Here is a list of current and past funded projects that I have worked on. For more detailed information, click on the individual links below.

Duration and Role
Project
Funding Source/Agency
2019-2021
co-PI		 Convergence Accelerator Phase I (RAISE): Building the Federalism Data and Advanced Statistics Hub (FDASH).
Research Areas: data science, entity linking, public policy, convergence
Total Funding: $1M 		NSF
2020-2021
co-PI		 Engaging Future Generation War Fighters and Civilians in Research to understand Cyber and Electronic Warfare, Cyber-Defense, and Data-Driven Modeling Tools
Research Areas: cyber-security, computational propaganda
Total Funding: $150,000 		ONR
Summer 2020
co-PI		 Identifying Causes of Firestorms of Emotion in Social Media (URAP Supplement).
Research Areas: Social dynamics, human behavior modeling, emotion contagion, data science
Total Funding: $9,277 		Army Research Office (ARO)
2020-2021
co-PI		 Peace and Conflict Innovations (PACIS) Lab.
Research Areas: data science, computational propaganda
Total Funding: $25,000 		UNCC Research and Development Planning Grant
2020-2021
co-PI		 Generating Code from Natural Language to Detect and Prevent Cyber-Attacks.
Research Areas: natural language, code generation, cyber-security
Total Funding: $16,000 		UNCC Faculty Research Grant
Jan 2020-July 2020
Lead PI		 Curating Heterogeneous, Unstructured Health Data to build Personalized Health Infrastructure and Digital Assistants.
Research Areas: Data Science, public health, intelligent agents, personalization
Total Funding: $10,000 		UNCC School of Data Science
2019-2020
co-PI		 Using Data Science to Create Election Science.
Research Areas: Data Science, public policy, elections
Total Funding: $20,000 		MIT Election Lab
Summer 2019
co-PI		 What Feeds Firestorms of Emotion? Emotion Regulation, Emotion Contagion, and Collective Behavior in Socio-Political Events (HSAP/URAP Supplement)
Research Areas: Social dynamics, human behavior modeling, emotion contagion, data science
Total Funding: $16,000 		Army Research Office
Jan 2019-June 2019
co-PI		 Cognitive Biases on Decision Making in Virtual Reality
Research Areas: Human decision-making, Virtual Reality, Cognitive Biases
Total Funding: $26,000 		College of Computing and Informatics Innovation Fund
September 2018 - March 2022
UNCC PI		 PANACEA: Personalized AutoNomous Agents Countering Social Engineering Attacks
Research Areas: Cybersecurity, human behavior, NLP, intelligent chat agents
Total Funding: $1.2 MM (UNCC portion) 		DARPA
Sep 2018 - Sep 2021
co-PI		 What Feeds Firestorms of Emotion? Emotion Regulation, Emotion Contagion, and Collective Behavior in Socio-Political Events
Research Areas: Social dynamics, human behavior modeling, emotion contagion, data science
Total Funding: $598,680 		Army Research Office
Jan 2018 - May 2018
Lead PI		 CoC: A bot to assist corporation in meeting public demands
Research Areas: human behavior, NLP, intelligent chat agents
Total Funding: $3600 		UNCC College of Computing and Informatics and City of Charlotte
Aug 2017 - July 2018
co-PI		 Modeling Emotion Contagion and Persuasion in Big Data
Research Areas: Social dynamics, human behavior modeling, emotion contagion, data science
Total Funding: $55,000 		Charlotte Research Institute
July 2017 - July 2018
(Single) PI		 Modeling Persuasion and Group Behavior in Big Data
Research Areas: Social dynamics, human behavior modeling, data science
Total Funding: $30,000 		National Consortium for Data Science
May 2017 - May 2018
(Single) PI		 Creating Computational Models Of Successful Multi-Cultural Teams by Combining Sociolinguistic Theories and Hidden Markov Models
Research Areas: Human-computer interaction, cross-cultural decision making, social dynamics
Total Funding: $4,300 		UNC - Faculty Research Grants
Jan - July 2017
PI		 Human-Machine Interaction: Towards Understanding and Improving Big Data Decision-Making in Visual Analytics
Research Areas: Human-computer interaction, cognitive biases, visual analytics, Big Data
Total Funding: $12,000 		College of Computing and Information - Innovation Fund
2015 - 2016
co-PI		 ARCSS - Advanced Research in Computational Social Science
Research Areas:Persuasive technology, human-computer interaction, artificial chat agents, dialogue modeling
Total Funding: $50,000 		Army Research Laboratory
2012 - 2016
Senior Research Scientist		 CUBISM - Deep analysis and robust understanding of text
Research Areas: sentiment analysis, opinion dynamics, socio-cultural factors in text, natural language processing 		DARPA (DEFT Program)
2012 - 2016
Senior Research Scientist		 CYCLES - Cycles of Your Cognitive Learning, Expectations and Schema
Research Areas: Serious games, cognitive biases, game instrumentation, research design 		IARPA (SIRIUS Program)
2011 - 2015
Senior Research Scientist		 REMND - Robust Extraction of Metaphor from Novel Data
Research Areas: Metaphor extraction from text, big data, socio-cultural factors 		IARPA (Metaphor Program)
2009 - 2012
Senior Research Scientist		 DSARMD - Discovering Social Actions and Roles in Multi-party Discourse
Research Areas: Socio-cultural factors in text, small-group dynamics, influence and leadership detection 		IARPA (SCIL Program)
2008 - 2009 Human Terrain Lockheed Martin Corp
(Advanced Technology Office)
2006 - 2008
Research Scientist/Project Manager		 COLLANE - Collaborative Analytical Environment
Research Areas: Question-answering, hypothesis tracking, collaborative group work 		IARPA (CASE Program)
2005 - 2006
Research Project Assistant		 HITIQA - High Quality Interactive Question-Answering
Research Areas: Natural languge processing, information retrieval, question-answering 		ARDA (AQUAINT Program)