FSL Sponsors

# Sponsor Amount Period Type Title (click for award abstract)
1 SUNY-IBM AI Collaborative Research Alliance $100,000 2026-2027 Sole PI Studying and Optimizing Hierarchical Storage for KV Caches in LLM Inference
2 SUNY-IBM AI Collaborative Research Alliance $100,000 2023-2025 Lead PI Multi-cloud Hybrid GPU Clusters for AI Workloads
3 NSF Computer and Network Systems (CNS) Core (Large) $928,403 2022-2026 Co-PI Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Large: Systems and Verifiable Metrics for Sustainable Data Centers
4 Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining) $174,905 2022-2026 Sole PI Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Medium: FOUNT: Scaffolded, Hands-On Learning for a Data-Centric Future
5 SUNY-IBM AI Collaborative Research Alliance $100,000 2022-2023 Co-PI Scheduling for Kubernetes/Containerizations on GPU Clusters for AI
6 NSF Computer and Network Systems (CNS) Core (Medium) $1,198,842 2021-2027 Lead PI Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: Secure, Reliable, and Efficient Long-Term Storage
7 NSF Computer and Network Systems (CNS) Core (Medium) $533,333 2021-2026 Lead PI Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: Optimizing Storage Caches via Adaptive and Reconfigurable Tiering
8 SUNY-IBM AI Collaborative Research Alliance $100,000 2021-2022 Co-PI Kubernetes/Containerizations on GPU Clusters for AI
9 NSF Smart and Connected Communities $1,700,126 2020-2026 Co-PI SCC-IRG Track 1: Smart Aging: Connecting Communities Using Low-Cost and Secure Sensing Technologies
10 Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC) $295,742 2020-2024 Co-PI Recruitment and Retention of Women Undergraduates
11 Facebook Faculty Research Award $50,000 2020-2021 Lead PI Automated Cross-Validation of TLS 1.3 Implementations
12 NSF Computer and Network Systems (CNS) Core (Medium) $823,142 2019-2025 Lead PI CNS Core: III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Optimizing and Understanding Large Parameter Spaces in Storage Systems
13 NSF Formal Methods in the Field (FMitF) $748,300 2019-2025 Lead PI FMitF: Track I: NLP-Assisted Formal Verification of the NFS Distributed File System Protocol
14 Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Supplements $176,000 2019-2026 Lead PI Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Supplements
15 Stony Brook College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) $15,000 2019 Co-PI CEAS Seed: Novel Non-Wearable Respiration and Heart Rate Sensor
16 Stony Brook Office of Vice President for Research (OVPR) $60,000 2018-2020 Co-PI Exploiting Analytical Models to Realize the Full Performance and Parallelization Potential of Modern Storage Architectures for Big Data Applications
17 Dell-EMC Corporation $25,000 2018 Sole PI Storage/Deduplication research
18 NSF Industry/University Collaborative Research Center (I/UCRC) $400,000 2017-2022 Co-PI I/UCRC Phase II: Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI) Site at SUNY Stony Brook
19 NSF CISE Research Infrastructure (CRI) $129,867 2017-2020 Lead PI Collaborative Research: CI-SUSTAIN: National File System Trace Repository
20 Dell-EMC Corporation $25,000 2017 Sole PI Storage/Deduplication research
21 NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) $2,993,930 2016-2021 Senior Personnel NRT-DESE: Interdisciplinary Graduate Training to Understand and Inform Decision Processes Using Advanced Spatial Data Analysis and Visualization (STRIDE)
22 Office of Naval Research $586,215 2016-2019 Co-PI Early Detection of User-impersonating Attackers using Multilayer Tripwires
23 NSF Core Systems Research (CSR) $257,165 2016-2018 Co-PI EAGER: Elastic Multi-layer Memcached Tiers
24 EMC Corporation $25,000 2016 Sole PI Storage/Deduplication research
25 Microsoft Corporation $20,000 2016-2017 Sole PI Microsoft Azure Cloud Credits
26 EMC Corporation $25,000 2015 Sole PI Storage/Deduplication research
27 NSF Core Systems Research (CSR) $20,000 2015 Sole PI Student Travel Support for the 13th USENIX File and Storage Technologies Conference (FASTI 2015)
28 U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research $620,861 2014-2016 Co-PI Adaptive Runtime Verification and Recovery for Mission-Critical Software
