Grants

• Federal

  1. CIS251279: CAREER: Toward Scalable Wide Area Network-enabled Geo-distributed Data Analytics
     National Science Foundation ACCESS, Nov 2025 - Nov 2026, $18.5K (CloudBank credit), Sole PI

  2. CAREER: Toward Scalable Wide Area Network-enabled Geo-distributed Data Analytics
     National Science Foundation (NSF), Aug 2025 - July 2030, $551K, Sole PI

  3. CRII: CNS: Toward a Scalable Geo-distributed Data Analytics System
     National Science Foundation (NSF), July 2022 - June 2025, $172K, Sole PI

• State (University of Nebraska)

  1. FIRST: A New Wide Area Network Model for Geo-distributed Data Analytics
     Nebraska EPSCoR, Dec 2023 - Nov 2024, $25K, Sole-PI

  2. A Machine-Learning Approach to API Usage Learning for Detecting API Misuse Errors
     University of Nebraska Collaboration Initiative Grant, Aug 2023 - July 2025, $150K, Co-PI, PI: Dr. Myoungkyu Song

  3. Improving Spring Flood Prediction Based on Multi-physical and Data-Driven Convergent Modeling
     University of Nebraska Collaboration Initiative Grant, Aug 2022 - July 2024, $150K, Co-PI, PI: Dr. Jongwan Eun

  4. High-speed super-resolution imaging using Hessian-SIM executed in the GPU environment
     University of Nebraska Collaboration Initiative Grant, Aug 2021 - July 2022, $39K, Co-PI, PI: Dr. Piero Bianco

• Internal (University of Nebraska Omaha)

  1. WAMulator: A WAN Emulator for Precisely Mimicking WAN in LAN Settings
     Undergraduate Scholarly Experiences (FUSE), Summer/2026, $2.5K, Student: Keisuke Miyamoto

  2. Smashing: Similarity-aware Hashing for Serverless Data Analytics
     Graduate Research and Creative Activity (GRACA), Summer/2026, $5K, Student: Anshuman Das Mohapatra

  3. Runtime Scaling Across Model-Family Variants on Cloud GPUs with Cost-performance Configuration Selection
     Graduate Research and Creative Activity (GRACA), Summer/2026, $5K, Student: Rajas Atul Bhope

  4. Similarity-Aware Task Scheduling in Spark
     Graduate Research and Creative Activity (GRACA), 2023/2024, $5K, Student: Prajin Khadka

  5. WANify: Balancing overall WAN bandwidth over parallel heterogeneous real-time channels  
     Graduate Research and Creative Activity (GRACA), 2023/2024, $5K, Student: Anshuman Das Mohapatra

  6. SWAN: Distributed Analytics and Smart Workload Prediction with Scalable Wide Area Network
     Graduate Research and Creative Activity (GRACA), 2021/2022, $5K, Student: Anshuman Das Mohapatra

  7. Heracles: A Scalable Heterogeneity-aware Geo-distributed Data Analytics System
     Research Development Program Fall 2021, $87.5K, Sole-PI

  8. Compute Cost-aware Geo-distributed Data Analytics
     Graduate Research and Creative Activity (GRACA), 2019/2020, $5K, Student: Minmin Zhang

• Industry Research Support 

  1. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Credits
     AWS Cloud Credit for Research Program, Aug 2022 - July 2023, $8.5K, Sole PI