1. “Additive Manufacturing on the Moon: Exploring the Potential of Laser Wire Directed Energy Deposition for Metallic Component Fabrication,” NASA, $900,000, PI.
2. “Cal State LA and UC Irvine Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) Center for Bioinspired and Architectured Materials (CBAM),” NSF, $1,000,000, Co-PI.
3. “Fabrication of Metallic Components with Spatially Programmed Properties Using Laser-Wire 3D Printing,” Cal State LA Provost Faculty Fellowship Award, $15,000, PI.
4. “Spurious Grain Formation in Alloys Directionally Solidified on the Space Station due to Marangoni Convection,” NASA, $199,999, Co-PI.
5. “Pore-Mushy Zone Interaction during Directional Solidification of Alloys: Three-Dimensional Simulation and Comparison with Experiments,” NASA, $240,469, PI.
6. “Influence of Thermosolutal Convection on the Cellular/Dendritic Pattern Formation during Directional Solidification of Single Crystal Metallic Alloys,” NASA, $600,000, Co-PI.
7. “Cal State L.A. & Penn State Partnership for Materials Research and Education”, NSF-PREM, $3,435,892, Senior Personnel.
8. “Creative Leave: Cal State LA Additive Manufacturing Initiative,” Awarded, Cal State LA Office of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities, PI.
9. “Data Intensive Research and Education Center in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics”, NASA, $5 million, Research Faculty.
10. ORSCA Mini-grant, 2019-2020, Cal State LA, Developing Graphene-Piezoelectric Composites for Additive Manufacturing, $5,000, PI.
11. ORSCA Mini-grant, 2020-2021, Cal State LA, 3D Printing Metallic Glasses Using Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing, $5,000, PI.
12. Sikand Faculty Endowment for Research in Urban Sustainability, 2021, Cal State LA, Scanning Electron Microscopy and Cal State LA Shared Materials Science Facility, $35,000.
13. Provost’s Research Restart Funding, Cal State LA, Funding for maintenance of the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), $20,000.
14. Provost Student Stipend Fund, Cal State LA, $10,000
15. “Modeling Solidification Phenomena Using Lattice Boltzmann And Cellular Automaton Methods”, Awarded, NSF Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), (751,769 CPU-hours on XSEDE Supercomputers), PI.
16. Engaged Department Planning Grant for Hands-On Experiences in Rehabilitation Engineering, California State University, Los Angeles, $4,800, Co-PI.
17. “Establishing an Additive Manufacturing Laboratory at Cal State LA”, ECST Summer Research Grant, California State University, Los Angeles, $15,000, PI.