RESEARCH GRANTS

· Co-Principal Investigator, Initial Exploration of New Construction and Inferencing Algorithms for BMW’s Vehicle-Configuration Expert-System, Research Grant from BMW’s IT Research Center, 2007-2008, $15,000 awarded.

· Principal Investigator, A Healthcare Quality Study for Residents in Southside of Spartanburg, Healthy Living Initiative Faculty Research Grant from the ReGenesis Community Health Center (RCHC), 2008, $4,900 awarded.

· Co-Principal Investigator, A Comparative Analysis of Health Profiles in South Carolina, Spartanburg County, and the Southside Using a Knowledge Discovery System, Healthy Living Initiative Faculty Research Grant from the ReGenesis Community Health Center (RCHC), 2008, $9,850 awarded.

· Principal Investigator, A Data Mining Based Model for Predicting Type-2 Diabetes Clinical Charge Profiles, Research Incentive Award from USC Upstate Research Advisory Council, 2007, $3,500 awarded.

· Principal Investigator, Teaching and Productivity Scholarship (TAPS), USC Upstate, 2006-2007, $2,750 awarded.

· Co-Principal Investigator, CSUMS: Development of Undergraduate Computational Training and Research Program at USC-UPSTATE, submitted to NSF, 2006, $300,000 not awarded.