Current projects
The following are the main projects that keep me busy at this time. All these have been funded by NSF:
Reimagining the Disk-Jet Connection in Hard State Black Holes NSF, Federal. Award # 2511711 . Richard Plotkin (UNR PI, Astronomy) and Sergiu Dascalu (UNR Co-PI, Computer Science and Engineering). Funded: $488,967, Submitted: November 2024, Start date: September 2025, End date: August 2028.
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CSSI: Elements: Innovating for Edge-to-Edge Climate Services. NSF, Federal. Award # 2209806 .
Sergiu Dascalu (PI, Computer Science and Engineering, UNR), Stephanie McAfee (co-PI, Geography, UNR), Scotty Strachan (co-PI, Cyberinfrastructure, NSHE), Frederick C. Harris Jr.
(co-PI, Computer Science and Engineering, UNR). Funded: $589,234. Submitted: December 2021, Start date: August 2022, End date: July 2026.
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Impact of Utilizing Immersive Virtual Reality and Dynamic Assessment on Mining Engineering
Education from the Community of Inquiry Perspective. NSF, Federal. Award #2202640. Pengbo
Chu (PI, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering), Sergiu Dascalu (co-PI, Computer Science and Engineering), Leping Liu (co-PI, Education), Li-Ting Chen (co-PI, Education), Ying Yang (co-PI, Chemistry) - all UNR. Funded: $849,689. Submitted: October 2021, Start date: August 2022, End date: July 2026.
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Collaborative Research: IUSE: EHR: A Student-Centered Personalized Learning Framework to Advance Undergraduate Robotics Education. NSF, Federal. Award #DUE-2142360. [Abstract]. Dave Feil-Seifer (UNR PI, Computer Science and Engineering), Sergiu
Dascalu (UNR Co-PI, Computer Science and Engineering), Fred Harris (UNR Co-PI, Computer Science and Engineering), Rui Wu (ECU PI, Computer Science), Marjorie Ringler (ECU Co-PI, Education), Venkat Gudivada (ECU Co-PI, Computer Science); Funded: $600,000. UNR part: $320,214. Submitted: July 2021, Start date: June 2022, End date: May 2026.
Other activities
Preparation of 2 new grant applications.
Supervision of several graduate researchers working on their dissertations or theses (I currently advise/co-advise 5 PhD and 7 Master students).
Advising of 1 undergraduate student researcher.
Working on a couple of journal articles.
Preparation of several conference papers.