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Santosh Kumar Research Grants

Year 2014

Center of Excellence on Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K) (U54)

PI: Dr. Santosh Kumar

Investigators:

  • Dr. Gregory Abowd, Dr. Polo Chau, Dr. Jim Rehg, Georgia Tech
  • Dr. William Abraham, Dr. Clay Marsh, Ohio State University Medical Center
  • Dr. Mustafa al'Absi, University of Minnesota Medical School
  • Dr. J Gayle Beck, University of Memphis
  • Dr. Tyson Condie, Dr. Mani Srivastava, UCLA
  • Dr. Emre Ertin, Ohio State University
  • Dr. Deborah Estrin, Cornell Tech
  • Dr. Deepak Ganesan, Dr. Benjamin Marlin, UMass Amherst
  • Dr. Cho Lam, Dr. David Wetter, Rice University
  • Dr. Susan Murphy, Dr. Inbal Nahum-Shani, University of Michigan
  • Dr. Kevin Patrick, UC San Diego
  • Dr. Ida Sim, UC San Francisco
  • Dr. Bonnie Spring, Northwestern Medical School

Sponsor: National Institutes on Health (NIH) - NIBIB, NIA, NHLBI, NIAMS, and NIDCR
Period: 9/29/2014-9/30/2018
Amount: $10,793,851.

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Year 2012

Predicting Smoking Abstinence via Mobile Monitoring of Stress and Social Context (R01)

PI: Dr. Santosh Kumar

Co-PIs:

  • Dr. Mustafa al'Absi and Dr. Lorentz Wittmers, Univ. of Minnesota Medical School
  • Dr. Emre Ertin, Ohio State University

Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIH
Period: 9/15/2012-8/31/2015
Amount: $1,300,750.

EasySense: Contact-less Physiological Sensing in the Mobile Environment Using Compressive Radio Frequency Probes

PI: Dr. Santosh Kumar

Co-PIs:

  • Dr. Mustafa al'Absi, Univ. of Minnesota Medical School
  • Dr. Emre Ertin, Ohio State University

Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), SHB Program
Period: 10/1/2012-9/30/2015
Amount: $600,000.

Enabling Privacy-Utility Trade-offs in Pervasive Computing Systems

PIs: Dr. Mani Srivastava, UCLA

Co-PIs:

  • Dr. Santosh Kumar, Univ. of Memphis
  • Dr. Sharad Mehrotra, UC Irvine

Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), CSR:Large
Period: 10/1/2012-9/30/2014
Amount: $95,000.

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Year 2011

Mobile Health National Meeting

PI: Dr. Santosh Kumar

Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Period: 8/1/2011-5/31/2012
Amount: $25,000.

Mobile Health National Meeting

PI: Dr. Santosh Kumar

Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Period: 8/1/2011-5/31/2012
Amount: $25,000.

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Year 2010

First Horizon Entrepreneurship and Innovation Fellowship

PI: Dr. Santosh Kumar

Sponsor: First Horizon Foundation
Period: 8/1/2010-7/31/2011
Amount: $24,275.

Alcohol Measurements in AutoSense - From Days to Weeks in the Field

PI: Dr. Santosh Kumar

Co-PIs:

  • Dr. Mustafa al'Absi and Dr. Lorentz Wittmers, Univ. of Minnesota Medical School
  • Dr. Emre Ertin, Ohio State University
  • Dr. Linda Tempelman, Giner Inc.

Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Period: 8/1/2010-4/30/2011
Amount: $172,949.

Making AutoSense Robust for Everyday Wearing - A Field Test in Illicit Drug Users

PIs: 

  • Dr. Kenzie Preston, National Institute on Drug Abuse
  • Dr. Santosh Kumar

Co-PIs:

  • Dr. Mustafa al'Absi and Dr. Lorentz Wittmers, Univ. of Minnesota Medical School
  • Dr. Emre Ertin, Ohio State University

Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Period: 8/1/2010-4/30/2011
Amount: $132,081.

