Grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
•Co-Principal Investigator (with D. Aliaga, PI, and C. Cowen, co-PI), NSF Grant 0434398 ``MSPA-MCS: 3D Scene Digitization: a Novel Invariant Approach for Large-scale Environment Capture,'' August 2004-July 2007, $500,000.
•Principal Investigator, NSF Grant CCF-0728929 ``Efficient Methods for Automatic Recognition with Application to Target Identification,'' September 2007-August 2010, $200,000.
•Principal Investigator (with A. Magana, co-PI), NSF Grant PFE: RIEF-1544244 ``Research Initiation: Investigating Engineering Students' Habits of Mind: A Case Study Approach,'' January 2016 - December 2018, $150,000.
•Principal Investigator (with A.J. Magana and K. Douglas, co-PIs), NSF Grant EEC: 1826099 ``Research: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Characterizing Engineering Students' Computational Habits of Mind," September 15, 2018 - September 14, 2021, $350,000.
Grants from other Agencies
•Principal Investigator (with E.J.~Delp, Co-PI, and Next Waves System LLC), DARPA STTR Grant W31P4Q-06-C-0407 “Rosetta Phone,'” August 2006-July 2007, $100,000.
•Principal Investigator (with E.J.~Delp, Co-PI, and Next Waves System LLC), 21st Century Grant “Mobile Language Translation: Rosetta Phone Supplement,” November 2006-July 2007, $100,000.
•Principal Investigator (with E.J.~Delp, co-PI and Next Waves System LLC), DARPA STTR Grant “Rosetta Phone Phase II,” March 2008--February 2010, $700,000
•Co-Principal Investigator (with D. Ebert, PI, and many other co-PI’s), “VACCINE: Visual Analytics for Command, Control, Interoperability, National security and Emergencies,” US Department of Homeland Security, July 2009-June 2014, $15,000,000
•Co-Principal Investigator (with E. Delp, PI), “HAZMAT Sign Interpretation Using a Mobile Telephone,'' Seed Grant, US Department of Homeland Security (through Purdue's VACCINE Center), April 2010--March 2012, $40,000.
•Principal Investigator (with E. Delp, co-PI), “Gang Graffiti Recognition and Analysis Using a Mobile Telephone,” Seed Grant, US Department of Homeland Security (through Purdue's VACCINE Center), April 2010-March 2012, $42,000
Funding From Industry
Close to $3M received (as PI/co-PI) from various companies and their foundations, including
•The Hewlett-Packard Company
•Xerox
•Motorola
•Bloomberg
•Intel
•The Boeing Company
Selected Grants from Purdue
•Principal Investigator, “A Web-based System for Online Peer Instruction with Application to Distance Learning,” Purdue Office of Professional Practice Grant, September 2014--September 2015, $50,000.
•Principal Investigator (with K. Douglas, R. Kenney and A. Reibman), Purdue Office of the Provost, Instructional Innovation Program, “Wearable Technology Toolkit for Sensor Based Assessment of Teaching and Learning,” January 2017 - December 2018, $100,000.
•Co-Principal Investigator (with K.~Douglas, PI, D.~Goldwasser and S.~Prabhaker), Purdue Office of the Provost, Instructional Innovation Program, "Informal Assessment at Scale," January 2018 - December 2019, $100,000.