Funding Awards
Research grants and collaborations
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Major federally funded initiatives and collaborative programs.
10/2025-09/2027
ModCon – Transformational AI model consortium
10/2025-09/2027
OPAL — Orchestrated Platform for Autonomous Laboratories
10/2025-09/2027
A Testbed for Multi-Agent Autonomous Science: From Lab Bench to Supercomputer
04/2023-04/2024
Center for Sustaining Workflows and Application Services
2017-12/2023
ExaWorks: ECP Workflows Project
U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
Competitive awards supporting foundational research.
10/2021-09/2024
Collaborative Research: OAC Core: Simulation-driven runtime resource management for distributed workflow applications
#2106059
#2106147
08/2021-07/2024
Collaborative Research: Elements: Simulation-driven Evaluation of Cyberinfrastructure Systems
#2103489
#2103508
05/2021-10/2022
Collaborative Research: EAGER: VisDict - Visual Dictionaries for Enhancing the Communication between Domain Scientists and Scientific Workflow Providers
#2100561
#2100636
03/2021-02/2024
REU Site: SURF-I: Safe, Usable, Resilient and Fair Internet
#2051101
10/2020-09/2021
CCRI: Planning: Collaborative Research: Infrastructure for Enabling Systematic Development and Research of Scientific Workflow Management Systems
#2016610
#2016619
#2016682
10/2020-09/2021
Collaborative Research: PPoSS: Planning: Performance Scalability, Trust, and Reproducibility: A Community Roadmap to Robust Science in High-throughput Applications
#2028881
#2028923
#2028930
#2028955
#2028956
10/2019–09/2022
Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Small: Integrating core CI literacy and skills into university curricula via simulation-driven activities
#1923539
#1923621
10/2018–09/2021
Coordinating Curricula and User Preferences to Increase the Participation of Women and Students of Color in Engineering
#1826632
10/2017–09/2021
BIGDATA: IA: Collaborative Research: In Situ Data Analytics for Next Generation Molecular Dynamics Workflows
#1741057
#1740990
#1741040
01/2017—12/2019
Collaborative Research: SI2-SSE: WRENCH: A Simulation Workbench for Scientific Workflow for Users, Developers, and Researchers
#1642369
#1642335
06/2018–05/2019
2018 Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) Principal Investigators Workshop
#1831393
U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
High-impact, mission-driven research programs.
12/2017–11/2021
MINT: Model INTegration through Knowledge-Rich Data and Process Composition
#W911NF-18-1-0027
International Funding / Collaborations / Others
Global partnerships and cross-institutional initiatives.
08/2021 – 05/2022
Integrating Cyberinfrastructure Literacy into University Curricula
08/2020 – 05/2021
Teaching Parallel and Distributed Computing Concepts in Simulation
08/2019 – 05/2020
Integrating core CI literacy and skills into university curricula via simulation-driven activities
1/2016–12/2018
Laboratoire Virtuel pour la Conception de Systèmes de Gestion de Workflows
#PICS07239
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