Funding

External Funding:

  • Air Force Research Laboratory: Digital Transformation Battle Lab," 11/15/2023 - 08/16/2024 (PIs: Shehu A, Josephson B, Archer G).
  • STTR Air Force: Topic No. AFX23E-TPCSO1-STTR Phase I - Proposal-FX23E-TPCSO1-0061 - "Metadata Overlay for Live-Streaming and Geolocating Security Incident Reporting System," 1/1/2024-3/31/2024. (PIs: Barbara D, Shehu A; Industrial partner: Pluribus) [AF Contract: FA864924P008]
  • NSF IIS: III Collaborative MEDIUM Grant for "Learning Protein-ish: Foundational Insight on Protein Language Models for Better Understanding, Democratized Access, and Discovery," 08/01/2023 - 07/31/2026 (PIs: Shehu A and Bromberg Y/Emory). [Grant No. 23101135]
  • NSF Collaborative Research: IIBR: Innovation: Bioinformatics: "Linking Chemical and Biological Space: Deep Learning and Experimentation for Property-Controlled Molecule Generation," 08/01/2023 - 07/31/2026 (PIs: Shehu A, Zhao L/Emory, Wuestl W/Emory, and Minbiole/Villanova). [Grant No. 2318829]
  • Congressionally-Funded Community Project, "Furthering U.S. Government Cybersecurity and IT Modernization Leadership and Governance," 09/01/2023 - 05/30/2026. (PIs: Shehu A, CS,IDIA/GMU, Auffret JP, Business/GMU).
  • CIA CHAOTICGOOD DTech Program, "Trustworthy Language Models," 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2023. (PI: Yao Z, CS/GMU; Co-PIs: Shehu A; Liu M, CS/GMU).
  • Commonwealth of Virginia Cyber Initiative (CCI) Scholars – Undergraduate Research Program, "Detection of Malware through Side Channel Analysis," 09/01/2022 - 04/30/2023. (PI: Barbara D, CS/GMU; Co-PIs: Shehu, A).
  • Department of Defense MINERVA Program, "The cultural, economic, and institutional determinants of AI infrastructures and their consequences in global contexts," 07/01/2022 - 06/30/2025. (PI: J.P. Singh, Schar/GMU; co-PIs: Shehu, A; Anastasopolous, A CS/GMU; Kirkpatrick J, CHSS/GMU; Hunzinger M, Schar/GMU). Track project at aistrategies.info.
  • Commonwealth of Virginia, Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases Research Award for "Mechanisms of Amyloid Interaction and Signaling through the Nicotinic Receptor," 08/01/2021 - 06/30/2022. (PI: Kabbani, N/GMU; co-PIs: Shehu, A; Lucchini, A/GMU).
  • NSF IIS: III Small Grant for "Graph Generative Deep Learning for Protein Structure Prediction," 07/18/2019 - 07/31/2022 (PI: Shehu A; co-PI: Zhao L/GMU). [Grant No. 1907805]
  • NSF FET: Collaborative Medium Grant for "Automated Analysis and Exploration of High-dimensional and Multimodal Molecular Energy Landscapes", 07/26/2019 - 07/31/2023 (PIs: Shehu A and Plaku E/CUA; co-PI: Qiao W/GMU). [Grant No. 1900061]
  • Jeffress Trust Awards Program in Interdisciplinary Research Award for "Evaluation of Molecular Structures via Deep Learning," 06/30/2019 - 05/31/2020. (PI: Zhao L/Information Sciences and Technology-GMU; co-PI: Shehu A).
  • NSF IIS: III: Collaborative Medium Grant for "Guiding Exploration of Protein Structure Spaces with Deep Learning", 07/01/2018 - 06/30/2022 (PIs: Shehu A and Chen J/UMissouri). [Grant No. 1763233]
  • NSF DMS Grant for "Statistical Inference for Molecular Landscapes", 08/01/2018 - 07/31/2021 (PI: Qiao W/Statistics-GMU; co-PI: Shehu A). [Grant No. 1821154]
  • Jeffress Trust Awards Program in Interdisciplinary Research Award for "High-dimensional Statistics and Biomolecular Modeling as a Powerful Microscope over Pathogenic Mutations in Proteinopathies," 06/30/2017 - 05/31/2019. (PI: Qiao W/Statistics-GMU; co-PI: Shehu A).
  • NSF IIS & CCF: Travel Awards for 2015 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM-2015)", 08/01/2015 - 07/30/2016.
  • NSF SI2: SSE Collaborative Grant for "A Novel Plug-and-play Software Platform of Robotics-inspired Algorithms for Modeling Biomolecular Structures and Motions", 02/01/2015 - 01/31/2019 (PIs: Shehu A, Plaku E/CUA, Roitberg A/UF) [Grant No. 1440581].
  • NSF CCF: AF Small Grant for "Novel Stochastic Optimization Algorithms for Advancing the Treatment of Dynamic Molecular Systems", 07/01/2014 - 06/30/2018. (PI: Shehu A; co-PI: De Jong KA) [Grant No. 1421001]
  • NSF CISE Award for "NSF CISE CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop", 12/05/2013 - 05/31/2014 (PI: Shehu A; co-PI: Rangwala H) [Grant No. 1415210].
  • Jeffress Trust Program in Interdisciplinary Research Award for "Probabilistic Search Algorithms: Powerful Novel Tools for Peptide Modeling", 09/15/2013 - 06/15/2015. (PI: Shehu A; co-PI: Blaisten-Barojas E)
  • Virginia Youth Tobacco Program (VYTP) Award for "Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Menthol Cigarette Addiction", 07/01/2013 - 10/31/2015. (PI: Kabbani N/Krasnow-GMU; co-PI: Shehu A)
  • NSF IIS CAREER Award for "Probabilistic Methods for Addressing Complexity and Constraints in Protein Systems", 03/1/2012 - 02/28/2017. (PI: Shehu A). [Grant No. 1144106]
  • NSF CCF: AF Small Grant for "A Unified Computational Framework to Enhance the Ab-initio Sampling of Native-like Protein Conformations", 9/1/2010 - 8/31/2013. (PI: Shehu A). [Grant No. 1016995]

Internal Funding:

  • George Mason University Curriculum Impact Grant for "Ethics and AI Undergraduate Minor", July 2021 - June 2022.
    PIs: Jesse Kirkpatrick (Philosophy), Alexander Monea (Cultural Studies \& English), Amarda Shehu (Computer Science \& CAHMP), Rachael Jones (Philosophy), Peng Warweg (CAHMP).
  • Provost's Transdisciplinary Center for Advanced Study Award for the "Center for Adaptive Human-Machine Partnership (CAHMP)," August 2019 - July 2024.
    PIs: Amarda Shehu, David Lattanzi, and Brenda Bannan.
  • Mason's Multidisciplinary Research Initiative Award , October 2017 - September 2018
    PI: Kylene Kehn-Hall. co-PIs: Amarda Shehu and Estela Blaisten-Barojas.
  • Mason Seed Grant, December 2013 - May 2014
    co-PI: Anand Vidyashankar.
  • Mason Seed Grant, May 2013 - April 2014
    co-PI: Nadine Kabbani
  • Mason Seed Grant, December 2012 - June 2013
    co-PI: Juan Cortes
  • Undergraduate Apprentice Support, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2013
  • Mason Seed Grant, July 2010 - June 2011
    co-PI: N. Kabbani
  • RA Support, AY 2010-2011
  • Bioengineering Seed Grant, January 2009 - December 2010
    co-PIs: B. Bishop and M. van Hoek
  • Mason Seed Grant, January 2009 - December 2009