Acknowledgments and Disclaimer

    Our research has been made possible by funds from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP), the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Facebook, the Texas National Security Network, and The University of Texas at Arlington.
    Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in our research results are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies.

Funding Activities

  • NSF Award #2333834. Proto-OKN Theme 1: Digging in to Soil Carbon with USDA : A Knowledge Graph Informing Soil Carbon Modeling. Chengkai Li (PI), Jianzhong Su. $1,499,375, Sept. 2023-August. 2026.
  • Agricultutral Research Service (ARS) Grant. Development of the FPAC Soil Carbon Data Management Tools Suites and Systems that are Integrated into and Maintained on the USDA ARS Partnerships”. Jianzhong Su (PI), Chengkai Li (co-PI). $451,997, Feb. 2023-Jul. 2025.
  • National Library of Medicine (NLM) Grant. Training and Experiential Learning in Biomedical Informatics (TExBioMed). Gabriela M. Wilson (PI), Jon A. Weidanz, Shan Sun-Mitchell, Michael Cho, Chengkai Li (co-PI), Brittany E. Shupe. $675,000, Sept. 2023-Aug. 2028.
  • NSF Award #2053588. Leveraging Crowdsourced Data to Assess Spatiotemporal Patterns of Resilience in Diverse Gulf Coast Communities Impacted by Natural Hazards. Michelle Hummel (PI), Antwi Akom, Chengkai Li (co-PI), Aekta Shah. $396,200, Nov. 2021-Oct. 2024.
  • Agricultutral Research Service (ARS) Grant. USDA ARS Research Apprenticeship Program at University of Texas at Arlington. Jianzhong Su (PI), Gautam Das, Bryan Samuel, Suvra Pal, Shuo Linda Wang, Hong Jiang, Chengkai Li (co-PI), Li Wang, William J. Beksi, Keaton Hamm, Ren-Cang Li. $400,000, Sept. 2021-Aug. 2024.
  • BPC-AE: An Extended CAHSI Alliance to Broaden Participation in Graduate Studies. Carter Tiernan (PI), Chengkai Li (co-PI). $156,000, Sept. 2021-Aug. 2024. (Subaward from UT El Paso, as part of a $2.9 million NSF BPC (Broadening Participation in Computing) Alliance Extension Grant)
  • Public Health Informatics & Technology Workforce Development Program. Marion Ball (PI), Gabriela Wilson, Chengkai Li (co-investigator). $410,000, Sept. 2021-Aug. 2024. (Subaward from UT Health Science Center at Houston, as part of a $10 million grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC))
  • ExploreCSR Grant, Google. OurCS@DFW: Broadening Participation of Undergraduate Women in Computing through a Research-Focused Workshop. Chengkai Li (PI), Sharma Chakravarthy, Ron Cross, Song Fu (UNT), Yan Huang (UNT), Shirin Nilizadeh, Carter Tiernan. $15,000, Sept. 2020-Aug. 2021.
  • NSF Award #1937143. Convergence Accelerator Phase I (RAISE): Credible Open Knowledge Network. Chengkai Li (PI), Sibel Adalı (RPI), Jun Yang (Duke), Yinghui Wu (Case Western Reserve University), Xiaojing Liao (Indiana). $999,870, Sept. 2019-May. 2020.
  • ExploreCSR Grant, Google. OurCS@DFW: Broadening Participation of Undergraduate Women in Computing through a Research-Focused Workshop. Chengkai Li (PI), Ming Li, Shirin Nilizadeh, Carter Tiernan. $26,000, Sept. 2019-Aug. 2020.
  • Academic Alliance Seed Fund, National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT). Student Computing Research Festival: Broadening Participation of Women and Underrepresented Groups in Systems and Networking Research. Chengkai Li (PI), Ming Li, Shirin Nilizadeh. $10,000, May 2019-Apr. 2020.
  • NSF Award #1719054. III: Small: Towards End-to-End Computer-Assisted Fact-Checking. Chengkai Li (PI), Mark Tremayne. $320,780, Sept. 2017-Aug. 2020. (Collaborative grant with Duke University (Jun Yang (PI)). The lead institution is UTA. The total of the grant is $500,000.)
  • Development of Automated Fact-Checking Applications and Tools. Chengkai Li (PI). $105,000, Sept. 2017-Aug. 2019. (Subaward from Duke University, as part of the $1.2 million grant to the Duke Tech & Check Cooperative from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Facebook, and the Craig Newmark Foundation.)
  • Texas National Security Network Excellence Fund. Bot vs. Bot: Automated Detection of Fake-news Bot. Chengkai Li (PI), Christoph Csallner, Angela Lee (UTD), Zhiqiang Lin (UTD), Mark Tremayne. $30,000, Jun. 2017-May 2018.
  • Knight Prototype Fund, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. ClaimBuster. Chengkai Li (PI), Naeemul Hassan, Mark Tremayne, Bill Adair, Jun Yang, Cong Yu. $35,000, Nov. 2015-Apr. 2016.
  • NSF Award #1565699, I-Corps Team: ClaimBuster: Automated, Live Fact-Checking. Chengkai Li (PI). $50,000, Nov. 2015-Apr. 2016.
  • NSF Award #1408928. III: Medium: From Answering Questions to Questioning Answers (and Questions)---Perturbation Analysis of Database Queries. Chengkai Li (PI). $273,778 (including $32,000 REU supplements), Sept. 2014-Aug. 2017. (Collaborative grant with Duke University (Jun Yang (PI), Bill Adair, Pankaj K. Agarwal) and Stanford University (James T. Hamilton (PI)). The lead institution is Duke. The total of the grant is $1.2 million.)
  • 2011 and 2012 HP Labs Innovation Research Award.Entity-Centric Querying of Enterprise Information for IT Management. Chengkai Li (PI). $80,000, Sept. 2011-Aug. 2013.
  • NSF Award #1117369. SHF: Small: Testing Large-Scale Database-Centric Applications. Christoph Csallner (PI), Leonidas Fegaras, Chengkai Li (Co-PI). $497,955, Sept. 2011-Aug. 2014.
  • NSF Award #1018865. III: Small: EntityEngine: A Query Engine for Entity-Relationship Queries over Web Text. Chengkai Li (PI), Gautam Das. $515,713 (including $16,000 REU supplement), Sept. 2010-Aug. 2013.
  • UT Arlington Research Enhancement Program (REP): Mashing Up Information on the Web. Chengkai Li (PI). $10,000. Sept. 2008-Aug. 2009.
  • Dr. Chengkai Li also participated in two National Natural Science Foundation of China Grants led by Dr. Wei Hu of Nanjing University: #61872172 (Research on Representation Learning Based RDF Data Linkage Methods, RMB630,000, Sept. 2018-Aug. 2021) and #61370019 (Research on Crowdsourcing Entity Linkage for the Semantic Web, RMB780,000, Jan. 2014-Dec. 2017).
  • Dr. Chengkai Li would also like to thank HP Labs China for inviting him to visit them in the Summer of 2010/11/12 and covering the expense of his stay.

500 UTA Boulevard
Engineering Research Building (ERB), Room 414
Arlington, TX 76019-0015

Email: cli@uta.edu

© The University of Texas at Arlington 2007-2019. All rights reserved.