National Science Foundation:
1. Sole PI, "CAS-Climate: CAREER: A Unified Zero-Carbon-Driven Design Framework for Accelerating Power Grid Deep Decarbonization (ZERO-ACCELERATOR)", ECCS-2338158, 2024-2029, Amount: $500,861.
2. Co-PI, “Smart Partitioning based Large-Scale Power System Analysis on High-Performance Computing Platform: Modeling, Algorithms, and Computations”, ECCS-1711449, 2017-2020, Amount: $371,668, PI: Yong Fu.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Gulf Research Program:
1. Sole PI, "Offshore Energy Safety Fellow", 2024-2026, Amount: $75,000.
Department of Energy:
1. UH PI, “ZEEBRA: Zoos Educating on Electronics and Battery Recycling Awareness”, 2024-2027, Amount: $4,860,332 (UH Share: $722,023), Lead Applicant: Harris County
2. UH Co-PI, “Advances on CHP District Energy and Microgrids Deployment: Simplified Tool for Rapidly Deploying Feasibility Analytics for the Non-Technical User”, 2020-2023, Amount: $1,463,534 (UH Share: $400,064), Lead Applicant: Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC).
Honda Foundation:
PI, “Assessing Social Impact of Clean Energy Technologies and Community Microgrids in Houston”, Funded through UH Energy, 2024-2025, Amount: $50,000.
UH Internal Grants:
1. Thrust PI, "Advanced Software and Hardware Resources for Optimal Energy Management in Carbon Capture and Storage”, The Subsea Systems Institute (SSI), 2025-2026, Amount $238,596.
1. Co-PI, “Competition versus Cooperation: Examining the Dynamics of Green Hydrogen Economy Growth and a Renewable-Dominated Texas Power Grid”, UH Energy Transition Institute (ETI), 2024-2025, Amount: $60,000, PI: Lei Fan.
2. Sole PI, “Jump-starting the Clean-Hydrogen Economy in Texas: Assessing the Economic Effects of the Inflation Reduction Act on Clean Hydrogen Production in the Lone Star State”, UH Energy Transition Institute (ETI), 2024-2025, Amount: $40,000.
3. Co-PI, “Advancing Sustainability in Hydrogen Supply Chains (HSC): An AI-Enabled Approach for Digital Transformation in Hydrogen Transportation and Logistics in the State of Texas”, UH Energy Transition Institute (ETI), 2024-2025, Amount: $60,000, PI: Kailai Wang.
4. PI, “Optimal Scheduling of Active Distribution Network with High Penetration of Renewable Energy Sources: A Semi-End-to-End Machine Learning Approach”, UH Energy, 2023, Amount: $30,000.
5. Sole PI, “Powerconnect: Empowering Community Resilience Through Microgrid-A Case Study for City of Houston”, UH Energy Transition Institute (ETI), 2023, Amount: $17,000.
Industry Grants:
1. PI, “Optimal Sectionalizing Devices Allocation in Entergy Distribution Networks: Phase II”, Entergy Cooperation, 2021, Amount: $85,000.
2. PI, “Optimal Sectionalizing Devices Allocation in Entergy Distribution Networks”, Entergy Cooperation, 2020-2021, Amount: $80,000.
3. Co-PI, “Tractor Collision Avoidance Prototype and GPS-Augmented Brassboard”, FedEx Corporation, 2017-2018, Amount: $709,826, PI: Mike Mazzola.