Research Projects @ HPCF

This page contains a list of projects that are using or have used the HPCF. We have another page that provides publications from these projects.

Project Title Principal Investigator Information
Brain Computer Interfaces and Human-Robot Interaction Dr. Ramana Kumar Vinjamuri, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. link
Real time Stress Detection Through ECG and PPG measurements Dr. Mohamed Younis, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. link
Building trustworthy NeuroSymbolic AI Systems: Consistency, reliability, explainability, and safety Dr. Manas Gaur, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. link
DEEP LEARNING BASED TECHNIQUES FOR TRAUMA DATA Dr. Thu Nguyen, Department of Mathematics And Statistics. link
Reproductive Seasonality as a Significant Driver in the Evolution of Sexual Conflict Dr. Mercedes Burns, Department of Biological Sciences. link
Chemoattractant Distribution: Analytical and Numerical Solutions to a PDE Dr. Bradford Peercy, Department of Mathematics And Statistics. link
Reproducible and Portable Big Data Analytics in the Cloud Dr. Jianwu Wang, Department of Information Systems. link
HARP 2 Dr. Xiaoguang Xu, Joint Center for Earth Systems technology. link
Multitask fMRI Data Analysis with Subjuect Group Information Using Sparse Dictionary Learning Dr. Seung Jun Kim, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. link
Dynamical Downscaling of CMIP5 Multi-Model Climate Information Dr. Amita Mehta, Joint Center for Earth Systems technology. link
CAMRO-Dust Dr. Zhibo Zhang, Department of Physics. link
Efficient Training and Finetune strategies for Large Language Models Dr. Weizhe Li, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. link
The Application of 4-Amino-1,8-naphthalimides as Protein Crosslinkers Dr. Lisa Kelly, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. link
Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Pilot: Operationalizing AI/Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Training Dr. Houbing Song, Department of Information Systems. link
Evaluating the Impact of Facility-Based Delivery on Health and Economic Outcomes Using a Machine Learning Approach Dr. Zoe McLaren, School of Public Policy. link
Identifying software vulnerabilities to quantum attacks Dr. Lei Zhang, Department of Information Systems. link
Facilitating the Next Generation of Air Quality Science: Synergy of NASA’s Ground-Based Observation Networks. Dr.Xiaoguang Xu, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology. link
Quantitative numerical analysis in Medical Treatment. Dr. Matthias Gobbert, Department Of Mathematics And Statistics. Dr. Vijay Sharma, University Of Maryland Baltimore School Of Medicine. link
Leverage RWE in Clinical Trial Design using integrated Causal Inference and Bayesian methodology. Dr. Yi Huang, Department of Mathematics and Statistics. link
Data-driven and Reduced order modeling for nonlinear solid mechanics Dr. Ye Lu, Department of Mechanical Engineering. link
Optimization of multi-set data analysis and fusion for big data Dr.Tulay Adali, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. link
Classification for High-Dimensional Data Dr. Seungchul Baek, Department of Mathematics and Statistics. link
Weather Data Clustering Project Dr. Jianwu Wang, Department of Information Systems. link
Emerging software technologies Lei Zhang, Department of Information Systems. link
Data-driven Gust Mitigation Dr. Ankit Goel & Dr. Meilin Yu, Department of Mechanical Engineering Center link
Millimeter/sub-millimeter-wave Radiometer and Microwave Radar for Ice Cloud Remote Sensing Yuli Liu, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research II (GESTAR II) Center link
A Streamflow Routing Model for the Goddard Earth Observing System Model (GEOS) Climate Modeling System Yujin Zeng, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research II link
Investigating Black Hole Mergers and their Gravitational Radiation through Numerical Relativity Bernard Kelly (CSST, CRESST-II, NASA GSFC), Center for Space Sciences and Technology link
Global maps of planted and natural forest cover expansion Matthew Fagan, Department of Geography and Environmental systems link
Neural Network Enhanced DEER Spectroscopy for Optoelectronic Materials Jason Kestner, Department of Physics link
Brain network biomarker characterization by localized EEG-based neuroimaging signal data analysis Fow-Sen Choa, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Exploring the Transcriptional Signatures of Anoxia and Hypoxia in Zebrafish Rachel Brewster, Department of Biological Sciences link
Data-driven Gust Mitigation Ankit Goel, Department of Mechanical Engineering link
Analyzing Social Media Network and Sentiment Data to understand Elite and Public Sentiment of Public Programs Eric Stokan, Department of Political Science link
