Grants

Funded Extramural Grants

  • National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
    Conferences and Workshops in the Mathematical Sciences
    “Conference: 1st SIAM Northern and Central California Sectional Conference”
    Co-PI, $40,000, September 2024 – August 2025. [Award No. NSF DMS-2433859]
  • Department of Energy (DOE), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
    Funding for Accelerated, Inclusive Research (FAIR)
    “Machine-Learning-Based Surrogate Modeling for Stochastic Multiscale Simulation Methodology”
    PI, $750,000, July 2023 – June 2026. [Award No. DE-SC0024240]
  • National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Chemistry (CHE)
    Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences
    “LEAPS-MPS: Stochastic Particle-Continuum Hybrid Simulation Method for Model Heterogeneous Catalysts under Reaction Conditions”
    PI, $250,000, August 2022 – July 2025. [Award No. NSF CHE-2213368]
  • Foundation for California Community Colleges, California Learning Lab
    The Grand Challenge Overcoming the Calculus Barrier to STEM Success
    “Why, What and How” Calculus
    Co-PI, $1,400,000, July 2021 – December 2024.

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Sponsored Research

  • Sustainable Research Pathway (SRP) Program
    Summer Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
    “Numerical Coupling of Fluctuating Hydrodynamics with Surface Chemistry (Year 2)”
    PI, $48,720, Fellowship for PI (C. Kim) and two graduate students, June 2022 – August 2022.
  • Sustainable Research Pathway (SRP) Program
    Summer Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
    “Numerical Coupling of Fluctuating Hydrodynamics with Surface Chemistry (Year 1)”
    PI, $36,000, Fellowship for PI (C. Kim) and two graduate students, June 2021 – August 2021.

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Funded Internal Grant (UC Merced)

  • Academic Senate Faculty Research Grants program
    “Intriguing Mathematical Structure and Properties Observed in the Reversible Adsorption of Dimers on Finite Lattices”
    PI, $19,872, July 2024 – June 2025.
  • EJIE (Equity, Justice, & Inclusive Excellence) Speaker/Workshop Series Award
    Inviting Dr. Mary Ann Leung (Sustainable Horizons Institute) to give an EJIE seminar on "Normalizing Inclusion by Embracing Difference”
    PI, $3,200, Fall 2024.
  • Academic Senate Faculty Research Grants program
    “Multiscale Modeling of Cell Membrane Electroporation”
    PI, $10,000, July 2019 – June 2021.