Funded Grants

Academic Grants

  1. Cyber Defense Competitions as a Method to Raise Awareness and Interest of High School Students in UMS STEM Programs – Part II, Co-PI, $30,000 from the University of Maine Chancellor’s Strategic Investment Fund. (September 2010) (25%)
  2. Fund Raising for the 2010 NECCDC, $15,500 to support the 2010 NECCDC (North East Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition) which was held at UMaine in March 2010. Of the total $10,000 came from the Department of Homeland Security, $5,000 from the Boeing Corporation and $500 from the Fairpoint Corporation. As a result of the competition, the Department of Homeland Security pledged to support all eight regional contests in the future with grants in the range of $10,000-$15,000. Our grant was the first of its type. (100%)
  3. Cyber Defense Competitions as a Method to Raise Awareness and Interest of High School Students in UMS STEM Programs, Co-PI with, $30,000 from the University of Maine Chancellor’s Strategic Investment Fund. (September 2009) (25%)
  4. Maine High Performance Computing and Visualization Platform, Co-PI, $20,000 from the University of Maine Chancellor’s Strategic Investment Fund. (September 2009) (33%)
  5. University of Maine System Libra Diversity Visiting Professor Grant, $15,000, to organize a program to support diversity. This funded the February 2010 visit of Dr. Jonathan Farley, and is described in greater detail earlier in this CV.
  6. U. S. Department of Energy Travel Grant, ($225 plus airfare) to attend Workshop on Cyber Security Research Needs for Open Science held in Washington DC, July 23-24, 2007.
  7. NATO Infrastructure Grant – Ternopil Education Communication Center, Co-PI and Fiscal Manager, 2006-2009, €123,000 (about $160,000). We built a municipal area network connecting the major research universities in Ternopil, Ukraine.
  8. Large Scale Multi-Agent System, PI, January 2004, Honeywell Corporation, $31,935. (100%)
  9. Maine Laptop Initiative, PI, August 2003, Maine Dept of Education, #603134, $80,000. (100%)
  10. Supercluster Distributed Memory Technology TMD Solutions, Co-PI, June 2002, US Dept of Defense DASG60-02-C-0086, $1,726,401. (33%)
  11. Scalable Remote Information Sensing and Communication, PI, September 2001, National Science Foundation ANI-0210619, $49,607. (100%)
  12. Planning Workshop on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics, Co-PI, September 2001, National Science Foundation, $50,000. (15%)
  13. University of Maine Connection to the vBNS (Internet 2), Co-PI, August 2001, National Science Foundation, $175,000. (50%)
  14. A Proposal to Develop an Infrastructure for Agent-Based Research and Development, PI, National Science Foundation, $499,130.00, 9/1/1999-8/31/2004. (50%) As part of this grant we set up the infrastructure so that Maine could participate in the FIRST LEGO League, a competition for middle-school students that uses Lego-based robots. The infrastructure has become Maine Robotics and is currently active.
  15. Circuit Testing Algorithms, PI, IBM, 1988. (100%)

Non-Academic Grants

My companies have successfully won a number of grants over the years. In addition, I have worked as a consultant for other companies since 2000. Since that time, I have helped one company win a Phase I SBIR grant from the NSF and another company win both a Phase I and Phase II SBIR grant from the Department of Defense. This is in addition to grants won by my own companies. My company Trefoil Corporation won a Phase I and Phase II grant from the NIH, and spent over $300,000 supporting research at the University of Maine.

As a member of the Faculty Five we managed to significantly increase state funding for research. The University has benefited greatly from our efforts.