In the second half of 2021, faculty from the School of Computing and Engineering have been awarded $906,604 in research funding.
Among those who have received funding is Reza Derakhshani, Ph.D., professor in SCE and head of the university's computational Intelligence and Bio-Identification Technologies Laboratory.
Derakhshani, whose research is primarily focused on eye vein pattern identity verification, was awarded $389,604 from the United States Army for a wearable deep vascular identification system.
Derkhshani is best known for leading the development of a biometric technology that makes the eye the only password needed to secure smartphones and mobile devices. The product, known as Eyeprint, was commercialized by the Kansas City-based startup EyeVerify.
The company was acquired by Ant Financial Services Group in 2016 for a reported $100 million. It maintains its headquarters in Kansas City and has been doing business as ZOLOZ since 2017. Derakhshani acts as the company's chief scientist.
In 2020, he was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Below is a complete list of research funding awarded:
$20,000 to Antonis Stylianou for statistical shape modeling for pediatric knees and ACL injury risk.
$150,000 to ZhiQiang Chen for an augmented reality pilot to demonstrate the flooding risk at 103rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
$100,000 to Jejung Lee for the development of GIS-based watershed need classification.
$50,000 to ZhiQiang Chen for HyperGLU: Hyperspectral and Geometric Learning for UAV-enabled plant species identification and localization.
$15,000 to Baek-Young Choi for using artificial intelligence without a data center for reliable wireless sensing and communication for space and extreme environments.
$15,000 to Sejun Song for the education of smart and reliable technologies for a future non-terrestrial network system.
$2,000 to Srvya Chirandas for a budgeting app that will be an outward-facing application that will give customers useful information about their full financial picture.
$55,000 to Amirfarhang Mehidizadeh for identification and understanding of major underlying mechanisms of asphaltene and deposition dynamics.
$389,604 to Reza Derakhshani for DVIS: A wearable deep vascular ID system.
$130,000 to John Kevern for timely and uniform application of curing materials.