Grants

Current

• NASA: “Using Data Science to Understand Soil, Wildfire, & Social Disparity of Climate Change & Air Pollution,” 05/01/23-03/31/26. My Role: PI, Shared Credit 100%. Awarded to MU Total (including direct and F&A): $153,748.00. Current.

• NASA: “DDR-ARTEMIS: Digital Agriculture, Data Science, Robotics - Applied Research and Training for Enhancing Motivation in Science,” 06/01/23-05/31/28. My Role: PI, Shared Credit 80%. Awarded to MU Total (including direct and F&A): $51,471.00. Current.

• St Louis University Taylor Geospatial Institute: “Geospatial Epidemiology and Disease Ecology of Tick-borne Diseases,”  01/01/24-06/30/25. My Role: CO-PI, Shared Credit 12%. Awarded to MU Total (including direct and F&A): 162,939.00. Current.

Successfully Finished

•  NASA: “Climate Change Impact on Agriculture and Ecosystem,” 06/06/22-11/30/22. My Role: CO-I, Shared Credit 20%. Awarded to MU Total (including direct and F&A): 10,000.00.

•  Federal Highway Administration: “MIMIC - Multidisciplinary Initiative on Methods to Integrate and Create Artificial Realistic Data,” 09/05/19-12/31/22. My Role: CO-I, Shared Credit 8%.  Awarded to MU Total (including direct and F&A): $1,073,255.00.      

• USDA: “Variability of Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Soil Microbial Diversity and Function in Conventional and Alternate Land Use Systems in Floodplain Soils,” 03/01/18-02/28/22, My Role: CO-PI, Shared Credit 20%.  Awarded to MU Total (include direct and F&A): $330,656.00.

• Research Council Grant (URC-21-002), “Bayesian and Machine Learning Models for Ultrasensitive Detection of Single Molecule Lipoarabinomannan (LAM) protein to Diagnose Tuberculosis Disease,” 06/01/21-08/31/21. University of Missouri-Columbia, My Role: PI, Shared Credit 100%. Award Amount: $10,000.                                 

•  NIH R01: “Developing Preventive and Therapeutic Strategies Against Head and Neck Cancer”, 02/15/15-01/31/20. PI: Prof.  Ratna Ray, St. Louis University; My Role:  Collaborator (no defined percent effort, no salary requested).

•  MU Faculty International Travel Grant to give an invited talk at the 11th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2018) which took place at the University of Pisa, Italy, 14-16 December 2018. My Role: PI, Shared Credit 100%. Award Amount: $1500.

• Department of Statistics Research and Teaching Seed (SRTS) Grant Program: “Variable Selection in Bayesian Kernel Machine Models and Its Applications,” 06/01/17-07/31/17. My Role: PI, Shared Credit 100%. Award Amount: $12,500.

• Department of Statistics Research and Teaching Seed (SRTS) Grant Program: “Graduate Student Support for Computing and Research”, 06/01/17-07/31/17. My Role: PI, Shared Credit 100%. Award Amount: $6000.

• MU Faculty International Travel Grant to give an invited talk 9th Conference of the Asian Regional Section of the IASC, (IASC-ARS 2015), Dec 17-19, 2015, Singapore (FIT-16-083). My Role: PI, Shared Credit 100%. Award Amount: $2000.

• NSF: “Bayesian Variable Selection and Grouping,” 08/15/11-07/31/15. My Role: PI, Shared Credit 100%. Award Anticipated MU Total (include direct and F&A): $121,279.00.

• Working group to solve problems in model selection and phylogeny in mixed multi-factor meta-analysis at National Evolutionary Synthesis Center ("NESCent", an NSF-funded research center in Durham, North Carolina, USA affiliated with Duke University). Project leader: Dr. Jason Hoeksema, Department of Biology, University of Mississippi. Jan 1, 2012 – Dec 31, 2015. My Role: Member of the working group.

• NIH R01 (5R01CA152035-02), “Treatment Comparison and Estimation of Relative Risks with Failure Time Data”, 08/01/10-07/31/2015. PI: Prof. Jianguo Sun; My Role: Co-PI, Shared Credit 10%. Award Anticipated MU Total (include direct and F&A): $221,260. July 2010-July 2015. 

• MU Faculty International Travel Grant to give a topic contributed talk at the Joint Statistical Meeting, Aug 4-8, 2013, at Montreal, Canada (FIT-14-021). My Role: PI, Shared Credit 100%. Award Amount: $1500.

• NIH (5T32GM077971-05)  Biostatistics training grant, 07/01/07-06/31/13. PI: Prof. Jianguo Sun, University of Missouri Columbia; My Role: Senior Mentor. Award Anticipated MU Total (include direct and F&A): $331,035.

• Collaborative Research:  UMC Research Board, “Statistical Methods for Testing Gene-Gene & Gene-Environment Interactions,” 08/01/2011-07/31/2012. My Role: PI, Shared Credit 100%. Collaborators Prof. Indranil Mukhopadhyay, Indian Statistical Institute, India and Prof. Jerry Taylor, Animal Science Research Center at MU. Award Amount: $10,524.

• MU Research Council Grant (URC-11-086): “Bayesian semiparametric modeling of prostate cancer based on genetic pathways,” 06/01/11-12/31/12. My Role: PI, Shared Credit 100%.  Award Amount: $7500.

• MU Faculty International Travel Grant (FIT-11-008), 2010. My Role: PI, Shared Credit 100%.  Award Amount: $1500.

• MU Research Council Grant (URC-09-055): “Gene Function Prediction,” 06/01/09-12/31/10. My Role: PI, Shared Credit 100%.  Award Amount: $7500.

• MU Summer Research Fellowship (SRF-09-015): “Gene Function Prediction,” 06/01/09-07/31/09. My Role: PI, Shared Credit 100%.  Award Amount: $7000.

• Summer Visiting Researcher Fellowship (For Visiting Helsinki Statistical Machine Learning and Bioinformatics Group at University of Technology), PASCAL network of excellence, European Union, June-August 2008, 3000 Euros.

• MU Faculty International Travel Grant (FIT-07-032) to give a invited talk at the Multivariate Statistical Methods in the 21st Century meeting in Kolkata, India. My Role: PI, Shared Credit 100%.  Award Amount: $1500.