Active Grants
Please visit each faculty member’s research website to learn more about their activities.
Irfan Ahmed
- "WindSCAPE: Wind Strategic Cyber Analysis and Protection Environment", Department of Energy (DOE)
- “CyManII Cyber Vulnerability Research", Department of Energy (DOE)
- "Electromagnetic Side-channel Monitoring for Detecting Control Logic Attacks in Industrial Control Systems", National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- "Endpoint Detection of Military Industrial Control Systems", US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
- "PLC Forensic Toolset for Industrial Control Systems", Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- “Data Science-integrated Experiential Digital Forensics Training based-on Real-world Case Studies of Cybercrime Artifacts", Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- "OAC Core: Small: MedKnights - Towards Secure and Flexible Medical IoT (IoMT) Infrastructure using Generative Adversarial Networks", National Science Foundation (NSF)
- "CyberTraining: Implementation: Small: Using Problem-Based Learning for VocationalTraining in Cyberinfrastructure Security at Community Colleges", National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Digital Forensics Experiential Learning Program with Virginia State Police", Virginia Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI)
- "Digital Forensics Challenge for Cyber-Physical Systems", Virginia Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI)
Tomasz Arodz
- "Virginia Pathogen Genomics Center of Excellence” – CDC
- "MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of NVIDIA DGX H100 GPU system for research and education at VCU" – NSF
- “Center for Microbiome Engineering and Data Analysis” – VCU OVPRI
Eyuphan Bulut
- “iTREAT – Improved Treatment using Advanced Technologies” - Commonwealth Health Research Board (CHRB)
- “A Device Free WiFi Sensing System to Assess Daily Activities and Mobility in Low-Income Older Adults With and without Cognitive Impairment” - PennAITech (NIH funded center)
- "CyberMobile: Secure Mobile (iOS) Development through Experiential Learning" – Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI)
- "Low-cost and Long-lasting Soil Moisture Sensing with WiFi signals and Energy Harvesting" – Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI)
- "Understanding the Vulnerability of Cyber-Physical Systems with Attack Paths Analysis with its Evaluation in UAV-IoT Networks" – Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI)
- “At-Home Monitoring of PD Patients through Non-Invasive WiFi Sensing” - Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Center (PMDC)
- "REU Site: End-User Programming of Cyber-Physical Systems" – NSF
Kostadin Damevski
- “Epistemic Human-Robot Interaction for Every-day Collaborative Operations” - Commonwealth Cyber Initiative
- “CyberDevOps: Empowering the Future Cybersecurity Workforce in Virginia through Hands-On DevOps Training” - Commonwealth Cyber Initiative
- “Cross Reality (XR) Arts & Technology Empowered by Generative and Emotion AI” - Korea Creative Content Agency
- “Leveraging Scholarships and Vertically Integrated Projects to Increase Transfer Undergraduates Engagement, Capacity, and Continuity in Computer Science” - NSF (co-PI)
- “Enhancing Multidisciplinary STEM Undergraduate Education through Living Labs” - NSF (co-PI)
- “Collaborative Research: Towards Engaged, Personalized and Transferable Learning of Secure Programming by Leveraging Real-World Security Vulnerabilities” - NSF
- “Data Science-integrated Experiential Digital Forensics Training based-on Real-world Case Studies of Cybercrime Artifacts", Department of Homeland Security (co-PI)
- “REU Site: End-User Programming of Cyber-Physical Systems” - NSF
Thang Dinh
- “Collaborative Research: AMPS: Rethinking State Estimation for Power Distribution Systems in Quantum-era”, - NSF
- “Quantum Leap for Health Optimization”, VCU Quest Fund
- “Weakly-supervised Federated Graph Learning for Cyber-Physical Systems” - CCI
Preetam Ghosh
- "Health Information Gateway and Exchange (HINGE): Radiation Oncology Data Analytics Portal " – US Dept. of Veteran Affairs
- "Quantification and Characterization of Bulk and L1CAM-Enriched Exosomal MicroRNA Cargo in Healthy Young People" - NIH
- "Characterizing the Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Neuron-Derived Exosomal MicroRNA Cargo in an Adolescent-Young Adult Twin Cohort" - NIH
- “An Integrated experimental and deep learning framework to identify synergistic drug combination against prostate cancer” - VCU Quest
- “Applications of Deep Learning to Predict Anti-Prostate Cancer Drug Synergy” - Commonwealth Health Research Board (CHRB)
- “Making heterogeneous clinical data AI-ready with applications to Radiation Oncology” - VCU Breakthrough.
