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Active External Research Grants


Arash Ali Amini

Project Title: CAREER: High-Dimensional Statistical Models for Unsupervised Learning
Project Period: 07/15/2020 – 06/30/2026
Prime Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount to Date: $400,000


Guang Cheng

Project Title: Collaborative Research: Robust Deep Learning in Real Physical Space: Generalization, Scalability, and Credibility
Project Period: 9/1/2022 – 8/31/2025
Prime Sponsor: DOD Office of Naval Research
Award Amount to Date: $450,000

Project Title: Collaborative Research: SATC: CORE: Small: Differentially Private Data Synthesis: Practical Algorithms
Project Period: 7/15/2023 – 6/30/2026
Prime Sponsor National Science Foundation
Award Amount to Date: $197,780

Project Title: Fair Explain Align LLM with Fairness Standard via Self Explanation
Project Period: 10/28/2024 – 10/27/2025
Prime Sponsor: Optum, Inc.
Award Amount to Date: $145,361

Project Title: Statistical Method and Theory for Privacy and Fairness in Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
Project Period: 9/1/2021 – 8/31/2025
Prime Sponsor: University of Purdue/National Science Foundation
Award Amount to Date: $153,515

Project Title: Trustworthy Synthetic Data Generation
Project Period: 4/15/2023 – 6/30/2025
Prime Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount to Date: $50,000

Project Title: Prompt Learning for Safe Large Language Models
Project Period: 4/26/2024 – 5/25/2025
Prime Sponsor: Cisco Systems Inc.
Award Amount to Date: $150,000


Dr. Jin Zhou – PI (Biostats), Xiaowu Dai – Co PI

Project Title: Transforming Precision Medicine: Dynamic Learning and Prediction of Disease Progression in Massive, Diverse, and Multimodal Cohorts
Project Period: 03/01/2025 – 12/31/2028
Prime Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Award Amount to Date: $2,107,608


Robert Gould

Project Title: Valhalla: IDS Scaling and Sustainability
Prime Sponsor: Valhalla
Project Period: 2/15/2022 – 6/30/2025
Award Amount to Date: $771,000

Project Title: IDS: Learning for a Data Driven World
Project Period: 11/2/2023 – 12/31/2026
Prime Sponsor: Gates Foundation
Award Amount to Date: $2,240,878.05


Mark Handcock

Project Title: Resilient Shield: A Network for Outbreak Data Integration and Modeling to Support Rapid Public Health Action
Project Period: 9/30/2023 – 9/25/2025
Prime Sponsor: UCSD / Dept of Health & Human Svc.
Award Amount: $190,852

Project Title: Evaluating Indirect Survey Question Methods on Reproductive Health Behavior
Project Period: 9/1/2024 – 8/31/2025
Prime Sponsor: U of Maryland / National Institutes of Health
Award Amount: $27,609


Chad Hazlett

Project Title: Extending and Applying Tools for Evaluating Non-Randomized School-Based Programs Using Pre-Intervention Data: An Application to Early Childhood Education”
Prime Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Project Period: 4/1/2024 – 4/30/2027
Award Amount to Date: $39,459


Jingyi (Jessica) Li

Project Title: CAREER: Advancing the Bioinformatic Infrastructure and Methodology for Single-cell RNA Sequencing
Project Period: 07/01/2019 – 06/30/2025
Prime Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount to Date: $623,214

Project Title: Statistical Methods for Elucidating Regulatory Mechanisms and Functional Impacts of Transcriptome Variation at Population and Single-Cell Scales
Project Period: 06/01/2021 – 05/31/2026
Prime Sponsor: National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Award Amount to Date: $1,589,204

Project Title: Collaborative Research: Development of Classification Theory and Methods for Objective Asymmetry, Sample Size Limitation, Labeling Ambiguity, and Feature Importance
Project Period: 07/01/2021 – 06/30/2026
Prime Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount to Date: $120,000

Project Title: Enhancing Rigor and Reliability of Single-cell Data Science
Project Period: 07/01/2022 – 10/31/2025
Sponsor: This project has been made possible in part by a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Award Amount to Date: $218,603.63


Karen McKinnon

Project Title: Understanding and Resolving a Global Discrepancy in Near Surface Water Vapor Trends Between Models and Observations
Prime Sponsor: NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION (NOAA)
Project Period: 9/1/2023 – 8/31/2026
Award Amount to Date: $82,968

Project Title: CAREER: Understanding Changes in Summertime Continental Temperature Extremes
Prime Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF CAREER)
Project Period:9/1/24 – 8/31/2029
Award Amount to Date: $918,511
Project Title: Advancing Climate Science with Innovative Data-Driven Approaches
Prime Sponsor: David and Lucille Packard Foundation
Project Period:10/21/2021 – 10/20/2026
Award Amount to Date: $875,000


George Michailidis

Project Title: IMR: MM-1A: Scalable Statistical Methodology for Performance Monitoring, Anomaly Identification, and Mapping Network Accessibility from Active Measurements
Project Period: 10/1/2023 – 9/30/2026
Prime Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount to Date: $199,999

Project Title: Collaborative Research: ATD: Geospatial Modeling and Risk Mitigation for Human Movement Dynamics under Hurricane Threats
Project Period: 9/1/2023 – 8/31/2026
Prime Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount to Date: $45,000
Project Title: Change Point Detection Problems for Data with Network Structure
Project Period: 1/15/2023 – 7/31/2026
Prime Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount to Date: $281,740


Ying Nian Wu

Project Title: Collaborative Research: Graph Learning, Generation, and Optimization with Highly Expressive Graph Neural Network Models
Project Period: 09/01/2024 – 08/01/2027
Prime Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount to Date: $150,000

Project Title: Molecule Design by Latent Space Energy-Based Modeling
Project Period: 11/28/2022 – Current
Prime Sponsor: Science Hub for Humanity and Artificial
Award Amount to Date: $65,637

Project Title: Professor Wu’s Machine Learning
Project Period: 06/01/2018- Current
Prime Sponsor: UCLA FDN/Professor Wu’s Machine Learning
Award Amount to Date: $46,750


Qing Zhou

Project Title: CDS&E-MSS: Causal Induction in Sequential Decision Processes
Project Period: 9/1/2023 – 8/31/2026
Prime Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount: $249,999


Yuhua Zhu

Project Title: Interacting Particle System for Nonconvex Optimization
Project Period: 7/1/2024 – 6/30/2027
Prime Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount to Date: $250,000