Computer science researchers at UT Dallas have won several million dollars in research grants in recent months for work to be done in a range of areas, including network planning, data privacy, sensors and health care. 

Dr. Gopal Gupta

Dr. Gopal Gupta

“Our proactive efforts in bolstering research funding to computer science faculty are definitely bearing fruit,” said Dr. Gopal Gupta, head of the computer science department. “Our recent focus on collaborative multidisciplinary research has been one important factor, and the dean of engineering and computer science, Dr. Mark Spong, has been particularly encouraging and supportive of our faculty members’ grant proposals.” 

Collaborators on the projects include researchers from the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Purdue University; The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; and Southern Methodist University

The surge in funding not only supports one of the University’s strategic initiatives – strengthening research productivity, the engine that drives innovation – but could also contribute to Gupta’s objective to increase entrepreneurial activities that flow from his department’s computer science research. 

“I am confident these projects will produce cutting-edge research results, some of which may well lead to companies being founded a few years down the road by the students and faculty involved,” he said. 

The department is also making efforts to bring entrepreneurship education to as many computer science students as possible. Already, for instance, a software entrepreneurship component is being added to computer science and software engineering students’ senior design classes, which culminate students’ education. 

There’s only one downside that Gupta sees to the recent spike in funding awards. 

“Our bar for next year keeps rising,” he recently told computer science faculty and staff. “We all will have to work hard to exceed it.”

Recent Computer Science Research Funding

Analysis and Modeling
of Very Large Networks
Andras Farago
National Science Foundation, $500,000
Optimizing Performance and Lifetime of Embedded Flash-Memory Systems
Edwin Sha
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, $132,000
Reactively Adaptive Malware
Kevin Hamlen, Bhavani Thuraisingham, 
Latifur Khan
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, $450,000
(See previous story.)
Exploiting Multi-modality for Tele-Immersion
Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, Xiaohu Guo,
Roozbeh Jafari, Mark Spong
National Science Foundation, $2.5 million
Maximizing Performance and Lifetime 
for Non-Volatile Main Memory Systems
Edwin Sha
National Science Foundation, $500,000
Development of Wireless
Networking Testbed and Emulator
Ravi Prakash, S. Venkatesan, Neeraj Mittal,
Bhaskar Banerjee
National Science Foundation, $1 million
Protocols for Privacy-Preserving 
Scalable Record Matching and Ontology 
Alignment
Murat Kantarcioglu, 
Bhavani  Thuraisingham, Latifur Khan
National Science Foundation, $450,000
(See previous story.)
Pico Life: Augmented, Multi-player 3D Mobile Gaming World
Xiaohu Guo, B. Prabhakaran
Texas Instruments Foundation, $50,000
Analysis of Language Samples for Detecting Language Impairment in 
Monolingual and Bilingual Children
Yang Liu
National Science Foundation, $195,000
SimSys: An Engaging Game
for Software Engineering Education
Kendra Cooper, Joao Cangussu
and Monica Evans
Microsoft Research Foundation, $25,000
Undersea Spatial Sensor Networks for 
Intrusion Detection
Weili Wu
National Science Foundation, $100,000
Computational Modeling for Emotion and Affect in Social-Cultural Interaction
Yang Liu
Air Force Young Investigator Program, $359,000
(See previous story.)
Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship
for Service Program
Kamil Sarac, Bhavani Thuraisingham,  
Kevin Hamlen, Murat Kantarcioglu, Edwin Sha
National Science Foundation, $1.8 million
(See previous story.)
A Comprehensive Approach for Data Quality Provenance in Sensor Networks
Murat Kantarcioglu
National Science Foundation, $150,000
(See previous story.)
Tumor and Organs at Risk Motion:
Better DMLC IMRT Delivery Systems
Ovidiu Daescu
National Science Foundation, $560,000
Training Students for Careers in Information Assurance
Latifur Khan, Kamil Sarac
National Security Agency, $44,000
Incorporating Software Testing Into 
Undergraduate Courses
Eric Wong, Gopal Gupta, Latifur Khan,
Sook Kim
National Science Foundation, $250,000
Secure Semantic Information Grid for
NCES and Border Security Applications
Bhavani Thuraisingham, Murat Kantarcioglu
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, $44,000
National Chemical and Hazard Materials
Reference and Planning Tool
Doug Harris
Department of Homeland Security, $866,000
 

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