Grants

The Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (DSAIL) relies primarily on funds attained through competitive grant applications, contracts, and private donations.

DSAIL’s primary funding source is from the National Science Foundation (NSF), one of the premier federal funding agencies in the US for supporting fundamental scientific research. The funds raised have helped DSAIL become an internationally-recognized entity and have been used to help fund students who are conducting cutting-edge research in AI-enabled analytics for cyber threat intelligence, AI risk management, cybersecurity, Dark Web analytics, cyberinfrastructure security, mental health, and business intelligence. Please see the publications section of this webpage to read some of the results and outputs produced from our grant activities.

Current Funding

• Year: 2024. Funding Source: NSF Career. Grant Title: "CAREER: An Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled Analytics Perspective for Developing Proactive Cyber Threat Intelligence," Funding Amount: $605K. NSF Award Number: 2338479. Role: PI. Duration: 2024-2029. Project summary page
• Year: 2023. Funding Source: IU VPR and Kelley School of Business. Grant Title: “Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled Mental Health Analytics to Objectively Identify and Measure Depressive Behaviors in College Students,” Funding Amount: $100K. Role: PI (Co-PIs: B. Pescosolido, E. Garcia-Colato). Duration: 2023-2025. 
• Year: 2023. Funding Source: NSF. Grant Title: “Breaking Down Silos and Building Bridges to Raise Awareness of Opportunities, Expand, and Diversity the Space-Cybersecurity Workforce,” Funding Amount: $255K. Role: Co-PI. Duration: 2023-2025. Supplement to NSF Award Number: DGE-1946537.
• Year: 2023. Funding Source: NSF. Grant Title: “CICI: UCSS: Enhancing the Usability of Vulnerability Assessment Results for Open-Source Software Technologies in Scientific Cyberinfrastructures: A Deep Learning Perspective,” Funding Amount: $600K (IU Share: $200K). NSF Award Number: OAC-2319325. Role: Co-PI. Duration: 2023-2026. Project summary page
• Year (added as Co-PI): 2022. Funding Source: NSF. Grant Title: “CyberCorps SFS: Preparing the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Professionals” Funding Amount: $2.3M. Status: Awarded. NSF Award Number: DGE-1946537. Role: Co-PI. Duration: 2020-2025. Project summary page
• Year: 2022. Funding Source: NSF ACCESS. Grant Title: “Generating Adversarial Phishing Websites to Evade Machine Learning-based Anti-Phishing Detectors: A Reinforcement Learning Approach” Funding Amount: $1.6K (IU Share: $1.6K). Status: Awarded. Rating: N/A. Role: PI. Duration: 2022 – 2023.
• Year: 2021. Funding Source: NSF. Grant Title: “Cultivating the Next-Generation of “Cyber AI” Professionals: Reviewing the Present to Provide Recommendations for the Future” Funding Amount: $242K. Status: Awarded. Role: PI. Duration: 2021 – 2025. Supplement to NSF Award Number: DGE-1946537.
• Year: 2020. Funding Source: NSF. Grant Title: “SaTC EAGER: AI for Cybersecurity Research Education at Scale” Funding Amount: $300K (IU Share: 100K). Status: Awarded. Rating: N/A. NSF Award Number: DGE-2038483. Role: Co-PI. Duration: 2020 – 2024. Project summary page
• Year: 2019. Funding Source: NSF. Grant Title: “CICI: SSC: Proactive Cyber Threat Intelligence and Comprehensive Network Monitoring for Scientific Cyberinfrastructure: The AZSecure Framework” Funding Amount: $1M (IU Share: $120K). Status: Awarded. NSF Award Number: OAC-1917117. Role: Co-PI. Duration: 2019 – 2024. Project summary page

Past Funding

• Year: 2020. Funding Source: NSF XSEDE. Grant Title: “Exploratory Study of Scientific Cyberinfrastructure for Information Systems Research” Funding Amount: $2K (IU Share: 2K). Status: Awarded. Rating: N/A. Role: PI. Duration: 2020 – 2021.
• Year: 2019. Funding Source: NSF. Grant Title: “CRII: SaTC: Identifying Emerging Threats in the Online Hacker Community for Proactive Cyber Threat Intelligence: A Diachronic Graph Convolutional Autoencoder Framework” Funding Amount: $175K. Status: Awarded. NSF Award Number: CNS-1850362. Role: Sole-PI. Duration: 2019 – 2021. Project summary page