Lukasz Kurgan
- “III: Small: Integrated Prediction of Intrinsic Disorder and Disorder Functions with Modular Multi-label Deep Learning” – NSF
- “Collaborative Research: Identification and Structural Modeling of Intrinsically Disordered Protein-Protein and Protein-Nucleic Acids Interactions” – NSF
Changqing Luo
- “Physical Adversarial Attacks on Wi-Fi Sensing Systems for Monitoring Parkinson’s Disease Patients,” VCU Health/Parkinson’s and Movement Disorder Center (PMDC)
- “Safeguard Communications from Smart Health Devices with DNS-based Key Management Infrastructure,” Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI)
- “Empowering Future Cyber Professionals Through Exploring Secure AI Model Inference for IoT Systems,” Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI)
- “Intelligent Grid Implementation,” Texas-New Mexico Power Company
John Leonard
- VCU National Coordinating Center for Advancing Gender Inclusive Excellence (AGIE) - NIH (co-PI)
- Enhancing Multidisciplinary STEM Undergraduate Education through Living Labs - NSF (co-PI)
Milos Manic
- Embedding Expert Bias in Machine Learning for Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructures, Sponsor: Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative, PI: Milos Manic, Co-PIs Chathurika Wickramasinghe, Daniel Marino
- CCI Fellowship, funded by Virginia Tech Hub of Commonwealth Cyber Initiative
- Advanced Data Analytics Toolbox and Sensitivity Analysis in Support of Smart High Precision Experiments and Data Management, Department of Energy
- Retropubic Sling Virtual Reality Training System, Value and Efficiency Teaching and Research (VETAR), VCU Health (VCUHS), PI: Lauren Siff, Co-PI Milos Manic INL Fleet and simulator support, Department of Energy/Idaho National Laboratory
- Cyber-Physical Anomaly Detection for Wind, DOE/BEA
- Solar-Assisted State-Aware and ResillienT Infrastructure System Data Driven Models for Threat Detection and Visualization, DOE/BEA
- Protective Relay Master Fault Detector AI Algorithm, DOE/BEA
Bridget McInnes
- "Jeffress Trust Awards Program in Interdisciplinary Research. Advancing Biomedical Research with Machine Assisted Experimental Design." Bridget McInnes, PhD. Nastassja Lewinski, PhD.
- Data Science Supplement: Directed Self-Assembly of Multifunctional Polymer Nanoreactors for Sustainable Chemical Manufacturing: National Science Foundation
- Collaborative Research: Accelerating Synthetic Biology Discovery & Exploration through Knowledge Integration: National Science Foundation
- Leveraging Unlabeled and Pseudo Data for Clinical Information Extraction: National Institutes of Health, Division: National Library of Medicine
- Advancing biomedical research with machine assisted experimental design: Jeffress Trust
Tamer Nadeem
- NeTS: Small: SMILE -- Towards Smarter Network Edges for Next Generation Networks – NSF
Rodrigo Spinola
- Leveraging Scholarships and Vertically Integrated Projects to Increase Transfer Undergraduates Engagement, Capacity, and Continuity in Computer Science - NSF (PI)
- Enhancing Multidisciplinary STEM Undergraduate Education through Living Labs - NSF (PI)
- Development of a Novel Virtual Reality Treatment for Emerging Adults with ADHD - VCU Breakthroughs (PI)
Ahmet Sonmez
- “Cultivating Cybersecurity Skills and Collaboration: Empowering Through Cybersecurity Competition Teams” – Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Experiential Learning Grant (PI)