Recent Grants
(Proposals and Awards)

• Proposal Title: "Science, Mathematics, and Technology Scholars - Increasing Diversity through Mentoring"

  Funding Agency: National Science Foundation/S-STEM
  PI: Warner
  Co-PI: S.S.Iyengar, Su-Seng Pang, Zakiya S, Wilson and Neubrander
  Amount:$ 599,940
  Duration: January 8, 2011- July 31, 2015(4 Years)
  

• Proposal Title: "Automated Techniques for Inferring Actionable Information from WAMI data"

  Funding Agency: DARPA
  PI: Supratik Mukhopadhyay
  Co-PI: S.S.Iyengar
  Amount:$ 415,000
  Duration: (Stage 1: (Starting July 1, 2010,) $215000, Stage 2 Starting July 1, 2011)
  

• Proposal Title: "NeTS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Building an Intelligent, Uncertainty-Resilient Detection and Tracking Sensor Network"

  Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
  PI: S.S.Iyengar
  Co-PI: Dr.J.Zhang(CS Dept) & Dr. H.C.Wu(Electrical and CS Department)
  Amount:$ 350,000.00
  This NSF project is a collaborative project with Purdue University($100,000(Prof. David Yau-PI)) and University of Florida ($250,000(Prof. Sahni-PI))
  Duration: Starting from June 2010- June 2013 (3 Years)

• Proposal Title: "Center of Excellence in Integrated Smart Cyber-Centric Sensor Surveillance Systems Research"

  Funding Agency: Board of Regents Post-Katrina Funds
  PI: Vir Phoha
  Co-PI: S.S. Iyengar
  Amount: $3.6 M (LSU share is $1.2 M)
  Duration: Starting from 2007

• Proposal Title: "Secure and Survivable Cyber-Centric Sensor Networks: Algorithms and Architecture Research"

  Funding Agency: DoD DEPSCoR Grant
  PI: Dr. Iyengar
  Co-PI: Dr. Park, Dr. Hsiao-Chun Wu, Dr. Peter Chen and Dr. Phoha (LaTech)
  Amount: $761,000 for 3 years (starting from July 1, 2008). This is still under negotiation.
  Duration: July1, 2008 - June 30, 2011

• Proposal Title: "Louisiana's Strategic Research Infrastructure Improvement Initiative (Cyber Tools)"

  Funding Agency: NSF EPSCoR Grant
  PI: Dr. Konsari
  Co-PI: Dr. Brener, Dr. Karki, Dr. Park and Dr. Iyengar
  Amount: Computer Science Dept's share is approximately $273,000.00 (Still under negotiation).
  Duration: 2007 Fall - 2010

• Proposal Title: "Doctoral Research and Training in Information Networks for Monitoring, Assessment and Relief Activities for Natural and Man-Made Disasters"

  Funding Agency: GAANN(Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need) from United States Department of Education
  PI: E.Triantaphyllou
  Co-PI: S.S. Iyengar
  Amount: $126,675
  Duration: Starting from 2006

• Proposal Title: "Recruitment of Superior Students to the Doctoral Program in Areas of Distributed Sensor Networking at LSU"

  Funding Agency: Board of Regents @ FSU
  PI's: Dr. S.S.Iyengar, Dr. R. Kannan and Dr. B.B.Karki
  Amount: $92,000
  Duration: 4 years

• Proposal Title: "Request for Hardware Enhancement for High Performance Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Lab in the CS Department at LSU"

  Funding Agency: Board of Regents @ FSU
  PI's: E. Triantaphyllou, J. Chen, S.S. Iyengar
  Amount: $45,400
  Duration: 1 year

• Proposal Title: "Development of High-Performance Sensor Networking Infrastructure- Wireless Testbed and Curriculum Innovations "

  Funding Agency: Board of Regents @ FSU
  PI's: A. Wilson, A. Durresi, B. B. Karki, R. Kannan, and S.S. Iyengar
  Amount: $90,000
  Duration: 1 year

NSF Grants

• Proposal Title: "FD-Multi University Research and Training in Information Assurance and Computer Security"

  Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
  PI: S. S. Iyengar
  Co-PI's: P. Chen, J. Fernandez, R. Kannan, S.S. Pang
  Amount: $443,210
  Duration: 2 years (2006)

• Proposal Title: "MRI: Development of Viz Tangibles and VizNet: Instrumentation for Interactive Vizualization, Simulation, and Collaboration."

  Funding Agency: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
  Program: ITR-NSF
  PI: Brygg Ullmer
  Co-PI's: Edward Seidel, S.S.Iyengar and Stephen D.Beck
  Amount: $397,121
  Starting Date: September 2003
  Duration: 3 years starting from September 1,2005.

• Proposal Title: "Secure Distribution and Access in Distributed Sensor Networks"

  Funding Agency: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
  Program: ITR-NSF
  PI's: R.Kannan and S.S.Iyengar
  Amount: $400,000
  Starting Date: September 2003
  Duration: 3 years.