Development of scanning-based detection of food contamination and mitigation for biofilm
removal on equipment surfaces
Charles Eggleton, Department of Mechanical Engineering, link
4D functional mapping of glucose metabolism in Living Cells Minjoung Kyoung, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry link
Demystifying the Interplay between Explosion Dynamics and Electromagnetic Radiation in Gamma Ray Bursts Tyler Parsotan, Center for Space Science and Technology link
Determining Atmospheric Aerosol Properties from the UMBC HARP CubeSat in Space Xiaoguang Xu, Department of Physics link
Improving directional solidification process using Bayesian optimization method Ronghui Ma, Department of Mechanical Engineering link
Role of connectivity in epilepsy networks Alexander Ksendzovsky, University of Maryland Department of Neurosurgery link
Transcriptomics of the Pristane-Induced Mouse Model Classify Early and Late-Stage Disease Jennie Leach, Department of Chemical, Biochemical & Environmental Engineering link
Utilizing Density Functional Theory to Study The Carbon Dioxide Reduction Reaction on Copper Doped WS2 Can Ataca, Department of Physics link
Compressing deep neural networks Jinglai Shen, Department of Mathematics and Statistics link
Computational opto-acoustic Communications Gary Carter, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Investigation of CMAS infiltration into EB-PVD Thermal Barrier Coatings Ronghui Ma, Department of Mechanical Engineering link
Semantic Midtuning of Language Encoders Frank Ferraro, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
p53 Disease Variants Classification Maricel Kann, Department of Biological Sciences link
Multimodal Data Fusion Tulay Adali, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Modeling of Spatial Modes in Microresonator Curtis R. Menyuk, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Rectangular Statistical Regions with Applications in Laboratory Medicine Thomas Mathew, Department of Mathematics and Statistics link
Aerosol remote sensing using advanced Machine Learning techniques Lorraine Remer, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology link
Active Galactic Nuclei Research Eileen Meyer, Department of Physics link
Accelerating K-Means++ Edward Raff, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
3D Gamma Image Reconstruction using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Proton Beam Therapy Jerimy Polf, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine link
High order CFD modelling of coherent turbulence in the boundary layer of hurricane during an eyewall replacement cycle Stephen R. Guimond, Department of Physics link
Rendering animations for the Imaging Research Center Lee Boot, Imaging Research Center link
Hydrographic densification of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Matthew Baker, Department of Geography and Environmental Systems link
Machine Learning for very Large Images Milton Halem, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Multivariate data-driven solutions for static and dynamic brain connectivity Tulay Adali, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
New Examples of Functional Materials Joseph Bennett, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry link
Optimization of multi-set data analysis and fusion for Big Data Tulay Adali, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Simulating mass transfer dynamics of auto-inducer protein during S. aureus biofilm development under physiological flow using COMSOL Jennie Leach, Department of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering link
Experimentally Measuring the Circuit Complexity of One-Way Boolean Functions Alan Sherman, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. link
A(RCNN) Neural Architecture for Document Classification Frank Ferraro, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. link
Semisupervised Ensemble CNNs for Computer Aided Diagnosis David Chapman, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. link
Grounded Language Learning by Robots Cynthia Matuszek, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. link
 Multidisciplinary Research and Education on Big Data + HPC + Atmospheric Sciences Jianwu Wang, Department of Information Systems. link
 Behavior Management in Online Deception Lina Zhou, Department of Information Systems link
 Machine/Deep learning in the emerging area of IoT networks Ting Zhu, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
 Big Data Processing for Smart City Ting Zhu, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Analysis of High-Throughput Sequencing Data for Phylo- and Population Genomics Mercedes Burns, Department of Biology link
