Funding — Dongxiao Zhu

~$12M

Total research funding (entire period)

~$9M

As Principal or Multi-PI Investigator

15

Federal grants from NSF, NIH, HRSA & NAIRR

Publications — Preprints, Conference Papers & Journal Articles →

Sole PI / MPI / PI Principal Investigator

Co-PI Co-Principal Investigator

Co-I Co-Investigator

Sr. Personnel Senior Personnel

Selected Federal Funding

Co-PI

NSF: Track 2: Collaborative Research: Supporting Engineering Retention with Veteran Empowerment through AI-Supported Mentoring

2026 · $300,000 · PI: Sooin Kim; Co-PIs: Thomas Pedroni and Dongxiao Zhu · 33%

Sole PI

NAIRR/NSF: Aligning Large Reasoning Models via Safety-aware Post-Training

2026 · $10,000 token credit & 25,000 GPU hours · 100%

MPI

NIH/R61/R33EY037504: VisionWay — Accessibility-aware Path Selection for Wayfinding

09/01/2025 – 08/31/2030 · $2,700,000 · 25%

PI

NSF/IIS 2504264: Collaborative Research: III: Medium: Advancing Large Language Model Unlearning — Foundations and Applications

10/01/2025 – 09/30/2029 · $800,000 · 33%

Co-I

HRSA/5U1QHP53070-02-00: A.G.R.E.E.D. — Applied Gerontology Research and Education to Eliminate Disparities (GWEP)

07/01/2024 – 06/30/2029 · $3,000,000 · 10%

MPI

NIH/R33HD105610: SPITS-MISC — Severity Predictors Integrating salivary Transcriptomics and proteomics with Multi Neural Network Intelligence in SARS-CoV2 in Children

01/01/2023 – 12/31/2025 · $1,449,684 · 33%

PI

NSF/ITE 2235225: Convergence Accelerator Track H — Leveraging Human-Centered AI Microtransit to Ameliorate Spatiotemporal Mismatch between Housing and Employment for Persons with Disabilities

12/15/2022 – 11/30/2024 · $613,621 · 25%

PI

NSF/IIS 2211897: Collaborative Research HCC: Small: Understanding Online-to-Offline Sexual Violence through Data Donation from Users

10/01/2022 – 09/30/2026 · $600,000 · 33%

MPI

NIH/R61HD105610: SPITS-MISC (Phase I) — Severity Predictors Integrating salivary Transcriptomics with Multi Neural Network Intelligence in SARS-CoV2 in Children

01/01/2021 – 12/31/2024 · $1,433,469 · 33%

PI

NSF/CNS 2043611: SCC-CIVIC-PG Track A — Leveraging AI-assist Microtransit to Ameliorate Spatiotemporal Mismatch between Housing and Employment

01/01/2021 – 06/30/2021 · $49,892 · 25%

Co-PI

NSF/CCF 1637312: S&CC — Promoting a Healthier Urban Community: Prioritization of Risk Factors for the Prevention and Treatment of Pediatric Obesity

09/01/2016 – 08/31/2018 · $199,996 · 33%

Sr. Personnel

NSF/IIS 1724227: S&AS: INT — Autonomous Battery Operating System (ABOS): Efficient, Safe, and Secure Battery System Management

09/01/2017 – 08/31/2021 · $1,249,998 · 10%

PI

NSF/CCF 1451316: EAGER — A Novel Algorithmic Framework for Discovering Subnetworks from Big Biological Data

08/15/2014 – 08/14/2017 · $174,998 · 100%

Sole PI

NIH/R21LM010137: A New Informatics Paradigm for Reconstructing Signaling Pathways in Human Disease

09/2009 – 08/2012 · $499,823 · 100%

Co-PI

NSF/CCF 0939108: CPATH — A Verification Based Learning Model that Enriches CS and Related Undergraduate Programs

10/01/2009 – 09/30/2012 · $300,000 · 25%