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Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics · Molecular Biology

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Publications226
Citations14,615

Grants

37 total · 20 active

NSF #2226501

Collaborative Research: A Bioinspired Approach towards Sustainable Membranes for Resilient Brine Treatment

Expiring Soon
Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2022-10-012026-09-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Tennessee Knoxville

NSF #2106859

III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Collaborative Machine-Learning-Centric Data Analytics at Scale

Expiring Soon
Amount
$400K–$500K
Period
2021-10-012026-09-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of California-Los Angeles

NIH #OT2OD038003

Co-designing Ethical Multimodal AI Systems for Mapping T1D Progression

Expiring Soon
Amount
$1M–$2M
Period
2025-09-012026-08-31
PIs
7

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR

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All Grants

37 total · 20 active

NSF #2226501

Collaborative Research: A Bioinspired Approach towards Sustainable Membranes for Resilient Brine Treatment

Expiring Soon
Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2022-10-012026-09-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Tennessee Knoxville

NSF #2106859

III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Collaborative Machine-Learning-Centric Data Analytics at Scale

Expiring Soon
Amount
$400K–$500K
Period
2021-10-012026-09-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of California-Los Angeles

NIH #OT2OD038003

Co-designing Ethical Multimodal AI Systems for Mapping T1D Progression

Expiring Soon
Amount
$1M–$2M
Period
2025-09-012026-08-31
PIs
7

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR

NIH #R01AG098026

Developing robust zero-shot AI models for anti-aging antibody design

Active
Amount
$600K–$700K
Period
2026-02-012031-01-31
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

NIH #R01CA295996

Targeted MDM2 degradation for improved treatment for triple-negative breast cancer

Active
Amount
$600K–$700K
Period
2025-08-072030-07-31
PIs
2

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCI CTR

NSF #2434182

Collaborative Research: EducateAI: CUE-T: Designing Artificial Intelligence Curricula for All Undergrads

Active
Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2025-10-012029-09-30
PIs
3

Awarded at Northeastern Illinois University

NIH #U54OD036472

CONNECT: Collaborative Network for Nurturing Ecosystems of Common Fund Team Science

Active
Amount
$1M–$2M
Period
2024-04-012029-03-31
PIs
5

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM

NIH #U24DK097771

dkNET Coordinating Unit: Harnessing the Power of AI and Data Science forCollaborative Discovery and Sharing in the DK Community

Active
Amount
$2M–$3M
Period
2012-12-012029-02-28
PIs
4

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

NSF #2336504

CAREER: Harnessing the Interplay of Morphology, Viscoelasticity, and Surface-Active Agents to Modulate Soft Wetting

Active
Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2024-02-152029-01-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Tennessee Knoxville

NIH #R00GM147598

Robust atomic-level enzymatic activity study by time-resolved crystallography and computational enzymology

Active
Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2022-08-152028-12-31
PIs
1

Awarded at ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI

NIH #R01DA056187

Low-input profiling of brain-region and cell-type specific epigenomic dynamics to understand gene-environment interactions in opioid addiction

Active
Amount
$600K–$700K
Period
2023-09-152028-06-30
PIs
3

Awarded at VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV

NSF #2428569

CIF: Small: Tackling Demand and Service Uncertainty in Multi-Access Parallel Computing

Active
Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2024-12-012027-11-30
PIs
2

Awarded at Carnegie Mellon University

NSF #2432545

Collaborative Research: New Algorithms and Theory for Weakly Coupled Markov Decision Processes

Active
Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2024-10-012027-09-30
PIs
1

Awarded at Carnegie Mellon University

NSF #2410740

Collaborative Research: Energetic Variation Based Numerical Studies in Complex Fluids with Thermo-Chemo-Mechanical Effects

Active
Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2024-09-152027-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of California-Riverside

NIH #K22CA282264

Investigating the mechanism of K17-mediated immunosuppression in papillomavirus-induced cancers

Active
Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2024-09-012027-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at HENRY FORD HEALTH + MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES

NSF #2552431

CRII: CIF: Exploiting, Modeling, and Leveraging Hidden Features in IoT for Efficient and Secure Communication

Active
Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2025-07-012027-06-30
PIs
1

Awarded at Texas Tech University

NSF #1926648

QCIS-FF: A Software Stack for Quantum Computing

Active
Amount
$700K–$800K
Period
2020-07-012027-06-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of California-Los Angeles

