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Research Grants

Active Grants for academic year 2007-2008

  • PI:
    A. Bisantz
    Co-PI:
    Thenkurussi Kesavadas
    Title:
    BIFOLD Project
    Sponsor:
    Charles River Analytics, Boston through a DOD SBIR Phase 2 grant
    Period:
    1/2006 – 8/2007
    Amount:
    $111,384
  • PI:
    Christina Bloebaum
    Co-PI:
    Kemper E. Lewis and Kenneth W. English
    Title:
    Visual Hyperspace Pareto Frontier (VHPF) for Multi-attribute Decision-Making
    Sponsor:
    National Science Foundation
    Period:
    5/15/2006 – 4/30/2009
    Amount:
    $250,000
  • PI:
    Harsh Deep Chopra
    Co-PI:
    Susan Z. Hua
    Title:
    Ballistic magnetoresistance in ferromagnetic nanocontacts
    Sponsor:
    National Science Foundation, NSF-DMR
    Period:
    6/1/03 – 5/30/08
    Amount:
    $788,000
  • PI:
    Harsh Deep Chopra
    Title:
    Structural effects on spin-polarized quantized conductance in atomic-sized magnetic contacts
    Sponsor:
    NSF-DMR
    Period:
    8/1/07 – 7/31/11
    Amount:
    $510,000 (plus $27,000 supplement request; awaiting approval)
  • PI:
    D.D.L.Chung
    Title:
    Fellowship, Multifunctional Structural Composites
    Sponsor:
    Samuel Mo
    Period:
    6/1/2007 – present
    Amount:
    $10,000
  • PI:
    D.D.L.Chung
    Title:
    Smart concrete structural self-sensing technology
    Sponsor:
    US Army via Global Contour Ltd.
    Period:
    11/1/2006 – 9/30/2008
    Amount:
    $200,000
  • PI:
    John L. Crassidis
    Title:
    Attitude Determination and Geolocation from a Formation of Spacecraft with Laser Communication Devices
    Sponsor:
    Air Force Research Laboratory
    Period:
    9/07 – 7/08
    Amount:
    $40,181
  • PI:
    John L. Crassidis
    Title:
    NASA NESC Guidance, Navigation and Control Program Review
    Sponsor:
    NASA
    Period:
    9/07 – 8/08
    Amount:
    $38,535
  • PI:
    John L. Crassidis
    Title:
    Mirco-Arcsecond Line-of-Sight Filtered Performance for Spacecraft Formation Flying
    Sponsor:
    NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
    Period:
    7/2005 – 6/2008
    Amount:
    $72,000
  • PI:
    Paul E. DesJardin
    Title:
    Flame Spread Modeling Over Composite Structures using Fully-Coupled Fluid-Structure Simulations
    Sponsor:
    Office of Naval Research
    Period:
    9/2006 – 9/2009
    Amount:
    $408,240
  • PI:
    Paul E. DesJardin
    Title:
    Equation of State Modeling for Post-Detonation Products of Aluminized Explosives
    Sponsor:
    Sandia National Laboratories
    Period:
    5/1/07 – 10/1/07
    Amount:
    $25,777
  • PI:
    Paul E. DesJardin
    Title:
    Modeling of Sandwich Composites in Fire Environments
    Sponsor:
    Global Engineering and Materials, Inc.
