Research

Funded Projects

  1. ``Intelligent Resource Efficient Pond Aquaculture (IREPA): Cyber-Physical System to Improve the Fish Farms Productivity in the U.S.,'' National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), 12/01/2023-11/30/2026, Award amount: $1,200,000.
  2.  ``Research, Development, and Education to Accelerate the Transition of Marine Energy Technologies to Market,'' Department of Energy, 02/01/2024-1/31/2029, Award amount: $4,400,000.
  3. ``Collaborative Research: Implementation: Medium: Secure, Resilient Cyber-Physical Energy System Workforce Pathways via Data-Centric, Hardware-in-the-Loop Training,'' National Science Foundation, 09/01/2023-08/31/2027, Award amount: $480,000.
  4. ``Acquisition of an Education Laboratory for Energy Resilience and Sustainability,'' FAU Technology Fee Grant, 07/01/2023-06/30/2024, Award amount: $70,000.
  5.  ``FPL/NextEra Foundation to establish the Center of Intelligent Energy Technologies (InETech),'' FPL/NextEra, 01/01/2023-12/31/2027, Award amount: $1,000,000.
  6. ``NSF-CSIRO: Towards Interpretable and Responsible Graph Modeling for Dynamic Systems,'' National Science Foundation, 05/15/2023-05/14/2026, Award amount: $600,000.
  7. ``REU Site: CNS: Sensing and Smart Systems,'' National Science Foundation, Grant No. CNS-1950400, 02/15/2020-8/31/2024, Award amount: $379,808.
  8.  ``Numerical Simulation of the Current Kinetics Moored Ocean Current Turbine,'' Department of Energy (subcontract to Pacific Ocean Energy Trust), 06/01/2023-12/31/2023, Award amount: $68,161.
  9. ``Analysis and Design for Offshore Fish Farms Powered by Ocean Thermal Energy,'' Department of Energy (subcontract to Argonne National Laboratory), 10/01/2022-09/30/2024, Award amount: $80,000.
  10. ``Numerical Simulation of the Platypus Prowler WEC,'' Department of Energy (subcontract to Pacific Ocean Energy Trust), 10/01/2023-06/30/2024, Award amount: $65,000.
  11.  ``CAREER: Physics-Reinforced Data-Driven Prognostics and Co-Design for Marine Hydrokinetic Energy Systems,'' National Science Foundation, Grant No. CMMI-2145571, 02/01/2022-01/31/2027, Award amount: $634,514.
  12.  ``Early-Career Research Fellowship,'' National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Gulf Research Program, 09/01/2019-08/31/2021, Award amount: $76,000.
  13. ``Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Pilot: Interdisciplinary Training of Data-Centric Security and Resilience of Cyber-Physical Energy Infrastructures,'' National Science Foundation, Grant No. OAC-2017597, 09/01/2020-08/31/2022, Award amount: $160,000.
  14.  ``National Marine Renewable Energy Center Infrastructure Grant,'' Department of Energy, Grant No. DE-EE0008955, 04/01/2020-09/31/2023, Award amount: $1,000,000.
  15.  ``Collaborative Research: Design and Control of Networked Offshore Hydrokinetic Power-Plants with Energy Storage,'' National Science Foundation, Grant No. ECCS-1809164, 08/15/2018-07/31/2021, Award amount: $135,085.
  16.  ``Harmful Algal Bloom Innovative Technology: the Harmful Algal Bloom Assessment of Lake Okeechobee System (HALO),'' State of Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Grant No. FDEP MN016, 06/01/2020-01/31/2022, Award amount: $2,200,000.
  17. ``Platypus - A Novel Small-Scale Wave Energy Converter for Marine Equipment or Emergency Devices,'' National Science Foundation (subcontract from Engineering Technologies, LLC), 09/01/2021-12/31/2021, Award amount: $30,000.
  18. ``Reverse Osmosis Powered by an Oscillating Water Column,'' Department of Energy (TEAMER Technical Board), 11/01/2021-12/31/2022, Award amount: $26,400.
  19.  ``MRI: Acquisition of Artificial Intelligence \& Deep Learning Training and Research Laboratory,'' National Science Foundation, Grant No. CNS-1828181, 10/01/2018-09/30/2021, Award amount: $652,850.
  20.  ``REU Site: Marine Renewable Energy,'' National Science Foundation, Grant No. EEC-1950123, 04/01/2020-3/31/2023, Award amount: $390,000.
  21. ``Enhancing Cyber-Physical System Security for Large-Scale Integration of Distributed Energy Resources by Big Data and Deep Learning,'' Cyber Florida, 07/01/2019-12/31/2020, Award amount: $37,500.
  22.  ``Reinforcement Learning for Navigation and Coordination of a Bio-inspired Underwater Vehicles in Close Formation,'' COECS & I-SENSE Seed Grant, 07/01/2019-06/30/2020, Award amount: $35,000.
  23. ``Development of Curriculum and Hands-on Deep Learning Labs for IoT Cybersecurity,'' Cyber Florida, 07/01/2019-12/31/2020, Award amount: $50,000.
  24. ``Optimized Integration of Hydrokinetic Energy for Remote, Networked, and Resilient Microgrids,'' Walter and Lalita Janke Innovations in Sustainability Science Research Fund, 11/01/2017-04/30/2019, Award amount: $50,000.
  25. ``Proactive Defense Against Cyber-Physical Smart Grid Attacks,'' Florida Center for Cybersecurity (FC2), 07/01/2017-06/30/2018, Award amount: $20,000.
  26. ``REU Site: Removing Barriers to Ocean Current Based Electricity Production through Undergraduate Research,'' National Science Foundation, Grant No. EEC-1659468, 03/15/2017-02/29/2020, Award amount: $440,000.
  27. ``SeeGan: Deep Learning-Aided Human Attention Modeling for Robots Learning,'' I-SENSE Seed Grant, 05/01/2018-04/30/2019, Award amount: $26,000.
  28. ``REU Site: Sensing and Smart Systems,'' National Science Foundation, Grant No. CNS-1659484, 01/01/2017-12/31/2019, Award amount: $339,984.

 

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