Profs. Amit Sheth and John Miller were once again awarded IBM Eclipse Innovation Grant (EIG) (a $27,000 cash gift) for their research related to the METEOR-S project. As part of the IBM Scholars Program, the EIG competition was highly competitive. IBM received over 360 international submissions and selected around 50 proposals for funding in the range of $10,000-$30,000 each.

Prof. Doshi was awarded a 3-year grant by the Army Research Office for his project titled 'Strategic State Estimation in Uncertain and Mixed Multiagent Settings'. Prof. Adam Goodie of Psychology is the Co-PI.

Prof. Doshi received a one-year grant from Microsoft Research for his research proposal titled 'Semantic Reconciliation with Disparate Sensor Meta-Data for Automatic Publication'. His was one of the approximately 15% of the total proposals that were selected for funding. The competition received proposals from all over the world.

Prof. Doshi (PI) received a two year grant from AFOSR for his project titled "Individual Decision Making in Large-Scale and Uncertain Multiagent Environments". Prof. Doshi will collaborate with Prof. Goodie (Co-PI) of the Psychology Dept., UGA.

National Science Foundation awarded a grant on "SemGrid: Semantic Discovery on Adaptive Services Grid," PI: Amit Sheth, Co-PIs: I.B. Arpinar, K. Kochut, J.A. Miller, Award # IIS 0545243, October 15, 2005 - December 31, 2007, $100,000.

LSDIS lab received $32,000 cash gift from the Athens Heart Center and welcomes it as our newest institutional sponsor. ; Dr.Subodh Agrawal 's vision and insight that LSDIS's research in the Semantic Web and ontology-driven integration/analysis can be of significant value to healthcare, including cardiology practices, gets us energized to seek more impact of our research.

LSDIS lab is awarded phase II of project "An Ontological Approach to Financial Analysis & Monitoring" (Amit Sheth, PI; Budak Arpinar, Co-PI). UGA component of this phase award from ARDA (with CTA, Inc. as a partner) is $162,500. Expected total award amount if phase III is awarded is $325,000. Further details from SemDisproject web site.

Dr. Liming Cai has recently been awarded an NIH research grant on his computational biology project "Searching Genomes for Non-Coding RNAs by Their Structure" (co-PIs: Russell Malmberg of Plant Biology and Michael McEachern of Genetics at UGA) with the amount of $232,552 for the first year and total amount of $716,352 for three years.

Congratulations to Prof. Ramaswamy for winning a grant from NSF for his project on building Cloud-based Big-Data techniques for federated Internet of Things.

THINC lab's ontology alignment tool, Optima+, developed by doctoral student Uthayasanker Thayasivam and Prof. Doshi is tied second in a key track at the annual ontology alignment competition, OAEI 2012, among 21 tools.