Active Grants

  • Principal Investigator, $96,656  GENI Going Forward – GENI Community Outreach, J. Aikat (PI), K. Jeffay, National Science Foundation (GENI Project: Raytheon Corporation / BBN), April 2016 – March 2017.
  • Co-Investigator, $613,623  II-New: Seeing the Future: Ubiquitous Computing in EyeGlasses, J.-M. Frahm (PI), J. Aikat, T. Berg, H. Fuchs, C. Sturton, National Science Foundation, CISE: CNS grant number 1405847; August 1, 2014, 3 years.
  • Co-Investigator, $6 million  TWC: Frontier: Collaborative: Rethinking Security in the Era of Cloud Computing, M. Reiter (PI),  J. Aikat, A. Akella, J. Chase, A. Juels, P. Ning, T. Ristenpart, V. Sekar, M. Swift, National Science  Foundation, CISE:CNS grant number 1330599, August 14, 2013, 5 years.

Completed Research Grants   

  • Principal Investigator, $13,388  GENI Tutorial at ACM SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education), J. Aikat, K. Jeffay, National Science Foundation, CISE:CNS:NETS grant number 1332340, March 2013 – September 2016.
  • Principal Investigator, $178,978  GENI in the classroom: Course Modules for Teaching Networking Concepts, J. Aikat, K. Jeffay, National Science Foundation (GENI Project: Raytheon Corporation), October 2013 – March 2016.
  • Principal Investigator, $7,036  Junior Faculty Development Award, J. Aikat, Office of the Provost, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jan-Dec 2015.
  • Principal Investigator, $5,000  Introduction to Programming: increasing learning effectiveness in a large class, J. Aikat, UNC Center for Faculty Excellence, CFE 100+ Large Course Redesign Grants, Mar 2015, 1 year.
  • Principal Investigator, $7,036  Junior Faculty Development Award, J. Aikat, Office of the Provost, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jan-Dec 2015.
  • Principal Investigator, $499,529  CC-NIE Network Infrastructure: Enabling data-driven research, J. Aikat, T. Hedrick, C. Jones, J. Lees, C. Miller, National Science Foundation (OCI Office of CyberInfrastructure CC-NIE Program), grant number 1245783, December 2012 – November 2015.
  • Principal Investigator, $15,800  Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) supplement for UNC Project – GENI in the classroom: Course Modules for Teaching Networking Concepts, J. Aikat (PI), K. Jeffay, National Science Foundation, August 2014, 1 year.
  • Co-Investigator, $291,714  Development of Education and Training Resources for GENI Experimenters, K. Jeffay (PI), J. Aikat, National Science Foundation (GENI Project: Raytheon Corporation), October 2011 – September 2014.
  • Principal Investigator, $5,000  Intel‐NSF‐GTISC Security Education Micro‐grant Program, J. Aikat, National Science Foundation funded Intel partnership with the Georgia Tech Information Security Center to incorporate security education in the classroom, August 2014, 1 year.
  • Principal Investigator, $10,500  Leveraging Networking Research on GENI Testbeds: Education Modules to Enhance Undergraduate Networking Classes, J. Aikat, K. Jeffay, Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU), August 2014, 1 year. Sponsored by the CRA’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) in cooperation with the National Science Foundation.
  • Principal Investigator, $2,000  Evolution of the HTTP protocol and web traffic, J. Aikat, K. Jeffay, University Research Council (URC) small grant program, December 2012, 1 year.
  • Senior Personnel, $8,000  Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) supplement for UNC Project: Development of Education and Training Resources for GENI Experimenters, K. Jeffay (PI), J. Aikat, National Science Foundation, August 2012, 1 year.
  • Co-Investigator, $12,000  Analyzing the Role of Measurement and Modeling of Internet Traffic in Network Experimentation, K. Jeffay (PI), J. Aikat, Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU), August 2011, 1 year. Sponsored by the CRA’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) in cooperation with the National Science Foundation. Proposal was “judged to be among the best projects” and selected for posting as the sample for CREU proposals on the CRA website since 2012.

Faculty Research Travel grant:

  • NSF CE21 (Computing Education for the 21st Century), Invited to attend, Travel Grant from NCWIT (National Center for Women and Information Technology), Baltimore, MD in January 2015, and Orlando, FL in January 2014.
  • UNC-Chapel Hill Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research “Travel Grant to visit extramural sponsor” (Department of Energy), Washington DC, September 2012.

Visiting Scholar Research Travel grant:

  • NSF, GENI Engineering Conference (GEC12), Kansas City, MO, November 2011.

Postdoctoral Research Travel grants:

  • NSF, ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 2011. 

Student Travel grants:

  • NSF, Internet Measurement Conference, Melbourne, Australia, November 2010.
  • NSF, GENI Experimenters Workshop, Princeton, NJ, June 2010.
  • NSF, GENI Engineering Conference (GEC7), Durham, NC, March 2010.
  • NSF, IEEE Infocom 2002 conference, New York, NY, June 2002.
  • IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, ACM SIGMETRICS, Boston, MA, April 2001.

Graduate Mentor Support Award, Office of Undergraduate Research, UNC-CH.

  • Awarded $500 for “excellent work with undergraduate mentoring”, Fall 2009.
  • Awarded $500 for mentoring an undergraduate student, Spring 2009.

Google workshop for Women Engineers, 2008

  • Selected for “demonstrating academic excellence and leadership in the computing field” to attend a three-day all-expenses paid workshop at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California.