Below is a list of our active research awards and gifts. Awards are sorted by award date (most recent first). For more information on a specific project, please contact the faculty member(s) listed for each item. Gifts are listed alphabetically by faculty recipient and appear at the bottom of the page.

• Towards the productive middle: Building CSU capacity for effective human-AI research collaboration
  CSU OPVR (06/18/2026-06/30/2027)
  Visit the research lab website of Francisco Ortega
• The NUILab Pivot: AI Neuromorphic Perception for Accessible Microgesture Interaction
  CSU OPVR (06/18/2026-06/30/2027)
  Visit the research lab website of Francisco Ortega
• Building Collaborative and Technical Capacity for ARBOR: An Agentic AI System for Plant Regulatory Genomics
  CSU OPVR (06/18/2026-06/30/2027)
  Visit the website of Asa Ben-Hur
• Colorado Open Soil Moisture Network Project
  Colorado Water Conservation Board (4/7/2026-4/1/2031)
  Visit the website of Shrideep Pallickara
• Empowering Microbial Functional Assessment within a Soil Health Framework
  USDA-NIFA (3/1/2026-2/28/2030)
  Visit the website of Asa Ben-Hur
• Adversarial Perturbations and Self-Defenses for Large Language Models on Coding Tasks
  Carnegie Mellon University (2/2/2026-2/1/2027)
  Visit the website of Ravi Mangal
• Modeling Causality in AI through Embodiment and Analogy
  DOD-ARL (3/1/25-2/9/28)
  Visit the website of Nikhil Krishnaswamy
• VIGIL – Vectors of Intelligent Guidance in Long-Reach Rural Healthcare
  ARPA-H (11/25/24-11/24/26)
  Visit the websites of Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Nathaniel Blanchard, Sarath Sreedharan, Bruce Draper
• DSFAS: Enabling Effective Decision-Making in Dryland Farming for Arid and Semi-Arid Regions Using Field-scale Soil Moisture Content (SMC) Maps
  USDA (9/15/24-9/14/27)
  Visit the website of Sangmi Lee Pallickara
• Theme 3: Ag-Forestry-AI (AgFoAI): AI Institute for Agriculture and Forest Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change
  NSF (11/7/23-5/31/28)
  Visit the website of Shrideep Pallickara
• An AI Tutoring System for Pollinator Conservation Community Science Training
  NSF (10/25/23-8/31/27)
  Visit the website of Sarath Sreedharan
• Collaborative Research: EAGER: MedAn: A Framework for Investigating Live Medical Data against Privacy Laws
  NSF (10/1/23-9/30/27)
  Visit the website of Indrakshi Ray
• A deep learning predictive analytics platform for plant genomics
  DOE (8/8/23-8/31/27)
  Visit the website of Asa Ben-Hur
• CPS: Medium: Making Every Drop Count: Accounting for Spatiotemporal Variability of Water Needs for Proactive Scheduling of Variable Rate Irrigation Systems
  NSF (8/1/23-7/31/27)
  Visit the websites of Sangmi Pallickara, Shrideep Pallickara. Additional researchers include Jay Breidt (Statistics), Jeffrey Niemann (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Allan Andales (Soil and Crop Sciences )
• Colorado State/Front Range: CIC TRANSFER PATHWAYS
  Northeastern University (6/8/23-12/31/26)
  Visit the webpage of Craig Partridge
• Collaborative Research: AF: Small: Sampling and Optimization under Global Constraints
  NSF (5/17/23-5/31/27)
  Visit the website of Ewan Davies
  CAREER: Designing Robust Cyber-Physical Systems: Logics, Automata, Optimization, and Heuristic Methods
  NSF (4/15/23-3/31/28)
  Visit the website of Vinayak Prabhu
• Assessing Cognitive Load and Managing Extraneous Load to Optimize Training
  Navy ONR (3/23/23-8/31/27)
  Visit the research lab website of Francisco Ortega
  CAREER: HCC: Microgesture and Multimodal Interaction Techniques for Augmented Reality
  NSF (2/24/23-11/30/28)
  Visit the research lab website of Francisco Ortega
• Institute for Student-AI Teaming
  NSF (10/15/22-8/31/30)
  Visit the website of Nikhil Krishnaswamy
  

• CableLabs Gift (Untitled)
• Verisign Gift (Untitled)
• Center for Inclusive Computing Gift (Untitled)
• BRAID Gift (Untitled)