Thermodynamics of Quantum Computation Sebastian Deffner, Department of Physics link
Redefining Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century using Big Data Analytics Patricia Young, Department of Education link
Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of Energy Materials Can Ataca, Department of Physics link
Parallel Simulations of the Linear Boltzmann Equation for Models in Microelectronics Manufacturing Matthias K. Gobbert, Department of Mathematics and Statistics link
Numerical Simulation of Calcium Waves in Human Heart Cells Matthias K. Gobbert, Department of Mathematics and Statistics link
A Statistical Comparison of Small-Scale Features in Simulated Tropical Cyclones and High-Resolution Observational Data Lynn Sparling, Department of Physics link
Analysis of Extra-Tropical Hurricane Transition using the Lagrangian Frame Lynn Sparling, Department of Physics link
Computational Model of Cellular Adhesion in Bulk Flow Charles Eggleton, Department of Mechanical Engineering link
Simulating Cell Deformation with Optical Forces using the Immersed Boundary Method Charles Eggleton, Department of Mechanical Engineering link
Visualization of Early Washington DC Dan Bailey, Imaging Research Center and Department of Visual Arts link
A Parallel Two-Scale Solution Algorithm for the Elastic Wave Equation Susan Minkoff, Department of Mathematics and Statistics link
Distributed Principal Direction Divisive Partitioning Jacob Kogan, Department of Mathematics and Statistics link
Atmospheric Remote Sensing L. Larrabee Strow, Department of Physics and Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology link
Threshold Indicator Taxa ANalysis Matthew Baker, Department of Geography and Environmental Systems link
Rendering Massive Models Marc Olano, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Parallel Computing for Clustering of Large Datasets Matthias K. Gobbert, Department of Mathematics and Statistics link
Applied Machine Learning Research for Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Marie desJardins, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Modeling Optical Systems Curtis R. Menyuk, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Analysis of Promoter Regions with Soft-Computing Techniques Ivan Erill, Department of Biological Sciences link
Stein’s Method in High Dimensional Classification and Applications Do-Hwan Park, Department of Mathematics and Statistics link
Computational Modeling of a ROTADE Sensor Susan Minkoff, Department of Mathematics and Statistics link
The Radio to TeV Synchrotron and Inverse Compton Emission from Extragalactic Relativistic Jets Markos Georganopoulos, Department of Physics link
Compliant Mechanisms Design Haijun Su, Department of Mechanical Engineering link
A Density-Functional Theory Calculation of Copper Lattice Electronic Structure Markos Georganopoulos, Department of Physics link
Evaluation of Groundwater Flowpaths, Fluxes, and Stores in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Using a Fully Distributed Coupled Hydrologic Model Claire Welty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and CUERE link
Quantifying the Effect of Physical and Geochemical Heterogeneity on Virus and Nitrate Transport in Aquifers Claire Welty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and CUERE link
Modeling Carrier Transport of Quantum Cacade Lasers Curtis R. Menyuk, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Numerical Studies of the Effect of Buffer composition on the pH Gradient Shape Douglas D. Frey, Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering link
Study of Brain Function Tulay Adali, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Schooling, Fertility, and Married Female Labor Supply: What Role for Health? Christelle Viauroux, Department of Economics link
Allosteric Inhibition of Hepatitis C Viral Polymerase Ian F. Thorpe, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry link
In silico screening of library of CNS bioavailable compounds to identify potential Aβ toxicity inhibitors Theresa Good, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering link
In silico kinetic model of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Mariajose Castellanos, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering link
Dynamic Coupling of the Water Cycle with Patterns of Urban Growth Claire Welty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and CUERE link
Retrieving dust heights using AIRS Sergio DeSouza-Machado, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology/Department of Physics link
UMBC Atmospheric Lidar Group Raymond Hoff, Department of Physics link
Vibration and Stability of Distributed Structural Systems Weidong Zhu, Department of Mechanical Engineering link
Electromagnetics modeling and simulation for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy John Zweck, Department of Mathematics and Statistics link
