Funding

Extramural Funding

  • [NSF 2024] NRT-AI: Enabling AI on the Fly, National Science Foundation #2345874, PI S. Banerjee, Co-PIs K. Butler-Purry, B. Mallick, N. Duffield, C. Patterson, 09/01/2024-08/31/2029, $3,000,000
  • [Tenaris 2024a] Tenaris Predictive Quality Assurance Testing Project, Tenaris, PI N. Duffield, 08/01/2024-12/16/2024, $25,826
  • [Tenaris 2024b] Quality Assurance Data Analytics Project, Tenaris, PI N. Duffield, 05/01/2024-08/16/2024, $25,826
  • [USDA 2024] Artificial Intelligence(Ai) In Agriculture And Natural Resources: Innovation To Manage Sustainability In A New World Of Environmental Stress, PI S Murray, Co-PIs N. Duffield, A. Fares, R. Hardin, R. String, J. Landivar, 04/15/2024-04/14/2025, $49,838
  • [USDA 2023] Harnessing Precision Livestock Farming to Support Smart Agriculture for Sustainable Beef Cattle Production, USDA-NIFA, PI L. Tedeschi, Co-PIs N. Duffield, Y. PI, J. Tao, 09/01/2023-08/31/2024, $103,563
  • [NASA 2023] DEAP Institute in Research and Education for Science Translation via Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation, PI. Duffield, Co-PIs X. Ye, Y, PI, 03/06/2023-03/05/2026, $300,000
  • [OneGulf 2023] Towards Targeted Risk Mitigation: Community Engaged, Fast Impact Estimation of Extreme Weather using Big Social and Climate Data, PI D. Retchless, Co-PIs, N. Duffield, Xinyue Ye, Yalong Pi, 6/01/2023-5/31/2025, Harte Institute / Texas OneGulf, $532,988
  • [LANL 2023] TRIAD ST&E: Professional Education Workshops in Data Science Foundations and Computational Practice, Triad National Security, LLC (for Los Alamos National Labs), PI N. Duffield, 07/24/2023-09/30/2023. $50,000
  • [AFRL 2023] VICEROY for the NCAE-C South Central Region, DOD-Air Force-Research Laboratory, PI. J. Hamilton, Co-PIs N. Duffield, J, Garay, C. Lanclos, 05/26/2023-05/25-2025, $1,500,000
  • [NIST 2022] A Digital-Twin Enabled Testbed for Public Safety Communication Technologies, National Institute of Standards and Technology, PI. J. Tao, Co-PIs N. Duffield, W. Magnussen, A. Thomas, N. Reddy, 06/01/2022-05/31/2024, $1,200,000.
  • [THECB 2022] Accelerating Credentials of Purpose and Value Grant Program, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, PI N. Duffield, Co-PI’s L Qian, J. Geunes, 02/07/2022-09/30/2022, $413,070
  • [NIH 2021] IMSD at Texas A&M University: Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity in Biomedical Sciences. DHHS-NIH-National Institute of General Medical Science, 02/01/2021-01/31/2022,  PI Karen Butler-Purry. Co-PIs Ivan Rusyn, David Threadgill, Roland Kaunas, Dorothy Shippen, Weihsueh Chiu, Candice Langford, Nick Duffield (supplement PI). Total $75,757
  • [NIST 2021] Creating a Shared Public Safety Radio Data Set for Sharing and Analysis, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 09/01/2021-08/31/2023, PI W. Magnussen, Co-I N. Duffield, J. Tao. Total $904,806 / Duffield $309,566
  • [MS 2021] Rapid damage prediction from social media using historical big data and deep learning. Microsoft AI for Humanitarian Action Program, PI Y. Pi, Co-PIs N. Duffield, X. Ye, $150,000 Azure Computing Credits
  • [US 2020] iDiscovery Workshop on Computational Data Science, 10/2020-09/2021, PI N. Duffield, $60,000.
  • [NSF 2019c] HDR Tripods: Texas A&M Research Institute for Foundations of Interdisciplinary Data Science (FIDS), National Science Foundation, Award 1934904, 10/01/2019-9/30/2022, PI Bani Mallick, Co-PIs Dilma Da Silva, Ron Devore, Nick Duffield, P.R. Kumar. Total $1,416,522
  • [NSF 2019b] Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for AI in Construction (AI-Con), National Science Foundation, Award 1936965, 09/01/2019-08/31/2020, PI Z. Grasley; Co-PIs Zhijian Pei, Amir Behzadan, Korok Ray, Nicholas Duffield. Total $99,999
  • [NSF 2019a] CC* Team: SWEETER — SouthWest Expertise in Expanding, Training, Education and Research, National Science Foundation, Award 1925764, 09/01/2019-08/31/2022. PI D. Chakravorty; Co-PIs J. Browning, T. Cockerill, E. Hunt, D. Dugas; Co-I N. Duffield. Total $504,990 / Duffield $12,625
  • [NSF 2018b] EAGER: Real-Time: Learning-Mediated Control for Traffic Shaping, National Science Foundation, Award 1839816, 10/1/2018-9/30/2020, PI N. Duffield, Co-PI’s, K. Narayanan, S. Shakkottai, A. Talebpour,  Total $300,000 / Duffield $75,000
  • [NSF 2018] EAGER: III: Adaptive Sampling of Massive Graph Streams, National Science Foundation, Award 1848596 , 09/01/2018 to 08/21/2020, PI N. Duffield, $200,488
  • [US 2018] Advanced Traffic Analysis For Network Virtualization, 07/20/2018 to 12/31/2021, PI N. Duffield, $361,743
  • [DARPA 2015] DEDUCE: Distributed Enclave Defense Using Configurable Edges. 7/1/2015-1/31/2020, Applied Communication Sciences. Texas A&M Subaward, PI: Nick Duffield.  $566,000
  • [NSF 2016] NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Distributed Approximate Packet Classification, National Science Foundation, Award 1618030, 9/1/2016-8/31/2019. PI Nick Duffield $198,346

