Grants and Research Awards

1. NASA WV EPSCoR Seed Grant, "Study of Wasserstein Metric in Obstacle-Deployed Environments and Its Application to Multi-Scale Robotic Spatial Exploration Systems," Role: PI, Amount: $22,138, Period: Jun. 15, 2024 - Jul. 15, 2025. 

2. NASA WVSGC Undergraduate Fellowship, "Advancements in Autonomous Drone Operations: A Research Project on Obstacle Avoidance Techniques," Role: PI and Mentor, Student: Ben Taylor, Amount: $5,000, Period: April 10th, 2024- April 9th, 2025. 

3. NASA WVSGC Undergraduate Fellowship, "Advancements in Autonomous Drone Operations: Emergency Response and Recognition," Role: PI and Mentor, Student: Preston Sellards, Amount: $5,000, Period: April 10th, 2024- April 9th, 2025. 

4. NASA WVSGC Undergraduate Fellowship, "Human Interaction in Drone Operations," Role: PI and Mentor, Student: Mathew Allen, Amount: $5,000, Period: April 10th, 2024- April 9th, 2025. 

5. NASA WVSGC Undergraduate Fellowship, "Comparison of Penalty Terms of Obstacle Avoidance for Very-Large-Scale Robotic Systems," Role: PI and Mentor, Student: Jacob Lee, Amount: $5,000, Period: April 10th, 2024- April 9th, 2025. 

6. DARPA Collaborative Grant, "AI-CRAFT: Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Readiness and Future Training, funded by the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency," Role: Senior Personnel at Marshall University, Amount (Marshall University): $1.25 M, Period: 2024-2026. PI at Marshall Univeristy: Dr. Haroon Malik. This collaborative project is led by Florida International University (FIU), and the other collaborator is West Virginia University (WVU). total grant amount of $4,499,555 for two years.

7. ERDC Grant, "Detection of Subterranean Threat Activity in Hard Rock Environments," Role: Co-PI, Amount: $2,998,647.46, Period: Feb. 1, 2024 - Jan. 31, 2026. PI: Dr. Greg Michaelson and other Co-PI: Dr. Arka Chattopadhyay and Dr. Mehdi Esmaeilpour.

8. ERDC Grant, "Automatic Assessment and Repair for Military Railroads," Role: Co-PI, Amount: $2,050,000.00, Period: Feb. 1, 2024 - Jan. 31, 2026. PI: Dr. Ammar Alzarrad and other Co-PI: Dr. Husnu Narman, Dr. Sudipta Chowdhury, Dr. Greg Michaelson, Dr. Arka Chattopadhyay.

9. NASA WV EPSCoR Seed Grant, "Centralized-Decentralized-Hybrid Control for Multi-Scale Robotic Spatial Exploration Systems," Role: PI, Amount: $21,868, Period: Jun. 1, 2023 - May 31, 2024. 

10. John Marshall University Scholars Awards for Spring 2023, "An Adaptive Distributed Optimal Control for Decentralized Very-Large-Scale-Robotic Systems," Role: PI, Award: Four-courses release in Spring 2023.