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Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies · Molecular Biology

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h-index38
i10-index80
Publications196
Citations10,058

Grants

35 total · 18 active

NSF #2120276

Collaborative Research: CCRI: New: Nation-wide Community-based Mobile Edge Sensing and Computing Testbeds

Expiring Soon
Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2021-10-01 → 2026-09-30
PIs
1

Awarded at Temple University

NIH #R03DE033631

Longitudinal Oral Microbiome for HIV/HEU/HUU Children Aged 3-4 in Western Kenya

Expiring Soon
Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2024-09-20 → 2026-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES

NSF #2440202

CAREER: Quantifying the Emission and Health Impacts of Aerosols Generated from Southeast U.S. Wetland Biomass Burning

Active
Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2025-09-01 → 2030-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Miami

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All Grants

35 total · 18 active

NSF #2120276

Collaborative Research: CCRI: New: Nation-wide Community-based Mobile Edge Sensing and Computing Testbeds

Expiring Soon
Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2021-10-01 → 2026-09-30
PIs
1

Awarded at Temple University

NIH #R03DE033631

Longitudinal Oral Microbiome for HIV/HEU/HUU Children Aged 3-4 in Western Kenya

Expiring Soon
Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2024-09-20 → 2026-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES

NSF #2440202

CAREER: Quantifying the Emission and Health Impacts of Aerosols Generated from Southeast U.S. Wetland Biomass Burning

Active
Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2025-09-01 → 2030-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Miami

NSF #2440023

CAREER: Generative Deep Learning for Post-Disaster Spatial Regeneration Planning

Active
Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2025-08-15 → 2030-07-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Florida

NIH #K23HL173831

The Role of Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption on Ischemic Brain Injury and Cognitive Impairment in Sickle Cell Disease

Active
Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2025-08-01 → 2030-04-30
PIs
1

Awarded at WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

NIH #U01CA286810

Assessing Benefits and Harms of Medical Cannabis and Cannabinoid Use in Breast Cancer Patients During and After Treatments

Active
Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2023-09-20 → 2029-08-31
PIs
2

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

NIH #R21DC022922

Human Organ of Corti Micromechanics

Active
Amount
$600K–$700K
Period
2025-08-01 → 2028-07-31
PIs
1

Awarded at MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY

NSF #2329279

Collaborative Research: SaTC: TTP: Medium: Securing Public Safety with WiFi-based In-baggage Suspicious Object Detection

Active
Amount
$400K–$500K
Period
2024-07-15 → 2028-06-30
PIs
1

Awarded at Temple University

NSF #2311597

Collaborative Research: III: Small: Efficient and Robust Multi-model Data Analytics for Edge Computing

Active
Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2023-09-01 → 2027-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at Temple University

NIH #P01AA029547

A wrist biosensor-based mHealth suite to support alcohol intervention in young people living with HIV

Active
Amount
<$100K
Period
2021-09-10 → 2027-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

NSF #2414365

Collaborative Research: SaTC: EDU: Education on Securing AI System under Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks

Active
Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2024-08-15 → 2027-07-31
PIs
1

Awarded at Temple University

NSF #2316450

Spatial Explanation and Planning for Resilience of Community-Based Small Businesses to Environmental Shocks

Active
Amount
$400K–$500K
Period
2023-08-15 → 2027-07-31
PIs
3

Awarded at University of Florida

NIH #R01AA030481

Technology-based assessments and intervention to reduce alcohol consumption and improve HIV viral suppression in the Florida Cohort

Active
Amount
$600K–$700K
Period
2022-09-20 → 2027-07-31
PIs
2

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

NIH #R21OH012793

Exploring Body Mass Index and Health Disparities on Lung Function Trajectories in WTC Survivors.

Active
Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2025-07-01 → 2027-06-30
PIs
1

Awarded at NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

NIH #R21CA292195

Tobacco use trajectories and related mechanisms among US adults and youth representing minority and intersecting minority identities

Active
Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2025-04-11 → 2027-03-31
PIs
2

Awarded at GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

NSF #2145389

CAREER: Efficient Mobile Edge Oriented Deep Learning Framework

Active
Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2022-03-01 → 2027-02-28
PIs
1

Awarded at Temple University

NSF #2047109

CAREER: Fundamental Investigation of the Wave Nature of Lattice Thermal Transport

Active
Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2021-07-01 → 2026-12-31
PIs
1

Awarded at Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno

NIH #R01AG071729

Real-Time and Long-Term Effects of Medical Marijuana on Older Adults: A Prospective Cohort Study

