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The Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory Grants is a grant from Penn State University's Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory that funds AI and machine learning research projects conducted by Penn State faculty and affiliated researchers. The lab supports a broad portfolio of projects spanning predictive modeling, high-dimensional data analysis, multi-stakeholder decision-making, and collaborative interdisciplinary science.
Funded projects include NSF-backed research on molecular sciences, digital facility management, and longitudinal data modeling. Awards vary in size and are tied to external funding competitions and internal lab priorities. Eligible applicants are Penn State University researchers seeking to advance foundational and applied AI research across scientific domains.
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* Research Grant, National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences, National Science Foundation (2024-2029), $20,000,000.
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* Research Grant, BD Hubs: NORTHEAST Big Data Innovation HubNational Science Foundation (2019-2024). Vasant Honavar (co-PI), with Jeanette Wing (Columbia), Rene Baston (Columbia), Andrew McCallum (UMass-Amherst), and James Hendler (RPI) $4,000,000 * Research Grant, 2UL1TR002014-05A1, Penn State Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, National Institutes of Health (2021-2026).
Lawrence Sinoway (PI) Vasant Honavar (Informatics Co-Lead) $22,113,244. * Research Grant, Collaborative Research: RESEARCH-PGR: Genetic and environmentally-induced functional variation in the rice RNA structurome, National Science Foundation (2020-2022).
Vasant Honavar (Co-PI, with Sarah Assmann and Philip Bevilaqua) Total: $1,800,000 * Research Grant, Research Grant, EAGER: Interpreting Black-Box Predictive Models Through Causal Attribution, National Science Foundation (2020-2024).
Vasant Honavar (PI), $200,000 * Infrastructure Planning Grant, CCRI: Planning-C: A Community Research Infrastructure for Integrated AI-Enabled Malware and Network Data Analytics, National Science Foundation (2022-2024). * Research Grant, CIF21 DIBBs: EI: Virtual Data Collaboratory: A Regional Cyberinfrastructure for Collaborative Data Intensive Science, National Science Foundation (2016-2022).
Vasant Honavar (PI-PSU), with Manish Parashar (PI-Rutgers). $4,000,000 * Research Grant, Digital Collaboratory for Precision Health Research, Pennsylvania State University, Vasant Honavar. $250,000 (2018-2021).
* Scalable Near-Real-Time Identification and Characterization of Malware Behaviors from Darknet Data. William J. Hughes Technical Center.
Pennsylvania State University, Vasant Honavar (Co-PI) with John Yen. $499,687. (2019-2022) * Research Grant, AI for Predictive Maintenance, Pennsylvania State University, Vasant Honavar.
$100,000, Volvo. (2021-2022). * Research Grant, Graph Optimization via Deep Learning.
Vasant Honavar (Co-PI), with Suhang Wang. Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. $146,661.
2020-2021. * Research Grant, BD Spokes: SPOKE: NORTHEAST: Collaborative Research: Integration of Environmental Factors and Causal Reasoning Approaches for Large-Scale Observational Health Research, National Science Foundation (2015-2019). Vasant Honavar (PI) Total: $1,000,000.
Penn State Budget: $95,367 * Research Grant, CC* CRIA: Eastern Regional Network, National Science Foundation (2020-2022). Vasant Honavar (Co-PI, with James von Oehsen, Bruce Segee, Sharon Pitt and John Goodhue) Total: $250,000 * Research Grant, AI Institute Planning: AI-Enabled Materials Discovery, Design and Synthesis, National Science Foundation (2020-2022).
Vasant Honavar (PI, with Elsa Olivetti, Adri van Duin, Mehrdad Mahdavi and Dane Morgan) Total: $500,000. * Research Grant, Exploring Graph Neural Networks for Attributed Multi-Layer Criminal Network Analysis, Center for Criminal Network Analysis, George Mason University, Subaward from Department of Homeland Security, $340,000, Vasant Honavar (co-PI) (2022-2024).
* Research Grant, Penn State Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, National Institutes of Health (2016-2019). Lawrence Sinoway (PI) Vasant Honavar (Informatics Co-Lead) $20,000,000 * Research Grant, Penn State Biomedical Big Data to Knowledge (B2D2K) Training Program, National Institutes of Health (2016-2020). Vasant Honavar (PI), with James Broach and Runze Li, $1,500,000.
* Research Grant, EAGER: Towards a Computational Infrastructure for Analysis of Sensitive Data, National Science Foundation (2015-2019). Vasant Honavar (PI) $231,578. * Research Grant, SHF:Large:Collaborative Research: Inferring Software Specifications from Open Source Repositories by Leveraging Data and Collective Community ExpertiseNational Science Foundation (2015-2019).
Vasant Honavar (Penn State University PI), $319,511 (Penn State University Budget). In partnership with Iowa State University, University of Central Florida, and Bowling Green State University. * Research Grant, Automating Artificial Intelligence: Empowering Analysts with Intelligent, Autonomous Software Agents, NGIA (Subaward from Concurrent Technologies Corporation), $67,279, 2017.
