Current Awards and Grants


Efficient and Scalable Cyber Defenses with Specialized Agents, Models, and Benchmarking

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Collaborative Grant
2026-2027

Research Fund from Uniphore

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Unrestricted Fund
2026

NVIDIA Academic Grant

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Equipment Gifts
2026

UCSS: Enabling a Safe and Directive Multi-modal Foundation Model Ecosystem for Food Science Research

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Co-PI
2025-2028

Trusted AI Prize

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Research Fund
2024-2025

EMNLP 2024, Outstanding Paper Award

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ACL SIGDAT

Amazon Research Award: Generative AI

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Unrestricted Fund
2023

Proto-OKN: Knowledge Graph Construction for Resilient, Trustworthy, and Secure Software Supply Chains

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PI of Subaward from Purdue
2023-2026

Amazon Research Award: Responsible AI

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Unrestricted Fund
2022

EMNLP 2023, Outstanding Paper Award

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ACL SIGDAT

ACM BCB 2020 Best Student Paper

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ACM SIGBio


Past Grants


Research Fund from Orby

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Unrestricted Fund
2025

FoundSci: Bioinspired Meta-Material Design with an Autonomous Scientist (MetaScientist)

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PI of Subaward from UCLA
2024-2025

Keston Exploratory Research Award: Multi-document Newsworthy Event Monitoring and Forecasting

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Unrestricted Fund
2023

ARLIS INFER: Improved Performance, Analytics and Summarization of Synergistic Anticipation of Geopolitical Events

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Co-PI
2022-2023

Cisco Faculty Research Award: Robust Knowledge Extraction from Text

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Unrestricted Fund
2022

CRII: Knowledge Graph Completion with Transferable Representation Learning

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Sole PI
2021-2024

KMASS: Knowledge Needed in Context (KNIC)

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Co-PI
2022-2023

MCS: Multi-modal Open World Grounded Learning and Inference (MOWGLI)

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2020-2023