Xiao Qin's Research

Auburn University

Projects

Grants

Since 2004, Dr. Qin has secured 38 grants totaling $12,849,374 in sponsored research funding (including the full value of collaborative awards). He has served as PI on 27 grants totaling $4,112,281, including an NSF CAREER Award, and as Co-PI on 11 grants totaling $8,737,093.

  1. Co-PI and AI Lead, USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, “AI4Trees: Building an AI-Enabled Forestry Workforce Pipeline Through Integrated K-12 Education, Extension, and Research,” $1,990,343, 1/2027-12/2031. (PI: Jung Won Hur; Co-PIs: Xiao Qin, Virginia Davis, Hao Chen, and Richard Cristan.)
  2. PI, National Science Foundation (NSF), “Building STEM Pathways Powered by Data Science Skills Training to Foster Student Persistence through Institutional Partnership,” Total Award Amount: $399,943 (Lead PI: Virginetta S Cannon; Co-PIs: Xiaopu Peng and Daniel J LaMaster, Talladega College). (PI: Xiao Qin; Co-PI: Cheryl Seals.)
  3. Co-PI and GTA Training Lead, NEU Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC) Implementation Grant, “AI Bridge: Pathway from AI Literacy to Proficiency and Fluency for All Auburn Students,” $245,525, 06/01/2026-05/31/2028. (PI: Hari Narayanan; Co-PIs: Richard Chapman, Clint Lovelace, Xiao Qin, Sathyanarayanan Aakur, Vishalini Ramnath.)
  4. PI, Alabama Research and Development Enhancement Fund, Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs, “Data Mining for Enhanced Real-Time Bidding in Alabama's Online Display Advertising Industry,” $248,278, 1/2025-12/2026. Project Website
  5. Co-PI and Software Engineering Lead, National Science Foundation (NSF), “Promoting Readiness of Interdisciplinary Scholars for Excellence in the STEM Workforce through a Mentored Community Approach (RISE-STEM),” $1,731,126, Total Award Amount: $4,999,045 (Lead PI: Mohammed A Qazi, Tuskegee University), 10/2024-9/2029. (PI: Kimberly X Mulligan; Co-PIs: Xiao Qin, Asheber Abebe, and Brittany McCullough. Former PI: Overtoun M Jenda; former Co-PI: George T Flowers.) Project Website | NSF Award Abstract
  6. Co-PI and Software Development Lead, Auburn University Mission Enhancement Fund, “Develop Auburn Educational Data Intelligence System (AEDIS),” $200,000, 1/2025-12/2026. (PI: Amit Morey; Co-PIs: Xiao Qin, Dory Thompson, John Schmidt, Wendy Cooper-Porter, and Shawndra Bowers.)
  7. PI, Wright Media Corp., “Real-Time Bidding in Online Display Advertising,” $51,778, 8/2024-8/2025.
  8. PI (Auburn University), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, “Synthesis of Artificial Intelligence Training and Validation Method,” $20,000 (Auburn), Total Award Amount: $445,000 (Lead PI: Feng Guo, Virginia Tech), 9/2023-7/2024.
  9. PI, Alabama Space Grant Consortium and NASA EPSCoR, “Flight Software Development for ACSI (Alabama CubeSat Initiative),” $125,489 (CSSE), Total Award Amount: $416,418, 1/2021-3/2025.
  10. PI, Wright Media Corp., “Hiring Intelligence: AI-Driven Optimization Techniques for Web and Mobile Recruiting Solutions,” $47,803, 8/2023-8/2024.
  11. Co-PI, Creative Work and Social Impact Scholarship Funding Program, Auburn University, “19th Century Lit, 21st Century Tech: Interdisciplinary Partnerships for a Digital Humanities Initiative,” $40,000, 1/2022-12/2024. (PI: Beverley Rilett; Co-PIs: Xiao Qin, Derek Ross and Tiffany Sippial.)
  12. Co-PI, DENSO Foundation, “Enhancing Computer Science and Software Engineering Undergraduate Education with Automotive-relevant Project Experiences in Mobility Critical Skills Areas,” $100,000, 8/2020-7/2022. (PI: Hari Narayanan; Other Co-PIs: Ashish Gupta, Dean Hendrix, Mark Yampolskiy, Alvin Lim.)
  13. PI, NSF IIS Program, IIS-1618669, “Indoor Spatial Query Evaluation and Trajectory Tracking with Bayesian Filtering Techniques,” $499,995, 9/2016-8/2022. NSF Award Abstract
  14. PI, NSF CICI Program, CICI-1642133, “Secure and Resilient Architecture: Data Integrity Assurance and Privacy Protection Solutions for Secure Interoperability of Cloud Resources,” $640,440, 10/2016-9/2021. (Co-PIs: Anthony Skjellum, Ming-Kuo Lee, and Shiwen Mao.) NSF Award Abstract
  15. PI, NSF CISE/CCF, Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU-CCF-0845257), $48,000, 9/2012-8/2016.
  16. PI, NSF CISE/CCF, Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU-CNS-0917137), $48,000, 9/2010-8/2014.
