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Congratulations to Dr. Roberto Perdisci for receiving the Franklin College M. G. Michael Award, which recognizes excellence in research. The primary purpose of the award is to encourage new, adventurous research ideas. Dr. Perdisci will use the award to start up a new research project on "global-scale malware download detection".

Congratulations to Prof. Kang Li, Roberto Perdisci have received a two-year NSF award for their project entitled DUE-SATC: Stepwise and Reusable Problem-solving Challenges. 

Prof. Doshi (PI) receives a two-year NSF grant for research in algorithmic game theory and specifically on computing finite state equilibria in private information games. He will collaborate with researchers at Kyushu Univ. in Japan. Congratulations! 

Prof. Tianming Liu received a 3-year NSF grant from the NSF neural engineering program to explore the functional interactions between cortical gyri and sulci. Congratulations! 

Congratulations to Prof. Doshi for receiving a 3-year grant from the Office of Naval Research. The grant will facilitate investigations of compressing mental model spaces in multiagent systems, which has broad applications toward designing intelligent autonomous systems. 

Prof. Thiab Taha received a 1-year NSF grant from the NSF-CISE/ACI program to support development in "Big Data Consulting Services and Training Center".  For more information: http://research.franklin.uga.edu/bigdata/

Profs. Amit Sheth and John Miller were once again awarded IBM Eclipse Innovation Grant (EIG) (a $27,000 cash gift) for their research related to the METEOR-S project. As part of the IBM Scholars Program, the EIG competition was highly competitive. IBM received over 360 international submissions and selected around 50 proposals for funding in the range of $10,000-$30,000 each. Awardees are selected by a…

Prof. Doshi was awarded a 3-year grant by the Army Research Office for his project titled 'Strategic State Estimation in Uncertain and Mixed Multiagent Settings'. Prof. Adam Goodie of Psychology is the Co-PI.

Prof. Doshi received a one-year grant from Microsoft Research for his research proposal titled 'Semantic Reconciliation with Disparate Sensor Meta-Data for Automatic Publication'. His was one of the approximately 15% of the total proposals that were selected for funding. The competition received proposals from all over the world.

Prof. Doshi (PI) received a two year grant from AFOSR for his project titled "Individual Decision Making in Large-Scale and Uncertain Multiagent Environments". Prof. Doshi will collaborate with Prof. Goodie (Co-PI) of the Psychology Dept., UGA.