Funding

As a sole Principal Investigator (PI) in the USA, I attracted external funding to support from both US Federal Agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Education, and the National Institute of Health (NIH), and industry such as Intel, MicroSoft, ST Microelectronics, among others.

I have raised external totaling $2,630,775, and additional  of internal funding.  As a sole PI in EUROPE (from 2003 to 2007), I attracted external funding totaling  494,000 Euros (and 100,000 Euros as Co-PI).

Here is the list of my current and previous funding:
  • Department of Education Award, "Interactive Virtual Training for Early Career Teachers in High Poverty Schools", 07/01/2015-06/30/2019, $556,000 (PI).
  • NSF Award, "Advanced Design Principles for Computer Simulated Agents", 08/01/2014-07-31-2018/, $497,000 (PI).
  • Numedeon / National Science Foundation SBIR, “SBIR Phase IIa: Building K-5 Mathematical fluency through Curriculum-based Puzzle Games within a Collaborative Virtual World” 01/01/2014 - 12/31/2014, $70,000  (PI).
  • NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement, Research Assistantship, 01/01/2014 - 12/31/2017, $100,000  (PI).
  • Institute for Disabilities Reseach and Training / National Science Foundation, “SBIR Phase IIa: American Sign Language Literacy Support System”, 10/01/2013 - 09/30/2014,  $115,000 (PI).
  • National Science Foundation IIP Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships, Contract Number NSF-AIR IIP-1237818 “PFI-AIR: CREST-I/UCRC-Industry Ecosystem to Pipeline Research”, 07/15/2012 - 06/30/2014, $20,000 (Lisetti) / $800,000.00, (Co-I).
  • Vcom-3D / National Science Foundation SBIR, No. 800000717. “Lifelike Expressive Avatars for the Instruction of Young Learners who are Deaf”, 01/01/2011 - 11/31/2011, $70,000 (PI).
  • National Science Foundation, “NSF Center of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST), No. HRD-0833093. , 09/01/2008 - 08/31/2013, $256,000 (Lisetti) / $5 Millions (Total), (Co-PI) for Subproject 3 on Human-Computer Interaction for Universal Access”.
  • FIU Faculty Research Support Program 2008 Rita and David Perlman Family Grants Endowment, “Artificial Agents and Social Interfaces for Mental Health Promotion”,  09/01/2008 - 08/31/2009, $20,000 (PI).
  • National Science Foundation (NSF). ”Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU) of the Computing Research Association-Women (CRA-W)”,  2008-2009, 7,000 Euros (PI).
  • Conseil Général des Alpes Maritimes et État Francais, Contrat Projets État Région (CPER) “CAVE Platform - Interacting with Affective Socially Intelligent Agent”, 2007-2009, 100,000 Euros, (Co-PI) with Prof. Drettakis (INRIA).
  • European Commission (EC)3 FP6-2002 Marie-Curie International Fellowship Grant, Contract No. MIRG-CT-2004-014885, “ASIA: Affective Socially Intelligent Agents”, 01/15/2006 - 01/14/2007, 80,000 Euros (PI).
  • Information Technology for European Advancement (ITEA) 4 – Human System Program, “BOON Companion: A Cognitive-Affective Intelligent System for Robotic Toys”, 01/15/2006 - 01/14/2007, 191,700 Euros (Lisetti), (PI of Work Package on Emotion in Consortium of 13 European partners. 
  • Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur PACA Lab / ST MicroElectronics – Advanced System Technology, Contract No. PS52, “Construction de Mod`ele des Emotions de l’Utilisateur pour Interface Affectives Multimodales”,  04/01/2004 - 09/31/2007, 222,300 Euros (PI).
  • NASA Ames, Human-Centered Computing – Intelligent Systems Program, “Situated Rational Agents: Modeling the Role of Emotion and Affective Phenomena with the Brahms Simulation Multi-Agent System”,  07/15/2003 - 06/14/2004, $17,000 (PI).
  • Office of Naval Research – Intelligent Systems Program. Award N00014-03-1-0187, “Emotion-Based Architectures for Artificial Autonomous Agents”, 10/15/2002 - 09/14/2004, $100,000  (PI) .
  • US Army STRICOM, Advanced Concepts and Basic Research. Award N61339-02-C-0107, “Multimodality of Emotion Elicitation and Experience in Virtual Environments”, 05/01/2002 - 04/31/2005, $400,000  (PI).
  • University of South Florida - Office of Naval Research, Subcontract Grant No. 71363 - “Emotion-Based Control for Cooperation & Collaboration of Heterogeneous Agents” 02/01/2002 - 09/30/2002, $16,408 (PI).
  • Office of Naval Research, Robotics Program, “Cooperation and Collaboration of Heterogeneous Agents Under Sensing Uncertainty”, 04/01/2001 - 03/30/2004, $252,595, (Co-PI) with Prof. Murphy (USF).
  • University of South Florida Research and Creative Scholarship Grant, “Awareness for Human-Computer Interaction: What the Face Reveals”, 01/01/2000 - 12/31/2000, $7,500 (PI).
  • Interval Research Corporation, “Facial Expressions in the Human-Computer Interface” (Continuation Grant), 09/01/1999 - 09/31/2000, $10,000  (PI).
  • Interval Research Corporation, “Facial Expressions in the Human-Computer Interface”, 09/01/1998 - 09/31/1999, $10,000 (PI).
  • National Institute of Health. Grant No 1F32MH11900-01, “Individual Research Service Award: Computational Modeling of the Affect-Cognition Interface”,  Sponsor: Prof. R. Zajonc (Stanford University), 09/01/1997 - 09/31/1999 $ 60,772 (PI).
  • Intel Corporation, Grant No. 172R685. “Automatic Integrated Facial Expression Interpretation System”, PI Prof. Rumelhart (Stanford University),  09/01/1997 - 08/31/1998 $ 193,000 (Program Director).