Grants

New Research Grants 2008-09

The Computer Science and Engineering faculty have received $3.6M of new funding this year to carry out research. Most of the funding came from the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF), where the proposals are reviewed by a panel of experts and the award process is extremely competitive.

1. NSF III-CXT-Large:

   Collaborative Research: Interactive and intelligent searching of biological images by query and network navigation with learning capabilities
   PI: Eamonn Keogh, Co-PIs: Michalis Faloutsos, Paul Delay (UCR dept Nematology), James G. Baldwin (UCR dept Nematology), Amit K. Roy Chowdhury (EE)

2. NSF III-Cor:

   Tools to Mine and Index Trajectories of Physical Artifacts
   PI: E. Keogh, Co-PI’s: Vassilis Tsotras, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Sang-Hee Lee (UCR anthropology)

3. Sponsor: NSF

   NEDG: Application Oriented Edge Routers
   PI: Laxmi Bhuyan

4. Sponsor: NSF

   Virtualization-Aware Architectures to Accelerate Network I/O Processing
   PI: Laxmi Bhuyan

5. Sponsor: NSF

   A Graph-Based Approach to Traffic Monitoring and Application Classification
   PI: Michalis Faloutsos

6. Sponsor: NSF

   Hardware Support for FPGA-based Code Acceleration
   PI: Walid Najjar

7. Sponsor: NSF

   I-BLOCK: Understanding and Filtering of Malicious IP Traffic
   PI: Athina Markopoulou (UCI), Co-PI: Michalis Faloutsos (UCR)

8. Sponsor: Matrixware, Vienna, Austria

   IR-Application Speed-up with dynamically Reconfigurable FPGA
   PI: Walid Najjar

9. Sponsor: NSF

   Symbolic computation of bounds on timing and probabilistic properties of computing systems
   PI: Gianfranco Ciardo

10. Sponsor: INTEL

    CPU+NIC Architectures to Accelerate I/O Processing
    PI: Laxmi Bhuyan

11. Sponsor: CISCO

    How Well Can We Detect VoIP and Video Traffic?
    PI: Michalis Faloutsos

12. Sponsor: USDA CSREES Proposal #2008-02162

    GS-5 Certified: Increasing Soil Science Educational Opportunities Online for Undergraduate Students and USDA Employees
    PI: Heather Smith, Co-PI: Victor Zordan

13. Sponsor: NIH

    Identifying microorganisms involved in human health and disease processes
    PI: J. Borneman, Co-PIs: Marek Chrobak, Tao Jiang, Daniel Jeske, Xinping Cui, Jonathan Braun (UCLA)