2016 - 12/31/2017, $111,000.

• "Improving the performance of the Compton scattering-based photon source through an innovative laser frequency modulation scheme", Principal Investigator, Old Dominion University Office of Research (Program for Undergraduate Research Scholarship), 01/01/2016 - 12/31/2016, $10,000.

• "An innovative GPU-optimized multi scale code for high-fidelity simulation of collective effects in electron beams", Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, 09/01/2015 - 08/31/2020, $488,942.

• "High-performance particle collider simulations on parallel computing platform", Principal Investigator, Old Dominion University Office of Research (Research Seed Funding Program), 01/01/2015 - 12/31/2015, $40,000.

• Graduate student support, Principal Investigator, Jefferson Lab, 2012 - present, $346,590.

Co-Principal Investigator or Collaborator

(As of August 2026, total of $1.54M as a Co-PI/Collaborator)

• "AI-Enabled Digital Twin for Scalable Injector Optimization and Control", Co-PI, Department of Energy (Genesis Initiative), 9/1/2026 - 6/1/2027, $750,000.

• "2025 ODU BLAST: Building leaders for advancing science and technology", Co-PI, Virginia Space Grant Consortium, 07/27/2025 - 07/30/2025, $45,710.

• "2024 ODU BLAST: Building leaders for advancing science and technology", Co-PI, Virginia Space Grant Consortium, 06/16/2024 - 06/19/2024, $45,000.

• "2023 ODU BLAST: Building leaders for advancing science and technology", Co-PI, Virginia Space Grant Consortium, 06/18/2023 - 06/21/2023, $45,000.

• "Numerical Integration on GPUs", Co-PI, Fermilab, 03/01/2020 - 02/28/2022, $209,961.

• "2021 ODU BLAST: Building leaders for advancing science and technology", Co-PI, Virginia Space Grant Consortium, 06/23/2021 - 06/26/2021, $72,607.

• "2020 ODU BLAST: Building leaders for advancing science and technology", Co-PI, Virginia Space Grant Consortium, 06/23/2020 - 06/26/2020, $43,712.

• "2019 ODU BLAST: Building leaders for advancing science and technology", Co-PI, Virginia Space Grant Consortium, 06/23/2019 - 06/26/2019, $42,319.

• "2018 ODU BLAST: Building leaders for advancing science and technology", Co-PI, Virginia Space Grant Consortium, 06/17/2018 - 06/20/2016, $47,000.

• "Sustainable energy from radio waves", Collaborator, Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund, 07/01/2018 - 12/31/2019, $59,533.

• "Modeling charge density in infrared power generation", Collaborator, 4-VA, 06/01/2017 - 05/31/2018, $5,000.

• "2017 ODU BLAST: Building leaders for advancing science and technology", Collaborator, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, 06/25/2017 - 06/28/2017, $47,000.

• "2017 ODU BLAST: Building leaders for advancing science and technology", Collaborator, Virginia Space Grant Consortium, 06/18/2016 - 06/21/2016, $47,000.

• "2016 ODU BLAST: Building leaders for advancing science and technology", Collaborator, Virginia Space Grant Consortium, 06/26/2016 - 06/29/2016, $47,000.

• "Amplification of the electric contribution in infrared power generation", Collaborator 4-VA, 06/01/2016 - 05/31/2017, $5,000.