{"id":6,"date":"2019-04-08T17:40:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T17:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/sghafoor\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2019-07-12T15:18:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T15:18:31","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/sghafoor\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>Research Areas:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High-Performance Computing<\/li>\n<li>Cyber Security<\/li>\n<li>Computational Earth<\/li>\n<li>Computer Science Education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>Grants:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>External Grants \u2013 PI\/Co-PI<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ghafoor has been involved in 15 externally funded research projects where he was either PI(10) or Co-PI(5). The funded projects have totaled almost $4.5 M. He has also been involved as PI or Co-PI in 5 grant proposals which have not been funded.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Semi-Automatic Assessment of Parallel Programs in Training of Students and Faculty. Grant Period September 1, 2019 &#8211; August 31, 2021. Funding Agency: National Science Foundation. Grant Amount $82,000.<\/li>\n<li>Development and Improvement of High-Resolution Floos-2D GPU Modeling Titan HPC Environment. Grant Period: August1 2018 \u2013 July 31 2019. Funding Agency: Oak Ridge National Lab, Grant Amount: $ 296,192, Co-PI: Sheikh Ghafoor, PI: Alfred Kalyanapu).<\/li>\n<li>Tracking Water Storage in Lakes: Citizen and Satellites. Grant Period: January 2017 \u2013 February 2018. Funding Agency: NASA Grant Amount: Prototype Phase: $152,674 February 1, 2017, -January 31-2018, Implementation Phase: $1,492,802 TTU-PI: Sheikh Ghafoor, Lead PI: Tamlin Pavelsky, UNC. (Prototype phase has been funded, implementation phase may be funded based on performance of the prototype phase).<\/li>\n<li>Detection and Analysis of Malware in Critical Infrastructure. Grant Period October 1, 2018- September 30, 2020, Funding Agency: ORNL, Grant Amount $336,000, PI: Sheikh Ghafoor, Co-PI Mike Rogers.<\/li>\n<li>Black Box: Highly Secure Environment for Health Data Computation. Grant Period: August 1, 2018 \u2013 September 30, 2021, Funding Agency: Oak Ridge National Lab, Grant Amount: $112,508, PI: Sheikh Ghafoor, Co-PI Mike Rogers.<\/li>\n<li>iPDC &#8211; Summer Institute for Integrating Parallel and Distributed Computing in Introductory Programming Classes. Grant Period: September 1 2017 \u2013 August 31, 2020, Funding Agency: National Science Foundation, Grant Amount: $499,988, PI: Sheikh Ghafoor, Co-PIs Mike Rogers, David Brown.<\/li>\n<li>Benchmark and analyze open source parallel XXT libraries on different HPC architectures for performance prediction. Grant Period November 11, 2016 &#8211; September 30, 2017. Funding Agency: Oak Ridge National Lab. Grant Amount $25,000, PI: Sheikh Ghafoor.<\/li>\n<li>Develop and Benchmark Architecture Agnostic Scalable Library of Data Parallel Kernels for Big Data Architecture. Grant Period April 1, 2016- September 30, 2016. Funding Agency: Oakridge National Lab. Grant Amount $25,000, PI: Sheikh Ghafoor.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Development of Integrated DHSVM-Flood2D-GPU modeling framework for regional-scale modeling for high-resolution rapid flood risk assessment. Grant Period March 1, 2016 &#8211; September 30, 2016. Funding Agency: Oak Ridge National Lab. Grant Amount $60,000, Co- PI: Sheikh Ghafoor, PI: Alfred Kalyanapu.<\/li>\n<li>iPDC: Integrating Parallel and Distributed Computing in Introductory Programming. Grant Period: August 2015 \u2013 July 2016. Funding Agency: National Science Foundation, Grant Amount: $49,973, PI: Sheikh Ghafoor, Co-PI: Mike Rogers.<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge\u2010based Flood Inundation Forecast on Affordable Mobile Platforms to Empower Farmers, Grant Period: October 2015 \u2013 September 2017. Funding Agency: University of Washington. Grant Amount $35,000, TTU-PI: Sheikh Ghafoor. Dr. Faisal Hossain is lead PI of this project Funding Agency: Development Innovation Ventures Annual Program of USAID (USAID\/DIV) (Total Grant Amount $150,000).<\/li>\n<li>Integrating Hands on Security Exercises in Computer Networks Class: Grant Period Jan 2015 \u2013Dec 2015. Funding Agency: Intel-NSF-GTISC Security Education Micro-grant Program, Grant Amount $5,000, PI: Sheikh Ghafoor.<\/li>\n<li>CyberWorkshops: Resources and Strategies for Teaching Cybersecurity in Computer Science (CReST). Grant Period: September 2014 \u2013 August 2017. Funding Agency: National Science Foundation, Grant Amount: $550,000, Co- PI: Sheikh Ghafoor, PI: Ambareen Siraj.<\/li>\n<li>Department wide Parallel and Distributed Computing Adpotion. Funding Agency: National Science Foundation\/TCPP Early Adopter grant, Grant Amount: $5,500, PI: Sheikh Ghafoor.<\/li>\n<li>SecKnitKit (Security Knitting Kit): Integrating Security into Traditional Computer Science Courses. Grant Period: September 2012 \u2013 August 2014. Funding Agency: National Science Foundation, Grant Amount: $200,000, Co- PI: Sheikh Ghafoor, PI: Ambareen Siraj.<\/li>\n<li>Enhancing the programming experience for engineering students through hands-on integrated computer experiences. Grant Period: September 2010 \u2013 August 2014. Funding Agency: National Science Foundation, Grant Amount: $600,000, Co- PI: Sheikh Ghafoor, PI: Stephan Canfield.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><em>External Grants \u2013 Senior Personnel<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Autonomic Dynamic Resource-\u00adAware Runtime System<strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Grant Period: January 2011 \u2013 September 2011. Funding Agency: Sandia National Laboratory,\u00a0<strong>Grant amount: $75,000, Senior Personnel: Sheikh Ghafoor, PI: Stephen Scott.