(2015-2019). Vasant Honavar (PI). * New Techniques for Active Cyber-Defense, NSA/DHS National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (2015-2016), Vasant Honavar (Co-PI) (With Peng Liu, John Yen, Minghui Zhu, Sencun Zhu), $269,981.
* RAPID: Socio-technical systems and Big Data Analytics in the Ebola Response, National Science Foundation (2015-2016). Vasant Honavar (Co-PI) (With Andrea Tapia and Carleen Maitland). $99,902.
* Research Grant, Collaborative Research: Learning Classifiers from Autonomous, Semantically Heterogeneous, Distributed Data, National Science Foundation (2007-2010). Vasant Honavar (PI) $449,999. * Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Appointment (2010-2013), National Science Foundation, Vasant Honavar (PI), $701,972.
* Identifying porcine genes and gene networks involved in effective response to PRRS virus using functional genomics and systems biology (2010-2014), Joan Lunney (PI), Vasant Honavar (Co-PI), Zhihua Jiang (Co-PI), Roman Pogranichniy (Co-PI), Juan Pedro Steibel (Co-PI), Chris Tuggle (Co-PI), United States Department of Agriculture, $750,000.
* Developing Predictive Models for Identifying Pigs with Superior Immune Response and Improved Food Safety (2008-2010), Vasant Honavar (Co-PI), with Chris Tuggle, Daniel Nettleton, Joan Lunney, Michael Wannemuehler, Shawn Bearson. $749,345. * Research Grant, Discovering Protein Sequence-Structure-Function Relationships, Biological Information Science and Technology Initiative, National Institutes of Health (2003-2007).
Vasant Honavar (PI), (with Drena Dobbs and Robert Jernigan), $1,022,000. * Research Grant, Exploratory Investigation of Modular OntologiesVasant Honavar (PI), Giora Slutzki (Co-PI), and Doina Caragea (Co-PI), (2006-2008). $112,000.
n * Research Grant, Interactive and Verifiable Composition of Web Services To Satisfy End User Goals, Vasant Honavar (Co-PI), Samik Basu (PI), Robyn Lutz (co-PI). National Science Foundation (2007-2010). $335,002.
* Training Grant, IGERT - Computational Biology Training Group. Vasant Honavar (Co-PI), (with Dan Voytas, Drena Dobbs, Susan Carpenter, Mary O'Connel, Desh Ranjan) National Science Foundation (2005-2010) $2,968,976. * Research Grant, High-Accuracy Protein Models Derived from Lower Resolution Data.
National Institutes of Health (2007-2010), Vasant Honavar, (with Andrzej Kloczkowski , Robert Jernigan, Mark Gordon, Zhijun Wu, Iowa State University and Janusz Bujnicki, Krzysztof Ginalski and Andrzej Kolinski, Warsaw University), $744,725. * Infrastructure Grant, Computational support staff for expanding animal functional genomics.
Center for Integrative Animal Genomics, Iowa State University (2007-2009), Vasant Honavar (PI), (with Chris Tuggle and Jim Reecy), $50,000. * Research Grant, Tools for leveraging large Scale "omics" to guide hypothesis-driven experimentation and computational modeling. Center for Integrative Animal Genomics, Iowa State University (2007-2009), Vasant Honavar (Co-PI), (with Chris Tuggle, Heather West Greenlee), $25,000.
* Infrastructure Grant, (Cyber Innovation Institute). Iowa State Board of Regents (2006-2009), Vasant Honavar (with Jim Oliver, Arun Somani, Doug Jacobson, Krishna Rajan), $1,000,000. * Training Grant, NIH-NSF BBSI Summer Institute in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology - Iowa State University.
National Science FoundationVasant Honavar (Co-PI) (with Volker Brendel, Robert Jernigan, Karin Dorman, and Julie Dickerson). (2006-2009). $450,000.
* Research Grant, DDAS-TMRP Auto-Steered Information-Decision Processes for Electric Power Systems Asset Management, National Science FoundationVasant Honavar (Co-PI), with James McCalley, Sarah Ryan, William Meeker, and Daji Qiao (2006-2009) $700,000. * Infrastructure Grant, Center for Computational Inference, Learning, and Discovery.
Vice Provost for Research, Iowa State University (2005-2008) $350,000 * Research Grant, Integrating Functional Genomics and Quantitative Genetics. United States Department of Agriculture, Vasant Honavar (Co-PI), with Dekkers, Tuggle, Nettleton, Anderson, Rekaya, Hausman, Barb (2005-2008) $876,000. * Research Grant, ITR: Algorithms and Software for Knowledge Acquisition from Heterogeneous Distributed Data.
National Science FoundationVasant Honavar (PI) (2002-2006). $223,500. * Research Grant, Gene Expression Analysis in the Developing Retina, National Institutes of Health (2003-2007).
Vasant Honavar (Co-PI), (with Heather West-Greenlee and Jan Buss), $438,000. * Training Grant, NIH-NSF BBSI Summer Institute in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology - Iowa State University. National Science FoundationVasant Honavar (Co-PI) (with Volker Brendel, Robert Jernigan, Karin Dorman, and Xun Gu).
