Dr. Ashfaq Khokhar: Funded Research Projects

Funded (Total: over $12,000,000)

  1. Principal Investigator, “RED: Reinventing the Instructional and Departmental Enterprise (RIDE) to Advance the Professional Formation of Electrical and Computer Engineers” $2,000,000, National Science Foundation, July 2016 – June 2021.
  2. Principal Investigator, “EAGER: High Performance Algorithms and Implementations for Biological Sequence Analysis and Genome Alignment,” $200,000, National Science Foundation, September 2012 – August 2015.
  3. Co-Principal Investigator, “Describing, Contrasting, and Visualizing End-of-Life Care in Hospitals in the 21st Century,” with G. Keenan, D. Wilkie, R. Ansari, Y. Yao, and A. Johnson, $2,069,041, National Institute of Health, October 2011 – September 2014.
  4. Co-Principal Investigator, “Medium: Collaborative Research: Scalable Kinship Inference in Wild Populations across Years and Generations,’’ with T. Berger-Wolf, M. Ashley, and B. Dasgupta, $954,730, IIS, National Science Foundation, July 2011-June 2017.
  5. Principal Investigator, Collaborative Research: NeTS: Large:Collaborative Research: Context-Driven Management of Heterogeneous Sensor Networks,” with R. Ansari, M. Zefran, and A. Kshemkalyani, and A. Ouksel, $2,000,000, (in Collaboration with Northwestern University) National Science Foundation, November, 2009 – August 2014.
  6. Co- Principal Investigator, “Center for End of Life Transition Research (CEOLTR): Mining EHR Records,” with D. Wilkie, G. Keenan, R. Ansari, $399,753, National Institute of Health, September 2009 – August 2011.
  7. Principal Investigator, “REU Supplement Award – Context-Driven Management of Heterogeneous Sensor Networks,” $12,000, NSF, June 2010 – May 2011.
  8. Principal Investigator, “International Supplement Award – MotionSearch: Motion Trajectory-Based Object Activity Retrieval and Recognition from Video and Sensor Databases,” $72,000, NSF Office of International Programs, September 2007 – August 2010.
  9. Principal Investigator, “REU Supplement Award – MotionSearch: Motion Trajectory-Based Object Activity Retrieval and Recognition from Video and Sensor Databases,” $12,000, NSF, September 2008.
  10. Co-Principal Investigator, “SGER: Reliable Information Dissemination and Resource Discovery in Mobile Environments,” with A. Ouksel, $162,231, IIS Division, National Science Foundation, 2007-2009.
  11. Principal Investigator, “Foveation Based Data Reduction Technologies for all-time, all-weather Surveillance Systems, $100,00, SBIR Program, Department of Homeland Security, 2006-2007.
  12. Principal Investigator, “Foveation Based Event Classification for All-time, All-Weather Surveillance Systems, $100,000, State of Indiana 21st Century Development Fund, 2007-2008.
  13. Principal Investigator, “MotionSearch: Motion Trajectory-Based Object Activity Retrieval and Recognition from Video and Sensor Databases,” $410,000, NSF IIS-Information and Data Management Program, September 2006 – August 2009.
  14. Co-Principal Investigator, “Development of Computational Mechanics Infrastructure and Human Resources for Advancing Engineering Design Practices,’’ $560,000, US Academy of Sciences and Government of Pakistan, January 2006 – December 2008.
  15. Co-Principal Investigator, “International Data Mining Grid Testbed for Research in High Performance Data Transport, Data Integration, and Data Exploration –Instrument Development Proposal,’’ with Bob Grossman, $237,000, NSF CNS Division: Major Research Instrumentation Program, September 2004 – August 2007.
  16. Principal Investigator, “SGER: Trusted Privacy Preserving Data Mining over Grids,’’ $50,000, Supplement Award (recommended), NSF CNS-Distributed Systems Program, August 2006 – February 2007.
  17. Principal Investigator, “SGER: Trusted Privacy Preserving Data Mining over Grids,’’ $100,000, NSF CNS-Distributed Systems Program, August 2005 – August 2006.
  18. Principal Investigator, “Joint US Pakistan Workshop on Information Technology,’’ with Arif Ghafoor, NSF-International Programs, $20,000, 2004-2005.
  19. Principal Investigator, “Joint US Pakistan Workshop on Information Technology,” with Arif Ghafoor, NSF-International Programs, $45,000, 2002-2003.
  20. Principal Investigator, “Multithreaded Algorithms, Models, and Runtime System Tools for Multimedia Applications,” National Science Foundation CAREER Supplement, $105,000, 2002-2004.
  21. Principal Investigator, “High Speed Terabyte Storage Server based on Intelligent Disk Technology,” with R. Ansari, B. Grossman, D. Schonfeld, and C. Yu, Defense University Research Initiative Program (DURIP), Army Research Office, $422,640 (plus $120,000 in matching from UIC), 2002-2003.
  22. Principal Investigator, “High Performance Digital Libraries for US ARMY TECOM Data Repositories,” US ARMY Test and Evaluation Command, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, $350,000, 2002-2004.
  23. Co-Principal Investigator, “Data Driven Communication and Synchronization in Non-uniform Bandwidth Computing Clusters,” with S. Hambrusch, NSF-CCR Compiler and Operating Systems Program, $125,000, 2000-2001.
  24. Principal Investigator, “High Performance Digital Libraries for US ARMY TECOM Data Repositories – Phase III,” US ARMY Test and Evaluation Command, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, $95,000, 2000-2001.
  25. Principal Investigator, “High Performance Digital Libraries – PHASE II,” US ARMY Test and Evaluation Command, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, $75,000, 1999-2000.
  26. Principal Investigator, “Multithreaded Algorithms, Models, and Runtime System Tools for Multimedia Applications,” National Science Foundation CAREER PROGRAM, $205,000, 1998-2002.
  27. Principal Investigator, “Multithreaded Algorithms, Models, and Runtime System Tools for Multimedia Applications,” National Science Foundation CAREER PROGRAM, REU Support, $5000, 2000.
  28. Principal Investigator, “Multimedia Processing on High Performance Computing Platforms,” NSF-CISE Infrastructure Program, REU Support, $5000, 1999.
  29. Principal Investigator, “High Performance Digital Libraries for US ARMY TECOM Data Repositories,” US ARMY Test and Evaluation Command, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, $65,000, 1998-1999.
  30. Principal Investigator, “Computation- and Communication-efficient Techniques for Progressive Transmission of Image/Video on Lossy Networks,’’ University of Delaware Research Foundation, $30,000, 1998-1999.
  31. Co-Principal Investigator, “Parallel and Distributed Computing: System and Application Development Infrastructure,” with G. Agrawal, S. Carberry, G. Gao, E. Lloyd, and L. Pollock, National Science Foundation CISE Infrastructure Program, $633,513, (plus $500,000 in matching), 1997-2002.
  32. Co-Principal Investigator, “Advanced Telecommunication/Information Distribution Research Program,” with C. Boncelet, Army Research Labs/Lockhead, $37,723. 1996.
  33. Affiliated Investigator “Multimedia Research Foundation Plan at Purdue University,” with Arif Ghafoor, $210,000, Fuji Electric, Japan, 1994.
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