Grants & Gifts

External Research Grants as PI or Co-PI

CAREER: Robust, Interpretable, and Fair Allocation of Scarce Resources in Socially Sensitive Settings

National Science Foundation, Operations Engineering

Role: Sole PI

Total Award Period Covered: 05/01/2021-04/30/2026

Total Award Amount: $519,682

OE: Preserving Biodiversity via Robust Optimization

National Science Foundation, Operations Engineering

Role: PI (with Co-PI: B. Dilkina)

Award #: OE-1763108

Total Award Period Covered: 07/15/2018-06/30/2023

Total Award Amount: $535,335

Own Share: $403,638

Realizing Cyber Inception: Towards a Science of Personalized Deception for Cyber Defense

U.S. Army Army Research Office, MURI (Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative)

Role: PI (since August 2019; original PI and project lead: M. Tambe)

Award ID: W911NF-17-1-0370

Total Award Period Covered: 05/16/2017-04/30/2023

Total Award Amount: $6,206,947

Own Share: $313,353

CES Triage Tool Redesign and Implementation

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation / United Way of Greater Los Angeles Home for Good

Role: Co-PI (PI: Eric Rice)

Total Award Period Covered: 01/01/2020-03/31/2023

Total Award Amount: $1,450,000

Own Share: $334,000

Predictive Modeling for Early Identification of Suicidal Thinking in Social Networks

U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Role: PI on satellite from USC School of Social Work (PI from SW: Eric Rice) 

Total Award Period Covered: 09/28/2017-12/27/2022

Award ID: W911NF-17-1-0445

Satellite Award Amount: $12,420

S&CC: Landslide Risk Management in Remote Communities: Integrating Geoscience, Data Science, and Social Science in Local Context

National Science Foundation, Smart & Connected Communities

Role: Co-PI (PI: Robert Lempert; Collaborative grant with RAND, University of Oregon, Sitka Sound Science Center)

Total Award Period Covered: 09/01/2019-09/30/2022

Total Award Amount: $2,100,974

Own Share: $216,218

Cost-Sharing Mechanisms for Ridesharing

U.S. Department of Transportation, METRANS University Transportation Center and National Center for Sustainable Transportation

Role: co-PI (PI: Maged Dessouky)

Award ID: DTRT13-G-UTC57

Total Award Period Covered: 09/2018-09/2019

Total Award Amount: $100,000

Own Share: $41,244

Socially Optimal Personalized Routing  with Preference Learning

U.S. Department of Transportation, METRANS University Transportation Center and National Center for Sustainable Transportation

Role: PI (co-PI: Maged Dessouky)

Award ID: DTRT13-G-UTC57

Total Award Period Covered: 08/2017-07/2018

Total award amount: $99,998

Own Share: $79,096

Multiplayer Attacker-Defender Security Games

DARPA Seedling (via Lockheed Martin Corporation)

Role: Co-PI (PI: M. Tambe, Co-PI: B. Dilkina)

Total Award Period Covered: 12/18/2017-07/18/2018

Total award amount: $100,000

Own Share: $5,182

Playing Security Games With No Time for Mapping Full Networks: Maximizing Influence in Uncharted Social Networks

U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Army Research Office

Role: Co-PI (joint with M. Tambe and E. Rice)

Award #: W911NF-11-1-0332

Total Award Period Covered: 02/01/2017-09/01/2017

Total award amount: $500,000

Own share: $150,000

External Research Grants as Senior Personnel

USC Center for AI in Society Summer Fellows Program 2018

Schmidt Futures

Role: Senior Personnel/Contributor (PIs: M. Tambe and E. Rice)

Total Award Period Covered: 01/01/2018-12/31/2018

Total award amount: $250,000

Own share: $50,000

Internal Research Grants as PI or Co-PI

Interpretable Causal Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics Robust to Unobserved Confounders

USC-Meta Center for Research and Education in AI and Learning

Role: PI (with Co-PI Andres Gomez)

