Grants

External Funding

• 2020-2022 - NSF IUSE:EHR Awards # 2021264: "Collaborative Research: IUSE: EHR: CyberMUG: Cybersecurity Modules aligned with UG Computer Science and Engineering Curriculum," Total Project Award: $300K, U of Toledo: $140.5K award (Link), PNW: $159.4K Award (#2021345 Link). UToledo PI: Ahmad Javaid, PNW PIs: Quamar Niyaz and Xiaoli Yang.

• 2019-2021 - DOE 2019 Grid Modernization Lab Call Award #18: "Digital Twin Reinforcement Learning," Partners: LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), INL (Idaho National Laboratory), ORNL (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), SNL (Sandia National Laboratories), SCE (Southern California Edison Co), EPB (Electric Power Board of Chattanooga), SEL (Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories) (Link1) (Link2).

• 2019-2022 - NSF SaTC (Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace) EDU Award #1903419: "SaTC: EDU: Collaborative: INteractive VIsualization and PracTice basEd Cybersecurity Curriculum and Training (InviteCyber) Framework for Developing Next-gen Cyber-Aware Workforce," Total Project Award: $499K, U of Toledo: $267.7K award (Link), PNW: $231.4K Award (#1903423 Link). PI: Ahmad Javaid, PNW PIs: Xiaoli Yang and Quamar Niyaz. (Highlights)

  • Featured in ASEE Bell, November 19, 2019 (Online)

  • Featured in Toledo Blade Newspaper, November 17, 2019 (Link)

  • Featured on NBC24, November 5, 2019 (Link) (YouTube)

• 2018-2020 - NASA-JPL (National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Jet Propulsion Lab) Award: "GaN-Based Power Bus Converter with Autonomous Adaptive Control for Deep Space Small Spacecraft Power Subsystems." PIs: Raghav Khanna and Ahmad Y Javaid.

• 2017-2021 - NSF (National Science Foundation) STEM+C Award #1741784: "Understanding How Integrated Computational Thinking, Engineering Design, and Mathematics Can Help Students Solve Scientific and Technical Problems in Career Technical Education (INITIATE)." PIs: Jared Oluoch, Ahmad Y. Javaid, and Charlene M. Czerniak. Total Project Award: $1,955,190 to the University of Toledo. (Project Summary_NSF)

  • This has been highlighted by several NEWS agencies: UTNews, The Blade, WTOL, and 13abc

  • Press Release, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur's Office, Sept 18, 2017.

• 2016-2018 - Ohio Federal Research Network (OFRN) Round 2 Award: “C2PNT: Intelligence Channel Sensing Based Secure Cross-Layer Cognitive Networking for Resilient Space Communication,” ranked #1 among OFRN Round 2 proposals across Ohio. PIs: Dr. Ahmad Javaid, and Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni (Link - Listed as COMMUNICATION R2 - Wright State University).

• 2016-2018 - Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) Grant # FA8650-16-C-6768: "EpEx: Episodic Memory Reconstruction for UAS Behavior Explanation," PIs: Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni, Dr. Ahmad Javaid, and Dr. Devinder Kaur.

• 2016-2018 - Ohio Federal Research Network (OFRN) Round 1 Award: “Improving Healthcare Training & Decision Making through the Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) Enterprise,” ranked #3 among OFRN Round 1 proposals across Ohio. PIs: Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni, and Dr. Ahmad Javaid.

Endowment

• 2017 - Played a crucial role in enabling our esteemed donor Mr. Paul Hotmer in endowing my lab and rename it to the "Paul A. Hotmer Family CSTAR (Cybersecurity and Teaming Research) Laboratory" through an Endowment Fund through technology and current research demonstrations to the donor. (More)