Annual review with the President, Provost, and VP of Research of Wright State University

1. State of Kno.e.sis is great
December 2015 overview with
the President, Provost and VP Research

2. Funding Overview
● Current Active Extramural funds for Kno.e.sis > 8.3 million*
● significant majority was won this year
● Almost all from extremely
competitive NSF and NIH sources
● Number of funded students > 60
* Only funds where a Kno.e.sis faculty is PI or joint PI are counted
(funds with Kno.e.sis faculty as co-PI or investigator are not counted).
Active Funding

3. Context-Aware Harassment
Detection on Social Media
Principal Investigators: Prof. Amit P. Sheth
Co-Investigators: Valerie Shalin, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan
Other Faculty: Debra Steele-Johnson, Dr. Jack L. Dustin
PhD Students: Lu Chen, Wenbo Wang, Monireh Ebrahimi, Kathleen Renee Wylds
MS Students: Pranav Karan, Rajeshwari Kandakatla
Collaboration with Beavercreek High School
Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computing
 NSF Award#: CNS 1513721
 TWC SBE: Medium: Context-Aware Harassment Detection on Social Media
 Timeline: 01 Sep. 2015 - 31 Aug. 2018
 Award Amount: $925,104 + $16,000 (REU)

4. eDrug Trends
Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computing
Principal Investigators: Prof. Amit P. Sheth, Prof. Raminta Daniulaityte
Co-Investigators: Robert Carlson, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Ramzi Nahhas,
Silvia Martins (Columbia), Edward W. Boyer (U. Mass.)
PhD Students: Farahnaz Golroo, Sanjaya Wijeratne, Lu Chen, Adarsh Alex
MS Student: Adarsh Alex
Postdoctoral Researcher: Francois Lamy
Software Engineer: Gary Smith
 NIH Award#: 5 R01 DA039454-02
 Trending: Social media analysis to monitor cannabis and synthetic
cannabinoid use
 Timeline: 15 Sep. 2014 - 14 Sep. 2018
 Award Amount: $1,689,019 + $162,505

5. Social and Physical Sensing Enabled Decision Support for
Disaster Management and Response
Principal Investigators: Prof. Amit P. Sheth, Prof. Srinivasan Parthasarathy (OSU)
Co-Principal Investigators: Densheng Liu (OSU), Ethan Kubatko (OSU), Valerie Shalin,
Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan
PhD Students: Sarasi Lalithsena, Pavan Kapanipathi, Hussein Olimat
MS Student: Siva Kumar
Postdoctoral Researcher: Tanvi Banerjee
Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computing
 NSF Award#: EAR 1520870
 Hazards SEES: Social and Physical Sensing Enabled Decision Support for
Disaster Management and Response
 Timeline: 01 Jul. 2015 - 31 Jul. 2019
 Award Amount: $1,975,000 (WSU: $787,500)

6. Modeling Social Behavior for
Healthcare Utilization in Depression
Principal Investigators: Prof. Amit P. Sheth, Prof. Jyotishman Pathak (Cornell)
Co-Investigators: Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Tanvi Banerjee, William V. Bobo (Mayo Clinic),
Nilay D Shah (Mayo Clinic), Lila J Rutten (Mayo Clinic), Jennifer B McCormick (Mayo Clinic),
Gyorgy Simon (Mayo Clinic)
Other Faculty: Debra Steele-Johnson, Jack Dustin
PhD Students: Ashutosh Jadhav, Amir Hossein Yazdavar, Hussein Al-Olimat
Master Student: Surendra Marupudi
Visiting Scholar: SoonJye Kho
Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computing
 NIH Award#: 1 R01 MH105384-01A1
 Modeling Social Behavior for Healthcare Utilization in Depression
 Timeline: 1 Jul. 2015 - 30 Jun. 2019
 Award Amount: $1,934,525 (WSU: $505,600)

