Abolfazl Razi

Abolfazl Razi

Associate Professor, School of Computing, Clemson University

Professional Activities

Research Grants

  • SC EPSCoR GAIN Program, “VIA-LLM: Visually Impaired Assistive Tool with LLM Reasoning”, Duration: Dec 2025 – May 2027, Role: Lead-PI, Amount: $70K
  • VIPR-GS Program (US Army Detroit), “Anomaly Detection for Resilient Autonomy-Enabled Vehicle Systems”, Duration: Aug 2024 – Aug 2026, Role: Lead-PI, Amount: $590K
  • DOD / MIT Lincoln Laboratory, “Learning-Based Semantic Communication for Unmanned Aerial Systems”, Duration: Apr 2024 – Mar 2025, Role: PI, Amount: $100K
  • Clemson VIPR-GS Program, “Anomaly Detection for Resilient Autonomy-Enabled Vehicle Systems”, Duration: Jan 2024 – Dec 2024, Role: Lead-PI, Amount: $150K
  • BMW Research, “AI-based Energy Management Enterprise for Complex Industrial Setups”, Duration: Sep 2022 – Aug 2023, Role: Sole-PI, Amount: $75K
  • MIT Lincoln Lab, “Leveraging Learning-Based Networking for Mission-Critical Autonomous Systems”, Duration: Jan 2023 – Dec 2023, Role: Lead-PI, Amount: $100K
  • NSF CCRI Program, “New distributed Sensing and Computing Over Sparse Environments (Discover) platform”, Duration: Sep 2021 – Aug 2024, Role: Co-PI, Amount: $1.36M
  • NSF CPS Program, “Wildland Fire Observation, Management, and Evacuation using Intelligent Collaborative Flying and Ground Systems”, Duration: May 2021 – April 2024, Role: Co-PI, Amount: $174,787
  • USDA AFRI Program, “Secure Traceability in the Food Supply Chain Using Cell Phone Readable Dendritic Identifiers”, Duration: Jan 2021 – Dec 2022, Role: Sub-contractor, Amount: $480,000 (145,000)
  • NSF CNS NeTS Program, “CNS Core: Small: PilotPC: Proactive Inverse Learning of Network Topology for Predictive Communication among Unmanned Vehicles”, Duration: Sep 2020 - Aug 2023, Role: Sole PI, Amount: $480,000
  • NSF NeTS CRII Program, “Towards Predictive Communications for UAV-based IoT Networks”, Duration: Sep 2018 – Aug 2020, Role: Sole PI, Amount: $174,787
  • NSF PFI Program, “Design and Fabrication of Memory-based Physical Unclonable Functions for Robust Key Generation”, Duration: Sep 2018 – Aug 2021, Role: Co-PI, Amount: $803,000
  • Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR), “Exploiting Nanomaterials for end-to-end Cybersecurity Solutions: Extension Grant”, Duration: Jun 2016-Dec 2019, Role: Co-PI, Amount: $1,000,000
  • US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), “Dynamic Spectrum Leasing in Heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks”, Duration: Jan 2018-Dec 2018, Role: Co-PI, Amount: $129,000
  • US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), “Predictive and Adaptive Communications for Real-time Dynamic Network Management in Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks”, Duration: Jan 2020-Dec 2021, Role: Co-PI, Amount: $150,000
  • Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA), “Advanced Video Analytics for Metric-Based Network Safety Performance Prediction”, Duration: Jun 2020- May 2021, Role: Co-PI, Amount: $1,000,000, $150 K (State-wide Traffic Analysis)
  • US AFRL Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP), “Predictive Communications for UAV Systems”, Duration: Jun 2016-Aug 2016, Role: Sole PI, Amount: $11,000
  • US AFRL Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP), “Predictive Network Topology Discovery and Communication Design for Autonomous Airborne Networks”, Duration: Jun 2017-Aug 2017,Role: Sole PI, Amount: $15,930
  • NIH U54 program, “Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC)”, Duration: Sep 2017-Aug 2022, Role: Senior Personnel, Amount: $21,400,000
  • NAU SHERC Pilot Project, “Remote Heart Monitoring Platform for Early Prediction of Atrial Fibrillation for Under-served Populations”, Duration: Jan 2018 – Dec 2018, Role: Co-I, Amount: $60K
  • NAU Interns to Scholars (I2S) program, “Multi-modal Signal Processing to Identify Heart Abnormalities using Wireless Health Monitoring Device project”, Duration: Sep 2016-May 2017, Role: Sole PI, Amount: $2,000 Direct cost
  • NAU Research Development Grant (RDG) program, “Smart Health Monitoring and Information Processing Platform”, Duration: Oct 2015-May 2016, Role: Co-PI, Amount: $49,950
  • NIH U54 SHERC: Pilot Projects: NAU Internal Competition, “Remote Heart Monitoring Platform for Early Prediction of Arterial Fibrillation for Under-served Populations”, Duration: Jan 2018-Dec 2019, Role: Co-PI, Amount: $60,000



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    Industrial Work Experience

    IEEE Activites

    Conference Organization & Chair Roles

    Technical Program Committees (TPC)

    Grant & Proposal Review Panels

    Journal & Conference Reviewing

    Journals: IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Access, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI), IEEE Internet of Things, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, BMC Research Notes, Journal of Sensors, Journal of Franklin, Elsevier Journal on Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, PLOS One, Hindawi Journal on Mobile Information Systems, IET Wireless Sensor Systems, Science China: Information Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology, IET Sensor Systems Journal.

    Conferences: ICC, Globecom, VTC, CCNC, ISWCS, QBSC, WCNC, ICNC, WiSEE, PiMRC, AICT, SECON, CISS.

    Industry Collaboration

    Mentoring & Educational Service