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Year 2009

FieldStream: Network Data Services for Exposure Biology Studies in Natural Environments

PI: Dr. Santosh Kumar

Co-PIs:

  • Dr. Mani Srivastava and Dr. Greg Pottie, UCLA
  • Dr. Justin Romberg and Dr. Jun Xu, Georgia institute of Technology
  • Dr. Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Dr. Deepak Ganesan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Dr. J Gayle Beck, University of Memphis
  • Dr. Mustafa al'Absi, Univ. of Minnesota Medical School(Consultant)

Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), NetSE Program (crosscutting across CNS, CCF, and IIS)
Period: 9/1/2009-8/31/2013
Amount: $2,699,990.

Personalized Stress Inferencing in AutoSense

PIs:

  • Dr. Santosh Kumar
  • Dr. Tom Kamarack, University of Pittsburgh

Co-PIs:

  • Dr. Asim Smailagic and Dr. Daniel Siewiorek, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Dr. Mustafa al'Absi and
  • Dr. Lorentz Wittmers, Univ. of Minnesota Medical School
  • Dr. Emre Ertin, Ohio State University

Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Period: 5/1/2009-4/30/2010
Amount: $238,158.

REU for Doing More with Less: Tracking Movements Using a Sparse Sensor Network

PI: Dr. Santosh Kumar

Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), CNS Division
Period: 9/1/2009-8/31/2010
Amount: $16,000.

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Year 2008

AutoWitness: Detecting and Tracking Burglars Using a Sparse Wireless Sensor Network

PI: Dr. Santosh Kumar

Sponsor: Fedex Institute of Technology (FIT), Univ. of Memphis
Period: 8/1/2008-7/31/2010
Amount: $350,965.

Automated Wireless Measurement of Pulse Wave Velocity in AutoSense

PI: Dr. Santosh Kumar

Co-PIs:

  • Dr. Emre Ertin, Ohio State Univ.

Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Period: 8/14/2008-4/30/2009
Amount: $68,286.

REU for Doing More with Less: Tracking Movements Using a Sparse Sensor Network

PI: Dr. Santosh Kumar

Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), CNS Division
Period: 5/12/2008-8/31/2010
Amount: $12,000.

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Year 2007

AutoSense: Quantifying Personal Exposures to Addictive Substances and Psychosocial Stress

PI: Dr. Santosh Kumar

Co-PIs, Investigators, and other personnel: 15 total

  • Dr. Satish Kedia, and Dr. Kenneth Ward, Univ. of Memphis
  • Dr. Mustafa al'Absi, Univ. of Minnesota Medical School
  • Dr. Emre Ertin, Ohio State Univ.
  • Dr. Kent Hutchison, Univ. of Colorado
  • Dr. Mark Faupel, Dr. Manju Venugopal, Rick Fowler, Kathryn Feuvrel, Erika Eckler, SpectRx Inc.

Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH), Part of the Genes Environment Initiative
Period: 8/14/2007-4/30/2011
Amount: $1,659,605.

Doing More with Less: Tracking Movements Using a Sparse Sensor Network

PI: Dr. Santosh Kumar

Co-PIs:

  • Dr. Bela Bollobas and Dr. Prasun Sinha (Ohio State Univ.)
  • Senior Personnel: Derek Myers, Deputy Director, Univ. of Memphis Police Services

Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), CNS Division
Period: 9/1/2007-8/31/2010
Amount: $499,989.

Foundations of Coverage and Connectivity for Wireless Sensor Networks Deployed in Thin Strips

PI: Dr. Santosh Kumar

Co-PIs:

  • Paul Balister and Dr. Bela Bollobas
  • Senior Personnel: Derek Myers, Deputy Director, Univ. of Memphis Police Services

Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), CCF Division
Period: 9/15/007-9/14/2010
Amount: $350,000.

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Year 2006

Preparing Students for an Embedded Everywhere World

PI: Dr. Santosh Kumar

Co-PIs:

  • Dr. Lan Wang and Dr. Qishi Wu

Sponsor: Advanced Learning Center, University of Memphis
Period: 1/2/2007 - 6/30/2007
Amount: $10,000.

Dr. Santosh Kumar 
Director, NIH Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K)
Professor and Lillian & Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence
Department of Computer Science
The University of Memphis
319 Dunn Hall, Memphis, TN 38152
Tel: (901) 678 2487 (Office)
Email: santosh.kumar@memphis.edu