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Theses/Dissertation

  • Diffraction Shading Models for Iridescent Surfaces,
    PhD Dissertation,
    Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, September 2001

  • Wireless Local Area Networks Medium Access Control Protocols,
    Masters Thesis,
    Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, May 1996

  • Design and Implementation of a 6-bit Digital Adder,
    Bachelor’s Thesis,
    Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Benin, Nigeria, April 1994



Grants Awarded

  • Stability Health Sandbox Grant, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MeHI),
    PI David Harlan, co-PIs Mike Aspinwall, Emmanuel Agu, Diane Strong, Bengisu Tulu, Soussan Djamasbi, Rodica Neamtu,
    Award Amount: $50,000, 2020 Academic year

  • 2 T32 CA172009 Prevention and Control of Cancer: Training for Change in Individuals and Systems (PRACCTIS 2.0), NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI), T32 grant,
    MPIs Lemon/Houston UMMS, WPI mentors: Emmanuel Agu, Dmitry Korkin, Elke Rundensteiner, Sharon Johnson, Diane Strong,
    Funding Amounts: $1,558,829, Funding Dates: 08/08/2019 – 07/31/2024

  • Design and Synthesis of Materials for Agile Manufacturing,
    Danielle Cote (PI),
    Army Research Labs (ARL), Funding Amount: $24,999,821.00, Dates: 08/15/19 – 08/14/22

  • HR001117S0032-WASH-FP-031, DH-Warfighter: Improving Warfighter Health by Early Detection of Digital Biomarkers,
    Emmanuel Agu (PI), Elke Rundensteiner (co-PI),
    Defense Advanced Research Agencies (DARPA). Funded Amount $2,803,313. Requested dates 3/1/2018 – 2/28/2022

  • 1R01EB025801-01 SCH: INT: Smartphone Wound Image Parameter Analysis and Decision Support in Mobile Environments,
    Emmanuel Agu (PI), Diane Strong (co-PI), Bengisu Tulu (co-PI),
    National Science Foundation, Smart and Connected Health Program. Requested amount $1,968,571. Requested dates 9/1/2017 – 8/30/2021 (funded by NIH NIBIB)

  • 1R21AA025193-01 Machine Learning Approach for Inferring Alcohol Intoxication Levels from Gait Data,
    Michael Stein (PI), Emmanuel Agu (PI), Ana Abrantes (co-I),
    NIH R21 National Institute on Alcoholism. PA-14-188. Requested amount $408,578, WPI sub-contract amount ($115,469). Requested Dates 7/1/17-6/30/19

  • NSF Award # 1723555 Collaborative Research: Broadening Secure Mobile Software Development (SMSD) Through Curriculum and Faculty Development,
    Fan Wu (PI), Cassandra Thomas (co-PI), Kai Qian (co-PI), Hossain Shahriar (co-PI), Emmanuel Agu (co-PI).
    Requested amount ($498,970), WPI Share $149,487. Requested Dates 09/01/17-08/30/20

  • Stroke Rehabilitation through Gaming: Proactively Predicting Non-Adherence to Facilitate Just-In-Time Interventions
    Mark Claypool, Lynn Gauthier, Emmanuel Agu,
    UML-WPI Collaborative Seed Funding, $11,486, Summer 2019

  • NIH R21AA024295 A Tailored Physical Activity Smartphone App for Patients with Alcohol Dependence,
    Abrantes (PI), co-PIs: Michael Stein, Emmanuel Agu,
    Award Amount: $207,207. Award Dates: 4/1/16-3/31/21

  • NIH NIDA grant 1R21DA041153-01A1 A Smartphone App to Facilitate Buprenorphine Discontinuation,
    PI: Abrantes, co-PIs: Michael Stein, Emmanuel Agu.
    Award Amount: $103,609. Award Dates: 6/15/16 . 5/31/18

  • KERN Entrepreneurial Engineering Network grant, Developing the Entrepreneurial Engineer,
    Glenn Gaudette (PI), Emmanuel Agu Entrepreneurial Engineering Faculty (EEF)
    Award Amount: $1,760,000. Award dates June 2016 . April 2019

