Grants Awarded

• Federal

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

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

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

  3. 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

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

  5. 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

Earlier Projects in DCSG at UMN

• TripS: Automated Multi-tiered Data Placement in a Geo-distributed Cloud Environment

• Wiera: Policy-Driven Multi-Tiered Geo-Distributed Cloud Storage System

• Nebula: Distributed Edge Cloud for Data Intensive Computing