Research Grants

  1. "Listening for Silence: AI-Assisted Detection of Social Isolation and Depression in Older Adults," Texas Higher Education, 09/2026 – 07/2028, Award: $400,000 (Lead PI, co-PIs: Kai Zhang and Teresa Wagner).
  2. "Learning-Based Models of Ligand Dissociation Pathways and Kinetics," CENG–COS Joint Proposal Development Seed Funding, College of Engineering (CENG), College of Science (COS), and Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation (VPRI), University of North Texas, 05/2026 – 02/2027, Award: $10,000 (Lead PI, co-PI: Yanxiao Han).
  3. "Towards Secure Retrieval-Augmented Generation," National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot, NAIRR250513, 04/2026 – 04/2027, Award: 7,000 NVIDIA H200 GPU-hours on TACC Vista (approximately 15,000 A100-equivalent GPU-hours) (Lead PI, co-PI: Minghong Fang).
  4. "Complex-Structured Unlearning in Machine Learning," Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), 08/26/2025 – 08/25/2026, Award: 20,000 SUs on Lonestar6 (Sole PI).

Acknowledgement

I gratefully acknowledge the ongoing support from the NAIRR Pilot and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), the State of Texas, and the University of North Texas (the College of Engineering, the College of Science, and the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation) for my research.

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