Active
Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2022-02-15 → 2026-11-30
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

NSF #2211696

Collaborative Research: Cross-plane Heat Conduction in 2D Materials under Large Compressive Strain

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2022-06-15 → 2026-05-31
PIs
1

Awarded at Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno

NSF #2033424

RII Track-4: Low-temperature Laser Sintering and Melting of Semiconductors Through Selective Excitation of Soft Phonons

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2021-02-01 → 2026-01-31
PIs
1

Awarded at Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno

NSF #2505675

RAPID: Assessing Urgent Time Use Dynamics Among Time-Poor Populations in Preparation for Hurricane Helene and Milton

Amount
<$100K
Period
2024-12-01 → 2025-11-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Florida

NSF #1953300

CDS&E: Nanoconfined Heating via Ultrahigh-repetition-rate Lasers for Enhanced Surface Processing

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2020-07-01 → 2024-12-31
PIs
2

Awarded at Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno

NSF #2124858

SCC-PG: SmartCurb: Building Smart Urban Curb Environments

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2021-10-01 → 2023-09-30
PIs
3

Awarded at University of Florida

NSF #2000480

SHF: Small: Collaborative Research: Software Hardware Architecture Co-design for Low-power Heterogeneous Edge Devices

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2019-09-01 → 2023-09-30
PIs
1

Awarded at Temple University

NSF #2028858

Collaborative Research: PPoSS: Planning: Hardware-accelerated Trustworthy Deep Neural Network

Amount
<$100K
Period
2020-10-01 → 2022-09-30
PIs
1

Awarded at Temple University

NSF #1826392

Collaborative Research: Photon-Enabled Atomic Drilling of Graphene for Supercapacitors

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2018-09-01 → 2022-08-31
PIs
2

Awarded at Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno

NSF #1608398

Structure, Composition and Ionic Conduction in Amorphous Lithium Solid Electrolyte

Amount
$400K–$500K
Period
2016-09-15 → 2021-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

NSF #2028012

RAPID: Dynamic Interactions between Human and Information in Complex Online Environments Responding to SARS-COV-2

Amount
<$100K
Period
2020-06-01 → 2021-05-31
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Florida

NSF #1663227

Probabilistic Design of Systems of Cyber-Physical Systems

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2017-05-15 → 2021-04-30
PIs
1

Awarded at Georgia Tech Research Corporation

NSF #1910547

SHF: Small: Collaborative Research: Software Hardware Architecture Co-design for Low-power Heterogeneous Edge Devices

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2019-10-01 → 2019-11-30
PIs
1

Awarded at SUNY at Binghamton

NSF #1566455

CRII: NeTS: Ubiquitous Sensing based Location-aware Driving Safety System

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2016-07-01 → 2019-06-30
PIs
1

Awarded at SUNY at Binghamton

NSF #1640647

PFI:AIR - TT: Scale-up Dry-Powder based Additive Manufactured Electrodes to Lower the Cost of Li-ion Batteries

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2016-09-15 → 2019-02-28
PIs
1

Awarded at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

NSF #1547102

EAGER: Cybermanufacturing: Predictive Analytics Models and Techniques for Intelligent Cybermanufacturing

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2015-09-01 → 2017-08-31
PIs
2

Awarded at Georgia Tech Research Corporation

NSF #1632191

NSF Student Travel Grant for 2016 ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom)

Amount
<$100K
Period
2016-05-01 → 2017-04-30
PIs
1

Awarded at SUNY at Binghamton

NIH #ZICDE000751

Mass Spectrometry Facility

Amount
$800K–$900K
Period
— → —
PIs
1

Awarded at NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL & CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH

Recent Public Signals

  1. New paper: Life cycle assessment of soil testing, formulated fertilization, and straw returning practices in staple and oilseed cropping systems: a multi-site analysis in Chongqing, China (Environment Development and Sustainability)2025-12-09
  2. New preprint: Description of <i>Gopheromyces tardescens</i> , gen. nov., sp.nov., <i>Gigasporangiomyces pilosus,</i> gen. nov., sp.nov., <i>Kelyphomyces adhaerens,</i> gen. nov., sp. nov., proposal of <i>Testudinimycetales</i> ord. nov. and <i>Testudinimycetaceae</i> fam. nov., and emended description of the order <i>Neocallimastigales</i>2025-11-20
  3. New NSF award: CAREER: Quantifying the Emission and Health Impacts of Aerosols Generated from Southeast U.S. Wetland Biomass Burning2025-09-01

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