GRANTS
Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Colorado School of Mines (Mines)
Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade (OEDIT), 2026
Principal Investigator, Developing an autonomous multi-drone system for detecting and quantifying methane leaks in the oil and gas industry, January 2026 - December 2027 (Amount: $150,000)
Quantinuum LLC, 2026
Co-Principal Investigator, Design of Resonant Optical Metasurfaces using Large-scale Optimization, January 2026 - December 2026 (Amount: $138,933)
NSF ASCEND Engine in Colorado and Wyoming, 2025
Co-Principal Investigator, Crow Creek Protection Partnership & Stormwater Filter Innovation Translation Grant, June 2025 - Februray 2026 (Amount: $50,000)
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 2026 (Amount: $172,848)
Underground Mine Evacuation Technologies and Human Factors Research, 2024
Co-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
