Grant Awards

[Role: Leading PI] National Science Foundation, “Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Pilot: O-RAN-Based Cyberinfrastructure Training for Future-Generation Wireless Communication and Sensing”, Total Amount: $300,000 (Stevens’ share: $150,000), Duration: July 15, 2024 – June 30, 2026.

[Role: PI] National Science Foundation, “Collaborative Research: CISE MSI: RDP: SaTC: Exploring Cybersecurity and Privacy Enhancement Techniques for AIoT”, Total Amount: $600,000 (Stevens’ share: $237,859), Duration: January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2027.

[Role: co-PI] National Science Foundation, “SpecEES: Cooperative Green RF Sensing over Shared Spectrum”, Total Amount: $750,000 (50% share), Duration: September 2019 – August 2025 (non-cost extension).

[Role: PI] Stevens Institute of Technology, “Training for mmWave Instrument and O-RAN Extension”, Total Amount: $10,000, Duration: February 2024 – June 2024.

[Role: PI] US Air Force Research Laboratory, “Low-Latency Low-Redundancy (L3R) Distributed Data Propagation Via Information-Centric Networks”, Total Amount: $10,000 (100%, single PI), Duration: September 2023 – November 2023.

[Role: PI] US Air Force Research Laboratory, “Efficient and Resilient Coded Data Dissemination with Enhanced NDN”, Total Amount: $10,000 (100%, single PI), Duration: September 2022 – November 2022.

[Role: PI] Stevens Institute of Technology, “Building A Hardware-In-Loop Cyber-Physical System Simulation Testbed”, Total Amount: $152,216, Duration: March 2022 – June 2022.

[Role: PI] US Air Force Research Laboratory, “Secure Blockchain Transaction Propagation Made Efficient with NDN Techniques”, Total Amount: $10,000 (100%, single PI), Duration: September 2020 – November 2020.

[Role: PI] US Air Force Research Laboratory, “Detecting Drones Using Low-Cost WiFi Devices”, Total Amount: $10,000 (100%, single PI), Duration: September 2018 – November 2018.

[Role: PI] National Science Foundation, “SaTC: CORE: Small: Toward Usable and Ubiquitous Trust Initialization and Secure Networking in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks”, Total Amount: $500,000 (100%, single PI), Duration: August 2017 – July 2022 (non-cost extension).

[Role: PI] National Science Foundation, “CCSS: Collaborative Research: Developing a Physical-Channel Based Lightweight Authentication Systems for Wireless Body Area Networks”, Total Amount: $424,596 (28% for PI), Duration: September 2014 – December 2019 (non-cost extension). 

[Role: PI] National Science Foundation, “MRI: Acquisition of Peta-Scale Data Storage System for Big Data Exploration in STEM Fields”, Total Amount: $417,011 (including $125,013 university match), Duration: August 2014 – August 2017.

[Role: PI] National Science Foundation, “MRI: Acquisition of a Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Research and Education”, Total Amount: $154,465 (including $46,340 university match), Duration: September 2013 – August 2016. 

[Role: PI] National Science Foundation, “EAGER: Utilizing Contextual Channel Characteristics for Secure Communications in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks”, Total Amount: $150,289 (100%, single PI), Duration: September 2013 - August 2017. 

[Role: PI] Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDC) Basic Research Grant, “Identification and Modulation of Brain Networks”, Total Amount: $47,706, Duration: November 2014 - April 2017. 

[Role: PI] University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, “Development of UAMS CLinicAl Research Administrator (CLARA) system”, Total Amount: $46,360 (100%, single PI), Duration: July 2011 - July 2013. 

[Role: PI] Amazon.com, Inc., “AWS in Education Research Grant”, Total Amount: $10,000, Duration: December 2011 - March 2016. 

[Role: PI] University of Arkansas at Little Rock, New Faculty Startup Grant, 2010, Total Amount: $15,000. 

[Role: Co-PI] Department of Defense, “DoD Information Assurance - Information Security Grant Program”, Total Amount: $2,467, Duration: September 2013 - December 2014. 

[Role: Senior Personnel] National Science Foundation, “PROMISE: A Platform for Competition and Education in Cyber Security”, Total Amount: $276,424, Duration: September 2016 - August 2019. 

[Role: Faculty Advisor] National Science Foundation, “REU Site: CyberSAFE@UALR: Cyber Security and Forensics Research at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock”, Total Amount: $289,662, Duration: February 2014 - January 2017.