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)Â
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