Funded Projects

Our research has been generously supported through federal, state, internal, and industry grants (total funding amount to date: $1,698,886).

• Federal Funding (Total Funding Amount: $1,162,695)

1. "Scalable Software-Defined Edge Networking and Computing for the Battlefield", U.S. Army ERDC, funding amount: $104,992, funding period: 01/2024 - 06/2024 (role: sole PI)

2. “Use of Augmented Reality-Based Metronomes in Improving Gait in Older Adults”, National Institutes of Health (NIH), funding amount: $182,942, funding period: 08/2022 – 07/2023 (role: sole PI)

3. "CRII: CNS: A Hybrid Software Defined Networking-Information Centric Networking Framework for the Reuse of Computation at the Network Edge", National Science Foundation (NSF), funding amount: $174,736 (plus $13,000 of a supplemental award for cloud computing resources), funding period: 07/2021 - 06/2024 (role: sole PI) (project website)

4. "Gaitprints as Predictors of Disease and Disability for Effective Rehabilitation Engineering", National Science Foundation (NSF), funding amount: $446,711, funding period: 08/2021-07/2024 (role: co-PI)

5. “Human Gait Networked Metronomes Based on Augmented Reality”, part of the "Harnessing Movement Variability to Treat and Prevent Motor Related Disorders" umbrella project (award number P20GM109090, total funding amount to date: $20,000,000) led by Dr. Stergiou (UNO Biomechanics), funding amount: $62,114, funding period: 08/2021 – 07/2022 (role: sole PI)

6. "CCRI: Planning: Low-Latency for Augmented Reality Interactive Systems (LLARIS)", National Science Foundation (NSF), funding amount: $132,200, funding period: 10/2020 - 09/2023 (role: co-PI)

7. “Edge Computing for an Augmented Reality Framework to Improve Human Gait Variability”, part of the "Harnessing Movement Variability to Treat and Prevent Motor Related Disorders" umbrella project (award number P20GM109090, total funding amount to date: $20,000,000) led by Dr. Stergiou (UNO Biomechanics), funding amount: $40,000, funding period: 08/2020 – 07/2021 (role: sole PI)

• State Funding (Total Funding Amount: $307,419)

1. “Identification of Pathology Based on Human Walking”, Nebraska University (NU) Collaboration Initiative, funding amount: $39,981, funding period: 07/2022 - 06/2023 (role: lead PI)

2. “An Intelligent Building Framework to Promote Adaptive Building Operation”, Nebraska University (NU) Collaboration Initiative, funding amount: $39,239, funding period: 07/2022 - 06/2023 (role: co-PI)

3. "Harnessing Walking Variability to Reduce Falls in Older Adults", Nebraska University (NU) Collaboration Initiative, funding amount: $149,570, funding period: 07/2021 - 06/2023 (role: co-PI)

4. "Augmented Reality for Avatar-Based Metronomes to Improve Human Movement", Nebraska University (NU) Collaboration Initiative, funding amount: $39,960, funding period: 07/2021 - 06/2022 (role: lead PI)

5. "Planning Grant to Establish a Collaborative Research Capability for Strategic Communications and Operational Testing", Nebraska University (NU) Collaboration Initiative, funding amount: $18,669, funding period: 07/2020 - 06/2021 (role: co-PI)

6. "Investigation of the Impact of Augmented Reality in Human Gait Variability and Medical Care", Nebraska University (NU) Collaboration Initiative, funding amount: $20,000, funding period: 07/2020 - 06/2021 (role: lead PI)

• Internal Funding (Total Funding Amount: $219,772)

1. "Resilient, Secure Networking and Edge Computing for Emergency Management", University of Nebraska at Omaha Office of Research and Creative Activity, funding amount: $100,000, funding period: 07/2021-06/2023 (role: sole PI)

2. "Pervasive AR: Advancing the Deployment and Impact of Augmented Reality Technologies", University of Nebraska at Omaha Research Development Program, funding amount: $87,506, funding period: 08/2021-07/2023 (role: sole PI)

3. "Enhanced Imaging Frameworks Against Future Outbreaks of COVID-19", University of Nebraska--Lincoln COVID Rapid Response, funding amount: $32,266, funding period: 07/2020 - 06/2021 (role: co-PI)

• Industry and Foundation Funding (Total Funding Amount: $15,000)

1. "A Public Repository of Network Traffic Traces Based on Different Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Metaverse Applications", ACM SIGMOBILE Community Grant, funding amount: $10,000, funding period: 01/2023 - 12/2023 (role: sole PI)

2. “A Comprehensive Comparative Study of TCP/IP and NDN”, Google Cloud, funding amount: $5,000 (cloud credit), funding period: 08/2020 - 07/2021 (role: sole PI)