Research Funding

Grant proposals and funded research awards.

Funded and submitted work supporting AI-enabled resilience planning, infrastructure simulation, and regional digital-twin workflows.

Funded

Funded research projects, grants, and sub-awards supporting AI-enabled infrastructure resilience work.

CLARA 2.0: Advanced County-Level AI for Resilience and Assistance

Role: Co-PI. Award: Kansas NSF EPSCoR REI Award, Sub-award #2148878.

Contribution: Scalable agentic AI workflows for infrastructure hardening and resilience planning.

CLARA: County-Level AI for Resilience and Assistance

Role: Co-PI. Award: Kansas NSF EPSCoR REI Award, Sub-award #2148878.

Contribution: AI-enabled decision support for county-level infrastructure resilience and emergency management.

ARISE: Adaptive and Resilient Infrastructures driven by Social Equity

Role: Research contributor. Award: NSF EPSCoR Award #2148878.

Contribution: Supported socially equitable interdependent infrastructure resilience analysis, co-simulation, HFG-based disaster impact analysis, CLARA-related stakeholder engagement, sponsor reporting, and site-visit presentations.

SAFER: Integrated Adaptive Resilience Analysis Framework

Role: Research contributor. Award: DOE Award #DE-EE0010416.

Contribution: Contributed to integrated adaptive resilience analysis for interdependent infrastructure systems, including resilience modeling workflows, infrastructure impact analysis, and sponsor-facing technical communication.

Submitted / Under Review

Proposal-linked research directions connecting AI, regional resilience, energy, and computing infrastructure.

PRAIRIE Center: From Prediction to Resilience

Full title: AI-Enhanced Earth System, Hazard and Infrastructure Modeling and Decision-making in the Southern Great Plains.

Role: Lead Researcher, Cross-Theme Integration. Award: DOE BER.

Contribution: Integration of Earth-system models, infrastructure simulations, and regional digital-twin workflows.

ASCENT: Uncertainty-guided AI Surrogates for Coupled Electricity, Natural Gas and Computing Infrastructures

Role: Co-PI. Award: DOE Genesis Mission.

Contribution: Uncertainty-guided AI surrogate workflows for coupled energy and computing infrastructure.