Grants Awarded (Selected)

• Title of Grant: SI2-SSE: Collaborative Research: TrajAnalytics: A Cloud-Based Visual Analytics Software System to Advance Transportation Studies Using Emerging Urban Trajectory Data 
  PI: J. Yang
  Funding Agency: NSF
  Program: Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation - SSE & SSI
  Amount Funded: $ 200,950
  Dates of Funding Period: 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2018
  This grant is in collaboration with a grant with the same title under the direction of Dr. Ye Zhao at Kent State University.
  
  
• Title of Grant: Collaborative Research: EAGER: Visualizing Event Dynamics with Narrative Animation 
  PI: J. Yang
  Funding Agency: NSF
  Program: EAGER
  Amount Funded: $75,317
  Dates of Funding Period: 9/1/2013 - 8/31/2015
  This grant is in collaboration with a grant with the same title under the direction of Dr. Ye Zhao at Kent State University.
  Project webpage
  
  
• Title of Grant: Visualizing High Dimensional Categorical Datasets as Text Corpora
  PI: J. Yang
  Co-PI: Ye Zhao (Kent State Univ.)
  Funding Agency: Google Inc.
  Program: Google Faculty Research Award
  Amount Funded: $60,000
  Dates of Funding Period: 9/1/2011 - 8/31/2012
  Project webpage
  
  
• Title of Grant: Air Pollution-Exposure-Health Effect Indicators: Mining Massive Geographically-Referenced Environmental Health Data to Identify Risk Factors for Birth Defects
  PI: F. Benjamin Zhan (Texas State Univ.)
  Co-PI: J. Brender, P. Langlois, J. Yang
  Funding Agency: US Environmental Protection Agency
  Program: NCER’s Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program
  Amount: $499,987
  Amount (UNC Charlotte Portion): $85,590
  Dates of Funding Period: 02/01/2011 – 01/31/2015
  
  
• Title of Grant: EAGER: Link Free Graph Visualization for Exploring Large Complex Graphs
  Funding Agency: NSF
  Amount Funded: $144,444
  PI: J. Yang
  Co-PI: J. Fan
  Dates of Funding Period: 8/5/2009-7/30/2011
  Project webpage
  
  
• Title of Grant: DAT: A Visual Analytics Approach to Science and Innovation Policy
  Funding Agency: NSF
  Amount Funded: $746,567
  PI: W. Ribarsky
  Co-PI: J. Yang, R. Chang
  Dates of Funding Period: 7/15/2009-6/30/2014
  
  
• Title of Grant: Visual Analytics Applied to Automated Multimedia Content Analysis
  Funding Agency: DHS
  Amount Funded: $231,743
  PI: W. Ribarsky
  Co-PI: J. Yang, J. Fan, D. Keim
  Dates of Funding Period: 8/15/2008-12/30/2009
  
  
• Title of Grant: Proposal to Establish the Southeastern Regional Visualization and Analytics Center
  Funding Agency: Battelle Memorial Institute
  Amount Funded: $2,100,000
  PI: W. Ribarsky
  CoPI: A. Raja, W. Tolone, J. Fan, R. Kosara, and J. Yang
  Dates of Funding Period: 01/01/2006-06/30/2009
  
  
• Title of Grant: Internship for Student at Pacific Northwest National Lab
  Amount Funded: $9,800
  PI: J. Yang
  Funding Agency: Battelle Memorial Institute
  Dates of Funding Period: 01/07/2008 - 03/31/2008
  
  
• Title of Grant: Using Information Visualization to Identify Sequence Pattern Signatures for Alpha Helix Stability within Model HP-Polypeptides
  Funding Agency: Faculty Research Grants of UNCC
  Amount Funded: $12,000
  PI: J. Yang
  CoPI: D. Jacobs
  Dates of Funding Period: 01/07/2006 – 31/12/2007
  
  
• Title of Grant: Applying Visual Analytics to Anti-Money Laundering Investigations
  Funding Agency: Bank of America
  Amount Funded: $149,148
  PI: R. Kosara
  CoPI: J. Yang and W. Ribarsky
  Dates of Funding Period: 01/2006 – 12/2006