Funding

Research support

AICIP's work has been supported by federal agencies and industry partners for more than two decades. Current awards are listed first, followed by a selected history.

NSFNIH / NIADOE / Argonne National LaboratoryUSDA NIFAIARPADOEDTRAUSDA NIFA (joint NSF/USDA CPS)NASADHSBWXT Y-12 / NNSAONRU.S. Army SMDCDOD Breast Cancer Research ProgramDARPA

Active & recent

NSF · Platform for Cloud Laboratories (PCL)

2026–2030

ATHENA: Advanced Testbed for High-throughput Experimentation in Nano- and Atomic Science

Co-PI (PI: Sergei Kalinin, UT) $20M (estimated total) NSF 2607469

Awarded to the UT-led multi-institution team (~12 UT faculty plus Northwestern and Johns Hopkins collaborators); $5M obligated to date. AICIP contributes the AI/ML expertise.

Supports: athena

DOE / Argonne National Laboratory · Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions

2026–2030

EcoCAR Innovation Challenge (Stellantis track)

Faculty advisor (one of three, with UT MABE colleagues)

Supports: ecocar

USDA NIFA

2023–present

AI-enabled dairy herd disease management (biosensor + IoT + digital twin)

Co-investigator (lead: Jayne Wu, UT EECS) $1M

Supports: precision-agriculture

NIH / NIA · Smart and Connected Health (SCH)

2022–2027

Robotic CARE for AD: Adaptive Robotic Assistance for Dementia Care

Contact PI since 2025 (founding PI: Xiaopeng Zhao) $1.18M R01 AG077003

Awarded to a UT team led by Xiaopeng Zhao (now University of Mississippi); Dr. Qi has served as contact PI since 2025.

Supports: musicare

Selected historical support

A representative sample of past awards, drawn from public award databases and archived records. Amounts are as reported by the sponsoring agency.

USDA NIFA · AFRI

2022

Computer-vision monitoring of animal-welfare indicators in poultry production

Collaborating investigator (PI: Yang Zhao, UT Institute of Agriculture) $1M

Awarded to the UTIA-led team.

IARPA · SMART

2021–2024

MUTATED: Modeling and Understanding using Temporal Analysis of Transient Earth Data

UT PI (subcontract via Accenture Federal Services) $1.51M (UT subcontract)

NSF · Cyber-Physical Systems

2021–2025

CPS: Medium: Secure Constrained Machine Learning for Critical Infrastructure CPS

Co-PI (PI: Jinyuan Stella Sun, UT) $1.22M NSF 2038922

DOE · Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions

2018–2022

EcoCAR Mobility Challenge

UT PI

DTRA

2017–2020

IDEAS: Detectors, Algorithms, and Systems for Autonomous Radiological/Nuclear Search

Co-PI (PI: Jason Hayward, UT) $1.05M total

Multi-investigator award with UCLA; AICIP share $281K.

IARPA · CORE3D

2017–2019

LEGO: Large-scale Environment-modeling with Geometric Optimization

UT PI (subcontract via Applied Research Associates) $354K (UT subcontract)

USDA NIFA (joint NSF/USDA CPS)

2017–2022

CPS: Synergy: Cost-Effective Mastitis Control and Biosecurity for Sustainable Dairy Farming

Co-PI (PI: Jayne Wu, UT) $1M total NIFA 2017-67007-26150

Team award; AICIP share $219K.

NASA · STTR (Phases I & II)

2016–2019

High-performance image processing for current and future Mars Mastcam imagers

UT PI (subcontract via Advanced Research LLC) $227K (UT, both phases)

NSF · Major Research Instrumentation

2016–2020

MRI: Development of iSNARLD (Instrument for Scalable Network Research at Large Distances)

Co-PI (PI: Gregory Peterson, UT) $822K NSF 1626338

DHS

2015–2020

IDEAS for WIND: Wearable Intelligent Nuclear Detection

Co-PI (PI: Jason Hayward, UT) $1.64M total

Team award with PNNL; AICIP share $530K — the lab led tracking and monitoring of moving radiation sources.

NSF · Cyber-Physical Systems

2012–2017

CPS: Synergy: Achieving High-Resolution Situational Awareness in Ultra-Wide-Area Cyber-Physical Systems

PI $1M NSF 1239478

NASA · STTR (Phases I & II)

2011–2015

Real-time smart tools for processing spectroscopy data

UT PI (subcontract via Signal Processing Inc.) $240K (UT, both phases)

NSF · Networking Technology and Systems

2010–2014

NeTS: Small: Distributed Solutions to Smart Camera Networks

PI $411K NSF 1017156

NSF · Cyber Trust

2007–2011

Collaborative Research: A Resilient Real-Time System for a Secure and Reconfigurable Power Grid

PI (UT lead) $152K (UT share) NSF 0716492 / 0831466

Multi-campus collaborative award.

BWXT Y-12 / NNSA

2007–2009

Data sharing middleware for information dissemination

Co-PI $400K total

AICIP share $219K.

NSF · CAREER

2005–2012

CAREER: Collaborative Signal and Information Processing in Sensor Networks

PI $435K NSF 0449309

ONR

2004–2007

Firmware approaches to smart algorithms

PI $227K

U.S. Army SMDC

2003–2004

Multispectral infrared cameras using mosaicked focal plane arrays

Co-PI (with Wesley Snyder, NC State) $198K total

Joint with NC State; AICIP share $84K.

DOD Breast Cancer Research Program · Concept Award

2001–2003

Detecting breast cancer from thermal infrared images by asymmetry analysis

PI $70K

DARPA · SensIT

2000–2003

MU-FASHION: Multi-Resolution Data Fusion using Agent-Bearing Sensors in Hierarchically Organized Distributed Sensor Networks

PI (UT, subcontract via Duke University) $713K total

Three-institution project with Duke and LSU; AICIP share $208K. The lab's founding grant.