Funding & Awards

Funding

Co-I (Technical Area 2 Coordinator): Bioaerosol Risk Assessment and Intervention Engineering (BRAVE)

Lead institution: Virginia Tech · ARPA-H · subaward $8,034,892 · 2025–2029
Co-PI: Novel Influenza Forecasting Framework using Learned Ensembles and Related Signals (NIFFLERS)

Council of State & Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) · $125,000 · 2025–2026
Co-PI: MIDAS Coordination Center

Lead institution: U. Pittsburgh · National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), NIH · award R24GM153920 · subaward $1,615,002 · 2024–2029
Co-PI: PHase-Optimized Ensemble and Network approaches for Influenza forecasting and eXplanations (PHOENIX)

Council of State & Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) · $124,876 · 2024–2025
PI: Geography and Respiratory Illness based Flu ForecastINg (GRIFFIN)

Council of State & Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) · $125,000 · 2023–2024
PI: Strengthening Public Health Informatics Using Next-generation tools (SPHINX)

Council of State & Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) · $250,000 · 2023–2024
PI: Hybrid Approaches for Forecasting Flu and Projecting Under Feasible Futures (HAFFLPUFF)

Council of State & Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) · $125,000 · 2022–2023
PI: Leveraging multi-scale multi-model approaches to support scalable scenario-based projections

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) · $150,000 · 2022–2024
PI: Effective Communication of Localized Influenza Predictions from a Statistical Ensemble (ECLIPSE)

Council of State & Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) · $150,000 · 2021–2022
Co-PI: RAPID: COVID-19 Response Support: Building Synthetic Multi-scale Networks

National Science Foundation (NSF) · award 2027541 · $173,640 · 2020–2021
Co-PI: RAPID: Collaborative: Transfer Learning Techniques for Better Response to COVID-19 in the US

National Science Foundation (NSF) · award 2028004 · $25,000 · 2020–2021
Co-PI: Smart Targeting and Optimization for the Mitigation and Prevention of Influenza (STOMP-flu)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) · $454,427 · 2019–2020
Co-PI: Network-based Mobility Modeling for Complex Humanitarian Emergencies

Global Infectious Diseases Institute, University of Virginia · $98,750 · 2019–2020
Co-PI: AccuWeather License to Use, Market and Resell 4-Week Influenza Forecast

AccuWeather · $55,000 · 2018–2019
Co-PI: Assessment of Invasive Alien Species Distribution in the Chitwan-Annapurna-Landscape (CHAL) Region, Nepal

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) · $135,458 · 2018–2019

Awards and Recognitions

Joint Recipient of Collaborative Excellence in Public Service Award
University of Virginia, 2022
Best Paper Award
IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2022
Opening Influenza Research Fellowship
Jointly awarded by Flu Lab and Center for Open Science, 2022
Scenario Modeling Consortium Fellow
Sub-award from CDC, 2022–2025
Recognized among Top 50 Innovators
Intelligent Health Summit, 2020
Best Poster Award (Biomedical category)
UNC Going Viral Symposium, 2018
Runner up – BDMM2017 Hackathon
Co-held with IEEE BigData 2017
Among top three teams in NIH/NSF RAPIDD Ebola Forecasting Challenge
2015
Best Presentation Award
SCINSE'14 workshop, co-held with COMSNETS 2014