    Period:
    6/1/08 – 6/1/10
    Amount:
    $110,000
  • PI:
    Paul E. DesJardin
    Title:
    CAREER: High Fidelity Numerical Simulation of Fire Suppression
    Sponsor:
    National Science Foundation
    Period:
    1/2004 – 1/2009
    Amount:
    $406,064
  • PI:
    Paul E. DesJardin
    Title:
    Combustion of Methane in Countercurrent Shear Layers
    Sponsor:
    American Chemical Society Type G Grant
    Period:
    1/1/2006 – 8/31/2008
    Amount:
    $35,000
  • PI:
    David J. Forliti
    Title:
    A Fluidic Dump Combustor for Ramjet Engines
    Sponsor:
    ONR Young Investigator Program
    Period:
    6/1/2006 – 5/31/2009
    Amount:
    $355,000
  • PI:
    K.R. Hoffman
    Co-PI:
    Thenkurussi Kesavadas, N. Hopkins, S. Rudin
    Title:
    Image-guided Treatment Planning for Neuro-intervention
    Sponsor:
    National Institute of Health (NIH)
    Period:
    11/2003 – 10/2007
    Amount:
    $1,362,275
  • PI:
    Zonglu Susan Hua
    Title:
    Time resolved studies of transport in renal epithelial cells
    Sponsor:
    NIH-NIDDK
    Period:
    3/1/07 – 2/28/2012
    Amount:
    $885,616
  • PI:
    Zonglu Susan Hua
    Title:
    Novel approach to microfluidic sensing and regulation for active flow Control
    Sponsor:
    NSF-CMMI
    Period:
    7/1/05 – 6/30/08
    Amount:
    $180,000
  • PI:
    Mark Karwan
    Co-PI:
    Moises Sudit, Rakesh Nagi, John Crassidis
    Title:
    Optimization Planning and Tactical Intelligent Management of Aerial Sensors (OPTIMAS)
    Sponsor:
    Office of Naval Research
    Period:
    1/08 – 1/11
    Amount:
    $1,171,255
  • PI:
    Thenkurussi Kesavadas
    Co-PI:
    Ann Bisantz
    Title:
    Sympathetic Haptics: Learning through Computer Mediated Skill Transfer
    Sponsor:
    National Science Foundation (NSF)
    Period:
    9/2007 – 8/2010
    Amount:
    $325,000
  • PI:
    Thenkurussi Kesavadas
    Co-PI:
    Kurshid Guru
    Title:
    Robotic Surgery Enhancement through Simulation and Haptics
    Sponsor:
    Margret L. Wendt Foundation and Rosewell Park Cancer Institute
    Period:
    6/2007 – 5/2009
    Amount:
    $150,000
  • PI:
    Thenkurussi Kesavadas
    Title:
    A VR Simulator for Training Surgical Skills on da Vinci® Robot
    Sponsor:
    Oishei Foundation and Rosewell Park Cancer Institute
    Period:
    10/2006 – 12/2008
    Amount:
    Year 1: $120,402
  • PI:
    Venkat Krovi
    Co-PI:
    F. Mendel
    Title:
    CRI:IAD A Real-Time Haptic ImmersiveVirtual Environment (RT-HIVE)
    Sponsor:
    Computing Research Infrastructure, National Science Foundation
    Period:
    4/2008 – 3/2009
    Amount:
    $360,000
  • PI:
    Venkat Krovi
    Title:
    REU Supplement to Career: Cooperative Payload Transport by Mobile Robot Collectives
    Sponsor:
    NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates Supplement to CAREER Grant, Robust Intelligence Program, National Science Foundation
    Period:
    6/2007 – 5/2008
    Amount:
    $12,000
  • PI:
    Venkat Krovi
    Title:
    CAREER: Cooperative Payload Transport by Robot Collectives
    Sponsor:
    CAREER Grant, Robotics & Computer Vision Program, National Science Foundation
    Period:
    2004 – 2009
    Amount:
    $500,000
  • PI:
    Kemper Lewis
    Co-PI:
    K. English, M. Karwan, Christina Bloebaum, Venkat Krovi
    Title:
    New York State Center for Engineering Design and Industrial Innovation
    Sponsor:
    New York State NYSTAR
    Period:
    10/2006 – 9/2007
    Amount:
    $250,000
  • PI:
    Kemper Lewis
    Co-PI:
    Deborah Moore-Russo, Ken English
    Title:
    Experiential Learning in Vehicle Dynamics Education
    Sponsor:
    National Science Foundation
    Period:
    2/2007 – 2/2010
    Amount:
    $150,000
  • PI:
    Kemper Lewis
    Co-PI:
    K. English, H. Stenger, Venkat Krovi
    Sponsor:
    New York State Center for Engineering Design and Industrial Innovation Center Grant, NYSTAR Grant, State of New York
    Period:
    10/2007 – 9/2008
    Amount:
    $250,000
  • PI:
    Kemper Lewis
    Co-PI:
    CI-Teams Collaborative Research Project with Penn State, Drexel, Univ. of Missouri-Rolla, Virginia Tech, Northwestern, Bucknell, and Sweet Briar
    Title:
    A National Engineering Dissertation Collaboratory
