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1. Arpan Sainu (PI), Medha Sarkar (Co-PI), Juanita Brooks (Co-PI), Timothy Greer (Co-PI), Kritagya Upadhyay (Co-PI), David Butler (Senior Personnel), Yi Gu (Senior Personnel), and Matthew DeMaria (Senior Personnel). CyberAI SFS: A Cross-College Pathway for Preparing Public-Service Cybersecurity Professionals. NSF CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service (CyberAI SFS), $2,199,021.00, 07/2027 - 06/2030.

Funded

1. L. Miao (PI), H. Zhang (Co-PI), Y. Gu (Co-PI). Establishing a 2026 National Transportation Summer Institute (NSTI) at MTSU, administered by the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) and funded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), $50,000, 2/23/2026-7/31/2026.
2. L. Miao (PI), H. Zhang (Co-PI), Y. Gu (Co-PI). Establishing a 2025 National Transportation Summer Institute (NSTI) at MTSU, administered by the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) and funded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), $50,000, 2/3/2025-8/31/2025.
3. Y. Gu (PI), J. Ranganathan (Co-PI), L. Xiong (Co-PI), Increasing Success and Retention of Female Students in Computer Science by Enhancing Two Key Factors: Math Proficiency and Programming Skills, Tennessee Board of Regents Student Engagement, Retention, and Success Initiative (TBR-SERS), $33,020.84, 07/01/2022 - 06/30/2023 (extended to 12/31/2023).
4. Y. Gu (PI) Energy Efficiency for Big Data Sciences in Cloud Environments, Faculty Research and Creative Activity Grant (FRCAC), Middle Tennessee State University, $10,000, 06/01/2018 - 12/31/2018.
5. Y. Gu (PI) NSF CSR: Small: Collaborative Research: An Integrated Approach to Performance Modeling and Optimization of Big-data Scientific Workflows, $125,000, 10/01/2015 - 09/30/2017 (extended to 09/30/2018).
6. Y. Gu (PI) Performance Modeling and Optimization of Big Data Scientific Workflows in Distributed Network Environments, Faculty Research and Creative Activity Grant (FRCAC), Middle Tennessee State University, $7,268, 01/20/2015 - 08/31/2015.
7. Y. Gu (Co-PI) National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Transport Control to Provide Deadline-sensitive Services, Guangxi University, Nanning, P. R. China, RMB 450,000 (total), 01/01/2015 - 12/31/2018.
8. Y. Gu (PI) Technology Awards from the Faculty Research & Development program, University of Tennessee at Martin, $1,000, 3/2/2012 - 4/9/2012.

Not Funded

1. K. Upadhyay (PI), A. Sainju (Co-PI), S. Badruddoja (Co-PI), and Y. Gu (Co-PI). SaTC 2.0: RES: Real-Time Multimodal AI for Trustworthy Smart Contract Security in the Metaverse, NSF Research on Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace (SaTC 2.0).
2. H. Zhang (PI), Lei Miao (Co-PI), Y. Gu (Senior Personnel), S. Cui (Senior Personnel), K. Currie (Senior Personnel), and A. Georgiou (Senior Personnel), REU Site: Interdisciplinary Collaborative Robot for Agricultural Engineering, NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), $371,997, 2026.
3. Y. Xin (PI), Y. Gu (Co-PI), L. Carter (Co-PI). Enhancing Computer Science Student Success in the Discrete Structures Course Through Collaborative, Individualized, Project-Based, and Interactive Visual Strategies, Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Directorate for STEM Education (IUSE: EDU), National Science Foundation, $247,236, 9/1/2025-8/31/2028.
4. B. Xie (PI), Y. Huang (Research Scientist), S. Spires (Commercialization Manager), Y. Gu (Subcontractor), ExamMaker: Automated USW Knowledge Base Extraction and Exam Maker using Advanced Transformer-based NLP Models, DoD Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program: N23A-T014: DIGITAL ENGINEERING - Automated Knowledge Base Extraction and Student Assessment, 2023. (Prepared as Co-PI but changed to subcontractor during the submission due to the requirement of citizenship for PI/Co-PI).
5. H. Zhang (PI), Lei Miao (Co-PI), Q. Wu (Senior Personnel), S. Cui (Senior Personnel), Y. Gu (Senior Personnel), K. Currie (Senior Personnel), and R. Seipelt (Senior Personnel), REU Site: Interdisciplinary Collaborative Robot for Agricultural Engineering, NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), $464,517, 2023.
6. H. Zhang (PI), L. Miao (Co-PI), Q. Wu (Senior Personnel), S. Cui (Senior Personnel), Y. Gu (Senior Personnel), and K. Currie (Senior Personnel), REU Site: Interdisciplinary Collaborative Robot for Agricultural Engineering, NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), $404,697, 2022.
7. Y. Gu (PI), Workflow Scheduling and Optimization for Big Data Sciences in Clouds, Google Faculty Research Awards Program, 2019.
8. L. McNeil (PI), Y. Gu (Co-PI), J. Phillips (Co-PI), and J. Yoo (Co-PI), NSF STEM+C:EI: Computational Biology for Algorithmic Thinking (CBAT), $650,000, 2015.
9. Q. Wu (PI) and Y. Gu (Co-PI), NSF BIGDATA:F:DKM: Collaborative Research: Performance modeling and optimization of large-scale workflows for big data science, $306,566, 2015.
10. J. Gardner (PI), S. Cui (Co-PI), R. Kirk (Co-PI), and Y. Gu (Co-PI), Development of Predictive Analytic Tool for Student Retention using Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches, $39,160, Tennessee Board of Regents, 2014.
11. Y. Gu (PI) NSF CSR: Small: Collaborative Research: Performance modeling and optimization of large-scale distributed workflows for big data science, $158,980, 2014.