Skill Bootstrapping Marie desJardins, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Retrieval of aerosol microphysical properties from extinction and backscatter measurements from multiwavelength Raman Lidar Raymond Hoff, Department of Physics link
Anti-reflective surfaces for mid-IR optical fibers Curtis R. Menyuk, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Toward a better understanding of the vertical structure of marine boundary layer clouds using MODIS observations and large eddy simulation models Zhibo Zhang, Department of Physics link
Using Computer Vision to Create 3D Forest Models from Thousands of Aerial Photos Erle C. Ellis, Department of Geography and Environmental Systems link
Color Differencing Structural Similarity Index Metric (CD-SSIM) Marc Olano, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Improved Ice and Mixed-Phase Precipitation Models for Combined Radar-Radiometer Retrieval Algorithm Applications William S. Olson, Department of Physics/JCET link
Algae as a source of biofuels Ian F. Thorpe, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry link
Damage Detection and Health Monitoring of Structures Panos G. Charalambides, Department of Mechanical Engineering link
Resilience and Scalability Modeling for Exascale Computing using Nonlinear Optimization techniques Milton Halem, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Modeling and Optimization of Fiber Modelocked Lasers Curtis Menyuk, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Molecular modeling of effects of phosphorylation on proteins Lasse Lindahl, Department of Biological Sciences link
Collaborative Research, WSC-Category 2: Regional Climate Variability and Patterns of Urban Development – Impacts on the Urban Water Cycle and Nutrient Export Claire Welty, Department of Environmental Engineering and Director of CUERE link
Testing Species Tree Inference Methods Kevin Omland, Department of Biological Sciences link
Multivariate Time-Series Analysis of Physiological and Clinical Marie desJardins, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Modeling High-Current Photodetectors Curtis Menyuk, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Using IDL to run ozone models for PHYS 731 Raymond Hoff, Department of Physics link
Visualizating Allosteric Inhibition of the Hepatitis C Virus RNA Polymerase Penny Rheingans, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Dynamical Downscaling of CMIP5 Multi-Model Climate Information Amita Mehta, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology link
Improving estimates of CO emissions from biomass burning using FRP and its applicability to atmospheric models Lynn Sparling, Department of Physics link
Average Causal Effect Estimation Allowing Covariate Measurement Error Yi Huang, Department of Mathematics and Statistics link
Sustaining Anonymity of Critical Nodes in Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks Mohamed Younis, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Evaluating Accumulo as a Distributed Semantic Web Triple Store Tim Finin, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
High-Throughput Cell Mechanical Property Testing for Label-Free Assaying Charles Eggleton, Department of Mechanical Engineering link
Remote Sensing and In Situ Measurements of Aerosol and Cloud Properties J. Vanderlei Martins, Physics Department and JCET link
Structural Logic Design Soobum Lee, Department of Mechanical Engineering link
Dynamic Link Prediction Marie desJardins, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Comparing drug dissolution profiles: proposals based on tolerance intervals Yi Huang, Department of Mathematics and Statistics link
Designing and Simulating THz Waveguide Devices using Finite Element Techniques L. Michael Hayden, Professor, Department of Physics link
Highly Parallel Numerical Solution of Fourth Order Partial Differential Equations in 7 or more dimensions, with visualization of solution Dr. Jon Squire, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department link
Developing force field parameters for small molecule inhibitors of HCV polymerase Ian F. Thorpe, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry link
Testing a computational model of biological neural networks James T. Lo, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UMBC link
Performance and Effectiveness of Urban Green Infrastructure: Maximizing Benefits at the Subwatershed Scale through Measurement, Modeling, and Community-Based Implementation Claire Welty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and CUERE link
Algorithm Characterization and Implementation for Large Volume, High Resolution Multichannel Electroencephalography Data in Seizure Detection Tinoosh Mohsenin, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Estimation of VARMA models Anindya Roy, Department of Mathematics and Statistics link
