Sponsored Research Projects
Theory-Grounded Guidelines for Solver-Aware System Architecting (SASA)
Sponsor: NSF Engineering Design and Systems Engineering (EDSE) Grant
Duration: November 2021 – October 2024
Role: Principal Investigator
Collaborators: Zoe Szajnfarber (GWU), Taylan Topcu (GWU)
WRT 1049: Acquisition Innovation Research Center: Innovation for Digital Transformation and Policy Analytics - Tasks 4 and 5
Sponsor: DoD Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC)
Duration: July 2021 – June 2022
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Collaborators: Dan DeLaurentis (PI), Nate Hartman, Ananth Iyer, Chris Williams (Virginia Tech), Paul Grogan (Stevens Institute of Technology)
A Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) framework for Digital-Twin-based Cybersecurity in Physical Systems
Sponsor: Rolls Royce
Duration: November 2021 – December 2022
Amount: $192,165
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Funding share: $100,000)
Collaborators: Conrad Tucker (CMU), Vyas Sekhar (CMU), Nicole Key
Digital Engineering Enhanced Test and Evaluation of Learning-based Systems
Sponsor: Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC)
Duration: September 2021 – December 2021
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Collaborators: Laura Freeman (Virginia Tech), Peter Beling (Virginia Tech)
Learning to Gamebreak (L2G)
Sponsor: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Duration: May 2020 – October 2021
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Collaborators: Dan DeLaurentis (PI), Ali Raz
Cognitive Bias in Intelligent Systems
Sponsor: Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC)
Duration: July 2019 – September 2020
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Collaborators: Laura Freeman (Virginia Tech)
Workshop and Grantees Meeting: Positioning Engineering Design and Systems Engineering Research for Sustained Societal Impact; West Lafayette, Indiana; October 7-8, 2019
Sponsor: NSF Engineering Design and Systems Engineering (EDSE)
Duration: August 2019 – July 2020
Role: Principal Investigator
Collaborators: Ilias Bilionis, Tahira Reid, Karthik Ramani
EAGER: Demonstrating the Importance of Research Setting Representativeness in Systems Engineering and Design Research
Sponsor: NSF Engineering Design and Systems Engineering (EDSE)
Duration: September 2018 – August 2021
Role: Co-PI
Collaborators: Zoe Szajnfarber (GWU), Erica Gralla (GWU), Paul Grogan (Stevens Inst. of Tech.)
NSF Workshop on State-of-the-Art and Challenges in Resilience
Sponsor: NSF Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
Duration: October 2018 – September 2019
Role: Co-PI
Collaborators: Saurabh Bagchi (PI), Gesualdo Scutari, Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Milind Kulkarni
A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Strategic Behavior in Systems Engineering
Sponsor: NSF Systems Science (SYS)
Duration: August 2017 – July 2022
Role: Co-PI
Collaborators: Ilias Bilionis (PI), Thanh Nguyen
Understanding Information Acquisition Decisions in Systems Design through Behavioral Experiments and Bayesian Analysis
Sponsor: NSF Systems Science (SYS)
Duration: August 2017 – July 2022
Role: Principal Investigator
Collaborators: Ilias Bilionis, Sebastien Helie, and Karthik N. Kannan
Computing without Revealing: A Cryptographic Approach to eProcurement
Sponsor: Naval Postgraduate School
Duration: December 2016 – July 2018
Role: Principal Investigator
Collaborator: Mikhail Atallah
Decision-based Collaborative Design Workflow Management for PREMAP
Sponsor: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Duration: July 2015 – June 2018
Role: Principal Investigator
Collaborators: Farrokh Mistree and Janet K. Allen (University of Oklahoma)
Decision-centric foundations for modeling and analysis of complex networked systems
Sponsor: NSF Systems Science (SYS)
Duration: September 2014 – August 2018
Role: Principal Investigator
Collaborators: Daniel A. DeLaurentis
Crowdsourcing for Engineering Systems Design: Theoretical and Experimental Studies
Sponsor: NSF Engineering Systems Design (ESD)
Duration: July 2014 – June 2018
Role: Principal Investigator
Collaborators: Karthik N. Kannan
Foundations of Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Creative Design and Making of Cyber-physical Products
Sponsor: NSF Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)
Duration: September 2013 – August 2018
Role: Principal Investigator
Collaborators: Mikhail Atallah and Karthik Ramani
Integrated Policy and Engineering Design for Complex Systems with Applications to Distribution Systems within Smart Electric Grid
Sponsor: NSF Engineering Design and Innovation (EDI)
Duration: August 2012 – April 2017
Role: Principal Investigator
Collaborator: Anurag K. Srivastava (Washington State University)
Managing Uncertainty by Integrating Information Economics and Robust Design
Sponsor: NSF Engineering Design and Innovation (EDI)
Duration: August 2010 – July 2011
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Collaborator: Farrokh Mistree, PI (University of Oklahoma)
NSF CAREER: Collective Innovation - Transforming the Realization of Complex Engineering Systems
Sponsor: NSF Engineering Design and Innovation (EDI)
Duration: April 2010 – March 2016
Role: Principal Investigator (single investigator grant)
Community-based Product Lifecycle Management (c-PLM) – Bridging the gap between PLM and social innovation
Sponsor: Purdue PLM Center of Excellence
Duration: January 2013 – December 2013
Role: Principal Investigator
Collaborator: Karthik Ramani
Collective Innovation in Product Development: A Web-Based Platform for Educating Next Generation Engineers
Sponsor: Procter and Gamble Fund’s Higher Education Grant
Duration: January 2009 – January 2010
Role: Principal Investigator (single investigator grant)