Grants and Research Awards

• Undergraduate Creative Discovery Scholar and Undergraduate Research Summer 2025 Scholar Awards. “A Vision Transformer and Diffusion-Based Hybrid AI Framework for 3D Human Pose Estimation”. Student: Ganesh Paudel. $4000.
• Undergraduate Creative Discovery Scholar and Undergraduate Research Fall 2025 Scholar Awards. “Using Speech and Text to Recognize Swimming Distress Through Gestures”. Student: Jackson Drummond. $1750.
• NASA WV Undergraduate Fellowship (2025–26). “Exploring Deep Learning-based Human Mesh Recovery from 2D Images with Textual Description”. Student: Tanner Wick. $5000.
• NAIRR Classroom Proposal Award. Title: “Resources for a Course on Deep Learning in Medical Imaging” (NAIRR250013). Computational Time: 100,000 SU on Indiana JetStream2 GPU and 18 Vocareum AI notebooks for students. Period: March 13, 2025 – March 12, 2026.
• NSF ACCESS EXPLORE Award. Title: “CIS250068: Requesting Resources for a Course on Deep Learning in Medical Imaging at Marshall University”. Awarded Allocation: 200,000 ACCESS credit. Period: January 24, 2025 – January 23, 2026.
• Graduate Creative Discovery and Research Scholar Award for Spring 2025. “Exploration of Vision Language Models (VLM) and Large Language Models (LLM) for Colorectal Cancer Segmentation”. Role: PI and faculty mentor. Student: Anastasiia Sukhanova. Amount: $1750 (student) + $750 (faculty).
• Undergraduate Creative Discovery and Research Scholar Award for Spring 2025. “Using Artificial Intelligence Method for Realistic Biomedical Image Synthesis”. Role: PI and faculty mentor. Student: Lizana Imran. Amount: $1750 (student) + $750 (faculty).
• Colgate-Palmolive Experiential Learning Fellowship. 2021–22 and 2022–23.
• Recipient of Research & Travel Award funding by the School of Graduate Studies at Rutgers University. 2022.