GRANTS

 

Research Grants

 

 

Baris Aksanli

Dr. Baris Aksanli
Associate Professor

  • Arizona State University: "Passenger Arrival Estimation and Dynamic Resource Allocation for Security Checkpoints"
  • Arizona State University: "SDSU Participation in ASU Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency Hackathon Competition"
  • CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation: "GE Digital CSU Innovation Design Challenge"
  • National Science Foundation: "NRI: Distributed Bayesian Learning and Safe Control for Autonomous Wildfire Detection"
  • National Science Foundation: "MLWiNS: Hyperdimensional Computing for Scalable IoT Intelligence Beyond the Edge"
  • National Science Foundation: "SCC-PG: Building an Integrative Community Platform to Alleviate the Workforce Aging Crisis"
  • U.S. Department of Defense Office of Naval Research: "Training Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) in Cybersecurity, Sensor Processing, Communication Technology, and Artificial Intelligence at San Diego State University"
 
Amir Alimohammad

Dr. Amir Alimohammad
Professor

  • National Science Foundation: "Reconfigurable and Programmable Processor Architectures for Brain-Computer Interfacing"
  • National Science Foundation - Division of Engineering Education and Centers: "Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Next Generations of Wireless Telecommunication (WiTeC)"


Ege Engin

Dr. Arif E. Engin
Professor

  • Sumitomo Corporation: "Stepped-Impedance Common-Mode Filter in Differential Lines"


Ke Huang

Dr. Ke Huang
Associate Professor

  • CSU Office of the Chancellor: "An Eco-driving System for Connected Automated Vehicles Based on Multi-Objective Trajectory Optimization" 
  • Innophase, Inc.: "Qptimization of Semiconductor Manufacturing Process Based on Data Mining"
  • Qualcomm Inc.:  "Qualcomm Support for Dr. Huang's Research"
 
Sunil Kumar

Dr. Sunil Kumar
Professor

  • PAR Government Systems Corporation: "Novel Adaptive Multicast Routing in Directional Airborne Networks"
  • U.S. Department of Defense Air Force Research Laboratory: "Design of Novel, Cross-Layer Neighbor Discovery Schemes for Directional Mesh Networks"
  • U.S. Department of Defense Air Force Research Laboratory: "Mobility-Adaptive Cross-Layer Protocols for Airborne Networks with Single-/Multi-Beam Directional Antennas"
  • U.S. Department of Defense Air Force Research Laboratory: "Prioritized, QoS-aware Information Transmission Over Congested/Contested Wireless Mesh"
  • U.S. Department of Defense Air Force Research Laboratory: "Quality-of-Anatomy (QoA)-Oriented and QoS-Aware Transport and Routing Protocols for Contested Airborne Swarm Networks" 


Saeed Manshadi

Dr. Saeed Manshadi
Assistant Professor

  • California Air Resource Board: "Imperial Valley Community-Focused Collaborative Research Plan"
  • California Energy Commission: "Southern California Energy Innovation Network"
  • Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute, North America: "Toward an Efficient Optimal Power Flow" 
  • National Science Foundation - Engineering Research Initiation (ERI): "ERI: Resilient Operational Planning of Electricity Grid Under the Risk of Wildfire"
  • Southern California Gas Company: "Farm of the Future: Farm Electrification, A Roadmap to Decarbonize the Agriculture Sector - Phase 1 & 2"
 