  17. PI, NSF CAREER Award, CCF-0845257, “CAREER: Multicore-Based Parallel Disk Systems for Large-Scale Data-Intensive Computing,” $400,000, 8/2009-7/2016. NSF Award Abstract
  18. Lead PI, NSF CNS-Core Program, CNS-0917137, “FastStor: Data-Mining-Based Multilayer Prefetching for Hybrid Storage Systems,” $200,000 (Auburn), Total Award Amount: $562,994, 9/2009-8/2014. Auburn Co-PI: Wei-Shinn Ku. In collaboration with Ziliang Zong and Manuel L. Penaloza at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology ($200,000) and Mais Nijim at the University of South Mississippi ($99,994). NSF Award Abstract
  19. PI, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) Research Grant, “Software Performance Analysis Models for Data-Intensive Computing,” $43,000, 5/2010-8/2013. (KACST is the Saudi Arabian National Science Agency.)
  20. PI, NSF DUE-CCLI Program, DUE-0837341, “QoSec: A Novel Middleware-Based Approach to Teaching Computer Security Courses,” $149,999, 9/2009-8/2012. (Co-PIs: John A. “Drew” Hamilton, Jr., Kai Chang, and Wei-Shinn Ku.) NSF Award Abstract
  21. PI, NSF CISE/CNS, CSR Program, CNS-0757778, “Mathematical Reliability Models for Energy-Efficient Parallel Disk Systems,” $150,000, 9/2007-8/2010. NSF Award Abstract
  22. PI, NSF CISE/CCF, CPA Program, CCF-0742187, “BUD: A Buffer-Disk Architecture for Energy Conservation in Parallel Disk Systems,” $299,999, 6/2007-5/2010. (Co-PIs: Peter C. Lichtner, LANL; Tao Xie, SDSU.) NSF Award Abstract
  23. PI, NSF CISE/CNS, Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Supplemental Grant (supplement to grant CNS-0757778), $28,000, 10/2008-9/2009.
  24. PI, NSF CISE/CCF, Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Supplemental Grant (supplement to grant CCF-0742187), $36,000, 9/2008-8/2010.
  25. PI, Auburn University Start-Up Grant, “High-Performance Storage Systems,” $110,288, 8/2007-6/2012.
  26. PI, Intel Research Grant/Award, “SECS: Scheduling in Energy-Efficient Computing Systems,” $58,000, 9/2005-8/2008.
  27. PI, Altera Corporation University Program, Equipment Grant, “An Energy-Delay Tunable Task Allocation Strategy for Embedded Systems,” $9,105, 2/2007-1/2008.
  28. PI, Internal Intel Research Grant, “Development of a Simulator for Cluster Storage Systems using Intel-Based Mac Mini Computers,” $4,000, 4/2007-3/2008. (Co-PI: Yiming Yang, Intel Corporation.)
  29. PI, New Mexico Tech Start-Up Grant, “SARTS: Security-Aware Real-Time Systems,” $80,000, 8/2004-6/2007.
  30. PI, Xilinx University Program, Equipment Grant, “Energy-Efficient Embedded Systems,” $6,170, 8/2006-7/2007.
  31. PI, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Research Grant, “MIND: Modeling Energy Consumption for RAID5 Disk Arrays,” $32,000, 5/2009-8/2016.
  32. PI, Wuhan University of Technology Research Grant, “Design and Modeling of Distributed Intelligent Transportation Systems,” $3,000, 5/2006-6/2006. (Co-PI: Shengjun Xue, WUT.)
  33. PI, New Mexico Tech Presidential Research Grant, “Adaptive Quality of Security Control in Storage Systems,” $10,000, 8/2005-7/2006.
  34. Co-PI, NSF Cyber Trust grant, CNS-0831502, “SPEAR: Space Encryption-based Query Processing for Privacy-Aware Location-based Services,” $199,999, 8/2008-7/2011. (PI: Wei-Shinn Ku; Co-PIs: John A. “Drew” Hamilton, Jr., Xiao Qin, and Haixun Wang.) NSF Award Abstract
  35. Co-PI, NSF CI-TEAM grant, OCI-0753305, “Collaborative Project: CI-TEAM Implementation Project: A Digital Forensics Cyberinfrastructure Workforce Training Initiative for America's Veterans,” $299,636, 8/2008-7/2011. (PI: John A. “Drew” Hamilton, Jr.; Co-PIs: Kai Chang, Xiao Qin, and Wei-Shinn Ku.) NSF Award Abstract
  36. Co-PI, National Science Foundation (NSF), “II-NEW: An Infrastructure for Scalable Data Dissemination and Query Evaluation in Mobile Environments,” $164,678. (PI: Wei-Shinn Ku; Co-PIs: Xiao Qin, Shiwen Mao, and Alvin Lim.)
  37. Co-PI, NSF SFS grant, DUE-0830831, “Collaborative Research: Building Information Assurance Education Capacity,” $174,740, 8/2008-7/2011. (PI: John A. “Drew” Hamilton, Jr.; Co-PIs: Kai Chang, Xiao Qin, and Wei-Shinn Ku.) NSF Award Abstract
  38. Co-PI, NSF REU-Site grant, CNS-0851960, “REU Site for Pervasive and Mobile Computing,” $323,127, 5/2009-4/2012. (PI: Saad Biaz; Co-PIs: Wei-Shinn Ku and Xiao Qin.)