    Sponsor:
    National Science Foundation
    Period:
    1/2007 – 12/2008
    Amount:
    $900,000
  • PI:
    Kemper Lewis
    Co-PI:
    Christina Bloebaum, M. Karwan, Andres Soom, K. English, Venkat Krovi
    Title:
    New York State Center for Engineering Design and Industrial Innovation (NYSCEDII)
    Sponsor:
    New York State, NYSTAR
    Period:
    11/2006 – 12/2007
    Amount:
    $250,000
  • PI:
    Kemper Lewis
    Title:
    Cyber-Infrastructure-Based Engineering Repositories for Undergraduates (CIBER-U): REU Supplement
    Sponsor:
    National Science Foundation
    Period:
    6/2006 – 9/2007
    Amount:
    $25,000
  • PI:
    Kemper Lewis
    Co-PI:
    CI-Teams Collaborative Research Project with T. Simpson, Penn State, W. Regli, Drexel, and R. Stone, Univ. of Missouri-Rolla
    Title:
    Cyber-Infrastructure-Based Engineering Repositories for Undergraduates (CIBER-U)
    Sponsor:
    National Science Foundation
    Period:
    1/2006 – 12/2008
    Amount:
    $250,000
  • PI:
    Kemper Lewis
    Co-PI:
    Tarunraj Singh
    Title:
    Multiattribute Decision Making in Centralized and Decentralized Design
    Sponsor:
    National Science Foundation
    Period:
    9/2003 – 8/2007
    Amount:
    $390,870
  • PI:
    James Llinas
    Co-PI:
    Stuart Shapiro, John Crassidis, Tarunraj Singh
    Title:
    Employing Context Information for L1 Fusion Approaches
    Sponsor:
    Office of Naval Research
    Period:
    1/08 – 1/09
    Amount:
    $179,000
  • PI:
    Cyrus Madnia
    Title:
    Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Combustion via the Filtered Density Function
    Sponsor:
    NASA
    Period:
    2008 – 2011
    Amount:
    $149,670
  • PI:
    F. Mendel
    Co-PI:
    Abani Patra, Venkat Krovi
    Title:
    Vertebrate Mastication Testbed: Virtual and Mechanical Prototypes
    Sponsor:
    MasterFoods Inc.
    Period:
    10/2007 – 9/2008
    Amount:
    $195,000
  • PI:
    Hui Meng
    Title:
    Mechanical Forces Exerted on an ex vivo vascular bifurcation
    Sponsor:
    American Society of Quality
    Period:
    4/1/08 – 3/31/09
    Amount:
    $11,970
  • PI:
    Hui Meng
    Title:
    Hemodynamic Intervention of Intracranial Aneurysms
    Sponsor:
    NIH/NINDS (K25 NS047242)
    Period:
    2/1/2004 – 1/31/2009
    Amount:
    $766,555
  • PI:
    Hui Meng
    Co-PI:
    Title:
    Understanding and Characterization of Hemodynamics in Non-stented and Stented Cerebral Aneurysms
    Sponsor:
    NSF (BES-0302389)
    Period:
    7/1/2003 – 6/30/2008
    Amount:
    $333,363
  • PI:
    Joseph C. Mollendorf
    Title:
    Undergraduate Bioengineering Design Projects
    Sponsor:
    National Science Foundation
    Period:
    8/1989 – 8/2009
    Amount:
    $395,319
  • PI:
    Joseph C. Mollendorf
    Title:
    Zoned measurement and manipulation of body temperature using new technologies
    Sponsor:
    Sterbutzel Research Fund
    Period:
    6/2006 – 8/2009
    Amount:
    $70,000
  • PI:
    Abani K. Patra
    Co-PI:
    Marcus Bursik
    Title:
    Improved flow inundation maps using NASA high-resolution topography Products
    Sponsor:
    NASA
    Period:
    9/2007 – 5/2010
    Amount:
    $217,646
  • PI:
    D.R. Pendergast
    Co-PI:
    Joseph C. Mollendorf
    Title:
    Thermal Protection of Divers in Hot and Cold Water: A New Approach
    Sponsor:
    NAVSEA, US Navy
    Period:
    2/07 – 1/10
    Amount:
    $643,000
  • PI:
    D.R. Pendergast
    Co-PI:
    Joseph C. Mollendorf
    Title:
    Thermal protection in hot and cold water: a new approach
    Sponsor:
    Office of Naval Research
    Period:
    2/13/2007 – 1/12/2010
    Amount:
    $828,000
  • PI:
    S. Rudin
    Co-PI:
    Hui Meng
    Title:
    Radiographic Guidance of New Cerebral Aneurysm Stent
    Sponsor:
    NIH/NINDS (R01 NS043924)
    Period:
    4/15/2004 – 3/31/2008
    Amount:
    $2,589,418
  • PI:
    S. Rudin
    Co-PI:
    Hui Meng
    Title:
    Microradiographic Guidance of Flow Modifying Stents
    Sponsor:
    NIH/NIBIB (R01 EB002873)
    Amount:
    $3,199,913
  • PI:
    Frederick Sachs
    Co-PI:
    Zonglu Susan Hua
    Title:
    Hydronic, High-Speed, Focal Thermal Stimulator
    Sponsor:
    NIH-STTR with ALA Scientific Instruments, Inc.
