Funded 

1. Counter-Hacking Scammers: Ethical Hacking Techniques to Infiltrate and Disrupt Scammer Operations

   • Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

   • Funding Source: The Minerva Center Innovation Funding for Research & Creative Endeavors at the University at Albany

   • Amount: $7,200

   • Purpose: To fund 3 undergraduate student researchers

   • Status: Funded for the Spring 2024 semester

2. Establishing a Secure Cloud Cyber Range for Cybersecurity Research

   • Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

   • Funding Source: The Minerva Center Innovation Funding for Research & Creative Endeavors at the University at Albany

   • Amount: $4,800

   • Purpose: To fund 2 undergraduate student researchers during the Spring 2024 semester

   • Status: Funded

Pending and Not Funded 

1. Malla Observatory: Establishing a Collaborative LLM Research Infrastructure

   • Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

   • Funding Source: Amazon Research Award

   • Amount: $79,659 (Total Cash Budget) + $40,000 (AWS Promotional Credits)

   • Status: Submitted May 2024 (declined)

2. RET Site: (AI-EPIC) The AI-Ready Educators in Practice and Integrative Challenges of AI

   • Role: Senior Personnel

   • Funding Source: NSF grant proposal for a Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Site

   • Amount: $597,621

   • Status: Submitted February 2024 (declined)

3. REU Site: Interdisciplinary Science for Integrative Challenges in Cybersecurity (ISICC)

   • Role: Senior Personnel

   • Funding Source: NSF grant proposal for a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site

   • Amount: $462,921

   • Status: Resubmitted September 2023 (declined)

4. Innovations in Mentoring for Math and Computer Science (IMMCS)

   • Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

   • Funding Source: NSF grant proposal for S-STEM

   • Amount: $649,108

   • Purpose: To retain 90% of STEM students coming from low-income families that are in the program

   • Status: Resubmitted (declined)

5. Combination in Equational Reasoning with Applications to Formal Verification

   • Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

   • Funding Source: NSF grant proposal to Software & Hardware Foundation

   • Status: Submitted (declined)