Chris Mi

Dr. Chris Mi
Professor

  • Argonne National Laboratory: "High Power Wireless Charging System"
  • California State Energy Commission: "Cost-Effective Integration of Second-Life Batteries with Solar PV Systems for Commercial Buildings"
  • California State Energy Commission and Solid Energies, Inc.: "High Safety, Wide-Operation-Temperature, Low-Cost All-Solid-State Li-Ion Battery and ASSLiB-Based Energy Storage Systems"
  • Ford Motor Company: "Data Piece Based Parameter Identification and Prognostics of Lithium-Ion Batteries"
  • Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute, North America: "High Frequency High Power Density Compact High Voltage Switch Gear Wireless Power Transfer System"
  • Gotion, Inc.: "Active Balancing Technology in BMS for Power Battery Systems"
  • Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc. (HATCI): "A Proposal of Foreign Object Detection (FOD) in Wireless Power Transfer Systems"
  • Kia Motors: "A Proposal of Foreign Object Detection (FOD) in Wireless Power Transfer Systems"
  • Nanjing Golden Dragon Bus Manufacturing Company Ltd: "Joint Laboratory Development and Training"
  • National Science Foundation - Division of Engineering Education and Centers: "Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Next Generations of Wireless Telecommunication (WiTeC)"
  • Rutgers University: "Uncertainty Management and Proactive Maintenance for Lithium-ion Batteries in Electrified Vehicles"
  • Snova Intelligent Technology LTD: "Development of State of Charge and State of Health Algorithms for 48V Hybrid Battery Packs"
  • U.S. Department of Energy Argonne National Laboratory: "High Power Wireless Charging System"
  • University of California at San Diego: "Rapid Development of Urban Air Mobility Vehicle Concepts through Full-Configuration Multidisciplinary Design, Analysis, and Optimization" 
  • University of Michigan: "GATE Center for Electric Drive Transportation"
  • University of Michigan: "Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Comprenensive Energy Storage Solutions in Electrified Transportation (CESSET)"
 
Santosh Nagaraj Dr. Santosh Nagaraj
Associate Professor
  • National Science Foundation - Division of Engineering Education and Centers: "Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Next Generations of Wireless Telecommunication (WiTeC)"
Duy Nguyen

Dr. D. Huu N. Nguyen
Associate Professor

  • Army Research Office (ARO): "Enabling High-Mobility UAV Communications with Adabptive Signal Processing"
  • LinQuest Corporation: "Measurement and Analysis of SATCOM Operational Resiliency"
  • National Science Foundation: "Enabling Beyond -5G Wireless Access Networks with Robust and Scalable Cell-Free Massive MIMO"
  • National Science Foundation - Computing and Communication Foundation (CCF): "Energy-Efficient THz Communications Across Massive Dimensions"
  • National Science Foundation - Electrical, Communications & Cyber Systems (ECCS): CAREER: "Development of Learning Frameworks for Nonlinear Massive MIMO Systems"
  • U.S. Department of Defense Air Force Research Laboratory: "Design of Novel, Cross-Layer Neighbor Discovery Schemes for Directional Mesh  Networks"
  • U.S. Department of Defense Office of Naval Research: "Training Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) in Cybersecurity, Sensor Processing, Communication Technology, and Artificial Intelligence at San Diego State University"
 
 Yusuf Ozturk

Dr. Yusuf Ozturk
Professor

  • National Science Foundation: "I-Corps: Ambient Sleep Architecture Monitor"
  • University of California at San Diego: "A Real-Time Closed Loop Brain Computer Interface for Recording Visually Evoked Neural Activity"
  • University of Central Florida: "Solar Training and Education for Professionals (STEP)"
 
 Chris Paolini

Dr. Christopher Paolini
Assistant Professor

  • 2020 SDSU Summer Undergraduate Research Program: "Embedded Non-Symmetric Deep Autoencoder Implementation on the Xilinx Alveo U25"
  • Department of California Highway Patrol: "Testing Services for Police Traffic Radar and Laser Speed Measuring Devices"
  • HealthLINK Center Cycle 1 Pilot Project, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health: "Fall Prediction and Detection in At-Risk Older Adults through Interfacing at the Edge"
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: "Development of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Chombo-Crunch Software Framework for the Numerical Simulation of Pore Scale Reactive Transport Processes Involved in Geologic Carbon Sequestration" 
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: "Simulation of Synergistic Oil Recovery Using the Chombo-Crunch Framework"
  • National Science Foundation - Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC): "CC* Compute: Central Computing with Advanced Implementation at San Diego State University"
  • Plume Design Inc.: "Plume Inc. Fall Detection Sensor Data Capture, Annotation, Analysis, and Reporting"
  • U.S. Department of Defense Office of Naval Research: "Training Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Students in the Development and Deployment of FPGA Accelerated Network Intrusion Detection Systems for Identifying Indicators of Cyber Attack"
 