  • SocialoScope: A Passive System to Infer Loneliness from the Interaction and Communication Patterns of Smartphone Users, WPI Health Delivery Institute (HDI) Internal Grant.
    PI: SocialoScope: A Passive System to Infer Loneliness from the Interaction and Communication Patterns of Smartphone Users, Emmanuel Agu.
    Award Amount: $21,000. Award Dates: June 1-August 31, 2016

  • REU SITE: Data science research for healthy, safe, and sustainable communities,
    Elke Rundensteiner and Fatemeh Emdad (PIs), Program faculty: Emmanuel Agu, Mohamed Eltabakh, Carolina Ruiz, Xiangnan Kong, Yanhua Li, Lane Harrison, Dmitry Korkin, Jian Zou, Randy Paffenroth.
    Award Amount: $358,574. Award Dates: May 2016 - April 2019

  • KERN Entrepreneurial Engineering Network grant, Developing the Entrepreneurial Engineer,
    Glenn Gaudette (PI), Emmanuel Agu Entrepreneurial Engineering Faculty (EEF)
    Award Amount: $488,500. Award dates June 2015 – April 2016

  • Grant Number: NIH R01HL122302, Project Title: RELAX: A Mobile Application Suite Targeting Obesity and Stress,
    Principal Investigator: Pagoto, Sherry L, WPI co-PIs: Bengisu Tulu (School of Business), Emmanuel Agu (Computer Science), Tsung-Ye Wang (School of Business).
    Award amount: $1,952,780. WPI sub-contract: $618,546. Project period: 12/1/2014 - 11/30/2017

  • Grant Number: 1 R21 DK098556-01, Project Title: Feasibility Trial of a Problem-Solving Weight Loss Mobile,
    Principal Investigator: Pagoto, Sherry L, WPI co-PIs: Bengisu Tulu (School of Management), Emmanuel Agu (Computer Science).
    Award amount: $470,393. WPI sub-contract: $90,020. Project period: 4/1/2013 - 3/31/2015

  • SHB: Medium: Self-Care Management: Patient-Centered Diabetic Wound Care Using Smart Phones, National Science Foundation, CISE Smart Health and Wellbeing program,
    D. Strong, PI, E. Agu, R. Ignotz, P. Pedersen, B. Tulu, Co-PIs,
    Award Period: September 2011-2015, budget $1.2 million

  • Equipment gift from Nvidia Corp Inc. (1 Programmable Graphics Card for Desktop Computers)
    Emmanuel Agu (PI) ),
    $500 of equipment from Nvidia Corp Inc., April 2011

  • Equipment gift from Nokia Inc (5 C5 Smartphones)
    Emmanuel Agu (PI),
    $1250 of equipment from Nokia Inc, March 2011

  • Equipment gift from Google Inc (20 Motorola Droid 2 Smartphones)
    Emmanuel Agu (PI),
    $8500 of equipment from Google Inc , May 2010

  • Speedup of Synthetic Aperture Radar Algorithm using GPUs,
    Emmanuel Agu,
    $8,000, Raytheon Inc, December 2009

  • Airdrop research projects,
    David Olinger and Emmanuel Agu (co-PIs),
    $40,000, Airdrop Technology Team at Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center, under Solicitation Number "07-09 Natick BAA", January 2008

  • Fellowships in Computer Science to Support the Learning Sciences and Security,
    Matthew Ward (PI) and Emmanuel Agu, George Heineman, Neil Heffernan (co-PIs),
    $804,940, ($177,610 cost-sharing), GAANN proposal, Nov 2005. Requested dates: 8/06 to 7/09.

  • Equipment gift from ATI Inc (10 Programmable Graphics Cards for Desktop Computers)
    Emmanuel Agu (PI) and Robert Lindeman (co-PI),
    $5000 of equipment from ATI Inc.

  • Location-Aware Computing,
    E Agu (PI),
    $6450 research grant from the WPI Research and Development Council (RDC), summer 2005

  • An Integrated Multi-Layer Wireless LAN Testbed,
    K. Pahlavan (PI) and E. Agu (co-PI),
    $380,000 equipment grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), #0303592 October 2003

  • Mobile Adaptive Distributed Graphics Framework (MADGRAF),
    Emmanuel Agu (PI),
    $4500 research grant from the WPI Research and Development Council (RDC), summer 2003


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