PIs and Co-PIs only include members of the UMass Boston Computer Science department.

Culture Change in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Public University System

Source of funds Sloan Foundation
PI(s) Daniel Haehn
Start Date February 2023
End Date February 2025
Amount $499,972.00 (UMB share $184,228)

The Oregon-Massachusetts Mammography Database (OMAMA-DB)

Source of funds Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
PI(s) Daniel Haehn, Nurit Haspel, Dan Simovici, Marc Pomplun
Start Date June 2020
End Date June 2023
Amount $749,834.00

Real-Time Visualization and Precision Targeting in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Source of funds National Institutes of Health R21
PI(s) Daniel Haehn
Start Date June 2021
End Date June 2023
Amount $493,011.00 (UMB share $156,663.00)

EAGER: III: Collaborative Research: In silico Algorithm for Assessing the Effects of Amino Acid Insertion and Deletion Mutations

Source of funds NNational Science Foundation(https://www.nsf.gov)
PI(s) Nurit Haspel
Start Date July 2020
End Date June 2022
Amount $150,000.00 (UMB share $72,684)

Exploiting Voice Assistant Systems for Early Detection of Cognitive Decline

Source of funds NIH/NIA
PI(s) Xiaohui Liang
Start Date Sep. 30, 2019
End Date May 31, 2023
Amount $1,179,714 (UMB share $596,844)

Practical Encryption for Geospatial Queries on Private Data

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Gabriel Ghinita
Start Date Oct. 1, 2019
End Date Sep. 30, 2022
Amount $209,186.00

Digital Marker of Marijuana Intoxication: Measure of Dysfunctional Retinal Gangli

Source of funds IMMAD LLC
PI(s) Marc Pomplun
Start Date Dec. 15, 2018
End Date March 31, 2019
Amount $36,798

Supporting U.S.-Based Students to Participate in the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2018)

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Wei Ding
Start Date June 1, 2018
End Date May 31, 2020
Amount $1,000

Supporting U.S.-Based Students to Participate in the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2018)

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Wei Ding
Start Date June 1, 2018
End Date May 31, 2020
Amount $24,000

Data-Driven Automatic Interior

Source of funds Wayfair LLC
PI(s) Craig Yu
Start Date June 1, 2018
End Date Dec 31, 2018
Amount $33,039

EAGER: Advanced Machine Learning Techniques to Discover Disease Subtypes in Cancer

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Wei Ding
Start Date July 1, 2017
End Date June 30, 2020
Amount $149,881

EAGER: Advanced Machine Learning Techniques to Discover Disease Subtypes in Cancer

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Wei Ding
Start Date July 1, 2017
End Date June 30, 2020
Amount $16,000

Additive Manufactacturing Simulator (AMS)

Source of funds Product Innovation and Engineering
PI(s) Kenneth Fletcher
Start Date April 10, 2017
End Date April 9, 2019
Amount $100,000

NeTS: Small: Collaborative: Towards Privacy-Preserving Autonomous Vehicle

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Xiaohui Liang
Start Date Sept 1, 2016
End Date Aug 31, 2020
Amount $135,348

CRII: CHS: Perceptual Data Guided Computational Design

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Marc Pomplun
Start Date July 1, 2016
End Date June 30, 2019
Amount $158,806

Participant Support - CRII: CHS: Perceptual Data Guided Computational Design

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Marc Pomplun
Start Date July 1, 2016
End Date June 30, 2019
Amount $27,900

Novel Approaches for Predicting Fee-Living Physical Activities in Youth

Source of funds University of Tennessee
PI(s) Wei Ding
Start Date June 6, 2016
End Date March 31, 2019
Amount $442,612

Women in Science: Extension Services for Undergraduate Services/Strategic Plan for Recruitment

Source of funds Stevens Institue of Technology
PI(s) Wei Ding
Start Date Jan. 14, 2016
End Date Jan. 13, 2017
Amount $8,000

NeTS: Small: New models and techniques for efficient communication in smartphone ad-hoc networks

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Bo Sheng
Start Date Oct. 1, 2015
End Date Sept. 30, 2019
Amount $8,000

NeTS: Small: New models and techniques for efficient communication in smartphone ad-hoc networks

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Bo Sheng
Start Date Oct. 1, 2015
End Date Sept. 30, 2019
Amount $199,998

SaTC: EDU: Capacity Building in Security, Privacy and Trust for Geospatial Applications

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Gabriel Ghinita
Start Date Sept. 15, 2015
End Date Aug. 31, 2018
Amount $237,783

Leveraging Expertise in Neurotechnologies to Study Individual Differences

Source of funds University of Florida
PI(s) Matthew Schneps
Start Date Sept. 15, 2015
End Date Aug. 31, 2018
Amount $250,000

EAGER: Harnessing Dependency to Achieve Efficient Resource Management in Scalable Multi-stage Data Processing Systems

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Bo Sheng
Start Date Sept. 1, 2015
End Date Dec. 31, 2017
Amount $124,998

