Awards/Grants/Contracts

Active Grants/Projects

• FMCSA High-Priority Grant: Crash Prediction for Commercial Motor Vehicles 

Sponsor: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Award Period: 10/2023 - 10/2025

Grant Total: USD 349,051; Role: PI [Co-PI: Fitzsimmons and Caragea]

• NSF EPSCoR: RII Track-1: Adaptive and Resilient Infrastructures driven by Social Equity (ARISE)

Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF) 

Award Period: 06/2022 - 05/2027

Grant Total: USD 20,000,000 (my portion: USD 240,000) ; Role: Co-PI

• Planning and Investing for Autonomous Maintenance Technology Deployments with Informed Cost-Benefits under Varying Environmental Conditions

Sponsor: FHWA (Colorado DOT led) Pooled Fund 

Award Period: 01/2024 - 06/2025

Grant Total: USD 97,975; Role: PI (100%)

• Golden Hour Identification for Rural Crashes in Kansas

Sponsor: Kansas Department of Transportation

Award Period: 09/2023 - 02/2025

Grant total: USD 67,373; Role: PI (100%)

• Assessing the safety, mobility, and environmental benefits of connected infrastructure deployment in Kansas

Sponsor: Kansas Department of Transportation 

Award Period: 09/2022 - 08/2024

Grant total: USD 70,493; Role: PI (100%)

• Exploring the autonomous truck mounted attenuator (ATMA) technology potential for Kansas

Sponsor: Kansas Department of Transportation

Award Period: 08/2022 - 01/2025

Grant total: USD 35,866; Role: PI (100%)

• Global Campus Course Development Award (Teaching grant) 

Sponsor: Kansas State University Global Campus

Award Period: 06/2022 - 05/2023

Grant Total: USD 9,000; Role: PI (100%)

Completed Projects

• Can wireless-charging pavements generate revenues to recover the highway funds—A cost- benefit analysis for the state of Kansas [Complete]

Sponsor: Kansas Department of Transportation

Award Period: 09/2021 - 12/2022

Grant total: USD 35,514; Role: PI (100%)

• Smart Cities: Co-optimization of signal control and curbside utilization using connected vehicle technologies.

Sponsor: BHC Inc. and KSU Foundation [Complete] 

Award Period: 04/2021 - 12/2022

Grant total: USD 95,000; Role: PI(100%)

• Connected and Automated Future of Transportation for Kansas [Complete] 

Sponsor: Kansas Department of Transportation

Award Period: 10/2020 - 12/2021

Grant total: USD 35,868; Role: PI(100%)

Prior Joining Kansas State University

• Big-data solutions for Mobility

Award Period: 10/2017–10/2018

Sponsor: Vehicle Technology Office (US DOE)

Role: Principal Investigator

Grant total: USD 300,000

• Smart Urban Signal Infrastructure and Control—Urban Science Pillar

Award Period: 10/2016–10/2019;

Sponsor: Vehicle Technology Office (US DOE)

Role: Principal Investigator

Grant total: USD 600,000 (200,000 per FY)

• Automated mobility district modeling

Award Period: 10/2017–10/2019;

Sponsor: Vehicle Technology Office (US DOE);

Role: Co-Principal Investigator at ORNL

Grant total: USD 140,000 (70,000 per FY)

• Extending urban data and modeling—Urban Science Pillar

Award Period: 10/2016–10/2017;

Sponsor: Vehicle Technology Office (US DOE)

Role: Principal Investigator

Grant total: USD 135,000

• Understanding the interactions between global climate change and human activity at the neighborhood level by developing an integrated methodology using data analytics, agent-based modeling and earth system modeling (Early-career proposal writing grant)

Award Period: 05/2016–10/2016, 

Sponsor: UDI and CCSI at Oak Ridge National Lab