Research Grants (Total: ~$2.51 million)

  1. CAREER: Interconnected Mobile Computing in Wireless Networks
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation [NSF-1553395]
    Investigator(s): Wei Gao
    Amount: $480,000 for 5 years
    Award period: July 2016 - June 2021.
  2. Reducing The Graphical User Interface's Consumption of Power on Mobile Devices
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation [NSF-1617198]
    Investigator(s): Bradley Vander Zanden (PI) and Wei Gao
    Amount: $384,297 for 3 years (personal share: 45%)
    Award period: October 2016 - September 2019
  3. DURIP: Acquisition of Software-Defined Radio Equipment for Adaptive Mobile Networking at the Tactical Edge
    Sponsor: Army Research Office
    Investigator(s): Wei Gao
    Amount: $125,758 for 1 year
    Award period: May 2016 - April 2017
  4. Designing Hierarchical Edge Cloud for Mobile Computing
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation [NSF-1527612]
    Investigator(s): Wei Gao
    Amount: $125,000 for 2 years
    Award period: October 2015 - September 2017
  5. Network-Centric Mobile Cloud Computing
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation [NSF-1526769]
    Investigator(s): Wei Gao (PI) and Guohong Cao
    Amount: $475,000 for 3 years (personal share: 50%)
    Award period: October 2015 - September 2018
  6. Adaptive Mobile Networking at the Tactical Edge: A Social-Aware Perspective
    Sponsor: Army Research Office
    Investigator(s): Wei Gao
    Amount: $300,000 for 3 years
    Award period: June 2015 - May 2018
  7. Exploiting System and Network Dynamics in Mobile Clouds
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation [NSF-1456656]
    Investigator(s): Wei Gao
    Amount: $174,999 for 2 years
    Award period: June 2015 - May 2017
  8. An Agent-based Simulation and Analysis Framework for Cell Development
    Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Investigator(s): Dali Wang (PI), Wei Gao and Kwai Wong
    Amount: $144,375 for 2 years (personal share: 30%)
    Award period: May 2015 - April 2017
  9. CLM Software Analysis Tool Enhancement
    Sponsor: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Investigator(s): Wei Gao
    Amount: $37,326 for 2 years
    Award period: January 2015 - December 2016
  10. Improving Building Efficiency by Equipment Health Monitoring with Virtual Intelligent Sensing
    Sponsor: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Investigator(s): Hairong Qi (PI) and Wei Gao
    Amount: $120,000 for 2 years (personal share: 25%)
    Award period: December 2014 - November 2016
  11. SAMAN: Social-Aware Mobile Adaptive Networking at the Tactical Edge
    Sponsor: Army Research Office
    Investigator(s): Wei Gao
    Amount: $50,000 for 1 year
    Award period: July 2014 - June 2015
  12. User-Centric Sensing Platform for Smart Buildings
    Sponsor: Science Alliance, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Investigator(s): Wei Gao
    Amount: $98,084 for 2 years
    Award period: January 2013 - December 2014