Grants and Contracts

($11.7 million is awarded in total, out of which my share is $1.1M)

​Research Grants

• ​National Science Foundation (NSF)

  • Title: CDS&E: Collaborative Research: HyLoC: Objective-driven Adaptive Hybrid Lossy Compression Framework for Extreme-Scale Scientific Applications (OAC-2003624/2042084, OAC-2003709)

  • Amount: $527,563 (share: $270,802)

  • Period: 8/1/2020 through 7/31/2023

  • Role: Lead PI

• Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)

  • Title: Improving GPU Version of SZ for Scientific Applications at Extreme Scale

  • Amount: $65,000

  • Period: 8/1/2020 through 7/31/2021

  • Role: Single PI

• National Science Foundation (NSF)

  • Title: CRII: OAC: An Efficient Lossy Compression Framework for Reducing Memory Footprint for Extreme-Scale Deep Learning on GPU-Based HPC Systems (OAC-1948447/2034169)

  • Amount: $175,000

  • Period: 5/1/2020 through 4/30/2022

  • Role: Single PI

• National Science Foundation (NSF)

  • Title: CC* Compute: Accelerating Advances in Science and Engineering at The University of Alabama Through HPC Infrastructure (OAC-2018846)

  • Amount: $400,000 (share: $100,000)

  • Period: 7/1/2020 through 6/30/2022

  • Role: co-PI (PI: Jeff Carver)

• Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)

  • Title: An Efficient Lossy Compression Framework for Reducing Memory Footprint for Extreme-Scale Deep Learning on GPU-Based HPC Systems (​ASC200032)

  • Amount: 1,500 (initial) + 3,000 (supplement) GPU Hours (estimated value: $5,440.5) at PSC GPU-AI system

  • Period: 5/14/2020 through 5/13/2021

  • Role: Single PI

• Xilinx

  • Title: FPGA-Enhanced Scientific Data Management

  • ​Amount: Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ FPGA VCU118 Evaluation Kit (estimated value: $7,000​)

  • Period: no limit

  • Role: Single PI

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

  • Title: CISESS: Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies

  • Amount: $5,500,000 (share: $250,000)

  • Period: 6/1/2020 through 5/31/2021

  • Role: co-PI (PI: Prasad Gogineni)

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

  • Title: Center for Remote Sensing of Snow and Soil Moisture

  • Amount: $5,000,000 (share: $250,000)

  • Period: 6/1/2019 through 5/31/2020

  • Role: co-PI (PI: Prasad Gogineni)

• Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)

  • Title: Improving Lossy Compression for Scientific Applications at Extreme Scale

  • Amount: $25,000

  • Period: 8/1/2019 through 12/31/2019

  • Role: Single PI

• Xilinx

  • Title: FPGA-Based Lossy Compression for Scientific Data

  • ​Amount: 1x Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC ZC706 Evaluation Kit + 2x Xilinx Zynq-7000 (estimated value: $4,000​)

  • Period: no limit

  • Role: Single PI

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​Travel Grants

• 11/2018 Faculty Travel Grant $1,000 for SRP 2018, Lawerence Berkeley Lab.

• 08/2018 New Faculty Start-Up Grant $245,000, The University of Alabama.

• 06/2018 Student Travel Grant $1,400, ACM HPDC.

• 11/2017 Student Travel Grant $1,500, ACM/IEEE SC.

• 06/2017 Student Travel Grant $250, IEEE IPDPS.

• 06/2016 Student Travel Grant $1,000, ACM HPDC.

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