    Period:
    7/2005 – 6/2008
    Amount:
    $224,900
  • PI:
    Frederick Sachs
    Co-PI:
    Zonglu Susan Hua
    Title:
    Develop and commercialize a microfluidics cell volume sensor
    Sponsor:
    NIH-STTR with ALA Scientific Instruments, Inc.
    Period:
    5/2006 – 5/2008
    Amount:
    $750,000
  • PI:
    Tarunraj Singh
    Co-PI:
    Peter Scott
    Title:
    Blending Chem-Bio Dispersion Forecast and Sensor Data, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
    Sponsor:
    Applied Research Lab. (Pennsylvania State University), CUBRC
    Period:
    4/2/2006 – 4/1/2008
    Amount:
    $1,700,000
  • PI:
    Puneet Singla
    Co-PI:
    Tarunraj Singh (UB), Matthew Podgorsak (RPCI)
    Title:
    Enhancement of Breast Cancer Radiotherapy by Image-Guided Tracking of Tumor Motion
    Sponsor:
    UB 2020 Interdisciplinary Research Development Fund
    Period:
    7/2008 – 7/2009
    Amount:
    $32,000
  • PI:
    Puneet Singla
    Co-PI:
    Tarunraj Singh (UB), Peter Scott (UB)
    Title:
    A Multiresolution Approach for Modeling and Forecasting of Geospatial Activities
    Sponsor:
    NGA University Research Initiatives (NURI) Program
    Period:
    8/2008 – 8/2010
    Amount:
    $298,597
  • PI:
    Puneet Singla
    Title:
    Terrain Guided Automated Precision Landing
    Sponsor:
    sub-contract from Starvision Technologies Inc. for NASA Phase-II SBIR proposal (Proposal # X6.03-7903)
    Period:
    1/2008 – 1/2009
    Amount:
    $24,000
  • PI:
    M.V. Sivaselvan
    Co-PI:
    Gary Dargush, A.M. Reinhorn
    Title:
    Collapse Analysis of Structures
    Sponsor:
    CUREE - Kajima Phase VII Research Program
    Period:
    2008 – 2010
    Amount:
    $100,000
  • PI:
    Andres Soom
    Title:
    Noise Reduction
    Sponsor:
    Manitoba Corp-funded
    Period:
    1/2008 – 5/2008
    Amount:
    $2,400
  • PI:
    Andres Soom
    Co-PI:
    Tarunraj Singh, Christina Bloebaum, Gary Dargush
    Title:
    Nonlinear Modeling and Analysis of High Efficiency High Torque WARP Motor
    Sponsor:
    Sprung-brett/Navy STTR Phase II
    Period:
    2007 – 2010
    Amount:
    $277,000
  • PI:
    Moises Sudit
    Co-PI:
    Rakesh Nagi, John L. Crassidis, Agamemnon L. Crassidis
    Title:
    Hierarchical High Level Information Fusion Technologies
    Sponsor:
    Office of Naval Research
    Period:
    1/2006 – 5/2008
    Amount:
    $448,410
  • PI:
    Robert C. Wetherhold
    Title:
    Material Characterization of Crankshaft
    Sponsor:
    Luvata Buffalo
    Period:
    3/2008 (1 mo.)
    Amount:
    $1,325
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