Total Award Period Covered: 08/16/2022-08/15/2023

Total Award Amount: $74,999

Own Share: $68,102

Addressing Ethical Dilemmas during the COVID-19 Pandemic through AI

USC Zumberge Special Solicitation – Epidemic & Virus Related Research and Development award

Role: Sole PI

Total Award Period Covered: 07/01/2020-08/31/2022

Total award amount: $28,047

Designing Fair, Efficient, and Interpretable Policies for Allocating Scarce Resources

USC James H. Zumberge Faculty Research & Innovation Fund Diversity & Inclusion Grant Program

Role: Sole PI

Total Award Period Covered: 07/2018-07/2019

Total award amount: $30,000

Data-Driven Optimization in the Small Data Regime

Institute for Advanced Studies in Business, Outlier Research Grant

Role: Co-Investigator (with V. Gupta and P. Rusmevichientong)

Total Award Period Covered: 2017-no end date

Total award amount: $25,000

Gifts

Gift in Support of Center for AI in Society Suicide Prevention project

Living to Love Another Day Foundation

Gift date: 12/09/2019

Total gift amount: $5,000

Gift in Support of Housing Allocation project

Trojan League of South Bay

Gift date: 08/05/2020

Total gift amount: $1,000

Gift in Support of Center for AI in Society

Microsoft AI for Earth

Total Award Period Covered: 01/01/2018-12/31/2018

Total gift amount: $200,000

Own share: $12,570

Research Grant Supplements

CAREER: Robust, Interpretable, and Fair Allocation of Scarce Resources in Socially Sensitive Settings

National Science Foundation, Operations Engineering

Research Experience for Undergraduates REU Supplement

Role: Sole PI

Total Award Period Covered: 05/01/2021-04/30/2026

Total Award Amount: $8,000

OE: Preserving Biodiversity via Robust Optimization

National Science Foundation, Operations Engineering

Research Experience for Undergraduates REU Supplement

Role: PI (with Co-PI: B. Dilkina)

Award #: 1763108

Supplement to Award #: OE-1763108

Total Award Period Covered: 07/15/2018-06/30/2023

Total Award Amount: $8,000

Own Share: $8,000

Workshop Grants

Conference on Non-Convex Statistical Learning

National Science Foundation, Division of Mathematical Sciences

Role: Co-PI (with PI Jong-Shi Pang and Co-PI Meisam Razaviyayn)

Award #: 1719635

Total Award Period Covered: 04/15/2018-3/31/2018

Total Award Amount: $15,000

External Conference & Travel Grants and Gifts

Student Support for DEI Mentorship Program at CPAIOR 2022

National Science Foundation, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)

Role: Co-PI (with PI Thiago Serra)

Award #: 2223504

Total Award Period Covered: 07/01/2022-06/30/2023

Total Award Amount: $9,963

Student Support for DEI Mentorship Program at CPAIOR 2022

Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ)

Role: Co-PI

Gift date: 06/06/2022

Total Award Amount: $10,000

Support for DEI Mentorship Program at CPAIOR 2022

nextmv

Role: PI

Gift date: 02/17/2022

Total Award Amount: $500

Conference on Non-Convex Statistical Learning

National Science Foundation, Division of Mathematical Sciences

Role: Co-PI (with PI Jong-Shi Pang and Co-PI Meisam Razaviyayn)

Award #: 1719635

Total Award Period Covered: 04/15/2018-3/31/2018

Total Award Amount: $15,000

Internal Conference & Travel Grants and Gifts

Support for CPAIOR 2022

USC Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering

Role: PI

Award Date: 04/13/2022

Total award amount: $6,200

Support for CPAIOR 2022

USC-Meta Center for Research and Education in AI and Learning

Role: Co-Investigator (with V. Gupta and P. Rusmevichientong)

Award Date: 03/30/2022

Total award amount: $2,100

Support for CPAIOR 2022

USC ISE Epstein Institute, Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering

Role: PI

Award Date: 03/23/2022

Total award amount: $12,630