Computer science researchers at UT Dallas have won several million dollars in research grants in recent months for work to be done in a range of areas, including network planning, data privacy, sensors and health care.
Dr. Gopal Gupta
“Our proactive efforts in bolstering research funding to computer science faculty are definitely bearing fruit,” said Dr. Gopal Gupta, head of the computer science department. “Our recent focus on collaborative multidisciplinary research has been one important factor, and the dean of engineering and computer science, Dr. Mark Spong, has been particularly encouraging and supportive of our faculty members’ grant proposals.”
Collaborators on the projects include researchers from the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Purdue University; The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; and Southern Methodist University.
The surge in funding not only supports one of the University’s strategic initiatives – strengthening research productivity, the engine that drives innovation – but could also contribute to Gupta’s objective to increase entrepreneurial activities that flow from his department’s computer science research.
“I am confident these projects will produce cutting-edge research results, some of which may well lead to companies being founded a few years down the road by the students and faculty involved,” he said.
The department is also making efforts to bring entrepreneurship education to as many computer science students as possible. Already, for instance, a software entrepreneurship component is being added to computer science and software engineering students’ senior design classes, which culminate students’ education.
There’s only one downside that Gupta sees to the recent spike in funding awards.
“Our bar for next year keeps rising,” he recently told computer science faculty and staff. “We all will have to work hard to exceed it.”
Recent Computer Science Research Funding |
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| Analysis and Modeling of Very Large Networks Andras Farago National Science Foundation, $500,000 |
Optimizing Performance and Lifetime of Embedded Flash-Memory Systems Edwin Sha Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, $132,000 |
| Reactively Adaptive Malware Kevin Hamlen, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Latifur Khan Air Force Office of Scientific Research, $450,000 (See previous story.) |
Exploiting Multi-modality for Tele-Immersion Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, Xiaohu Guo, Roozbeh Jafari, Mark Spong National Science Foundation, $2.5 million |
| Maximizing Performance and Lifetime for Non-Volatile Main Memory Systems Edwin Sha National Science Foundation, $500,000 |
Development of Wireless Networking Testbed and Emulator Ravi Prakash, S. Venkatesan, Neeraj Mittal, Bhaskar Banerjee National Science Foundation, $1 million |
| Protocols for Privacy-Preserving Scalable Record Matching and Ontology Alignment Murat Kantarcioglu, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Latifur Khan National Science Foundation, $450,000 (See previous story.) |
Pico Life: Augmented, Multi-player 3D Mobile Gaming World Xiaohu Guo, B. Prabhakaran Texas Instruments Foundation, $50,000 |
| Analysis of Language Samples for Detecting Language Impairment in Monolingual and Bilingual Children Yang Liu National Science Foundation, $195,000 |
SimSys: An Engaging Game for Software Engineering Education Kendra Cooper, Joao Cangussu and Monica Evans Microsoft Research Foundation, $25,000 |
| Undersea Spatial Sensor Networks for Intrusion Detection Weili Wu National Science Foundation, $100,000 |
Computational Modeling for Emotion and Affect in Social-Cultural Interaction Yang Liu Air Force Young Investigator Program, $359,000 (See previous story.) |
| Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service Program Kamil Sarac, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Kevin Hamlen, Murat Kantarcioglu, Edwin Sha National Science Foundation, $1.8 million (See previous story.) |
A Comprehensive Approach for Data Quality Provenance in Sensor Networks Murat Kantarcioglu National Science Foundation, $150,000 (See previous story.) |
| Tumor and Organs at Risk Motion: Better DMLC IMRT Delivery Systems Ovidiu Daescu National Science Foundation, $560,000 |
Training Students for Careers in Information Assurance Latifur Khan, Kamil Sarac National Security Agency, $44,000 |
| Incorporating Software Testing Into Undergraduate Courses Eric Wong, Gopal Gupta, Latifur Khan, Sook Kim National Science Foundation, $250,000 |
Secure Semantic Information Grid for NCES and Border Security Applications Bhavani Thuraisingham, Murat Kantarcioglu Air Force Office of Scientific Research, $44,000 |
| National Chemical and Hazard Materials Reference and Planning Tool Doug Harris Department of Homeland Security, $866,000 |
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