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Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Colorado School of Mines (Mines)
NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Expansion Program (CISE MSI), 2024
Principal Investigator, Collaborative Research: CISE MSI: RDP: CPS: Biomimetic Swarm-Based Remote Sensing for Inaccessible Environments (CNS-2430772), October 2024 - September 2027 (Amount: $200,000)
NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative (CRII), 2024
Principal Investigator, CRII: CNS: Integrated Sensing and Communication with Optical Wireless: A Retro-reflective Link Design (CNS-2431272), August 2024 - September 2025 (Amount: $172,848)
Underground Mine Evacuation Technologies and Human Factors Research, 2024
Principal Investigator, Design and demonstration of intelligent mine evacuation and mine rescue system, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (U60 OH012351-01), August 2024 - August 2025 (Amount: $130,000)
NSF Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC), 2023
Principal Investigator, SCC-PG: Sustainable Vertiports for Bringing Autonomous Drone Swarm Inspection to Oil and Gas Industry Community (CNS-2323050), October 2024 - September 2025
Tenure-track Assistant Professor at New Mexico Tech (NMT)
NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative (CRII), 2023
Principal Investigator, CRII: CNS: Integrated Sensing and Communication with Optical Wireless: A Retro-reflective Link Design (CNS-2245747), October 2023 - September 2025 (Amount: $174,999)
NSF Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC), 2023
Principal Investigator, SCC-PG: Sustainable Vertiports for Bringing Autonomous Drone Swarm Inspection to Oil and Gas Industry Community (CNS-2323050), October 2023 - September 2024 (Amount: $149,999)
NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), 2022
Senior Personnel, REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates – Emerging Issues in Cybersecurity, National Science Foundation (CNS-2150145), Feburary 2022 - January 2025 (Amount: $405,000)
Underground Mine Evacuation Technologies and Human Factors Research, 2021
Co-Principal Investigator, Design and demonstration of intelligent mine evacuation and mine rescue system, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (U60 OH012351-01), September 2021 - August 2025 (Amount: $4,000,000)
New Mexico EPSCoR SMART Grid Center Infrastructure Seed Award Program, 2021
Principal Investigator, Track 1: Securing Smart Grid Enabled Home Area Networks with Retro-reflective Visible Light Communication, June 2021 - May 2022 (Amount: $50,000)
NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), 2020
Faculty Hire, RII Track-1: The New Mexico SMART Grid Center: Sustainable, Modular, Adaptive, Resilient, and Transactive, National Science Foundation (OIA-1757207), August 2020 - August 2023 (Amount: $250,000)
Ph.D. student and Post Doctoral Research Associate at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
NSF Computer and Network Systems (CNS) Core Programs, 2017
Senior Personnel, US Ignite: Focus Area 1: Fast Autonomic Traffic Congestion Monitoring and Incident Detection through Advanced Networking, Edge Computing, and Video Analytics
January 2017 – December 2019
NSF Computer and Network Systems (CNS) Core Programs, 2016
Senior Personnel, NeTS: Small: Coexistence of Directional Communications within 5G: The Case for Visible Light Enhanced Small-Cells
October 2016 – September 2019
NSF Engineering Education and Center (EEC) Programs, 2016
Senior Personnel, REU Site: Optics and photonics: Technologies, Systems, and Devices
May 2016 – April 2019
NSF NJIT I-Corps Site Mini-Grants, 2015
Senior Personnel, Battery-free device for connecting everything to the Internet through the light
September 2015 – March 2016