(2002-2006). $645,000. * Training Grant, IGERT: Computational Biology Training Program.
National Science Foundation. Vasant Honavar (Co-PI) (with Dan Voytas (Botany), Susan Carpenter (Biomedical Sciences), Pat Schnable and Jonathan Wendel (Zoology and Genetics)). (1999-2005).
$3,860,171 (plus $1,161,010 in matching funds). * Conference Grant, Symposium on Integration of Structural and Functional Genomics at Iowa State University, National Science Foundation, Vasant Honavar, (Co-PI), with Chris Tuggle and Marit Nielsen-Hamilton (2005-2006) $10,900. * Research Grant, Interactive and Dynamic Overviews of Large, Multi-Dimensional Datasets.
National Science FoundationVasant Honavar (Co-PI) (with Les Miller and Dianne Cook). (1999-2003). $370,000.
* Research Grant, Automated Integration of Condition Monitoring with an Optimized Maintenance Scheduler for Circuit Breakers and Power Transformers. Power Systems Engineering Research Center (a National Science Foundation Industry-University Research Center). Vasant Honavar (Co-PI) (with James McCalley, Electrical Engineering, in collaboration with Mladen Kezunovic, Chanan Singh of Texas A & M).
(2002-2005). $255,000. * Research and Training Grant, Pioneer Hi-Bred Graduate Fellowships in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
Vasant Honavar (PI) (with doctoral students Adrian Silvescu and Carson Andorf). (2002-2004). $80,000.
* Research and Training Grant, IBM Doctoral Research Fellowship. Vasant Honavar (with doctoral student Doina Caragea). (2003-2004).
$25,000. * Research Grant. Innovative Technologies for Defense Against Catastrophic Failures of Complex, Interactive Power Networks, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), (Collaborative project involving 9 ISU faculty and faculty from 3 other universities).
Vasant Honavar (Co-Investigator) (with V. Vittal, S. Venkata, J.
McCalley, G. Sheble, and V. Ajjarapu (Electrical Engineering), Leigh Tesfatsion (Economics), and Wolfgang Kleimann (Mathematics)).
(1999-2004). $4,500,000. * Research Grant, SGER: Multidisciplinary Aspects of Computation Theory, National Science FoundationVasant Honavar (Co-PI), with Jack Lutz (PI), Pavan Aduri (Co-PI), and Krishna Athreya (Co-PI), (2003-2004).
$74,948. * Research and Training Grant, IBM Doctoral Research Fellowship. Vasant Honavar (with doctoral student Doina Caragea).
(2002-2003). $25,000. * Research Grant, Data Mining of Electric Power Usage Data to Develop Customer Profiles.
Cooperative Research Proposal. Power Domain, Inc. (2001-2002). Vasant Honavar.
$43,639. * Research Grant, Distributed Knowledge Networks to Provide Decision Support for Security-Economy Decisions in Operating Stressed Power Systems. National Science Foundation (2000-2001).
$99,999. * Research Grant (IRI-9409580), Constructive Neural Network Learning Algorithms for Pattern Classification, National Science Foundation, (1994-1999). Vasant Honavar.
$111,537 (plus $10,000 in matching funds). * Research Grant, Distributed Knowledge Networks, John Deere Foundation, 1999-2000. Vasant Honavar.
$30,000. * Research Grant, Integrated Intelligent Diagnosis and Advisory Systems - Analysis, John Deere Foundation, 1995-1996. Vasant Honavar.
$15,000. * Research Grant, Integrated Intelligent Diagnosis Systems, John Deere Foundation, 1996-1998. Vasant Honavar.
$15,000. * Graduate Research Assistantship in Neuroscience, Graduate College, Iowa State University, (1997-1998). * Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, IBM Corporation, 1997-1998.
* Graduate Research Assistantships in Computational Biology, Graduate College, Iowa State University, (1998-1999). * A Gene Specific DNA Chip for Exploring Molecular Evolutionary Change, Carver Foundation, (1998-1999), Gavin Naylor and Vasant Honavar. $17,200.
* Development of Protein Structure Prediction Algorithms. Carver Foundation, 1999-2000, Drena Dobbs, Vasant Honavar, Kai-Ming Ho, Amy Andreotti, Gavin Naylor, Jamie Morris, Les Miller. $25,000.
* Genetic Algorithms for Protein Structure Prediction, DOE Ames Laboratory, 1999-2000. Drena Dobbs, Vasant Honavar, Kai-Ming Ho, Amy Andreotti, Gavin Naylor, Jamie Morris, Les Miller. $35,000.
* Intelligent Systems for Power Systems Management and Control (Internationalization/Globalization Grant), Council on International Relations (1998-99), James McCalley and Vasant Honavar. * Intelligent Agents for Intrusion Detection. Department of Defense (1998-2000), Johnny Wong, Vasant Honavar, and Les Miller.
$199,769. Other research support has come from a number of sources including Iowa State University (1990-2013) and Pennsylvania State University (2013-present).
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