Gift Funding

  • [CP 2020] Undergraduate Certificate in Data Science, ConocoPhillips, Texas A&M Institute of Data Science, Mays Business School, Texas A&M Department of Statistics, Texas A&M Provost Office, 4/2020-3/2024, $1,000,000, Convenor: N. Duffield
  • [Intel 2016] Approximation Methods for Massive Graph Analytics, Intel Corporation, PI Nick Duffeld, $30,000
  • [Google 2015] Traffic Measurement from High-level Names in Software Defined Networking, Google Faculty Research Award, 2015,  $79,992, PIs N.G. Duffield and Minlan Yu (University of Southern California).

Texas A&M

  • [TWRI 2023a] Projection of Hydrologic Intensity Duration Frequency Parameters and Their Uncertainties Based on Climate Projections for 21st Century in the State of Texas, PI Bardia Heidari Haratmeh. Co-PIs, Fouad Jaber, N. Duffield, TWRI/TEES Exceptional Water Item, 09/01/2023-08/31/2025, $249,510
  • [TWRI 2023b] Advanced Irrigation Management System Guided by Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence, PI C. Bednarz, Co-PIs, M. Bhandari, N. Duffield, Juan Landivar, David Parker, TWRI/TEES Exceptional Water Item, 09/01/2023-08/31/2025, $ 350,000
  • [TWRI 2023c] Optimizing Agricultural Water Management: A Climate-Smart Approach to Reduce Carbon Intensity and Harness Carbon Market Opportunities, PI Nithya Rajan, Co-PIs Salvatore Calabrese, Nick Duffield, Pancho Abello, TWRI/TEES Exceptional Water Item, 09/01/2023-08/31/2025, $250,000
  • [TWRI 2021] Development of an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)-based System to Improve Water Use Efficiency of Cotton by Monitoring Crop Water Use and Biomass Accumulation, Texas Water Resources Institute Seed Program, PI: M. Maeda, Co-PIs: Craig W. Bednarz, Mahendra Bhandari, Nick Duffield, Juan Landivar, 09/01/2021-08/31/2023, Total $620,000 / Duffield $135,000
  • [TAMU-T3 2018] Sustain: Smart Use Of Site-Specific Technology With Artificial Intelligence Networks, Texas A&M T3 Grant, March 2018, PI R. Hardin (Texas A&M Biological and Agricultural Engineering), co-PIs N. Duffield, N. Rajan (Texas A&M Soil and Crop Sciences), $30,000
  • [TAMU 2016a]  Understanding Multi-Scale Hydrology: Fusion of BIG DATA from Ground Networks and Space-Based Satellites, Texas A&M Big Data Seed Grant, January 2016, PI: Binayak Mohanty (Texas A&M Biological and Agricultural Engineering); co-PI: N. Duffield. Total $50,000./ Duffield $25,000
  • [TAMU 2016b] Improving Understanding of 
Travel Behavior and Transportation Systems through Big Data Analytics, Texas A&M Big Data Seed Grant, January 2016, PI: Shawn Turner (Texas A&M Transportation Institute) co-PI: N. Duffield. Total $50,000 / Duffield $25,000
  • [TAMU 2016c] Boosting Attack Identification through Correlated System & Network Monitoring. Texas A&M Cybersecurity Seed Grant, January 2016,. PI: N. Duffield, co-PI: Guofei Gu (Texas A&M Computer Science and Engineering). Total  $50,000 / Duffield $25,000

As no-cost collaborator while at AT&T Labs Research, 1995-2013

  • [DARPA 1998] MINC: Multicast-based Inference of Network-internal Characteristics. DARPA and Air Force Research Laboratory agreement F30602-98-2-0238. 1998-2001. PI Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts), PI Vern Paxson (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory), PI Nick Duffield (AT&T Labs)   Total $918,738 / Duffield: Non-funded cost sharing.

During academic career in Europe, 1995 and earlier

  • [Forbarit 1995] Economies of Scale in Queueing Networks, Forbairt Ireland Research Grant SC/95/424, 1995-1997. PI: Nick Duffield. Total IRL 10,000.
  • [Eolas 1993] MU-DELTA. Mentec Computer Systems and EOLAS, Ireland, 1993-1995. John Lewis, PI  (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), Nick Duffield Co-PI (Dublin City University. Total IRL105,000