23. co-PI, DOE Award (PI, Dr. Bin Yang, WSU), $1,000,000, 10/2023-9/2026

Title: "Developing a New Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier Technology for Hydrogen Storage in the Sustainable Aviation Fuels-Lignin Jet Fuel"




22. co-PI, USDA Award (PI, Dr. Zhaohui Tong, GaTech), $800,000, 04/2023-03/2026

Title: "Data-Driven Chemo-selective Lignin Valorization Process to Biochemicals and Aviation Fuel"




21. PI, Industry contract grant, $25,000, 03/2023-08/2023

Title: "Optimization of Molecular Inhibitors for Cancer Research"




20. PI, endowed Buckman Chair Award, $90,000, 09/2022-08/2025




19. PI, Industry contract grant, $98,500, 02/2022-11/2022

Title: "AI Driven Inhibitor Design for Cancer Research"




18. co-PI, DOE-EMSL Exploratory Proposal Award, Nano-IR utilization and 100K CPU hours, 01/2022-06/2023

Title: "Characterizing Key Factors That Influence Recalcitrance of Lignocellulosic Biomass Deconstruction via in-situ liquid IR SNOM Approach"




17. PI, Industrial contract grant, $15,000, 01/2020-07/2020

Title: "Computational Analysis of Protein-Ligand Interactions for Drug Discovery"




16. PI, Buckman Chair Endow Professorship Award, University of New Haven, $90,000 07/2019- 06/2022




15. PI, Summer Research Grant and Research Fund, University of New Haven, $3,250, 07/2016-06/2017




14. PI, Industrial contract grant, Higasket Plastics Co., $332,576, 08/2018-07/2020

Title: "Optimizing Polymer Complex Materials by Integrative Approaches"




13. Senior Personnel, NSF-MRI award (PI, Dr. Brooke W. Kammarath), $317,357, 09/2018-02/2020

Title: "MRI: Acquisition of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectrometers (LIBS)"




12. PI, Industrial contract grant, Higasket Plastics Co., $221,429, 07/2017-07/2018

Title: "Integrative Analysis of Polymer Complex Materials"




11. PI, University Scholar Research Fund, University of New Haven, $12,000, 05/2016-04/2019




10. PI, Summer Research Grant and Research Fund, University of New Haven, $5,250, 07/2016-06/2017




9. PI, Gift research fund from Higasket Plastics Group Co. Ltd. on polymer materials research, $100,000, 06/2016-05/2021




8. co-PI, A team proposal awarded by PITCH Program in Innovative Therapeutics for Connecticut Health at Yale University with PI, Dr. Jun Lu (Yale University), 2015-2016.

Title: "Discover Small Molecule Modulators of Tumor Suppressors for Leukemia Disease"




7. PI, Summer Research Grant and Research Fund, University of New Haven, $4,750, 07/2015-06/2016




6. Senior Personnel, NSF-MRI award (PI, Dr. Nancy Savage), $197,376, 09/2015-02/2017

Title:"MRI: Acquisition of an X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) System"




5. Key consultant, NIH-STTR award (PI, Dr. Narendra Wayajapee at Yale University), $278,877, 03/2016-02/2017

Title: "Small molecule inhibitors targeting oncogenic drivers of hepatocellular carcinoma"




4. PI, Summer Research Grant and Research Fund, University of New Haven, $5,250, 07/2014-06/2015




3. PI, Sub-contract for a NSF award to Yale University, $5,816, 07/2014-01/2015

Sub-contract Title: ¡°Computational study of photoabsorption properties and bond dissociation energies for a library of toxic organic molecules¡±

Original NSF award (PI, Dr. Paul Anastas at Yale University): $4,598,705, 9/2013-8/2017

Title: ¡°NSMDS: Improving Material Safety through the Minimization of Oxidative Stress Potential: A mechanistic understanding of ROS generation in in vitro and in vivo systems¡±




2. PI, Industry contract from L2 Diagnostics LLC, $6,000, 09/2014-09/2015

Title: "Molecular dynamics simulation of proteins for drug design"




1. PI, Collaboration fund with Yale University, $720, 08/2013-11/2013

Title: "Computational study of molecular dynamics and catalytic mechanism for TET2 proteins"