Projects

Current Funded Projects

  1. Open Science Chain - I am the PI of NSF CICI funded grant on developing Open Science Chain - Integrity Services. The project aims to strengthen cybersecurity controls with the application of blockchain technology primitives to preserve the integrity and the provenance of public and private data assets on research platforms and hubs.(NSF Award page).
  2. Neuroscience Gateway - I am the Co-PI of a collaborative NSF Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI) funded grant (2020 - 2025) that will add to the capacity of the Neuroscience Gateway to make it more suitable for data-driven neuroscience research."( NSF Award page )
  3. Cyberinfrastructure resource for neuroscience tool developers - Co-Investigator of NIH, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering funded (2019-2024) project on expanding the capabilities of NSG for neuroscience tool dissemination (NIH award page)
  4. Expanse - Senior Personnel of NSF OAC award for Expanse supercomputer at SDSC. PI of the grant is Mike Norman (NSF award page)

Completed Projects:

  1. Open Science Chain - PI of NSF Office of Advanced CyberInfrastructure (OAC) funded grant (2018-2021) on developing Open Science Chain, a framework for addressing data reproducibility issues using distributed ledger technologies. The goal of OSC is to provide a CI resource that will help increase the confidence of scientific results and increase data sharing (NSF Award page).
  2. Neuroscience Gateway - Co-PI and software architect of NSF funded Advances in Biological Informatics (ABI) grant for developing Neuroscience Gateway (2012-2020)(NSF Award page)
  3. Cyberinfrastructure to enable discovery and reuse of software/data products -PI of NSF EAGER Collaborative grant (2020-2023) with Dr. Ritu Arora (UTSA) for project titled "Towards Building a CyberInfrastructure for Facilitating the Assessment, Dissemination, Discovery, & Reuse of Software and Data Products"( NSF Award page )
  4. Citizen Science Gateway - PI of NSF OAC Collaborative grant (2019-2023) with Dr. Lucy Fortson (UMN) as the main PI for project titled "Building the Twenty-First Century Citizen Science Framework to Enable Scientific Discovery Across Disciplines". ( NSF Award page )
  5. TSCC - Co-PI of TSCC Triton Stratus, NSF CC* funded project to develop and provide interactive computing on cloud resources.(NSF Award page)
  6. Neuromorphic computing - Senior Personnel of a NSF Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) funded grant (2018 - 2021) on developing a platform for large-scale neuromorphic computing. PI: Gert Cauwenberghs (UCSD)(NSF award page)
  7. Cybertraining - Senior Personnel of NSF funded OAC award for developing training modules for data-intensive Neuroscience learning and research (PI: Satish Nair, U.Missouri) ( NSF award page)
  8. PI of a SDSC internal funded project (2010-11) : Parallel Optimization and Validation of Neuronal Simulations
  9. PI of SDSC internal funded project (2012-13) : Development of Community Gateway Accessing Cloud Storage
  10. SciGAP - NSF ACI division funded SI2-SSI project (2013 -2018). Collaborative project between Indiana University, SDSC and Univ. Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. Role: Senior Personnel
  11. User Engagement Coordinator for Academic Associates Program - UCOP funded program.(2006-2010) Role: Program Manager
  12. Co-Developer of Master Control Program (MCP) - Teragrid/XSEDE Metascheduler.
  13. Training Coordinator for SDSC (2006-2009)