Funds
RESEARCH SUPPORT & PROPOSAL EXPERIENCE
Awarded funds
MPower Early Scholars Investment Fund
Program: University of Maryland, College Park — Track 3: Postdoctoral Bridge Support
Role: Nominee
Award: $37,500 · Spring 2026
NYU Global Postdoc Collaboration Grant
Project: Rapid Micro-Scale Heat Exposure and Shade Equity Assessment in Abu Dhabi
Role: Principal Investigator
Award: $7,500
Sponsor-supported research
Semantic Foundations and Formal Methods for Federal Acquisition Practices
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense, Minerva Research Initiative
Role: Postdoctoral researcher, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland
Data-Driven Project Risk Management Performance Evaluation
Sponsors: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, and Build America Center
Outcome: Research recognized with the 2024 Arthur M. Wellington Prize and Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize.
Missouri River Dam System Reliability Assessment
Sponsor: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Role: Graduate research assistant; simulation-based reliability and systems analysis.
Related fellowships
STEM Teaching Fellowship
Award: $1,500
Institution: Emory School of Medicine
Future Faculty Fellowship
Award: $2,500 travel support
Institution: University of Maryland, A. James Clark School of Engineering
Selected proposal experience
CASCADE-AI: Causal Simulation of Cascading Events and Adaptive Decision-Making in Emergency Infrastructure Systems
Program: NSF Infrastructure Systems and People
Role: Principal Investigator
Requested amount: To be determined
SciKG-AI: An Open Science Framework for Knowledge Graph Construction, Human–AI Collaboration, and Scientific Discovery
Program: NSF Integrated Data Systems & Services
Role: Principal Investigator
Requested amount: $660,000 · FY2026–FY2029
AI-Enabled Probabilistic Modeling of Data Center Impacts on Coupled Energy–Water Systems
Program: U.S. Department of Energy, Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office
Role: Co-PI
AWS-Native Spatial Decision Agents for Spillover-Aware Logistics, Infrastructure, and Climate Decisions
Program: Amazon Science Sustainability — Agentic AI
Role: Co-PI
Requested amount: $70,000 cash plus $50,000 in AWS promotional credits
Cloud-Enabled High-Resolution Land Surface Temperature Reconstruction
Program: NYU Google Cloud Platform for Research Grant Program
Role: Co-PI
Requested amount: $90,000
Statuses and amounts are presented as recorded in the curriculum vitae; requested proposal amounts are not represented as awarded funding.