Funding

Current Funding

AI Institute for Transforming Education for Children with Speech and Language Processing Challenges, National Science Foundation PI: Venugopal Govindaraju, Co-PI: David Feil-Seifer, Amount: $20,000,000, Jan. 15, 2023 - Dec. 31, 2027, award #DRL-2229873
RET Site: Research Experiences in Cybersecurity for Nevada Teachers (RECNT), National Science Foundation PI: Shamik Sengupta, Co-PI: Amount: $599,344, Oct. 1, 2023 - Sept. 30, 2026, award #CNS-2302187
Collaborative Research: A Student-Centered Personalized Learning Framework to Advance Undergraduate Robotics Education, National Science Foundation PI: David Feil-Seifer, Co-PI: Fredrick Harris, Sergiu Dascalu, Amount: $320,214, June 1, 2022 - May 31, 2025, award #DUE-2142360
REU Site: Collaborative Human-Robot Interaction for Robots in the Field, National Science Foundation PI: David Feil-Seifer, Co-PI: Emily Hand, Amount: $405,000, March 1, 2022 - Feb. 28, 2025, award #IIS-2150394

Past Funding

Social Robots and the Production of Space: Exploring the Socio-Spatial Dimensions of Human-Robot Interaction, National Science Foundation PI: Casey Lynch, Co-PI: David Feil-Seifer, Amount: $398,066, Aug. 15, 2021 - July 31, 2024, award #SES-2121387
Research Initiation: Graduate Student Mental Health and Stress in Engineering, National Science Foundation (NSF) PI: David Feil-Seifer, Co-PI: Adam Kirn, Amount: $200,000, Jan. 1, 2021 - Dec. 31, 2022, award #EEC-2025096
CHS: Small: Socially-Aware Navigation, National Science Foundation PI: David Feil-Seifer, Co-PI: Monica Nicolescu, Amount: $500,000, Sept. 1, 2017 - May 31, 2022, award #IIS-1719027
REU Site: Collaborative Human-Robot Interaction, National Science Foundation PI: David Feil-Seifer, Co-PI: Shamik Sengupta, Amount: $360,000, Feb. 1, 2018 - Jan. 31, 2022, award #IIS-1757929
RET Site: Research Experiences in Cybersecurity for Nevada Teachers (RECNT), National Science Foundation (NSF) PI: Shamik Sengupta, Co-PI: David Feil-Seifer, Amount: $599,307, Feb. 15, 2019 - Jan. 31, 2022, award #1855159
Engineering and Robotics Teachers' Training Nevada 2019, Nevada Department Of Education PI: David Feil-Seifer, Co-PI: Adam Kirn, Amount: 225,000, May 23, 2019 - May 31, 2020, award #NA
University/Museum Partnership For Informal Education in Robotics, Nevada Space Grant Consortium (NVSGC) PI: David Feil-Seifer, Co-PI: Adam Kirn, Amount: $25,000, July 1, 2018 - April 9, 2019, award #NNX15AI02H
Designing Collaborator Robots for Highly-Dynamic Multi-Human, Multi-Robot Teams, Office of Naval Research (ONR) PI: Monica Nicolescu, Co-PI: David Feil-Seifer, Amount: $656,511, April 1, 2016 - March 31, 2019, award #N00014-16-1-2312
RET Site: Cyber Security Initiative for Nevada Teachers (CSINT), National Science Foundation PI: Shamik Sengupta, Co-PI: David Feil-Seifer, Amount: $540,000, Sept. 1, 2015 - Aug. 31, 2018, award #CNS-1542465
Center for Integrative Neuroscience: Using Socially Assistive Robot Assistants to Augment NeuroRehabilitation Exercise Therapy, National Institutes of Health (NIH) PI: Michael Webster, Co-PI: David Feil-Seifer, Amount: $150,000, Sept. 1, 2017 - May 31, 2018, award #P20GM103650
Collaborative Control of Multiple UAVs for Wildfire Tracking and Monitoring, Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium (NVSGC) PI: Hung La, Co-PI: David Feil-Seifer, Amount: $30,000, July 1, 2017 - April 9, 2018, award #NNX15AI02H