EAGER: Harnessing Dependency to Achieve Efficient Resource Management in Scalable Multi-stage Data Processing Systems

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Bo Sheng
Start Date Sept. 1, 2015
End Date Dec. 31, 2017
Amount $16,998

A Virtual Reality Platform for Visual Attention Research

Source of funds UMass Boston Healey Grant
PI(s) Marc Pomplun, Craig Yu
Start Date July. 1, 2015
End Date June. 30, 2016
Amount $11,599

Software-Defined Privacy-Preserving Network Measurement Instrument

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Gabriel Ghinita
Start Date April. 1, 2015
End Date March. 31, 2019
Amount $416,574

Privacy-Preserving Protocols for Network Measurement to Support Data-Driven Science Discovery

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Gabriel Ghinita
Start Date March. 31, 2015
End Date March. 31, 2018
Amount $416,574

Towards Context-Sensitive Forecasting

Source of funds Ford Motor Company
PI(s) Ming Ouyang
Start Date Jan. 1, 2015
End Date Dec. 31, 2015
Amount $10,000

Advanced Data Mining to Discover Disease Subtypes in Cancer

Source of funds Dana Farber Cancer Institute
PI(s) Wei Ding, Craig Yu
Start Date Dec. 1, 2014
Amount $91,000

Computational Assessment of Landing Performance

Source of funds Federal Aviation Administration
PI(s) Ming Ouyang Craig Yu
Start Date Aug. 1, 2014
End Date Oct. 31, 2015
Amount $122,467

A Prototypical Ontology-supported Intelligent Geospatial Feature Discovery System

Source of funds George Mason University
PI(s) Wei Ding, Craig Yu
Start Date July. 27, 2014
End Date July. 26, 2015
Amount $61,521

Computational Framework for Characterizing Protein Conformational Landscapes

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Nurit Haspel
Start Date July 1, 2014
End Date June 30, 2018
Amount $320,000

Video Categorization Using Spatio-Temporal Pattern Features w/ Ensemble Learning

Source of funds TCL Research America
PI(s) Wei Ding
Start Date June 1, 2014
End Date Aug, 31, 2020
Amount $87,500

Analysis of the Wet Chemistry Data from the Phoenix Mission

Source of funds National Aero and Space Administration
PI(s) Wei Ding
Start Date July 1, 2013
End Date May 31, 2016
Amount $305,268

A Prototypical Ontology-supported Intelligent Geospatial Feature Discovery System

Source of funds George Mason University
PI(s) Kenneth Fletcher
Start Date Sept 2, 2012
End Date July 26, 2015
Amount $59,752

Developing Novel Computational Methods for Investigating Protein Dynamics Using a Multi-Scale Approach

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Nurit Haspel
Start Date Sept. 1, 2011
End Date Aug. 31, 2014
Amount $249,774

Investigating a Framework for STEM-Reading to Support Secondary School Students

Source of funds Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
PI(s) Marc Pomplun
Start Date Sept. 1, 2011
End Date Aug. 31, 2014
Amount $9,000

NeTS: Small: Target Monitoring with Low-Cost Sensor Networks

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Duc Tran
Start Date Sept. 1, 2011
End Date Aug. 31, 2014
Amount $383,887

Privacy Enhanced Secure Data Provenance

Source of funds Purdue University
PI(s) Gabriel Ghinita
Start Date Aug. 1, 2011
End Date July 31, 2016
Amount $186,500

Electronics for Education Grant

Source of funds Enterasys, a Siemens Enterprise Communications Company
PI(s) Bill Campbell, Ron Chueng, Duc Tran
Start Date April 4, 2011
Amount $40,000

Consortium on Anytime-Anywhere-Anyway (AAA) Transportation Information

Source of funds UMass Presidents 2010 Science & Technology (S&T Initiatives)
PI(s) Wei Ding
Start Date Dec. 1, 2010
End Date Nov. 30, 2011
Amount $100,000

Establishment of the Northeast Coastal Watershed Geospatial Data Network

Source of funds Department of Energy
PI(s) Wei Ding
Start Date Sept. 15, 2010
End Date Sept. 15, 2011
Amount $291,600

Outreach: Crater Seeker for Mars and Beyond

Source of funds Supplemental Outreach Awards for ROSES Investigators (OUTREACH) Program
PI(s) Wei Ding
Start Date Sept. 1, 2010
End Date Aug. 31, 2014
Amount $80,000

Towards Rational Design of Amyloid-based Peptides to Self-assemble into Ordered Nano- or Micro-structures with Distinct Morphology

Source of funds UMass Boston Proposal Preparation Grant Program
PI(s) Nurit Haspel
Start Date July 1, 2010
End Date Dec. 31, 2011
Amount $10,000

Identification and Characterization of Biologically Active Metabolic Fragments of Pituitary Hormones: Has an Entire Area of Cell Signaling Been Missed?

