Funding

Funded Grants from September 2013 at UMKC:

1. (Active) Agency: MoDoT, Title: TR202311 – “Asset Characterization Using Automated Methods”, Co-PI: Sejun Song, Total Amount: $200,000, Period: 5/15/2023 - 8/15/2024.

2. (Active) Agency: NASA - Missouri Space Grant Consortium, Title: Education of Machine-Learning for Object Detection Applications In Satellites (MLODIS), PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $12,500, Period: Fall 2022, Summer 2023. 

3. (Active) Agency: UMSAEP, Title: UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SOUTH AFRICAN EDUCATION PROGRAM (UMSAEP) Faculty Exchange Award, PI: Sejun Song, Total Amount: $16,300, Period: 10/1/2022-6/30/2023.

4. (Active) Agency: NSF (# 2141131), Title: PFI-TT: Crowd-based Alert and Detection Service to Increase the Safety of People with Special Needs, PI: Sejun Song, Total Amount: $249,698, Period: 4/15/2022-3/31/2024.

5. (Active) Agency: NSF (#2141131), Project Title: PFI-TT: Crowd-based Alert and Detection Service to Increase the Safety of People with Special Needs: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Supplement, PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $16,000, Period: 4/15/2022-3/31/2024.

6. (Active) Agency: NSF (#2141131), Project Title: PFI-TT: Crowd-based Alert and Detection Service to Increase the Safety of People with Special Needs: Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Supplement, PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $20,000, Period: 4/15/2022-3/31/2024.

7. (Active) Agency: MoDoT, Title: TR202214 – “Developing a Hazard Detection and Alert System to Prevent Worker Fatalities”, PI: Sejun Song, Total Amount: $200,000, Period: 2/28/2022-8/31/2023.

8. (Active) Agency: NIST, Title: Building Enablers for Multi Industry Sectors Collaborative Federated Open Platforms & Assets, as a Foundation for Cross-Industry End-to-End Services Innovation and Delivery AGILITY in the 5G & Beyond Era, PI: Sejun Song, Total Amount: $375,000, Period: 2/1/2022-1/31/2025

9. (Active) Agency: Kauffman Foundation Funded UMKC Entrepreneurship Innovation Grants, Title: Transforming Food Deserts into Food Oases: Developing Smart Agricultural Entrepreneurship (SAgE) Program for Sustainable Urban Food Ecosystem, Co-PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $33,520, Period: 12/15/2021-12/15/2022.

10. (Active) Agency: NSF (# 1906795), Title: Collaborative Research: Technology Education for Women in Transition: Broadening Participation Through Innovation, Co-PI: Sejun Song, Collaborating Institutions: the University of Kansas, University of Kansas Medical Center, UMKC Amount: $365,987, Total Amount: $1,404,022, Period: 9/1/2019-8/31/2023.

11. (Active) Agency: NSF (# 1747751), Title: Phase I IUCRC University of Missouri-Kansas City: Center for Big Learning (CBL), Co-PI: Sejun Song, UMKC Amount: $749,980, Period: 02/01/2018 - 01/31/2023.

12. (Active) Agency: NSF (# 2031639), Title: Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Supplement- Collaborative Research: Technology Education for Women in Transition: Broadening Participation Through Innovation, Co-PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $18,000, Period: 5/18/2020 - 4/27/2023.

13. (Active)  Agency: Industry Gift Grant, Title: AR and VR Education, PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $186,000, Period: from 08/01/2019.

14. Agency: NASA - Missouri Space Grant Consortium, Title: Education of Smart and Reliability Technologies for the Future Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) System, PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $15,000, Period: Fall 2021 –  Summer 2022.

15. Agency: NSF (#1952013), Title: SCC-PG: Developing food oases in the urban food deserts with smart urban grower network, CO-PI: Sejun Song, UMKC Amount: $149,834, Period: 10/1/2020-8/31/2022.

16. Agency: ETRI, Korea, Project Title: Load balancing algorithms for optimizing multiple access 5G Core Network (CN), PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $17,000, Period: fall 2019 – Fall 2021.

17. Agency: NASA - Missouri Space Grant Consortium, Title: Reliable and Efficient CubeSat Swarm Undergraduate Education, PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $6,000, Period: fall 2019 – summer 2021.

18. Agency: CDC, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Project Title: Behavioral Health Medications, Co-PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $55,000, Period: 10/1/2017 - 10/1/2022.

19. Agency: CDC, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Project Title: Quality Family Planning Mobile Applications, Co-PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $13,668 per year, Period: 10/15/2014 ~ 8/15/2020.

20. Agency: NSF (#1810832), Project Title: I-Corps: Light Emitting Diode-based Smart Cue, PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $50,000, Period: 01/01/2018 - 7/1/2019.

21. Agency: CDC, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Project Title: The National Capacity Building Assistance Provider Resource Center, Lead-PI: Laurie J Krom (UMKC), Co-PI: Sejun Song, Amount: ($23,324 out of $1,405,000 per year), Period: 04/01/2016 - 03/31/2019.

22. Agency: NSF (#1541455), Project Title: CC*DNI Networking Infrastructure: Data Driven Research-Wise Network Infrastructure Upgrade (”DaRWiN”), PI: Sejun Song, Co-PI: Baek-Young Choi, Deep Medhi, Mary Lou Fritts, Amount: $500,000, Period: 9/1/2015 - 2/31/2017.

