Recent Grants
- HCC: Medium: Connecting Practitioners to Design: Methods and Tools for Live Participatory Design Fiction (2021–2025)
Department PIs: Phoebe O. Toups Dugas, Bill Hamilton
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF) - RI: Small: Collaborative Research: Preference Elicitation and Device Scheduling for Smart Homes (2018–2021)
Department PIs: Son Tran
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF) - CHS: Small: Wearable Interfaces to Direct Agent Teams with Adaptive Autonomy (2016–2019)
Department PIs: Phoebe O. Toups Dugas, Son Tran
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF) - BIGDATA: Collaborative Research: F: Discovering Context-Sensitive Impact in Complex Systems (2016–2019)
Department PI: Huiping Cao
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF) - CAREER: Learning from Interfaces for Simulation Environments to Design Wearable Technologies and Mixed-Reality Testbeds for Disaster Response Teams (2017–2022)
Department PI: Phoebe O. Toups Dugas
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF) - REU Site: BIGDatA – Big Data Analytics for Cyber-Physical Systems (2016–2019)
Department PIs: Huiping Cao and Satyajayant (Jay) Misra
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF) - ICN-WEN: Collaborative Research: ICN-Enabled Secure Edge Networking with Augmented Reality (2017–2020)
Department PI: Satyajayant Misra
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF) and Intel Corp. - Theories and Algorithms to Achieve Linear Capacity Scaling in Wireless Networks through Opportunistic Usage of Direct Energy Links (2015–2018)
Department PI: Satyajayant (Jay) Misra
Funding Agency: Department of Defense (DoD) - ABI Development: An open infrastructure to disseminate phylogenetic knowledge (2015–2018)
Department PI: Enrico Pontelli
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF) - BPEC: YO-GUTC: YOung Women Growing Up Thinking Computationally (2015–2017)
Department PI: Enrico Pontelli
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF) - iCREDITS: interdisciplinary Center of Research Excellence in Design of Intelligent Technologies for Smartgrids (2014–2019)
Department PIs: Enrico Pontelli and Satyajayant (Jay) Misra
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF) - GARDE: Trackable Interactive Multimodal Manipulatives: Towards a Tangible Learning Environment for the Blind (2014–2017)
Department PI: Enrico Pontelli
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF) - MRI: Acquisition of an Instrument for Research in Irregularly Parallel Big Data Computation (2013–2016)
Department PIs: Jonathan Cook, Enrico Pontelli, Mingzhou (Joe) Song, and Huiping Cao
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF) - CREATIV: Towards Ubiquitous Adoption of Wireless Sensor Networks in Experimental Biology Research (2012–2017)
Department PI: Satyajayant (Jay) Misra
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
International Awards
- Best Paper Award Nominee, 16th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST) — 2018
Authors: Om Rameshwar Gatla, Muhammad Hameed, Mai Zheng (NMSU); Viacheslav Dubeyko, Adam Manzanares, Filip Blagojevic, Cyril Guyot, and Robert Mateescu (Western Digital Research)
Title: Towards Robust File System Checkers - 2015 Benjamin Dasher Best Paper, ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education — 2016
Authors: Natasha Nesiba, Enrico Pontelli, Timothy Staley
Title: DISSECT: Exploring the relationship between computational thinking and English literature in K-12 curricula - First Place, Icehouse Challenge — 2016
Participants: Sachin Sunka, Sultan Alharthi, Hitesh Nidhi Sharma, Rolfe Sassenfeld, Cayden Wilson, Wei Tang, Igor Dolgov, and Phoebe O. Toups Dugas
More Information: https://bsn.embs.org/2016/icehouse/ - Best Paper Award Runner-Up, International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC) — 2014
Authors: Waleed Alkohlani, Jeanine Cook, and Jonathan Cook
Title: Accurate Statistical Performance Modeling and Validation of Out-of-Order Processors Using Monte Carlo Methods - First Place, HPN-DREAM Breast Cancer Network Inference Challenge — 2013
Participants: Yang Zhang and Mingzhou (Joe) Song
More Information: https://www.synapse.org/#!Synapse:syn1720047/WIKI/60530 - Best Student Paper Award, Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology (CMSB) — 2013
Authors: Ferdinando Fioretto and Enrico Pontelli
Title: Constraint Programming in Community-based Gene Regulatory Network Inference - Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) — 2012
Authors: Khoi Nguyen, Vien Tran, Son Tran, and Enrico Pontelli
Title: On Computing Conformant Plans Using Classical Planners: A Generate-And-Complete Approach - Best Paper Award, International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) — 2010
Authors: Alessandro Dal Palù, Agostino Dovier, Federico Fogolari, and Enrico Pontelli
Title: CLP-Based Protein Fragment Assembly - Best Planner Award (Non-Observable Non-Deterministic Track), International Planning Competition — 2008
Authors: Vien Tran, Khoi Nguyen, Son Tran, and Enrico Pontelli
Title: Conformant Planning Based on Approximation
Departmental Awards
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Outstanding Research Assistant Awards
Reza Tourani — 2016 (Ph.D.)
Hitesh Nidhi Sharma — 2016 (M.S.)
Ping Hou — 2014
Yang Zhang and Ferdinando Fioretto — 2013
Son Thanh To — 2012
Khoi Nguyen — 2011
Son Thanh To — 2010
- Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards
Spencer Barnes — Spring 2017
Samuel Djiani — Fall 2016
Sajal Kumar — Spring 2016
Travis Mick — Fall 2015
Gaurav Panwar — Spring 2015
Mohammed Tanash — Fall 2014
Chuan Hu and Reza Tourani — Spring 2014
Ben Wright — Fall 2013
Khoi Nguyen — Spring 2013
Hieu Nguyen and Tiep Le — Fall 2012
Ferdinando Fioretto — Spring 2012
Reza Tourani — Fall 2011
Hieu Nguyen — Spring 2011
Nancy Alajarmeh — Fall 2010
Trung Le — Spring 2010