Parallel WDM Simulator with dual Polarization Curtis Menyuk, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Computation of Shape Restricted Smoothing Splines Jinglai Shen, Department of Mathematics and Statistics link
Particle Beam Therapy John Eley, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine link
Prompt Gamma Imaging During Proton Beam Radiotherapy Jerimy Polf, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine link
GPU-based real-time 4D Patient Dose Reconstruction for Radiation Therapy Treatment Validation Mu-Han Lin, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine link
Design and Implementation of a Fine-Grained Appliance Energy Profiling System for Green Building Nirmalya Roy, Department of Information Systems link
Change detection in evolving communication networks Vandana Janeja, Department of Information Systems link
Big Data Analytics for high dimensional and heterogeneous datasets Vandana Janeja, Department of Information Systems link
Heats of Formation of Organic Compounds and Calculational Quantum Chemistry Joel F. Liebman, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry link
Graphical Analysis of Electronic Medical Records Aryya Gangopadhyay, Department of Information Systems link
Numerical simulation of an elastic capusle under oscillating optical forces Charles Eggleton, Department of Mechanical Engineering link
Seizure detection from multiple physiological signals Tim Oates, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Graph Mining using MapReduce Hadoop computing Enyue Lu, Department of Math & CS, Salisbury University link
A Parallel DG Scheme for Computational Fluid Dynamics using Advanced Time Integration Methods Matthias Gobbert, Department of Mathematics and Statistics link
High Performance Machine Learning Algorithms Konstantin Kalpakis, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Prediction of Mechanical Properties of the Human Femoropopliteal Artery Using Patient Demographics and Risk Factors Mariajose Castellanos, Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental link
Multigrid preconditioning on Xeon Phi Matthias Bolten, University of Kassel Institute of Mathematics link
Simultaneous assessment of normality and homoscedasticity in linear models Thomas Mathew, Department of Mathematics and Statistics link
Turbulence Flow Control Melin Yu, Department of Mechanical Engineering link
Reverse engineering of bacterial regulatory networks Daniel Lobo, Department of Biological Sciences link
Neutralization of Compression-Induced Image Artifacts for Effective Modeling of Contextual Relationships within a Feature Set using Deep Belief Networks Hamed Pirsiavash, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Diversity of halophilic microorganisms Shiladitya DasSarma, Microbiolgy and Immunology, University of Maryland, Baltimore link
Independent Component Analysis by Entropy Maximization with Kernels Tulay Adali, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering link
Land-atmosphere-hydrosphere interactions in the urban terrain Claire Welty, Department of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering link
Physics, Simulation, and Computer Animation Adam Bargteil, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Optimization algorithm design for delivering beam controlled arc therapy to cancer patients Hao Zhang, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine link
An Assessment of the Physiographical Impacts in the Mid-Atlantic Region on the Marine Boundary Layer Wind Profile Lynn Sparling, Department of Physics link
Computer Animation Adam Bargteil, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
 Constrained and seeded independent vector analysis for steady state visually evoked potential processing and detection Tulay Adali, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
 Accelerating Convolutional Neural Network Tinoosh Mohsenin, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
 Ultra Low power DSP for Helath care Monitoring Tinoosh Mohsenin, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
 Randomized Benchmarking for Singlet-Triplet Qubits Jason Kestner, Department of Physics link
 Implementation of the Rigorous Coupled Wave Algorithm in MATLAB Curtis Menyuk, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
 Big Data Cyber-attack Detection Jianwu Wang, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering link
Topology optimization for Additive manufacturing and null balancing Soobum Lee, Department of Mechanical Engineering link
Blue crab genome project Colleen Burge, Institute of Marine & Environmental Technology link

∗ UMBC is assumed as the hosting institution of the PI, unless otherwise mentioned