NSF #2202632

Enhancing Programming and Machine Learning Education for Students with Visual Impairments through the Use of Compilers, AI and Cloud Technologies

Active
Amount
$700K–$800K
Period
2022-06-152027-05-31
PIs
3

Awarded at University of Texas at San Antonio

NSF #2155096

Collaborative Research: SHF: Small: Exploiting Performance Correlations for Accurate and Low-cost Performance Testing for Serverless Computing

Active
Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2022-06-152027-05-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Texas at San Antonio

NIH #R01HG009626

Identification and analysis of non-coding loci critical for cell viability and chromatin organization

Active
Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2017-06-032027-04-30
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

NSF #2215359

An Educational Tool for Teaching and Learning Concurrent Computer Programming Techniques

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2022-07-012026-06-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Texas at San Antonio

NSF #2221843

Collaborative Research: EAGER: Enhancing Security and Privacy of Augmented Reality Mobile Applications through Software Behavior Analysis

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2022-06-152026-05-31
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Texas at San Antonio

NSF #2200274

PIPP Phase I: An End-to-End Pandemic Early Warning System by Harnessing Open-source Intelligence

Amount
$900K–$1000K
Period
2022-09-012026-02-28
PIs
5

Awarded at University of California-Los Angeles

NSF #2347888

CRII: CIF: Exploiting, Modeling, and Leveraging Hidden Features in IoT for Efficient and Secure Communication

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2024-07-012025-10-31
PIs
1

Awarded at Saint Louis University

NSF #2010284

Collaborative Research; RUI: Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Pricing for Wireless Multimedia Communications

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2020-08-012024-07-31
PIs
1

Awarded at San Diego State University Foundation

NSF #2031187

RAPID: Dynamic Graph Neural Networks for Modeling and Monitoring COVID-19 Pandemic

Amount
<$100K
Period
2020-06-012023-05-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of California-Los Angeles

NSF #1744182

NeTS: EAGER: Exploring Smart Media Pricing In QoE-Driven Network Economics To Revitalize Wireless Multimedia Resource Allocation

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2018-01-012021-12-31
PIs
1

Awarded at San Diego State University Foundation

NSF #1565137

ABI Innovation: Next Generation Quantitative RNA Sequence Analysis

Amount
$600K–$700K
Period
2016-07-012021-06-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of California-Los Angeles

NSF #1832544

NSF Student Support for the 2018 ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2018)

Amount
<$100K
Period
2018-05-012020-04-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of California-Los Angeles

NSF #1903983

SusChEM: Direct functionalization of aldehydes enabled by aminocatalysis

Amount
<$100K
Period
2019-02-152019-11-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Arizona

NSF #1463768

NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Cross Layer Exploration of Position-Value Diversity for Energy Constrained Wireless Multimedia Resource Allocation

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2014-09-092019-09-30
PIs
1

Awarded at San Diego State University Foundation

NSF #1565085

SusChEM: Direct functionalization of aldehydes enabled by aminocatalysis

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2016-07-012019-02-28
PIs
1

Awarded at University of New Mexico

NSF #1418953

Efficient high order methods for two multiscale problems

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2015-01-012018-12-31
PIs
1

Awarded at Florida International University

NSF #1536361

III: Student Travel Fellowships for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2015

Amount
<$100K
Period
2015-07-012017-06-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of California-Los Angeles

NSF #1437503

Supporting US-Based Students to Attend the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2014)

Amount
<$100K
Period
2014-04-012016-03-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of California-Los Angeles

NSF #1423133

NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Cross Layer Exploration of Position-Value Diversity for Energy Constrained Wireless Multimedia Resource Allocation

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2014-10-012014-10-31
PIs
2

Awarded at South Dakota State University

NSF #1162369

III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Toward Robust and Scalable Discovering of Significant Associations in Massive Genetic Data

Amount
$400K–$500K
Period
2012-10-012012-12-31
PIs
2

Awarded at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Recent Public Signals

  1. New paper: A real-time coherent processing method for distributed collaborative electronic reconnaissance (IET conference proceedings.)2026-07-01
  2. New preprint: Generative Artificial Intelligence for Biology: Toward Unifying Models, Algorithms, and Modalities2026-02-12
  3. New NIH award: Developing robust zero-shot AI models for anti-aging antibody design2026-02-01

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