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External Research Grants

2023 - 2028 $ 636,286 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER), National Science Foundation (NSF)
CAREER: Inclusive, Private Mobile Input and Interaction Using Lip Reading
PI: Ahmed Sabbir Arif (Sole)
Publication (CHI 2024) • UC Merced Newsroom Article 1Article 2Article 3
2023 - 2024 $ 60,000 Core Seed Award, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute
Restoring Speech Communication with a Multimodal Decoder-Synthesizer
Lead PI: Lee M. Miller, PI: Daniel John Cates, Ahmed Sabbir Arif
Press Release
2020 - 2021 $ 50,000 Hellman Fellows Award, Hellman Fellows Program
Enabling Motor Impaired People to Input Text on Mobile and Wearable Devices
PI: Ahmed Sabbir Arif (Sole)
Publication (CHI 2023) • UC Merced Newsroom Article
2013 $ 25,000 ENGAGE Grant, Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Exploratory Analyses on How Users Adapt to a Faulty Unistroke-Based Gesture System
PI: Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Postdoc: Ahmed Sabbir Arif
Publication (CHI WiP 2014)

Internal Research Grants

2024 - 2025 $ 19,872 Senate Faculty Research Grant, UC Merced
Hampad: An Electromagnetic Tracking and Haptic Feedback System for Feet-based Interaction in Virtual Reality
PI: Hua Huang, Co-PI: Ahmed Sabbir Arif
2022 - 2023 $ 10,000 Renee and Mike Child Family Fund Seed Grant, UC Davis
Restoring Speech Communication with a Multimodal Decoder-Synthesizer
PI: Lee M. Miller, Key Personnel: Ahmed Sabbir Arif
2022 - 2023 $ 10,000 Senate Faculty Research Grant, UC Merced
Smart Kiosk for Raising Awareness of Recycling in the UC Merced Community
PI: Ahmed Sabbir Arif, Co-PI: Shijia Pan
2020 - 2021 $ 5,000 Senate Faculty Research Grant, UC Merced
Reducing the Interaction Ambiguity of Smartphones
PI: Ahmed Sabbir Arif (Sole)
Publication (ISS 2021) Honorable Mention Award
2017 - 2018 $ 5,000 Senate Faculty Research Grant, UC Merced
Miniature Predictive Keyboards to Enable Eyes-free Text Entry on/with Smartwatches
PI: Ahmed Sabbir Arif (Sole)
Publication (GI 2021) Best Paper Award

Internal Awards & Fellowships

2023 $ 2,000 Course Design Institute (CDI), Division of Undergraduate Education, UC Merced
2023 $ 5,000 Professional Development Award (Scott-Jewett Gift), Committee on Faculty Welfare and Academic Freedom (FWAF), UC Merced
2019 - 2020 $ 3,000 Faculty Success Initiative - Extramural Funding Fellowship, UC Merced

External Travel Grants

2019 $ 3,000 CSforAll Technical Assistance Workshop, National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnerships (NNERPP)
2018 $ 1,100 CISE CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop, National Science Foundation (NSF)
2017 $ 500 Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Young Professionals Travel Grant, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Awards & Grants Received by Students

2024 $ 500 Yuan Ren Graduate Student Supplemental Travel Award
2023 $ 2,500 Gulnar Rakhmetulla SIGCHI Gary Marsden Travel Award (CHI 2023 Assistance)
2023 $ 2,200 Ghazal Zand SIGCHI Gary Marsden Travel Award (CHI 2023 Assistance)
2022 $ 1,000 Tafadzwa Joseph Dube SIGCHI Gary Marsden Travel Award (ISS 2022 Assistance)
2022 € 250 Ghazal Zand SIGCHI Development Fund (IDC 2022 Assistance)
2022 € 250 Veena Sumedh SIGCHI Development Fund (IDC 2022 Assistance)
2021 - 2022 $ 1,000 Laxmi Pandey Fred and Mitzie Ruiz Fellowship
2021 - 2022 $ 1,000 Gulnar Rakhmetulla Fred and Mitzie Ruiz Fellowship
2021 - 2022 $ 45,133 Tafadzwa Joseph Dube Graduate Student Opportunity Program (GSOP) Fellowship
2020 - 2021 $ 1,000 Laxmi Pandey Hatano Cognitive Development Research Fellowship
2020 - 2021 $ 44,880 Gulnar Rakhmetulla Graduate Student Opportunity Program (GSOP) Fellowship
2020 $ 1,000 Laxmi Pandey SIGIR Student Travel Grants
2020 $ 600 Laxmi Pandey ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance at Research Conferences