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><em>Internal Grants<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Rapid flood modeling and consequence assessment using heterogeneous accelerator based high performance computation. Funding Agency: Office of Research TTU,\u00a0<strong>Grant Amount: $10,000, PI: Alfred Kalayanpu, Sheikh Ghafoor.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Prototyping a Smart-Phone Application for Class-room and Field Demonstration on Delivery of Water Knowledge from Environmental Satellites around the World. Funding Agency: College of Engineering, TTU,\u00a0<strong>Grant Amount: $10,000, CO-PI: Sheikh Ghafoor, PI: Faisal Hossain<\/strong>\u00a0.<\/li>\n<li>Modeling and Simulation of an Adaptive Parallel System. Grant Period: July 2009-June 2010, Funding Agency: Office of Research, TTU,\u00a0<strong>Grant Amount: $4000, PI: Sheikh Ghafoor<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>Publications:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>2018:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Ryan Marshall, Sheikh K. Ghafoor, and Md. Bulbul Sharif, \u201cA System for Performance Porting of Iterative Structured Grid Applications in HPC Environments\u201d, in\u00a0Proceedings of the\u00a0<em>21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 21-23, 2018<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Md Mosharaf Hossain, Thomas Hines, Sheikh K.\u00a0 Ghafoor, Ryan Marshall, Muzakihir\u00a0 Amanzholov, S. R Kannan, \u201cPerformance Issues of SYRK implementations in Shared Memory Environments for Edge Cases\u201d, in\u00a0Proceedings of the\u00a0<em>21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 21-23, 2018.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Islam, S. R., Ghafoor, S. K., &amp; Eberle, W. (2018, December). \u201cMining Illegal Insider Trading of Stocks: A Proactive Approach\u201d, in\u00a0 Proceedings of the\u00a0<em>2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data), Seattle, WA, December 10-13\u00a0<\/em>(pp. 1397-1406).<\/li>\n<li>Hossain, M. M., Hines, T. M., Ghafoor, S. K., Islam, S. R., Kannan, R., &amp; Sukumar, S. R. (2018, December). \u201cA Flexible-blocking Based Approach for Performance Tuning of Matrix Multiplication Routines for Large Matrices with Edge Cases\u201d, in\u00a0 Proceedings of the BPOD Workshop,\u00a0<em>2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data), Seattle, WA, December 10-13,\u00a0<\/em>(pp. 3853-3862).<\/li>\n<li>David W. Brown, Sheikh K. Ghafoor, and Stephen Canfield<em>,\u00a0\u201cInstruction of Introductory Programming Course Using Multiple Contexts\u201d in\u00a0 Proceedings\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0the\u00a0<em>23rd Annual ACM SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Larnaca, Cyprus, July 1 \u2013 July 4, 2018.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Ryan Marshall, Sheikh Ghafoor, Mike Rogers, Alfred Kalyanapu and\u00a0Tigstu\u00a0Dullo, \u201cPerformance Enhancement of a Flood Simulator for Heterogeneous HPC Environments\u201d, Submitted to Special Issue of International Journal of Network and Communication, Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages 387-407, 2018,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15803\/ijnc.8.2_387\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15803\/ijnc.8.2_387<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Md Mosharaf Hossain, Douglas A. Talbert, Sheikh K. Ghafoor, Ramakrishnan Kannan, \u201cFAWCA: A Flexible-greedy Approach to find Well-tuned CNN Architecture for Image Recognition Problem\u201d, in\u00a0<em>Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Data Science (ICDATA\u201918), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 30 \u2013 August\u00a02,2018<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sheikh Rabiul Islam,\u00a0William Eberle,\u00a0Sheikh Khaled Ghafoor, \u201cCredit Default Mining Using Combined Machine Learning and Heuristic Approach\u201d, in\u00a0<em>Proceedings of the14th International Conference on Data Science (ICDATA\u201918), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 30 \u2013 August 2, 2018.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Ryan Marshall, Sheikh Ghafoor, and Michael Rogers, \u201cA Software Abstraction Method for Efficient 2D Grid Computations in Heterogeneous HPC Environments\u201d, in Proceedings of\u00a0<em>the PMAW: The Programming Models and Algorithms Workshop, IPDPS 2018, Vancouver, Canada, May 21-25, 2018<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>2017:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Ryan Marshall, Sheikh K. Ghafoor, Alfred J. Kalyanapu, Mike Rogers, and\u00a0Tigstu\u00a0T. Dullo, \u201cPerformance Improvement of a Two-dimensional Flood Simulation Application in Hybrid Computing Environments\u201d in the Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Computing and Networking (CANDAR 17), to be held in Aomori, Japan, November 19-22, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Sheikh Ghafoor, David W. Brown, and Mike Rogers \u201cIntegrating Parallel Computing in Introductory Programming Classes: An Experience and Lesson Learned\u201d, in the Proceedings of the Euro-EDUPAR\u00a02017 workshop of 23<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 28-September 1, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Islam, Sheikh Rabiul, William Eberle, and Sheikh Khaled Ghafoor. \u201cMining Bad Credit Card Accounts from OLAP and OLTP.\u201d In\u00a0<em>Proceedings of the International Conference on Compute and Data Analysis<\/em>, pp. 129-137. 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