Infrastructure For Socially-Aware Navigation For Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction, NASA EPSCoR PI: David Feil-Seifer, Co-PI: Kimberly Barchard, Amount: $30,416, July 1, 2017 - April 9, 2018, award #NNX15AK48A
CHS: Small: Collaborative Research: Spatio-Temporal Situational Awareness in Large-Scale Disasters Using Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, National Science Foundation PI: David Feil-Seifer, Amount: $166,666, Jan. 1, 2016 - Dec. 31, 2017, award #IIS-1528137
UGV-UAV Hybrid System for Unstructured Environment Exploration, NASA PI: Hung La, Co-PI: David Feil-Seifer, Paul Oh, Amount: 83,523, Sept. 1, 2016 - Aug. 31, 2017, award #Seed RID Grant
Undergraduate and Graduate Robotics Curriculum For UNR College of Engineering, NASA Space Grant PI: David Feil-Seifer, Co-PI: Monica Nicolescu, Hung La, Kostas Alexis, Logan Yliniemi, Amount: $76,539, Sept. 1, 2016 - Aug. 31, 2017, award #NNX15AI02H
PFI:BIC: Enhanced Situational Awareness Using Unmanned Autonomous Systems for Disaster Remediation, National Science Foundation PI: Kam Leang, Amount: $800,000, Aug. 1, 2014 - July 31, 2017, award #IIP-1430328
UAV-Based Camera Vibration Reduction for Detect and Avoid Tasks, NASA EPSCoR PI: David Feil-Seifer, Co-PI: Richard Kelley, Amount: $36,512, Nov. 18, 2015 - Aug. 31, 2016, award #NSHE-15-67
Improving UAV Vehicle Safety: Algorithms for Computer Vision Based Detect and Avoid and Failure-Resistant Control, Nevada System of Higher Education PI: David Feil-Seifer, Co-PI: Kostas Alexis, Amount: $280,000, June 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016
Robot Problem Solving for Elementary, Middle, and High-School Students: Programming Without Computers, Nevada Space Grant Consortium (NV-SGC) PI: David Feil-Seifer, Amount: $4,889, Feb. 1, 2016 - April 30, 2016, award #NNX15AI02H
Fast Detection of Partially Occluded Humans from Mobile Platforms, NASA Space Grant Consortium PI: David Feil-Seifer, Co-PI: Richard Kelley, Amount: $30,000, July 1, 2014 - Feb. 29, 2016, award #NSHE-15-40
Tablet-Based Interface for LEK Form Entry, Nevada Department of Wildlife PI: David Feil-Seifer, Amount: $6,000, July 1, 2014 - Sept. 1, 2015, award #1400738-01
DURIP: Humanoid Platforms for Human-Robot Collaboration, Office of Naval Research (ONR) PI: Monica Nicolescu, Co-PI: David Feil-Seifer, Mircea Nicolescu, Amount: $312,000, May 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015, award #N00014-14-1-0776
Instructional Enhancement Grant: Robotics for Experimentation in the Classroom, University of Nevada, Reno Provost's Office PI: David Feil-Seifer, Amount: $5,000, July 1, 2014 - May 15, 2015
Fast Detection of Partially Occluded Humans from Mobile Platforms: Preliminary Work, Nevada NASA Space Grant PI: David Frank, Co-PI: David Feil-Seifer, Amount: $2,500, Jan. 20, 2015 - May 15, 2015, award #NNX10AN23H
Asymmetrical Quad/Hex-Rotor Failsafe Algorithm, Flirtey, Inc. PI: David Feil-Seifer, Co-PI: Richard Kelley, Amount: $15,000, Sept. 1, 2014 - March 31, 2015
Failsafe Algorithms for Stabilization and Control of UAS Platforms, Nevada Space Grant PI: Janelle Blankenburg, Amount: $2,500, Aug. 25, 2014 - Dec. 17, 2014, award #NNX10AN23H