29 EMC Corporation $25,000 2014 Sole PI Storage/Deduplication research
30 NSF Core Systems Research (CSR) $513,900 2013-2016 Lead PI CSR: Medium: Collaborative Research: Workload-Aware Storage Architectures for Optimal Performance and Energy Efficiency
31 NSF Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering (BIGDATA) $444,267 2013-2016 Lead PI BIGDATA: Small: DCM: Collaborative Research: An efficient, versatile, scalable, and portable storage system for scientific data containers
32 Brookhaven Science Associates LLC (BNL), $236,397 2013-2014 Co-PI Smarter Electric Grid Research, Innovation, Development, Demostration, Deployment Center (SGRID3)
33 Western Digital Corporation $50,000 2013-2014 Sole PI Singled Magnetic Recording (SMR) disks
34 Government of Israel (GoI), Mission to the USA $47,152 2013-2014 Lead PI Server-Class Performance vs. Energy Optimizations
35 NSF CISE Research Infrastructure (CRI) $37,018 2013-2016 Co-PI CRI-CI-ADDO-EN: National File System Trace Repository
36 NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) $486,783 2012-2015 Lead PI NFS4Sec: An Extensible Security Layer for Network Storage
37 NetApp Advanced technlogy Group $40,000 2011 Sole PI Dedup Workload Modeling, Synthetic Datasets, and Scalable Benchmarking
38 NetApp Advanced technlogy Group $40,000 2010 Sole PI A Study of Network Storage Benefits using FLASH Hardware with Indexing Workloads
39 NSF Core Systems Research (CSR) $10,000 2010 Sole PI Student Travel Support for the First USENIX Workshop on Sustainable Information Technology (SustainIT 2010)
40 Department of Energy (DOE) $2,822,638 2009-2012 Co-PI Long Island Smart Energy Corridor
41 U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research $881,691 2009-2012 Co-PI Survivable Software
42 NSF HECURA $720,463 2009-2012 Lead PI Performance- and Energy-Aware HEC Storage Stacks
43 NSF HECURA $564,972 2009-2012 Co-PI Secure Provenance in High End Computing Systems
44 NetApp Advanced technlogy Group $30,000 2008 Sole PI NetApp Research Award
45 IBM Faculty Award $20,000 2008-2009 Sole PI The Impact of of Storage Software and Aging on Power Consumption
46 NSF Industry/University Collaborative Research Center (I/UCRC) $274,513 2007-2012 Co-PI Center for Information Protection: A Multi-University Industry/University Collaborative Research Center
47 NetApp Advanced technlogy Group $91,083 2007 Sole PI NetApp Equipment Award
48 NSF HECURA $760,253 2006-2009 Lead PI File System Tracing, Replaying, Profiling, and Analysis on HEC Systems
49 NSF CSR--PDOS $561,727 2006-2009 Lead PI Support for Atomic Sequences of File System Operations
50 NSF Cyber-Trust (CT) $300,000 2006-2009 Co-PI N3S: Networked Secure Searchable Storage with Privacy and Correctness Assurances
51 NYS $204,528 2006 Co-PI Cyber Security: Tools and Techniques for Fail-Safe Systems
52 IBM Faculty Award $20,000 2006-2007 Sole PI End-To-End File Server Security
53 NSF CSR--AES $830,000 2005-2009 Lead PI CSR--AES: Runtime Monitoring and Model Checking for High-Confidence System Software
54 NSF Industry/University Collaborative Research Center (I/UCRC) $9,987 2005-2006 Co-PI A Plan for Developing a Multi-University Industry/University Collaborative Research Center on Cyber Security
55 NSF Scholarship for Service (SFS) $2,459,061 2004-2008 Co-PI Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS)
56 NSF Trusted Computing (TC) $400,000 2003-2006 Sole PI A Layered Approach to Securing Network File Systems
57 NSF Capacity Building (CAP) $199,883 2003-2005 Co-PI Collaborative Research: Capacity Expansion in Information Assurance
58 SPIR $94,581 2003 Sole PI Secure Shared Storage
59 SPIR $22,679 2003 Sole PI Advanced Storage Security
60 Micrsoft Research $4,169 2003 Sole PI Microsoft Tablet Seed
61 IBM   2003-2006 Sole PI IBM AIX 5.x Automounter Maintenance
62 NSF CAREER (NGS) $400,000 2002-2007 Sole PI CAREER: An In-Kernel Runtime Execution Environment for User-Level Programs
63 HP/Intel $131,529 2002-2003 Sole PI Linux Application Performance and File System Security
64 Dolphin Technology, Inc. $90,563 2002-2003 Co-PI Assessing the Technological Basis for Enterprise Protection
65 SPIR $55,676 2002 Sole PI A Secure and Scalable Network Appliance
66 HP/Intel $22,490 2001-2002 Sole PI Linux Network Scalability and File System Reliability