PI to a grant of Kentucky Science and Technology Cooperation (KSTC), titled “Remote Monitoring of Server Farm”, $73,700, January 2013 - December 2014.

Co-PI to NASA EPSCoR grant, titled “Numerical and Experimental Investigations for Modeling Ablative Surface Degradation Effects on Near-Wall Flow”. This work is collaborated with researchers at University of Kentucky, October 2013 - September 2016, $1,000,000

PI to Kentucky NSF EPSCoR Research Enhancement grant, titled “Numerical Computation of Approximate Matrix Decomposition in Information Retrieval”, amount $16,828, duration: from 6/1/2006 to 5/31/2007

Kentucky NSF EPSCoR Track 1, Phase 7, Cyberinfrastructure Initiative — Building a Beowulf Cluster, Investigator, $12,000, 2009. This project builds an 9-node Beowulf cluster in Computer Science Department at KSU. It establishes a distributed parallel environment for parallel computing education and research for undergraduate and graduate students. I am one if the leading project investigators. The amount of this project is approximately $12,000, 2009.

Collaborator on a project titled “Collaborative Research: CPSF30 at the Convergence of RNA Processing, Cellular Signaling, and Development in Plants” with UK Department of Agriculture. This project is funded by REU Supplement to NSF grant IOS0817818. One KSU undergraduate student has been involved as an REU participant, $6,500, 2012-2013

Collaborator on a project titled “Alternative polyadenylation and non-stop mRNAs in Arabidopsis” with UK Department of Agriculture. This project is funded by NSF grant MCB 1243849. One KSU undergraduate student has been involved as an REU participant, $6,500, 2013-2014

A collaborative research activity with UK Material Science Department has been initiated. One undergraduate student from minority group at KSU is involved in this research. This research is sponsored by KY NSF EPSCoR Program, 2010-2011

Advise four graduate students funded by KY NSF EPSCoR on their master theses in Cyberinfrastructure field from 2010-2013

Co-PI to USDA Grant titled “Sorghum Allelopathy: Deep Sequencing Profiling of Weed Response to Sorgoleone”, 1890 Institution Teaching, Research and Extension Capacity Building Grants (CBG) Program, March, 2014, Submitted

Collaborating with Dr. Matthew Back, College of Mechanical Engineering at UK submitted a proposal, “Structureproperty relationships governing metal-oxide nanoparticles in biological and environmental systems” to NSF CAREER in July 24, 2014, Submitted

Collaborating with Dr. Matthew Back, College of Mechanical Engineering at UK submitted a proposal, “Kentucky Materials Genome Initiative: Accelerating Materials Discovery for Energy and the Environment” to NSF-EPSCoR-Track-I in March 24, 2012. (not funded)