Source of funds UMass Boston Healey Grant
PI(s) Nurit Haspel
Start Date July 1, 2010
End Date June 30, 2011
Amount $12,000

The Remapping of Visual-Perceptual Space by Saccadic Adaptation

Source of funds National Institute of Health
PI(s) Marc Pomplun
Start Date April 1, 2010
End Date March 31, 2012
Amount $279,645

A Generic and Extensible Model Transformation Framework (the 16th phase)

Source of funds OGIS Interantional, Inc.
PI(s) Jun Suzuki
Start Date Oct 1, 2009
End Date March 31, 2015
Amount $10,645

Automatic Detection of Sub-Kilometer Craters in High Resolution Planetary Images

Source of funds NASA
PI(s) Wei Ding
Start Date Sept. 1, 2009
End Date Aug 31, 2012
Amount $285,163

Common Sense: Quantitative Reasoning in the Undergraduate Curriculum

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Ethan Bolker
Start Date Jan. 5, 2009
End Date Dec 30, 2010
Amount $190,813

A Generic and Extensible Model Transformation Framework

Source of funds OGIS International
PI(s) Jun Suzuki
Start Date Oct. 1, 2007
End Date Sept. 30, 2008
Amount $20,000

A General Model for Saccadic Selectivity in Visual Search

Source of funds National Eye Institute
PI(s) Marc Pomplun
Start Date Sept. 1, 2007
End Date Aug. 30, 2009
Amount $207,810

A Biologically-inspired Autonomic Architecture for Self-Managing Wireless Sensor Networks

Source of funds UMass Boston Proposal Preparation Grant
PI(s) Jun Suzuki
Start Date April. 1, 2007
End Date March. 31, 2008
Amount $6,754

A Generic and Extensible Model Transformation Framework

Source of funds OGIS International, Inc.
PI(s) Jun Suzuki
Start Date Oct. 1, 2006
End Date Sept. 31, 2007
Amount $25,000

CSR-PDOS: A Scalable and Self-Organizing System Architecture for Fast and Efficient Information Retrieval in Large-Scale Decentralized Networks

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Duc Tran
Start Date Sept. 1, 2006
End Date Aug. 31, 2009
Amount $225,000

Support for Doctoral Students

Source of funds Vertica Corportaion
Start Date June 1, 2006
Amount $165,000

A Software Plug-and-Play Framework for Next Generation Power Delivery Systems

Source of funds Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry
PI(s) Jun Suzuki
Start Date June 1, 2006
End Date March. 31, 2007
Amount $47,571

A Generic and Extensible Model Transformation Framework

Source of funds OGIS International, Inc.
PI(s) Jun Suzuki
Start Date April 1, 2005
End Date Sept. 30, 2006
Amount $20,000

SEI(BIO)+II: Metadata-Rich Image Databases for Biodiversity

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Robert Morris
Start Date Oct 1, 2004
End Date Sept. 30, 2007
Amount $300,000

DBI Electronic Field Guides: Building Partnerships and Informatics Tools for Species Identification and Biodiversity Monitoring

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Robert Morris
Start Date Sept. 1, 2004
End Date Aug. 31, 2007
Amount $1,090,000

Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need

Source of funds Department of Education
PI(s) Peter Fejer
Start Date Aug. 15, 2004
End Date Aug. 15, 2009
Amount $413,880

Developing a New Infrastructure for Dynamic Access to Multi-institutional Biodiversity Data

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Rober Morris
Start Date Feb. 1, 2004
End Date April. 30, 2007
Amount $202,209

Model-Driven Development of Autonomous Adaptive Network Applications

Source of funds Electric Power Development Co., Ltd., Japan
PI(s) Jun Suzuki
Start Date Jan. 1, 2004
Amount $13,000

Collaborative Research: Development of New Digital Library Applications in the Context of a Basic Ontology for Biosystematics Information Using the Literature of Entomology (ants)

Source of funds The American Museum of National History
PI(s) Robert Morris
Start Date Dec. 1, 2003
End Date Nov. 30, 2006
Amount $110,060

Implementation of EyeLink Programming Interfaces to Presentation and E-Prime Applications

Source of funds SR Research, Toronto, Canada
PI(s) Marc Pomplun
Start Date Aug. 1, 2003
End Date Aug. 31, 2004
Amount $13,200

Electronic Field Guides for Auditory Neuroscience

Source of funds Boston University
PI(s) Marc Pomplun
Start Date Jan. 1, 2002
End Date Aug. 31, 2006
Amount $173,242

Electronic Field Guide: Leveraging Biodiversity Data with the web and Mobile Tools

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Robert Morris
Start Date Sept. 1, 2001
End Date July 31, 2004
Amount $621,910

Biodiversity Data Discovery and Integration

Source of funds Information Technology Research Grant (ITR)
PI(s) Robert Morris
Start Date Sept. 1, 2001
End Date July 31, 2004
Amount $621,910

The Isolation Testing Project

Source of funds National Science Foundation
PI(s) Elizabeth O’neil, Patrick O’neil
Start Date Sept. 1, 1997
End Date Aug 31, 2004
Amount $360,000