Funding

Acquired Funding – $1,609,596

  • Proto-OKN Theme 3: An Education Gateway for the Proto-OKN (EduGate).
    National Science Foundation. October 2023 to September 2026.
    Role: PI.
    Funding: $1,499,518

  • Semantic and Composable Glyphs for Representing AI Systems.
    Defense Associated Graduate Student Innovators / Strategic Ohio Council of Higher Education. August 2023 to May 2024.
    Role: PI.
    Funding: $24,500

  • Supplement: Crosswalks for KWG and SPOKE.
    Base Award: A1: KnowWhereGraph: Enriching and Linking Cross-Domain Knowledge Graphs using Spatially-Explicit AI Technologies.
    National Science Foundation, September 2020 to August 2023.
    Role: PI @ Wright State (2022-).
    Funding: $85,578

Internal Funding – $20,000

Competitive – $5,000

  • Build Boffin Back: Seed Funding.
    Wright State University Foundation. August 2023 to May 2024.
    Role: co-Lead.
    Funding: $5,000

Non-competitive – $15,000

  • Supplement: Semantic and Composable Glyphs for Representing AI Systems.
    Department of Computer Science & Engineering ($5,000), Department of Biomedical, Industrial, and Human Factors Engineering ($5,000), College of Engineering and Computer Science ($5,000)
    Wright State University. August 2023 to May 2024.
    Role: PI.
    Funding: $15,000

Conference Support – $34,950

  • Travel: Travel Fellowships for Students from U.S. Universities to Attend ISWC 2023.
    National Science Foundation.
    Role: PI.
    Funding: $20,000

  • Student \& Early Career Researcher Support for the 2022 U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium (US2TS).
    National Science Foundation.
    Role: PI.
    Funding: $14,950

Past Funding – $310,295

  • EAGER: Open Science Data in Semantic Web Research
    National Science Foundation. September 2020 to August 2023.
    Role: Co-PI, main proposal author.
    Funding: $299,729
  • Ontology Modeling for the Historic Slave Trade (Phase III).
    Andrew W. Melon Foundation.
    Role: Senior Personnel (PI at WSU).
    Funding: $10,566

Graduate and Postdoctoral Funding – $322,450

  • Modular Ontology Modeling for Food Supply Chains.
    National Institute for Standards and Technology. September 2019 to May 2020.
    Role: Researcher, main proposal author.
    Funding: $199,510
  • Knowledge Analytics with Semantic Technologies (KAST).
    Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute. May 2017 to July 2019.
    Role: PI.
    Funding: $121,940

Further Project Involvement

  • A1: KnowWhereGraph: Enriching and Linking Cross-Domain Knowledge Graphs using Spatially-Explicit AI Technologies.
    National Science Foundation, September 2020 to August 2022.
    Role: Postdoctoral Researcher (2020-2023).
  • Convergence Accelerator Phase I (RAISE): Spatially-Explicit Models, Methods, and Services for Open Knowledge Networks. National Science Foundation, September 2019 to May 2020.
    Role: Researcher.
  • Towards Undifferentiated Cognitive Agents.
    Air Force Office of Scientific Research. July 2018 to July 2021.
    Role: Researcher.
  • Ontology Modeling for the Historic Slave Trade.
    The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. April 2018 to September 2020.
    Role: Researcher.

Fellowships and Scholarships – $13,500

  • Graduate Student Council Fellowship.
    Wright State University. May 2016 to July 2017.
    Funding: $12,000

  • NAECON Grant.
    NAECON, 2015-2016.
    Amount: $500

  • Kitty Hawk Scholarship.
    ASSP Kitty Hawk Chapter, 2015-2016.
    Amount: $500

  • Ohio College Opportunity Scholarship.
    The State of Ohio, 2015-2016.
    Amount: $500