Publish Date: 09/18/2009

The Department is proud to announce that 19 new research awards amounting to over 3.3 million dollars have been awarded to CS faculty over the last two months. Funding sources include – the National Science Foundation, National Institute of General Medical Science, USDA/CREES, Hewlett-Packard Labs, and the D.C. Department of Transportation.  Congratulations to all faculty members whose research efforts have been recognized through these awards!

Godmar Back and Stephen Edwards have received funding through the National Science Foundation for an award titled “Reinvigorating CS1 by enabling creative Web 2.0 programming.”

Ali Butt received a National Science Foundation award for his “US - Pakistan International Planning Visit: Economical Computing Substrate for Developing Regions” proposal.

Kirk Cameron is the recipient of two National Science Foundation Awards titled “CSR: Large Collaborative Research: A multi-Core Application Modeling Infrastructure” and “CSR: Medium: Collaborative Research: Gridpack: A Resource Management System for Energy and Performance Optimization. “

Yong Cao and Francis Quek were awarded a National Science Foundation award for their proposal “EAGER Drummer Game: A massive-interactive Socially-Enabled Strategy Game”.

Wu-chun Feng received a National Science Foundation Award for his “CSR: Small: Collaborative Research: Hybrid Opportunistic Computing for Green Clouds” proposal.

Ed Fox, Andrea Kavanaugh, and Naren Ramakrishnan are recipients of a National Science Foundation award for their proposal titled “Small: CTRNCT: Integrated Digital Library Support of Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery.”

C.T. Lu has been awarded funding through the Virginia Department of Transportation for work on a project titled “ Homes: Highway Operation Monitoring and Evaluation System.”

Scott McCrickard recently received funding from the National Science Foundation for a proposal “ REU Sites: Building Interfaces for Tomorrow’s Technology- The Virginia Tech Undergraduate Research In Human-Computer Interaction Program” and as a collaborator with  North Carolina A&T State University’s project titled “ A4RC Summer Research Program.”

T.M. Murali was awarded funding as a co-investigator on a National Science Foundation award titled “Transcriptional Signatures of 3D liver Mimetic Architectures”.

Alexey Onufriev’s proposal titled “Analytical Electrostatics: Methods and Biological Applications” has been awarded funding by the National Institute of General Medical Science. The award will be used to supplement and expand upon Onufriev’s existing research award sponsored by NIGMS.

Naren Ramakrishnan has recently received two awards. The first, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Labs Innovation Research , “ Temporal Data Mining Solutions for Sustainable Data Centers”, and a second from the National Science Foundation titled “III:Medium: Collaborative Research: Integration, Prediction, And Generation Of Mixed Models Information Using Graphical Models.

Adrian Sandu has been awarded a National Science Foundation award titled “Collaborative Research: A Computational Framework for Assessing the Observation Impact in Air Quality Forecasting.

Cliff Shaffer and Stephen Edwards  have received two awards from the National Science Foundation this fall. The first titled  “The Algoviz Portal: Lowering the Barriers into an Online Educational Community,” and the second for a workshop called “Algoviz Project Steering Committee Workshop” .

Francis Quek and Pardha Pyla have received an award from Bloomberg, LP for a project titled “Analysis and Development of Interaction Designs for Bloomberg’s Internal Systems.

Liqing Zhang has received funding through a USDA/CSREES  award titled “Genome-Wide Identification of STAT5 Binding Sequences in Cattle.”