Current and Recent Research Awards

In collaboration with the Division of Systems Engineering

In conjunction with their primary departmental affiliation, the Center faculty have the following active sponsored research awards. For more information about the award, please click on the project title.

Principal Investigator (PI)	Co-PIs	Sponsor
M. Alanyali	N/A	National Science Foundation
Research: CAREER: Scalable Architectures for Self-Managed Networks
M. Alanyali	V. Saligrama, W.C. Karl	National Science Foundation
Research: Distributed Methods for Statistical Decision Making in Networked Environments
S. Andersson	N/A	National Science Foundation
Research: IDBR: Simultaneous Tracking of Multiple Particles in Confocal Microscopy
S. Andersson	N/A	National Science Foundation
Research: CAREER: Nonlinear Control for Single Molecule Tracking
J. Baillieul	D. Castañón	AFOSR
Research: MURI O7: Behavioral Dynamics in the Cooperative Control of Mixed Human/Robot Teams
C. Belta	N/A	National Science Foundation
Research: CAREER: Hierarchical Abstractions for Planning and Control of Robotic Swarms
C. Belta	N/A	National Science Foundation
Research: BIC: Collaborative Research: Rational Design of Synthetic Gene Networks using Formal Analysis of Hybrid Systems
C. Belta	N/A	National Science Foundation
Research: CSR-EHCS(EHS), SM: A Formal Approach to Control of Hybrid Systems with Applications to Mobile Robotics
C. Belta	N/A	Air Force Office of Sponsored Research
Research: Formal Verification and Synthesis of Control and Communication Strategies for Teams of Unmanned Vehicles
A. Bestavros	A. Matta, A. Kfoury	National Science Foundation
Research: (CSR–EHS/CPS) Leveraging Type Systems for the Development of High-Assurance Cyber-Physical Systems and Applications
C. Cassandras	N/A	AFOSR
Research: Performance Optimization of Complex Systems
C. Cassandras	D. Castañón, I. Paschalidis, J. Ballieul	National Science Foundation
Research: Sensor and Sensor Networks: A Control and Optimization Science Base for Sensor Networks in Adverse and Stochastic Environments
C. Cassandras	A. Bestavros, I. Paschalidis, R. Gao, W. Gong	National Science Foundation
Research: EFRI-ARESCI: Event-Driven Sensing for Enterprise Reconfigurability and Optimization
C. Cassandras	N/A	AFOSR
Research: Real-Time Optimization in Complex Stochastic Environment
C. Cassandras	C. Belta	ONR
Research: MURI: Smart Adaptive Reliable Teams for Persistent Surveillance
D. Castañón	C. Cassandras	AFOSR/AFRL
Research: Cooperative Mission Control for Unmanned Air Vehicles in Complex Stochastic Environments
D. Castañón	N/A	Ohio State University Research Foundation
Research: MURI: Fusion and Sensor Management for Automatic Target Exploitation
D. Castañón	C. Cassandras	AFOSR
Research: Distributed Mission Control for Unmanned Air Vehicles in Stochastic Environments
D. Castañón	N/A	Northeastern University
Research: ALERT: Awareness and Location of Explosive-related Threats
P. Dupont	N/A	Children’s Hospital Boston
Research: Image-Guided Intracardiac Beating Heart Surgery
P. Dupont	N/A	PHS/NIH/NHLBI
Research: Steerable MEMS Instruments for Precise Intracardiac Surgery
M. Gevelber	N/A	Cyber Materials LLC/NSF
Research: STTR Phase II: Development of Advanced E-beam Sweep Patterns and Control System
M. Gevelber	N/A	National Science Foundation
Research: Real-Time Control for Engineering Electrospun Nanofiber Diameter Distributions for Advanced Applications
P. Ishwar	N/A	National Science Foundation
Research: CAREER: Information-Scaling Laws, Bit-Conservation Principles, and Robust Coding Architectures in Sensor Networks
W. Karl	N/A	AFOSR/AFRL
Research: Foundations of Automatic Target Recognition
E. Kolaczyk	M. Crovella	National Science Foundation
Research: Collaborative Research: Modular Strategies for Global Internetwork Monitoring
E. Kolaczyk	S. Schaus	PHS/NIH/NIGMS
Research: Predicting Drug Mechanism via Chemogenomic Profiling
T. Little	M. Alanyali, N. Phillips, T. Kunz, V. Saligrama	National Science Foundation
Research: NeTS-NOSS: Semantic Internetworking of Sensor Systems for Efficient In-Network Information Processing
T. Little	R. Wagenaar	The Hartford Fire Insurance Company
Research: Body-Area Instrumentation for Avoidance of Workplace Injury
T. Little	J. Konrad, P. Ishwar	National Science Foundation
Research: NeTS-NOSS: Localized Computation and Network Path Formation to Enable Pervasive Video Sensing
T. Little	J. Carruthers, H. Altug	National Science Foundation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research: NSF Engineering Research Center for Smart Lighting
I. Paschalidis	P. Vakili	National Institutes of Health
Research: Final-Stage Optimization Methods for Protein Docking Exploiting Energy Funnels
I. Paschalidis	C. Cassandras	U.S. Department of Energy
Research: Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks for Long-term Deployments
I. Paschalidis	N/A	National Science Foundation
Research: ITR: Collaborative Research -(NHS+ASE)-(dmc+int): Diagnosis and Assessment of Faults, Misbehavior and Threats in Distributed Systems and Networks
V. Saligrama	N/A	National Science Foundation
Research: CAREER: A Systems Approach to Networked Decision Making in Uncertain Environments
V. Saligrama	N/A	ONR
Research: Networked Sensing Systems for Urban Target Recognition
V. Saligrama	N/A	Schlumberger Doll Research
Research: Automatic Dispersion Extraction from Acoustic Array Data
D. Starobinski	N/A	U.S. Department of Energy
Research: A Theory of Stability for Communications Networks
D. Starobinski	N/A	National Science Foundation
Research: CAREER: Quality of Service Engineering with Multiple Time-Scale Traffic
D. Starobinski	A. Trachtenberg, I. Paschalidis	National Science Foundation
Research: NeTS-NOSS: SensorNet Architectures for Indoor Location Detection: From Resolution to Robustness
D. Starobinski	M. Alanyali	National Science Foundation
Research: WN: Collaborative Research: Management of Secondary Markets in Deregulated Wireless Networks
A. Trachtenberg	N/A	National Science Foundation
Research: CAREER: Practical Data Synchronization: Minimizing Communication
A. Trachtenberg	D. Starobinski	National Science Foundation
Research: A Theory of Monitoring Based on Identifying Codes and Their Variants
A. Trachtenberg	N/A	Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
Research: Secure and Efficient Data Distribution in Varying-Topology Networks
P. Vakili	N/A	National Science Foundation
Research: New Strategies for Efficient Monte Carlo Simulation