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Grants and Sponsored Projects
KSU Lead PI: Shirley Tian, KSU Co-PIs: Jack Zheng, Hossain Shahriar, Chi Zhang, Seyedamin
Pouriyeh, ALG Grant, 2023
KSU Lead PI: Hossain Shahriar, KSU Co-PIs: Maria Valero, Chi Zhang, Sweta Sneha. National
Institute of General Medical Science, a NIH STTR program. Proposal "A Framework mHealth
App Security and Privacy Analysis". Lead Institution: Ubitrix Inc. KSU (R&D site)
receives a subaward of $103,391 on this project to implement HIPAA compliance checker
tool for Android mhealth apps. 2021.
Li, L. (PI), Halstead-Nussloch, R. (Co-PI), Le, L. (Co-PI), Zhang, C. (Co-PI), Affordable
Learning Georgia (ALG) Affordable Matererials Grant, $10,000. 2021.
Zhang, C. (PI), Rutherfoord, R. (Co-PI), Vande Ven, S. (Co-PI), Zheng, G. (Co-PI),
"No-Cost-to-Student learning material enhancement - IT 6103, IT 4713, IT 4723, IT
3223," Sponsored by ALG, State, $10,000. 2021.
Shahriar, H. M. (PI), Zhang, C. (Co-PI), "Building Secure Software Through Data Leakage
Analysis Plugins", Sponsored by ICWD - SunTrust, Kennesaw State University, $8,996.
June 2020 - June 2021.
Zhang, C. (PI), Sponsored Research, "2019-2020 R2 Research Success Faculty Learning
Community", Sponsored by Office of Research, Kennesaw State University, $1,000. January
2020 - May 2020.
Shahriar, H. M. (PI), Li, L. (Co-PI), Pouriyeh, S. (Co-PI), Tian, S. (Co-PI), Zhang,
C. (Co-PI), "Large Scale No-Cost Textbook Resources Towards Zero Cost MSIT Degree
Program," $30,000. October 2019 - December 2020.
Shahriar, H. M. (PI), Zhang, C.(Co-PI), "IT 6843 Revision - Development of Labware,"
Sponsored by Affordable Learning Georgia- USG, Kennesaw State University, $4,800.
May 2019 - December 2020.
Zheng, G. (PI), Zhang, C. (Co-PI), "No-Cost-to-Student learning material enhancement
- IT 6713," Sponsored by ALG, State, $4,800. February 2019 - May 2020.
Zhang, C. (PI), Shahriar, H. (Co-PI), "HIT- IT3503/IT6503 Revision," Sponsored by
Affordable Learning Georgia (USG), $4,800. October 3, 2018 - December 11, 2019.
Zhang, C. (PI), "Open-source Electronic Health Records (EHR) Systems: Evaluation and
Application," Sponsored by CETL, Kennesaw State University, $6,400. August 15, 2016
- June 30, 2017.
Zhang, C. (PI), Brown, R. L. (Co-PI), "Textbook Transformation for Health Information
Technology Related Courses," Sponsored by USG, State, $10,800. February 15, 2016 -
May 30, 2017.
Zhang, C. (PI), Peltsverger, S. B. (Co-PI), "Investigation and Development of Online
Tools and techniques for Information Security Hands-on Exercises," Sponsored by SPSU,
Kennesaw State University, $5,000. 2014.