Tevfik Kosar Program Director, NSF/CISE/OAC Professor of Computer Science & Engineering Director, Data Intensive Distributed Computing Laboratory Department of Computer Science & Engineering University at Buffalo (SUNY) 338-J Davis Hall Buffalo, NY 14260-2000 Phone: 716-645-2323 Email: tkosar (at) buffalo.edu twitter.com/TevfikKosar linkedin.com/TevfikKosar

Funded Projects

Kosar as Principal Investigator:

1. Title: "STCI: Development of Stork Data Scheduler for Mitigating the Data Bottleneck in Petascale Distributed Computing Systems"
   Role: PI
   Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
   Program: Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastracture (STCI)
   Dates: 09/01/09 - 08/31/12
   Amount: $495,514

2. Title: "CAREER: Data-aware Distributed Computing for Large-scale Collaborative Science"
   Role: PI
   Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
   Program: Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER)
   Dates: 02/15/09 - 01/31/14
   Amount: $400,001

3. Title: "MRI: Development of PetaShare: A Distributed Data Archival, Analysis and Visualization System for Data Intensive Collaborative Research"
   Role: PI (with co-PIs: G. Allen, E. Seidel, R. Twilley, W. Wischusen)
   Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
   Program: Major Research Instrumentation (MRI)
   Dates: 08/15/06 - 07/31/10
   Amount: $957,678

4. Title: "Enabling End-to-end Processing and Analysis of Large Scale Coastal Data"
   Role: PI
   Sponsor: Louisiana Board of Regents
   Program: Research Competitiveness Subprogram (RCS)
   Dates: 06/01/06 - 06/30/09
   Amount: $133,888

5. Title: "Attracting Superior Students to Build Next Generation Cyber-Infrastructure for Coastal and Environmental Research"
   Role: PI
   Sponsor: Louisiana Board of Regents (through LSU Graduate School)
   Program: Economic Development Assistantships (EDA)
   Dates: August 2007 - May 2008
   Amount: $25,000

6. Title: "Incorporation of CCT Efforts for Large Scale Data Handling in Coastal Modeling Applications"
   Role: PI
   Sponsor: LSU CCT
   Program: GDP
   Dates: 07/01/06 - 06/30/07
   Amount: $32,000

7. Title: "Deploying a Campus-wide Distributed Computing System"
   Role: PI
   Sponsor: LSU CCT
   Program: GDP
   Dates: 01/15/06 - 12/31/06
   Amount: $10,000

Kosar as co-Principal Investigator:

8. Title: "Collaborative Research: Community Infrastructure for General Relativistic MHD (CIGR)
   Role: co-PI (PI: G. Allen)
   Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
   Program: Physics at the Information Frontier (PIF)
   Dates: 10/01/2009 - 9/30/2012
   Amount: $400,000

9. Title: "Recruitment of Superior Graduate Fellows in Computer Science"
   Role: co-PI (PI: S.S. Iyengar)
   Sponsor: Louisiana Board of Regents
   Program: Graduate Fellows
   Dates: 08/2009 - 05/2013
   Amount: $100,000

10. Title: "RII: Louisiana's Research Infrastructure Improvement Strategy (CyberScience)"
    Role: co-PI at LSU (Lead PI: M. Khonsari; LSU PI: E. Seidel)
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF) / BoR
    Program: EPSCoR
    Dates: 10/2007 - 09/2010
    Amount: $12,000,000 (Total)

11. Title: "Ubiquitous Computing and Monitoring System (UCoMS) for Discovery"
    Role: co-PI at LSU (Lead PI: M. Khonsari; LSU PI: C. White)
    Sponsor: Department of Energy (DOE) / BoR
    Program: EPSCoR
    Dates: 07/01/2007 - 06/30/2010
    Amount: $2,100,000 (Total); $630,000 (LSU share)

12. Title: "The LONI Institute: Advancing Biology, Materials, and Computational Sciences for Research, Education, and Economic Development"
    Role: co-PI (PI: E. Seidel)
    Sponsor: Louisiana Board of Regents
    Program: PKSFI
    Dates: 06/01/2007 - 06/30/2012
    Amount: $7,000,000

13. Title: "SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction Program (SCOOP)"
    Role: co-PI at LSU (LSU PI: G. Allen)
    Sponsor: NOAA / SURA
    Dates: 12/01/2006 - 08/31/2008
    Amount: $237,863 (LSU share)

Kosar as Senior Investigator:

14. Title: "MRI: CRON: Development of a Cyberinfrastructure Reconfigurable Optical Network for Large-Scale Scientific Discovery"
    Role: Senior Personnel (PI: S.J.Park)
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
    Program: Major Research Instrumentation (MRI)
    Dates: 08/01/2008 - 07/31/2011
    Amount: $495,181

15. Title: "The LONI Grid - Leveraging HPC Resources of the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative for Science and Engineering Research and Education"
    Role: Senior Personnel (PI: C. McMahon)
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
    Program: High-Performance Computing for Science and Engineering Research and Education: Operations (HPCOPS)
    Dates: 2007 - 2009
    Amount: $2,200,000

16. Title: "Center for Excellence in Integrated Smart Cyber-centric Sensor Surveillance Systems"
    Role: Senior Personnel (Lead PI: V. Phoha; LSU PI: S.S. Iyengar)
    Sponsor: Louisiana Board of Regents
    Program: PKSFI
    Dates: 06/01/2007 - 06/30/2012
    Amount: $3,638,104 (Total); $1,555,521 (LSU share)

17. Title: "Doctoral Research and Training in Information Networks for Monitoring, Assessment and Relief Activities for Natural and Man-Made Disasters"
    Role: Senior Personnel (PI: E. Triantaphyllou)
    Sponsor: US Department of Education (DoEd)
    Program: Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN)
    Dates: 08/16/06 - 08/15/09
    Amount: $126,675