7. Additional Funded Projects (when Kno.e.sis faculty is a PI/jointPI*)
● NMR-Based Urinary Metabolomics in Rats Exposed to Burn Pit Emissions and Respirable Sand,
$241K, Reo, Raymer
● PFI: AIR-TT: Market-driven Innovations and Scaling up of Twitris - A System for Collective Social
Intelligence; 200K, Sheth, Mackay
● CRII: CSR: Towards Understanding and Mitigating the Impact of Web Robot Traffic on Web
Systems; 174K, Doran
● Medical Information Decision Assistance and Support; 25K, Prasad, Sheth
● Choose Ohio First: Growing the STEMM Pipeline in the Dayton Region FY2016/FY2017; Raymer
● Westwood Partnership to Prevent Juvenile Repeat Violent Offenders; $200K, Sheth, Doran,
Dustin
● Semantic Web-based Data Exchange and Interoperability for OEM-Supplier Collaboration; 89K,
Prasad, Sheth
● NIDA National Early Warning System Network (iN3): An Innovative Approach; 299K, Carlson,
Sheth, Boyer, Daniulaityte, Nahas
● CUTE: Instructional Laboratories for Cloud Computing Education; 200K, Chen, Wang, Mateti
● SemMat: Federated Semantic Services Platform for Materials Science and Engineering; 315K,
Sheth, Prasad, Srinivasan
● Materials Database Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; 190K, Sheth, Prasad, Srinivasan
* Grants with Kno.e.sis faculty as
coPI or investigator not included

8. Kno.e.sis Faculty: practically all have active funds, multidisciplinary collaborations
Tanvi
Banerjee
Robert
Carlson
Katherine
Cauley
Keke
Chen
Raminta Daniulaityte
Guozhu
Dong
Derek
Doran
John Flach
Michael
Raymer
T.K. Prasad
Nick
Reo
Valerie
Shalin
Amit
Sheth
Shaojun
Wang
Thomas
Wischgoll
Funded students: > 60
 30+ PhD
 25+ MS
 growing number of
BS
*
*

9. Sheth Group: All Funded

10. Student Success: Our most important performance measure
● Exceptional first jobs: George Mason U., IBM Almaden Research, Twitter, etc.;
10 of Raymer and Sheth’s advisee are/were tenure track/tenured faculty
● Exceptional starting salaries: e.g., $130-230K for a PhD; six figures for M.S.
● Exceptional internships: IBM Research Almaden/Watson, HP Research,
Samsung Research, Bosch R&D, Google, Mayo, NLM, etc.
● Major Awards: 2015-2016 George Thomas Post-Graduate Fellowship, Eric &
Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Fellowship, USAID and
ICT4Peace Fellowship, ITU Telecom World Young Innovators, etc.
● Exceptional publication impact: 11 out of Sheth’s 20 PhDs have 1,000+
citations each (3 over 5,000); Average citation for Sheth’s first 18 PhDs:
1,400+
● Exceptional professional services: Invited talks; PC membership of 10-20
conferences, usually involving top conferences in their fields
● 50% of the Sheth’s PhDs have filed at least 2 patents; 1 former PhD has filed
30+ patents.

11. Showcase

12. Showcase: http://knoesis.org/hemant

13. Showcase: http://knoesis.org/researchers/cory

14. Accomplishments and accolades (a sample)
From NSF Program Manager of recently completed project that lead to outcomes (# and
quality of PhDs/MS/UG; publications, participation/use in real world disaster events,
extensive national and international media coverage,....).
● “ Thank you for your wonderfully informative final report for your collaborative project.
● I am glad to see your research results in developing an effective Twitris platform for use
by PIOs that utilizes social media for coordination of efforts for an emergency response.
● I appreciate your efforts in broadening the impacts of your project via collaboration with
emergency personnel and including them in the final testing of Twitris. It is commendable
that your tool has been successfully used in past year’s major disaster events.
● I am pleased that your work has been reported in publications that will hopefully lead to
an even broader adoption of your techniques and tools.
● It is good to see that your project also provided training for many students at both
institutions and resulted in many theses, etc. “

15. We are World Class….(last available data, but not updated recently by MAS)

16. Economic & IP Development
Created Twitris, a Commercial Grade software, which had significant NSF
and AFRL research funds, followed by NSF I-CORP and NSF-PFI-AIR
funding; currently VC/entrepreneurs are evaluating for potential
licensing/start up
One recent patent awarded, two filed
Many more patents filed by companies where Kno.e.sis students intern
ezDI has funded Sponsored Research for the fifth year in the row and now
has major successful products
A local entrepreneur has just signed Sponsored Research that is essentially
incubating his company in Kno.e.sis
On going SBIR/STTR funding and participating; faculty (Raymer) led
company,....

17. Extensive Major Media Coverage

18. Kno.e.sis is the shining example of world-
class research and student outcomes at
Wright State.
Let us work together to leverage
Kno.e.sis for much broader benefits.