• Proposal Title: "Sensors: Survivable Sensor Networks"

  Funding Agency: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
  Program: ITR-NSF
  PI's: R.Kannan and S.S.Iyengar
  Amount: $200,000
  Starting Date: September 1, 2003
  Duration: 3 years

• Title of the proposal: "Information Technology Training and Academic Enhancement Program for Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics Undergraduate Students"

  Funding Agency: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
  PI: S.S.Iyengar
  Co-PIs: Dr.Eyassu Woldesenbet, Connie Stelly, Dr.Sandra McGuire, Dr.FrankNeubrander
  Amount: $496,604
  Starting Date: January 1, 2003
  Duration: 3 years

• Title of the proposal: "Real Time Distributed Data Mining for Sensor Networks"

  Funding Agency: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
  PI: S.S.Iyengar
  Amount: $32,659
  Starting Date: September 15, 2002
  Duration: 1 year

DARPA Grants

• Project Title: Multi-Resolution Data Fusion using Agent-Bearing Sensors in Hierarchically-Organized Sensor Networks (MU-FASHION)

  Lead Institution: Duke University
  Principal Investigator (Louisiana State University): S.S.Iyengar
  Other Principal Investigators: Krishnendu Chakrabarty (Duke University), Professor Hairong Qi (subcontract to the University of Tennessee)
  Graduate Students:
       Vishnu Swaminathan (Duke)
       Xiaoling Wang (University of Tennessee)
       Qishi Wu (Louisiana State University)
       Lei Xu (Louisiana State University)
  Technical Consultant: Ramesh Reddi, Infopike Inc
  Sponsor: DARPA/ITO SensIT Program
  Total Amount: $ 720,000 (LSU Share $250,000)
  Starting Date: July 2000
  Duration: 3 years
  Project Summary: This project is aimed at developing several key enabling technologies for distributed sensor networking. Topics being investigated under this grant include: sensor data fusion, multi-resolution fault-tolerant signal integration algorithms, active signal integration using mobile agents, sensor deployment algorithms for surveillance and target location, lightweight, energy-efficient real-time operating systems.

• Project Title: Reliable Query Reporting In Adaptive Sensor Networks: Analytical Framework &  Protocols

  Principal Investigator: Rajgopal Kannan.
  Other Principal Investigators: S.S.Iyengar, Sudipta Sarangi.
  Starting Date: June 2000
  Duration: June 2000 - September 2001
  Sponsor: DARPA/ITO SensIT Program
  Project Summary: This project proposes the development of the formal theory behind the analysis of the Reliable Query Reporting (RQR) problem in an adaptive sensor network. We will consider the problems of static-RQR, adaptive-RQR, and continuous-RQR by mapping them onto a graph topological domain. By qualifying the parameters governing individual and communal (group) sensor node behavior, we will derive game/decision theoretical techniques that control the actions of intelligent sensor nodes, leading to the dynamic formation of RQR topologies based on local topological decisions.
  

• Project Title: Enhancing the Quality of Routing in Data-Centric Sensor Networks

      PIs: Raj Kannan, S.S.Iyengar and S.Sarangi
      Sponsor: DOE/ORNL/U.T.Battle.
      Amount: $80,000
      Starting Date: September 2002
      Duration: September 2002 - June 2003.
  
  

• Project Title: Distributed Sensor Network Design for Efficient Plume Mapping of Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Radiation Events

      PI's : S.S.Iyengar and Raj Kannan
      Sponsor : DOE/ORNL
      Amount: $193,913 (awarded for one year $64,630)
      Duration: 8/15/05 - 8/14/08
  
      Project Summary:Based upon the program managers' decision, this task has been modified to a new task with one additional     PI in the area of signal processing titled
  
  

• Project Title: "Sensor Fusion Methods for Detection and Identification for Dispersions"

      PI's: S.S. Iyengar, Raj Kannan and S.Wei
      Duration: Starting from July 2006 to July 2008 (tentative)
      Requested Amount: $200,000
      Negotiations are going on between LSU and ORNL.
  
  
  

DOD-MURI Grants

•  Project Title: "Automated Self-Configuring Surveillance Networks"
  
  University Research Awards Announced by the Department of Defense (DOD) February 2, 2001

  LSU has been a part of a successful 2001 DOD Multidisciplinary University Research initiative Program (MURI), a program designed to address large multidisciplinary topic areas for future DOD applications and Technology options.

      Sponsor: DOD-MURI
      Amount: $ 1,000,000 (LSU Part $75,000)
      Starting Date: February 2001
      Duration: 3 years
  

  MURI team :
  

  Sashi Phoha (Penn. State)
  Richard Brooks (Penn. State)
  S.S. Iyengar (LSU)
  K.Chakrabarty (Duke)
  S.Wicker (Cornell)
  Parameshwar (Univ.Wisconsin)
  and Others

  The average funding will be $1 million per year over a three year period. Two additional years of funding will be possible to bring the total award to 5 years.

  The competition drew 416 white papers, from which 158 full proposals were received. After a thorough evaluation by technical experts, 48 of these proposals were found to be suitable for funding.

  Dr. Phoha is the Primary investigator.