As Principal Investigator (PI)
- NSF, 2025-2027, NSF (EAGER) NAIRR Pilot: Demonstrating a Compact Foundation Model for Planning-Like(PL) Tasks for Next Generation Trusted Applications (see also: NAIRR project page, our project updates). [Foundation Models, Planning, Demonstration] Government
- NSF, 2025-2027, Resource Request for NAIRR Pilot Demonstration Project: A Compact Foundation Model for Planning-Like (PL) Tasks for Next Generation Trusted Applications (NAIRR250014), to support computing for NAIRR project. [Resources, Foundation Models, Planning, Demonstration] Government
- NSF, 2025-2026, Resource Request for Privacy-Preserving Traffic Safety Analysis: A Module on Trusted AI With Real Data from Civic Partners (NAIRR250023), to support classroom teaching. [Resources, Data Analysis, Traffic] Government
- University of South Carolina, 2025-2026, SafeGenChat: A Novel and General Approach for Building Risk-Aware Collaborative Assistants for Trust-sensitive Applications [Chatbot, AI Safety, Metacognition] Government
- VAIBHAV Fellowship, India (announcement), 2025-2028, a prestigious recognition for working in summers with Prof. Hari P. Gupta at IIT-BHU on AI and sensors for recommending and monitoring Yoga asanas; was among 17 selected from 216 proposals competing globally. [AI - recommendations, Health - Yoga] Government
- JP Morgan Chase research award, 2023-2025, Automatically Generating Composable Trust Certificates for Blackbox AI Systems in Finance and Assessing their Impact on End Users [AI Ethics, Testing] Gift Corporate
- CISCO research award, 2022-2024, Rating AI for Trust [AI Ethics, Testing] Gift Corporate
- University of South Carolina, 2021-2025, AI-driven team recommendation [AI,Teaming] Government
- South Carolina Research Authority, 2022-2023, AI-driven team recommendation [AI, Teaming] Government
- Vajra visiting faculty fellowship (India), 2021-2023, Rating AI and Indian perspective [AI Ethics, Testing, Food] Government
- Tantiv4, 2020-2023, AI for power management and middleware, conversation systems [AI, Power, Chatbots] Corporate
As Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
- DoD/ARLIS INSURE, Information Competition Simulator; May 2022 - Dec 2025, Michael N. Huhns (PI), Vignesh Narayanan, Biplav Srivastava [Information Spread, AI Security] Government
- University of South Carolina, 2025-2026, AI-Enhanced Archives: Transforming Manuscript Accessibility with Fine-Tuned Large Language Models [Library, Chatbot] Government
- University of South Carolina, 2025-2026, AI-based patient-physician communication training system for medical students and residents to reduce HIV-related stigma [Chatbot, Safety, Interviewing] Government
- University of South Carolina (Racial Justice), February 1, 2022 - April 30, 2023, Intersectionality between race, gender, and computer science stereotypes influencing racially minoritized high schoolers' intentions to pursue computer science major, Team: Lima de Vasconcelos (PI), Fatih Ari, Biplav Srivastava [AI, Stereotypes, Racial Issues] Government
- University of South Carolina (Racial Justice), February 1, 2022 - April 30, 2023, Understanding racial justice with data visualizations: Fostering underrepresented minority secondary school students' critical data literacy, Team: Hengtao Tang (PI), Forest Agostinelli, Biplav Srivatava [AI, Visualization, Racial Issues] Government
- University of South Carolina (ASPIRE-II), 2021-2022, Collaborative Artificial Intelligence for Learning to Solve the Rubik's Cube, Team: Matt Irvin (PI), Forest Agostinelli. Biplav Srivastava, Dezhi Wu, Hengtao Tang, Amit Sheth (Consultant) [Chatbots, Games, AI Trust] Government
Select Collaborations (Non-monetary)
- IBM Research: [2020-], Memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed 2022, [Fast and Slow AI, Planning, AI Ethics, Collaborative Assistants] Corporate