23. Agency: NSF (#1541455), Project Title: CC*DNI Networking Infrastructure: Data Driven Research-Wise Network Infrastructure Upgrade ("DaRWiN"): REU Supplement, PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $16,000, Period: 9/1/2017 - 8/31/2018.

24. Agency: ETRI, Korea, Project Title: User-centric Adaptive Traffic Management Framework and Algorithms for Softwarization Networks, Single PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $47,036, Period: 09/01/2016 - 01/31/2017.

25. Agency: Industry Gift Grant, Project Title: Super High Throughput and Low Latency Video Streaming, PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $63,709, Period: 08/01/2017.

26. Agency: UMKC (Provost’s Strategic Funding), Project Title: Recruiting High-Quality Domestic Ph.D. Students to Advance Big Data Research & Teaching at UMKC, Co- PI: Praveen Rao (Lead), Baek- Young Choi, Ahmed Hassan, Vijay Kumar, Yugyung Lee, Zhu Li, Deep Medhi, Mark Hoffman, and Sejun Song, Amount: $ 148,000, Period: 09/01/2016 - 6/30/2018.

27. Agency: Cisco Systems University Research Program (URP), Project Title: HARP: High Availability Registration Platform for Software Defined Infrastructure Design and Implementation on OpenDaylight, Single PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $50,000, Period: 01/07/2016 - 07/06/2016.

28. Agency: ETRI, Korea, Project Title: Efficient Virtual Network Embedding (VNE) Approaches for Heterogeneous Softwarized Networks, Single PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $47,036, Period: 07/01/2015 - 01/31/2016.

29. Agency: CDC, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Project Title: Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) Education Game Applications, Co-PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $35,000, Period: 10/01/2015 - 08/30/2017.

30. Agency: AFRL, Project Title: MIST: Mobility-Inspired Software-Defined Combat Fog System, Single PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $10,000, Period: 8/15/2015 - 10/1/2015.

31. Agency: University of Missouri Research Board (UMRB), Project Title: DCA: Data-centric Collaboration Architecture for Mission-oriented Mobile Computing, Single PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $22,668, Period: 06/15/2014 - 06/15/2015.

32. Agency: ETRI, Korea, Project Title: SDN based NFV-capable Middlebox Control and Management Architecture, Agency: ETRI, Korea, Single PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $47,036, Period: 09/01/2014 - 01/31/2015.

33. Agency: ETRI, Korea, Project Title: OMMA: Open Management and Monitoring Agent for SDN, Single PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $47,036, Period: 09/15/2013 - 03/15/2014.

34. Agency: Cisco Systems University Research Program (URP), Project Title: Open Reliability Measurement and Monitoring Agent Framework for Software-defined Networking (SDN), Single PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $98,000, Period: 02/13/2015 - 01/06/2016.

35. Agency: UMKC SUROP grants (Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunity), Project Title: Design and Implementation of Security and Privacy Mechanisms for a Mobile Child Tracking System, Single PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $5,000, Period: Summer 2014.

TAMU Funded Projects (Total $1,149,992 in 4 years):

1. Agency: Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) MLP (Minority Leadership Program) Cyber Security Research (CSR) Program, Project Title: Android Galaxies: Dependable, Agile, and Secure System for Service-Oriented Android Smartphone Clouds, PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $150,000, Year: 2012~2013

2. Agency: Cisco Systems, Project Title: Cisco-TEC A&M Cloud Testing Lab Development, PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $454,736, Year: 2010~2013

3. Agency: Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) MLP (Minority Leadership Program) Cyber Security Research (CSR) Program, Project Title: Conformance Verification and Software Defined Flow Control Frameworks in Cloud Computing, PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $375,000, Year: 2014~2017

4. Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Project Title: IPSec Sandbox for COTS routers, PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $20,000, Year: 2012

5. Agency: Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), Project Title: Smartphone Cloud for Distributed Data Processing with Applications to Mobile Security and Monitoring, PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $6,000, Year: 2012

6. Agency: Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), Project Title: Router-Initiated Network Outage Management for Multitenant Clouds, PI: Sejun Song, Amount: $11,000, Year: 2011

Equipment funded at TAMU (Total $245,000 Estimated):

1. Agency: Cisco Systems, Year: 2010, Title: Cisco wireless lab and CCNA lab Development (12 Cisco 2900 series routers, 12 Cisco 3700 series switches, 12 NAS storages, 20 wireless video cameras, 100 IP phones, 15 linksys routers, 15 linksys switches, and 20 WAPs),  Single-PI: Sejun Song

2. Agency: Consolidated Communications, Year: 2009, Title: Telecommunications Education (2 Cisco 4K routers and 10 Switches), Single-PI: Sejun Song

3. Agency: ETID Department, Year: 2009 ~ 2012, Title: Teaching Lab Equipment (13 PCs, 12 Nexus 7 Tablets, 10 NetFPGA Cards), PI: Sejun Song

Research grant funded at Wichita State University (WSU) (Total $50,000 in 1 year):

1. Agency: PSerc (Power Systems Engineering Research Center), Year 2009, Title: Communication Requirements and Integration Options for Smart Grid Deployment, PI: Ward Jewell, Co-PI: Sejun Song

Equipment funded at WSU (Total $69,000 for multiple PIs in 1 year):

1. Agency: WSU, Year: 2008, Title: Proposal for a Teaching Lab for Hands‐On Wireless Networking in the EECS Department

2. Agency: WSU, Year 2008, Title: EECS Microprocessor and Embedded Computing Teaching Lab