Current Grants

Applied Mathematics

Collaborative Research: Genetic-epidemiology framework for malaria mosquito and disease
Abba Gumel - Principal Investigator; Krijn Paaijmans, Silvie Huijben - Co-Principal Investigators
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
7/1/21 to 6/30/24
$300,000

Integrated Foundations of Sensing, Modeling, and Data Assimilation for Sea lce Prediction
Doug Cochran - Principal Investigator
Dartmouth College, (ONR-MURI-PRIME)
6/15/20 to 6/14/23
$934,032

Collaborative Research: REU Site: Applied Mathematics and Computational Modeling in the Greater Phoenix Area
Wenbo Tang - Principal Investigator; Eric Kostelich - Co-Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Dept of Defense (DOD)
5/1/18 to 4/30/23
$344,900

Collaborative Research RoL The rules of life were made to be broken-Connecting physiology evolutionary ecology and mathematics to identify a Growth Rate Rule
Yang Kuang - Principal Investigator; Irakli Loladze - Co-PI
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Environmental Biology
11/15/19 to 10/31/22
$444,999

ISS: Collaborative Research: Interfacial bioprocessing of pharmaceuticals via the Ring-Sheared Drop (RSD) module aboard ISS
Juan Lopez - Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET)
9/15/19 to 8/31/22
$199,994

Predictive Modeling of Pattern Formation Driven by Synthetic Gene Networks
Yang Kuang - Principal Investigator; Xiao Wang, John Nagy - Co-PIs
National Institute of Health (NIH), National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
9/1/18 to 6/30/22
$1,460,000

Optimizing Systems with Conflicting Objectives for a Limited Resource - Resubmission - 1
Hans Mittelmann - Principal Investigator
Dept of Defense (DOD), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
1/1/19 to 12/31/21
$344,850

Combining Data-Driven and Physics-Based Methods for EM Propagation and ImagingThrough Inhomogeneous Turbulent Media and During Extreme Events
Alex Mahalov - Principal Investigator
Dept of Defense (DOD), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
12/15/18 to 12/14/21
$548,732

Supporting the ARPA-E Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 2
Hans Mittelmann - Principal Investigator
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Dept of Energy (DOE)
6/17/20 to 10/31/21
$138,036

Amyloid fibrill formation in microgravity: Distinguishing interfacial flow effects
Juan Lopez - Principal Investigator
National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA); Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
9/1/13 to 9/30/21
$282,517

EASM-3: Physics-Based Predictive Modeling for Integrated Agricultural and Urban Applications
Alex Mahalov - Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
9/1/14 to 9/30/21
$1,161,522.00

Numerical Methods for Limited Angle Topography Reconstruction
Malena Español - Principal Investigator
Dept of Energy (DOE), Nevada National Security Site (NNSS)
5/18/20 to 9/30/21
$99,879

Research on Virus Dynamics 
Hal Smith - Principal Investigator
ASU Foundation / Simons Foundation
9/1/15 to 8/31/21
$35,000

Grain Growth in Graphene: Novel Aspects in Two Dimensions
Malena Español - Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS); University of Akron
9/30/19 to 7/31/21
$11,591

RTG: Data Oriented Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Rodrigo Platte - Principal Investigator; Douglas Cochran, Ming-Hung Kao - Co-Principal Investigators; Anne Gelb - Co-PI (Dartmouth College), John Stufken - Co-PI (UNC Greensboro)
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
8/1/15 to 7/31/21
$1,099,995

Approximate singular value expansions and solutions of ill-posed problems
Rosie Renaut - Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
7/1/19 to 6/30/21
$145,690

Emergent Properties in Business Ecosystems
Dieter Armbruster - Principal Investigator
Intel Corporation
1/01/2020 to 6/30/21
$128,318

RAPID: Active Tracking of Disease Spread in CoVID19 via Graph Predictive Analytics
Gautam Dasarathy (ASU ECEE) - Principal Investigator; Doug Cochran (SoMSS) – Co-Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF) CISE
5/01/2020 to 4/30/21
$199,449

Patient-Specific Neuro-Oncology: Forecasting Tumor Growth and Recurrence in Individual Patients
Eric Kostelich - Principal Investigator; Yang Kuang - Co-PI
Arizona Biomedical Research Commission
3/1/17 to 2/28/21
$749,830

