Grants

Research Funding and Awards

  1. AIM-AHEAD Research Fellowship Program Mentor, $10,800, 10/01/2025 – 07/31/2026.
    Title: Mentorship for AIM-AHEAD Research Fellowship Cohort 4.
    Role: Mentor (Program funded through AIM-AHEAD Coordinating Center, subaward via UNTHSC).
  2. 2025 AHA Institutional Research Enhancement Award (AIREA), $194,032, 01/01/2025 – 12/31/2026.
    Title: Non-invasive Fractional Flow Reserve Evaluation using Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography.
    Role: PI (co-I: Michele Esposito, Medical University of South Carolina).
    Link: [KSU News] [AHA Proposal Central]; 25AIREA1377168
  3. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (BOR), $5,000, 01/01/2025 – 12/31/2025.
    Title: Affordable Learning Georgia Transformative Grant - CS3626.
    Role: co-PI (PI: Xinyue Zhang, Kennesaw State University).
  4. 2025 KSU Summer Undergraduate Research Program, $8,000, 06/01/2025 – 07/31/2025.
    Title: Blood Flow Prediction Using UNET and VNET Architectures.
    Role: Awardee’s Supervisor (Undergraduate student: Pedro Henrique Goncalves Silva Pinto).
  5. KSU First-Year Scholar Program, FY24, $3,000, 10/30/2024 – 05/01/2025.
    Title: Enhancing Alzheimer's Disease Staging Prediction through Multi-Modal Data Integration.
    Role: PI.
  6. 2024 KSU Summer Undergraduate Research Program, $8,000, 06/01/2024 – 07/31/2024.
    Title: Federated Learning for Left Ventricle Segmentation and Function Assessment in Myocardial Perfusion SPECT Images.
    Role: Awardee’s Supervisor (Undergraduate student: Yehong Huang, Kennesaw State University).
  7. KSU Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program, $9,960, 07/01/2024 – 06/30/2024.
    Title: Non-invasive Fractional Flow Reserve Evaluation using Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography.
    Role: PI (co-I: Pengcheng Xiao, Kennesaw State University).
  8. SynterMed Inc, $9,952, 04/01/2024 – 07/31/2025.
    Title: Dynamic Cardiac PET Motion Correction using 3D Normalized Gradient Fields.
    Role: PI.
  9. Michigan Technological University, 09/01/2023 – 12/31/2023.
    Title: Finishing Fellowship by Graduate Dean Awards Advisory Panel.
    Role: PI.
  10. Michigan Technological University, 09/01/2022 – 12/21/2022.
    Title: Graduate Fellowship by the Health Research Institute.
    Role: PI.

Students Mentored

Student Mentoring @ Kennesaw State University

2026

  • Yehong Huang, MS in Artificial Intelligence, since Spring 2026

2025

  • Huan Huang, PhD in Computer Science, since Fall 2025.
  • Ruoqi Zhang, MS in Computer Science, Fall 2025.
  • Julia Johnson and Jordan Rainford, First Place, Undergraduate Capstone, CCSE C-Day, Fall 2025.
  • Pedro Henrique Goncalves Silva Pinto, BS in Computer Science, Summer Research Fellowship, Summer 2025. [News @ KSU]
  • Evan Valencia and Chris Martinez, BS in Computer Science, Third Place, Undergraduate Capstone, CCSE C-Day, Spring 2025.
  • Dina Xu Callaway, Maya Castillo, Richard Haynes, BS in Computer Science, First-Year Scholars Program, FY 2025.
  • Dina Xu Callaway, Oral and poster presentations, Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference (GURC), 2025; supported by URCA and Sophomore Undergraduate Research Program, FY 2026. [News @ KSU]

2024

  • Yehong Huang, BS in Computer Science, Fall 2024 to Spring 2025, Outstanding Student Award, Summer Research Fellowship, 2024.
  • Francis Madu, Naga Janaki Madhav Kadiyala, Nivesh Thallapally, MS in Computer Science, Second Place, Graduate Project, CCSE C-Day, Fall 2024.
  • Rene Lisasi, MS in Computer Science, Fall 2024 to Fall 2025, Outstanding Student Award, MSAI.
  • Shrikar Kolla, Wheeler High School, Fall 2024, Oral presentation and paper published at ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE), April 2025.
  • Pedro Henrique Goncalves Silva Pinto, BS in Computer Science, since Fall 2024.
  • William A. Stigall, BS in Computer Science, Third Place, Undergraduate Research, CCSE C-Day, Spring 2024.