 Reza Sabzehgar

Dr. Reza Sabzehgar
Associate Professor

  • TransPower: "Control and Optimization of an Inverter Utilized in Electric Heavy-Duty Vehicle for Fast Transmission Shifting"
 
 Sweta Sarkar

Dr. Mahasweta Sarkar
Professor

  • Auburn University: "The Alliance of Persons with Disabilities and Intersectionality for Inclusion, Networking, and Transition Opportunities in STEM (TAPDINTO-STEM)"
  • National Science Foundation - Division of Engineering Education and Centers: "Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Next Generations of Wireless Telecommunication (WiTeC)"
  • The San Diego Foundation: "Sustainable Leadership Academy: Exposing Girls and Underrepresented Students to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Careers"
  • ViaSat Inc.: "Investigation Into a High Quality Customer Experience on a WiFi Network on a Commercial Airliner via ViaSat's Ka-band High Throughput"


 Sridhar Seshagiri

Dr. Sridhar Seshagiri
Associate Professor

  • University of Central Florida: "Solar Training and Education for Professionals (STEP)"
 
 Satish Sharma

Dr. Satish K. Sharma
Professor

  • Altius Space Machines: "Sidelobe Interlink with ModPak for Bi-Directional I/O Telecommunications"
  • Broadcom Corporation: "Multi-Band Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Antenna Research Proposal"
  • First RF Corporation: "Gun-Hardened, Hypersonic-Capable RF Components for Smart Munitions"
  • FuseIntegration, Inc.: "Resilient Directional Mesh Enhanced Tactical Airborne Networks"
  • FuseIntegration, Inc.: "STTR PHASE II: Holistic Interoperable Directional Data Enhancement Network (HIDDEN)"
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): "5G Array for Lunar Relay Operations - Flight Test (FIGARO-FT)"
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): "Applicability of Hybrid-Beamforming based Massive MIMO Antenna Arrays Concepts for 5G Millimeter Wave Applications to SmallSats Platforms"
  • National Science Foundation - Division of Engineering Education and Centers: "Engineering Research Center for Next Generations of Wireless Telecommunication (WiTeC)"
  • Office of Naval Research: "Agile Antenna for Troposcatter Communications"
  • Space Micro, Inc.: "Compact, Broadband, Efficient and High Power Transmit Antenna for Airborne Electronic Attack Platform"
  • Space Micro, Inc.: "Innovative Antenna Arrays Enabling Continuous Interceptor Communications"
  • U.S. Department of Defense Office of Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC): "Design and Test Support for Microwave Wide Circular Polarized Phase Array"
  • U.S. Department of Defense Office of Naval Research: "Agile Antenna for Troposcatter Communications" 
  • U.S. Department of Defense Office of Naval Research: "Development of W-Band Millimeter-Wave Links for Nanosat Applications" 
  • U.S. Department of Defense Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command: "Design and Development of Ku-band Phased Array Antenna Network Using Heat Sink Radiator and Reflector Element for Beam Steering Applications"
  • U.S. Department of Defense Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command: "PWS 602 X-Band Active Aperture Design and Measurement"
 
 Hakan Toreyin

Dr. Hakan Töreyin
Assistant Professor

  • National Science Foundation: "Leveraging Stochastic Resonance for High Spatial-Resolution Extracellular Monitoring"
  
Junfei Xie

Dr. Junfei Xie
Associate Professor

  • National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Research Infrastructure: CCRI: ENS: "Enhanced Open Networked Airborne Computing Platform" 
  • National Science Foundation: Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering: CAREER: "Towards Networked Airborne Computing in Uncertain Airspace: A Control and Networking Facilitated Distributed Computing Framework"
  • National Science Foundation: Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering: "CI-New: Collaborative Research: Developing an Open Networked Airborne Computing Platform"
  • National Science Foundation: Directorate for Engineering: "EAGER: Real-Time: Collaborative Research: Unified Theory of Model-Based and Data-Driven Real-Time Optimization and Control for Uncertain Networked Systems"
  • National Science Foundation: REU: "Towards Networked Airborne Computing in Uncertain Airspace: A Control and Networking Facilitated Distributed Computing Framework"