Mathematics

Collaboration on Problems in Algebraic Combinatorics
Susanna Fishel - Principal Investigator
ASU Foundation / Simons Foundation
9/1/20 to 8/31/25
$42,000

Curvature flows and parabolic PDE on manifolds
Brett Kotschwar - Principal Investigator
ASU Foundation / Simons Foundation
9/1/20 to 8/31/25
$42,000

Relating Special Values of L-functions with orders of Tate-Shafarevich groups
Florian Sprung - Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences
7/15/20 to 6/30/23
$152,976

Graph hypergraphs and digraphs Extremal Problems and Algorithms  
Andrzej Czygrinow - Principal Investigator
ASU Foundation / Simons Foundation
9/2/17 to 8/31/22
$42,000

Collaboration on Problems in Algebraic Combinatorics
Susanna Fishel - Principal Investigator
ASU Foundation / Simons Foundation
9/1/15 to 8/31/21
$35,000

Geometric Flows and PDE on Manifolds 
Brett Kotschwar - Principal Investigator
ASU Foundation / Simons Foundation
9/1/15 to 8/31/21
$35,000

Discrete Groups in Complex Hyperbolic Geometry
Julien Paupert - Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
8/15/17 to 7/31/21
$177,582

Statistics

Collaborative Research Innovations for Bayesian Tree Ensemble Methodology
Rob McCulloch - Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
7/15/19 to 6/30/22
$159,997

Developing an extension of the TELL curriculum for three-year-old children with developmental speech and/or language impairment
Shelley Gray - Principal Investigator (ASU CHS); Yi Zheng - Co-Investigator
Institute of Education Sciences (IES) - U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER)
07/01/18 to 06/30/22
$1,400,000

Fast multilevel regression trees for heterogeneous effect estimation
P. Richard Hahn - Principal Investigator
Facebook Research
5/15/19 to 8/14/21
$50,000

RTG: Data Oriented Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Rodrigo Platte - Principal Investigator; Douglas Cochran, Ming-Hung Kao - Co-Principal Investigators; Anne Gelb - Co-PI (Dartmouth College), John Stufken - Co-PI (UNC Greensboro)
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
8/1/15 to 7/31/21
$1,099,995

Collaborative Research:  Critical Points and Excursion Probability of Random Fields: Theory and Statistical Applications
Dan Cheng - Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
9/10/18 to 6/30/21
$75,463

Yr 1: Efficacy of the TELL Curriculum for Preschool Children who are Economically Disadvantaged
Shelley Gray - Principal Investigator (ASU CHS); Mark Reiser - Co-Investigator
Institute of Education Sciences (IES) - U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Research (NCER)
7/01/17 to 6/30/21
$3,288,658

Bridging Understanding of Motor-Cargo Transport from Artificial to Cellular Systems
John Fricks - Principal Investigator
National Institute of Health (NIH), National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
9/1/16 to 6/30/21
$1,597,436

Spatial inference methods for image analysis
Dan Cheng - Principal Investigator
National Institutes of Health (NIH), University of California San Diego (UCSD)
1/1/20 to 12/31/20
$92,195

Actuarial Science

Emerging Risks in the Health Sector from Changing Species Distributions and Seasonality
Petar Jevtic - Principal Investigator
Society of Actuaries
1/1/21 to 5/30/21
$9,200

New Fire Hazard Risk From Policy Responses to Climate Change
Petar Jevtic - Principal Investigator
Society of Actuaries
1/1/20 to 12/31/20
$9,200

Peer to Peer Insurance - Blockchain Implications
Petar Jevtic - Principal Investigator
Society of Actuaries
10/23/19 to 12/31/20
$52,457

Mathematics Education

Collaborative Research: ECR DBER DCL: Extending a Theoretical Model for Undergraduate Students’ Reflection and Abstraction of Proof Structures in Transition to Proofs Courses
Kyeong Hah Roh - Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
10/1/20 to 9/30/23
$369,473

Pathways to Preparing Future Mathematics Faculty to Transform Undergraduate Mathematics Teaching and Learning
Marilyn Carlson - Principal Investigator; Al Boggess - Co-Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
9/1/13 to 2/28/21
$2,519,729