Abolfazl Razi

Abolfazl Razi

Associate Professor, School of Computing, Clemson University

Professional Activities

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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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