CAPPLab

Welcome to the Computer Architecture and Parallel Programming Laboratory (CAPPLab) at Wichita State University. CAPPLab has been selected as an NVIDIA GPU Research Center.

Key Objectives:

Conduct research in computer systems, data analysis, and associated domains.

Teach computer architecture, parallel programming, machine learning, and related topics.

Director:

Dr. Abu Asaduzzaman (Zaman), Professor

Selected Grants

  • Principal Investigator (PI); “A Promising Approach to Employ Machine Learning for Genomic Data Analysis in Advancing Cancer Treatment,” awarded, WSU Flossie E. West Memorial Trust; total $30,500 for 5/15/2025-12/31/2025.

  • PI; “Machine Learning Driven Surrogate Framework for Predicting Stability of Scalable Power Grids via Data Sampling and Dimensionality Reduction,” awarded, Department of Energy (DOE) Visiting Faculty Program (VFP – Faculty and Students) for research at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL); total $32,000 for 5/2025-8/2025. ANL: Daniel Adrian Maldonado (Host Researcher)
  • Co-PI; “Fleet Management Platform,” awarded, J3D Labs (FLIP) - STTR for Wichita State University Training & Technology Team (T3); total $539,998 (my share $16,130) for 6/2025-12/2026. Wichita State University: Amy Jones (PI)

  • PI; “Prescreening Data Analysis for Mobile Dental Clinics,” awarded, Vera Healthcare; total $71,425 for six months (my share is $42,855) for 11/2023-05/2024.
    Wichita State University: John Watkins (Co-PI) and Visvakumar Aravinthan (Co-PI)

  • Recipient; travel grant to attend the NSF CISE Education and Workforce (EWF) Aspiring PI (API) Summit in Atlanta, GA, June 21-22, 2023 (registration, hotel, airfare, and meals will be reimbursed by NSF, estimated total $1,800, 2023.

  • PI; “Business Analyses of Network Architecture on Exascale Machines using PETSc,” funded by the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) Faculty Research Participant program for research at ANL; total $54,800 (two students are supported), 2023.

  • PI; “Expand PETSc Library to Support Data-Intensive Real-Time Simulation,” awarded by the Argonne National Laboratory Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Co-Design Center for Online Data Analysis and Reduction (CODAR); total $43,815 (one student to support) for one year, 2022-2023.

  • PI; “Network Application Modeling and Simulation on Exascale Machines,” funded by the Department of Energy Exascale Computing Project (ECP) via Sustainable Research Pathways for High-Performance Computing (SRP-HPC) program for research at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL); total $53,300 (two students are supported), 2022.

  • PI; “Open2C framework and OpenSoC Fabric to build up a communication-aware level-2 cache controller,” awarded by the Department of Energy Visiting Faculty Program (VFP – Faculty and VFP – Student) via Sustainable Research Pathways (SRP) for research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; total $48,000 (two students are supported), 2020-2021.

  • PI; "A Real-Time Imaging System to Assist Surgical Procedures," Wichita State University Research/Creative Projects Award (URCA); total $4,500 for one year, 2019-2020.
  • PI; “High Performance Computing at Low (Room) Temperature,” CybertronPC; total $10,000 for one year (includes hardware donation), 2016-2017.
  • PI; “NVIDIA GPU Research Center at Wichita State,” NVIDIA Corporation; multiple benefits including recognition as a GPU Research Center, invitation to NVIDIA Special Events, and inclusion in NVIDIA GPU Seeding Programs; total $10,000 for two years, 2015-2017.
  • PI; “Collaborative Research: NetApp NFS Connector for Apache Spark Systems,” NetApp, Inc.; total $60,000 ($49,828 for PI) for nine months, 2015-2016. (Co-PI: Tonya Witherspoon, Wichita State University.)
  • PI; “An Empirical Application of High-Performance Pattern Recognition and Protein Binding to Treat Cancer,” WSU Flossie E. West Memorial Foundation; total $24,984 for one year, 2014-2015.
  • PI; “Discovering CUDA-Accelerated New Programming Paradigm to Address the Growing Low-Power High Performance Computing Requirements,” WSU University Research/Creative Projects Award; total $4,498 for one year, 2014-2015.
  • PI; “A novel task and data regrouping based parallel approach to solve massive problems faster on multithreaded computing systems,” Kansas NSF EPSCoR First Award; total $105,296 for 15 months, 2013-2014.
  • PI; “CUDA Teaching Center at Wichita State University;” NVIDIA Corporation; total $7,702 (hardware plus money) for one year, 2012-2013.

Grant Opportunities

U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF):

U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH):

U.S. Department of Defense (DOD):

  • Geospatial Intelligence Processing and Exploitation (GeoPEX) Broad Agency Announcement rolling until 9/30/2026       
    The Air Force Research Laboratory seeks white papers for research, development, integration, testing, and evaluation of technologies/techniques to provide geospatial intelligence.
  • DARPA Biological Technologies Office (BTO) Broad Agency Announcement rolling until 9/10/2025    
    Topics of interest related to AI/ML include biological data generation, assessment, and incorporation into the biological foundation models, developing ML and AI-enabled technologies to improve the accuracy, precision, and efficiency of warfighter decision-making, and the development of visual testbeds, digital twins, and/or synthetic data.
  • DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory Broad Agency Announcement for Foundational Research rolling until 11/20/2027   
    Current research topics include AI Model Optimization for Real-Time, Scalable Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with Extremely Sparse Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning-Enabling Technologies for Expeditionary Maneuver and Air/Ground Reconnaissance, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Managing Massive Data Sets.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA):

Industry and Foundation Grants

More Grant Opportunities

  • WSU Office of Research 
    In addition to excellent research within our academic departments, WSU is home to more than 30 research centers and institutes, many of which work closely with local, regional, and national entities to accelerate discovery and innovation and bring new products to the marketplace.

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