Selected Current Grants

 

Collaborative Research: Learning Classifiers from Autonomous, Semantically Heterogeneous, Distributed Data. National Science Foundation (2007-2010). Vasant Honavar (PI) and Doina Caragea (Co-PI). $449,999.

Exploratory Investigation of Modular Ontologies Vasant Honavar (PI), Giora Slutzki (Co-PI), and Doina Caragea (Co-PI), (2006-2008). $112,000.

Interactive and Verifiable Composition of Web Services To Satisfy End User Goals, Vasant Honavar (Co-PI), Samik Basu (PI), Robyn Lutz (co-PI). National Science Foundation (2007-2010). $335,002.

High-Accuracy Protein Models Derived from Lower Resolution Data. National Institutes of Health (2007-2010), Vasant Honavar, (with Andrzej Kloczkowski , Robert Jernigan, Mark Gordon, Zhijun Wu, Iowa State University and Janusz Bujnicki, Krzysztof Ginalski and Andrzej Kolinski, Warsaw University), $744,725.

Discovering Protein Sequence-Structure-Function Relationships. Vasant Honavar (PI) Robert Jernigan and Drena Dobbs (Co-PIs). National Institutes of Health (2002-2007). $1,022,000.

IGERT: Computational Biology Training Group. Dan Voytas (PI), Vasant Honavar, Drena Dobbs, Desh Ranjan, Mary O'Connell, Susan Carpenter (Co-PIs). National Science Foundation (2005-2010). $2,968,976.

DDAS-TMRP Auto-Steered Information-Decision Processes for Electric Power Systems Asset Management. Jim McCalley (PI), VasanT Honavar, Sarah Ryan, William Meeker, Daji Qiao (Co-PIs). National Science Foundation (2006-2009). $700,000

Integration of Functional Genomics and Quantitive Genetics to Improve Feed Effeciency in Pigs. Jack Dekkers(PI) Honavar, Tuggle, Anderson, Nettletton, Rekaya, Hausman, Barb(Co-PIs). USDA (2005-2008). $860,000

NIH-NSF BBSI Summer Institute in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology - Iowa State University. Robert Jernigan (PI), Vasant Honavar, Volker Brendel, Karin Dorman, and Xun Gu (Co-PIs). National Science Foundation (2006-2009). $450,000.

CAREER: Reasoning with Cause and Effect: Model Testing, Axiomatization, and Identification. Jin Tian (PI). National Science Foundation (2004-2009). $455,452.

SEI: Collaborative Research: Endoscopic Multimedia Information System (EMIS). Wallapak Tavanapong (PI), Johnny Wong (Co-PI) National Science Foundation (2005-2008). $194,668.

Computational support staff for expanding animal functional genomics. Center for Integrative Animal Genomics, Iowa State University (2007-2009), Vasant Honavar (PI), Chris Tuggle and Jim Reecy (Co-PIs), $50,000.

Tools for leveraging large Scale "omics" to guide hypothesis-driven experimentation and computational modeling. Center for Integrative Animal Genomics, Iowa State University (2007-2009), Vasant Honavar (Co-PI), Heather West Greenlee (PI), $25,000.

Cyber Innovation Institute. Iowa State Board of Regents (2006-2009), Vasant Honavar (Co-PI), Jim Oliver (PI), Arun Somani, Doug Jacobson, Krishna Rajan (Co-PIs), $1,000,000.

Selected Past Grants

ITR: Algorithms and Software for Knowledge Acquisition from Heterogeneous Distributed Data. Vasant Honavar (PI) Drena Dobbs (Co-PI). National Science Foundation (2002-2006). $223,750.

The developmental proteome of retinal progenitor. Heather West-Greenlee (PI), Vasant Honavar and Jan Buss (Co-PIs). National Institutes of Health (2003-2006). $438,000.

CAREER: Shape Localization, Recognition, and Reconstruction through Touch Sensing. Yan-Bin Jia (PI). National Science Foundation (2001-2007). $301,527.

NIH-NSF BBSI Summer Institute in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology - Iowa State University. Volker Brendel (PI), Vasant Honavar, Robert Jernigan, Karin Dorman, and Xun Gu (Co-PIs). National Science Foundation (2002-2006). $645,000.

IGERT: Computational Biology Training Program. National Science Foundation. Vasant Honavar (Co-PI) (with Dan Voytas (Botany), Susan Carpenter (Biomedical Sciences), Pat Schnable and Jonathan Wendel (Zoology and Genetics)). (1999-2005). $3,860,171 (plus $1,161,010 in matching funds).

Symposium on Integration of Structural and Functional Genomics at Iowa State University, National Science Foundation, Vasant Honavar, (Co-PI), with Chris Tuggle and Marit Nielsen-Hamilton (2005-2006) $10,900.

Automated Integration of Condition Monitoring with an Optimized Maintenance Scheduler for Circuit Breakers and Power Transformers. Power Systems Engineering Research Center (a National Science Foundation Industry-University Research Center). Vasant Honavar (Co-PI) (with James McCalley, Electrical Engineering, in collaboration with Mladen Kezunovic, Chanan Singh of Texas A&M). (2002-2005). $255,000.