Sponsored Research Projects

DiDi Chuxing Direct sponsor project 224824 (“Research on Behavioral Interventions in Transportation Services”) awarded from DiDi Chuxing Inc. PI: Jun Zhang and Colleen Seifert. Total $150,000 to UM (September 2017 – August 2018).

DARPA/ARO Grant #W911NF-16-1-0383 (“Information Geometry: Geometrization of Science of Information”) awarded from Defense Science Office, Defense Advance Research Projects Agency and managed through Army Research Office. PI: Jun Zhang. Total: $670,096 to UM (July 2016 – July 2019).

AFOSR Grant #FA9550-15-1-0439 (“Characterizing Neural Code from a Minimal Description Length Perspective”) award from Air Force Office for Scientific Research. PI: Ning Qian of Columbia University. Subcontract total: $273,590 to UM, PI Jun Zhang (September 2015 – September 2019).

AFOSR Grant #FA9550-13-1-0025 (“Similarity and Features in Categorization: A Unified Machine Learning Framework”) awarded from Directorate of Mathematics, Information, and Life Sciences, Air Force Office for Scientific Research. PI: Jun Zhang. Total: $660,782 to UM (January 2013 – December 2016).

ARO Grant #W911NF-12-1-0163 (“Semi-inner Products in Banach Spaces with Applications to Regularized Learning, Sampling, and Sparse Approximation”) awarded from Mathematical Science Division, Army Research Office. PI: Jun Zhang. Total: $298,969 to UM (May 2012 – Dec2015).

AFOSR Grant #FA9550-06-1-0298 ("Sequential Analysis of Automatic Target Detection with Classification Algorithms and Optimality Dynamic Decision-Making Under Time Pressure") from Cognition and Decision Program. PI: Jun Zhang. Total: $411,638 to UM (May 2006 – March 2012).

NSF Grant #0631541 ("Information Geometry with Application to Model Selection") from MSBS Program. PI: Jun Zhang. Total: $250,000 to UM (December 2006 – November 2012).