Awards & Grants Research / Awards & Grants Awards & Grants — recognition and research funding Active Grants — currently funded research Co-PI NSF 2024 – 2027 SH2INE: Sustainable, Holistic Hydrogen Integration Evaluation Models and analyses of human, environmental, and policy dimensions of hydrogen integration for transportation decarbonization. PI: Chiara Lo Prete (Penn State); Co-PIs: Suiseeya, Dunn, Wiseman. $999,628 PI NSF CAREER 2023 – 2028 A Decentralized Optimization Framework for Next-Gen Transportation and Power Systems with Large-scale Transportation Electrification $525,781 PI NSF 2022 – 2026 OPTIMA: Optimizing Information Value in Heterogeneous Multi-agent Transportation Systems $351,516 Co-PI FDOT 2025 – 2027 Emerging Data-as-a-Service for Sustainable Transit Service Planning PI: Yanshuo Sun. Florida Department of Transportation. $230,000 Featured Awards — major recognitions NSF CAREER 2023 National Science Foundation CAREER Award Optimizing Interdependent Transportation and Power Systems with Large-scale Transportation Electrification NSF’s most prestigious award for early-career faculty, recognizing the integration of outstanding research with education and broader impacts. Best Paper 2021 IISE Best Paper Award — Energy Systems Track Investigating the Effects of Privately Owned Electrical Vehicles on Distribution System Resilience — with S. Baghali Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Annual Conference. Best Poster 2021 INFORMS Best Poster Competition — Winner Spatial Pricing of Ride-sourcing Services in a Congested Transportation Network — with F. Afifah Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Annual Conference. Best Student Paper · 3rd Place 2022 IISE Best Student Paper Award — Energy Systems Track Multi-stage Charging Station and Distributed Generator Planning in Decentralized Power Distribution and Transportation Systems — with S. Baghali & M.R. Alam Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Annual Conference. Completed Grants — completed research support PI U.S. Department of Energy 2020 – 2022 Impacts of Electrified Sharing Economy on Transportation and Energy Systems $180,000 PI USDOT · Safer-Sim UTC 2019 Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) Planning and System Safety Impacts $50,000 PI USDOT · Safer-Sim UTC 2021 – 2022 Distributed Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Speed Limit Control Over Network with Partial Observability $35,000 PI U.S. Department of Energy · Argonne 2022 – 2024 Estimation of Ride-sourcing OD Demand from Traditional Household Travel Survey $30,000 PI University of Central Florida 2022 – 2023 Optimizing Resilience of Transportation and Power Systems with Decentralized Medium- and Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicles $25,000 PI AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety 2019 – 2020 The Impact of Driver’s Mental Models of Advanced Vehicle Technologies on Safety and Performance $20,000 Co-PI Florida Department of Transportation 2022 – 2024 Evaluating and Validating Technology Options for Estimating Transit Vehicle Occupancy in Real Time $8,000 PI National Science Foundation · REU 2023 – 2024 REU Supplement: Optimizing Information Value in Heterogeneous Multi-agent Transportation Systems $8,000 $2.49M Total Funding 12 Research Grants 4 Major Awards 8 Sponsors
