Funding and Proposal Activities
This page summarizes active funding, awarded innovation programs, submitted proposals, and proposal activities connected to my research agenda in intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems, EV charging, UAV-assisted healthcare logistics, public safety systems, and distributed resource coordination.
Funded Grants and Awards
NSF National I-Corps Program: I-Haul
Role: Technical Lead
Status: Accepted for Fall 2026
Project: I-Haul: Intelligent Aerial Logistics for Organ Transport
Award: $50,000
Leading national customer discovery, market validation, and technology-readiness planning for autonomous organ-transport logistics. The effort expands stakeholder discovery across organ procurement organizations, transplant centers, FAA/UAS regulatory bodies, UAV logistics providers, and clinical users while preparing SBIR/STTR translation pathways.
My contribution: Leading stakeholder discovery, defining technology-readiness milestones, and connecting the organ-transport logistics problem to CPS routing, UAV coordination, and translational funding pathways.
NSF I-Corps BOOST Program: I-Haul
Role: Technical Lead
Period: Oct 2025 - Dec 2025
Award: $3,000
Led commercialization strategy for autonomous organ-transport drones, including 75+ stakeholder interviews with organ procurement organizations, transplant centers, surgeons, courier companies, UAV manufacturers, researchers, and FAA stakeholders. This effort supported provisional patent activity for I-Haul.
My contribution: Directed customer discovery, organized the commercialization narrative, and translated technical UAV logistics constraints into stakeholder-validated product requirements.
NSF I-Corps Local and Regional Programs: I-Haul
Role: Technical Lead
Period: Sep 2024 - Nov 2024
Award: $1,000
Led early customer discovery with clinicians, transplant teams, researchers, and UAV logistics partners to identify clinical workflow constraints, cold-chain requirements, regulatory risks, and UAV logistics barriers for emergency organ delivery.
My contribution: Led interviews and converted clinical, regulatory, and logistics feedback into the project’s initial technical and translational roadmap.
Submitted Proposal
SPICE: Subscription-based Platform for Intelligent Charging of Electric Vehicles
Program: NSF ENG/ECCS/EPCN
Role: Co-PI
Status: Submitted Feb 2026
Requested amount: $675,597
Designed behavior-aware EV charging assignment policies for fair and predictable charging access under congestion. The proposal models uncertainty, strategic user behavior, and misuse in shared charging infrastructure, and studies how charging delays propagate through mobility and logistics systems.
My contribution: Developed the research thrust on behavior-aware charging assignment, strategic user behavior, misuse modeling, and propagation of charging delays through mobility and logistics systems.
Proposal in Development
Strategic Lightweight Reassignment of Shared Resources in Large-Scale CPS
Program: NSF CISE/CCF Algorithmic Foundations
Role: Co-PI
Planned submission: Aug 2026
Estimated requested amount: $600,000
Developing reassignment mechanisms for strategic agents sharing constrained resources under noncompliance, uncertainty, and dynamic preferences. The proposal focuses on stability and equilibrium conditions for multi-quota resource exchange and parallel resolution of resource reassignments in large systems.
My contribution: Shaping the core algorithmic agenda on strategic reassignment, multi-quota exchange, stability, equilibrium analysis, and scalable parallel resolution in shared-resource CPS.
Proposal and Translation Themes
- Mechanism design for strategic resource coordination in shared CPS
- Behavior-aware EV charging and mobility infrastructure
- UAV-assisted healthcare logistics and organ transport
- Emergency response and public safety systems
- SBIR/STTR-oriented technology translation and stakeholder discovery