Grants and Honors

External Grants

• National Science Foundation (NSF), "CyberTraining: Pilot: ConstructionCI: Advance CI Training in Construction Management and Safety Curricula", PI, $299.9K, 09/2024 - 08/2026.

• Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), "Cognitive Compression: Advancing AI-Focused Video Compression with DNN and Edge Computing Enhancement", single PI, $195K, 09/2024 - 07/2026.

• Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC), Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Faculty program. Faculty consultant, 09/2023 – 01/2024.

• Department of Transportation (DoT), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), “Evaluation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Safety and Security Technologies in the National Airspace System (NAS) Program”, Co-PI, $144K (total: $1.9M), 01/2022-03/2025 

• National Science Foundation (NSF), "CNS: CORE: Small: Collaborative Research: Towards Sustainable, Efficient and Secure IoT", PI, $188.4K (total: $366K), 10/2021 - 10/2024.

• Department of Defense (DoD), Engineering Research & Development Center (ERDC), “Multi-Sensor Analytics and Sensor Fusion for Cross Country Mobility Assessment”, Co-PI, $35K (total: $535K), 2021-2023.

• Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education (SCEEE), "Sustainable Edge Computing for Green IoT", 2021 - 2022, single PI, $27.5K. 

• Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), 01/22 – 08/31/22, single PI, $5K.

Internal Grants

• Mississippi State University Undergraduate Research Program, 2023 - 2024, advisor, $1.5K.

• Mississippi State University Undergraduate Research Program, 2022 - 2023, advisor, $1.8K.

• Mississippi State University Undergraduate Research Program, 2020 - 2021, advisor, $1.8K.

•  Mississippi State University Undergraduate Research Program, 2019 - 2020, advisor, $1.8K.

• Mississippi State University Global Development Seed Grant (GDSG), 2019 - 2020, PI, $3.8K.

Honors

• Co-recipient of ICMIC Conference Best Student Paper Award, 2019.

• Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing Award, Computer Communications Journal, 2017.

• Co-recipient of CHINACOM Conference Best Paper Award, 2016.

• Co-recipient of IFIP Networking Conference Best Paper Award, 2013.