Research Funding

Abbreviations:

NSERC:	Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
PRECARN:	Precarn Associates Ltd.
NCE:	Inter-Council Program Directorate, Networks of Centres of Excellence
ITRC:	Information Technology Research Centre
OGS:	Ontario Geological Survey, Ministry of Northern Development and Mines
DSS:	Department of Supplies and Services, for the Defense Research Establishment Atlantic (currently Department of Public Works and Government Services)
CITO	Communications and Information Technology Ontario
CSE	Communications Security Establishment
MITACS	Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex
	Systems (MITACS) Federal Network of Centres of Excellence

Research Grants

2012/10-2013/03

$25,000, NSERC Engage Grant, with 2nd Act Innovations, ``Tag generalization for facet-based search'', E. Milios (PI)

2012/09-2015/08

$ 146,000 per year, NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant, with Aeroinfo Systems (Boeing Canada Operations Ltd), ``Multi-faceted exploratory analysis for large noisy text datasets'', E. Milios (PI), V. Keselj, S. Brooks, K. Hawkey, M. Shepherd.

2012/04-2015/03

$ 99,000 per year, NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant, with Genieknows Inc, and Palomino System Innovations Inc, ``Behavioural Analytics for Large-scale Data Streams'', V. Keselj (PI), E. Milios, M. Heywood, N. Zincir-Heywood.

2010/10-2015/09

$ 500,000 (per year for the first 3 years), $250,000 (per year for the last 2 years), Boeing Company, ``Mobile Graphic Devices and Text Analytics'', E. Milios (PI) and 5 co-applicants.

2008/11-2013/10

$ 1,000,000 (per year), NSERC Strategic Network Grants Program, ``Business Intelligence Network'', R. Miller (U. of Toronto - PI) and 7 co-applicants.

2008/11-2011/10

$ 64,800 (per year), NSERC Strategic Project, ``Information extraction for retrieval in dynamic system administration'', N. Zincir-Heywood (PI), E. Milios.

2005-2008

$198,565, $144,020, $144,020 (years 1,2,3), NSERC Strategic Project Grant, ``Aquatic Walking Robot'', M. Jenkin (PI, York), G. Dudek (McGill), E. Milios, D. Kramer (McGill).

2004-2007

$99,000/year, NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant, ``Concept mapping and semantic modelling on peer-to-peer networks'', E. Milios (PL), R. Abidi, J. Janssen, V. Keselj, J. Mylopoulos (UofT), N. Zincir-Heywood

2004-2005

$26,780 NSERC Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1, ``An autonomous mobile robotic raft'', E. Milios (PI), J. Gu.

2004-2013

$35,000/year, NSERC Discovery Grant, ``Topical Crawling, Summarization and Clustering in Networked Information Spaces''.

2009-2010

$98,400/year, Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) Federal Network of Centres of Excellence, and CSE, ``Modelling and Mining of Networked Information Spaces'', co-leader with J. Janssen.

2006-2008

$76,400/year, Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) Federal Network of Centres of Excellence, and CSE, ``Modelling and Mining of Networked Information Spaces'', co-leader with J. Janssen.

2003-2005

$50,000/year, Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) Federal Network of Centres of Excellence, ``Modelling and Mining of Networked Information Spaces'', co-leader with J. Janssen.

2002-2005

$578,000 over 3 years, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) Federal Network of Centres of Excellence, ``Autonomous Aquatic Walking Robot'', with M. Jenkin (PL, York U.), G. Dudek, M. Buehler (McGill U.).

2002

$58,000, Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) Federal Network of Centres of Excellence, ``Modelling and Mining of Networked Information Spaces'', co-leader with J. Janssen.

2000-2004

$32,000/year, NSERC Research Grant, ``Purposive Web Robots for Exploration of Multimedia Information on the World Wide Web'.

1998-2000

$50,000/year over two years, CITO grant, ``Eyes 'n Ears: A System for Attentive Teleconferencing'', with M. Jenkin (PL).

1996-2000

$25,500/year, NSERC Research Grant, ``Interpretation of natural form in images and sounds''.

1999-2002

$228,000 over three years, Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund (ORDCF), ``Improvements to the Centre for Vision Research at York University'', with several others from York University.

1999-2002

$5,800,000 over three years, Canadian Foundation for Innovation ($2,400,000), ORDCF ($2,400,000), industrial partner(SGI, $1,000,000), ``Active Sensory Processing in Real and Synthetic Environments'', with several others from York University.

1995-1996

$8,000, Ontario Hydro, Feasibility study for Precarn project, ``Acrobat: autonomous climbing robots'', (with M. Jenkin).

1993

$3,800, Ontario-Quebec Exchange program, ``Multiple interacting autonomous agents'', (with G. Dudek, M. Jenkin (PI), D. Wilkes).

1993

$24,600, NSERC Equipment Grant, ``A next generation stereo head'', (with M. Jenkin (PI), J. Tsotsos).

1993-1996

$17,000/year, NSERC Research Grant, ``Sensor-based Mobile Robotics''.

1992-1993

$ 1,950, Ontario-Quebec Exchange program, ``Mobile Robot Navigation and World Modelling using Range Sensing'', (PI, with M. Jenkin and G. Dudek).

1992

$ 16,412, NSERC Equipment Grant, ``High-performance graphics equipment upgrade'' (with J. Amanatides, M. Jenkin (P.I.), and M. Spetsakis).

1991

$ 2,500, Ontario-Quebec Exchange program, ``Sonar based robotic exploration'', (with M. Jenkin (P.I.) and G. Dudek).

1991-1995

$ 324,168, PRECARN, ``Active Vision Navigation of a Mobile Robot in a Known Environment'' (with M. Jenkin). Joint project with Ontario Hydro, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, and University of Toronto. The project was part of the university component ($1,231,860) of the $5.9M ARK Project. Principal Investigator: Dr. B. Nickerson, Ontario Hydro Research Division. Principal co-applicant with M. Jenkin.

1990-1994

$ 10,000. NCE, Part of the $1,3M project ``Active Vision for Mobile Robotics'', (J. Tsotsos (P.I.), A. Jepson, D. Terzopoulos, E. Milios, M. Jenkin). Network Leader: G. McNabb.

1990-1993

$ 17,611/year, NSERC, Operating Grant, yearly, for 3 years. ``Reasoning about spatial form: Robot navigation and exploration and shape recognition''.

1988-1989

$ 271,282. ITRC. Research in Biological and Computational Vision I (J. Tsotsos (P.I.), R. Reiter (P.I.), A. Jepson, E. Milios).

1988-1989

$ 235,000. ITRC. Research in Biological and Computational Vision II (J. Tsotsos (P.I.), A. Jepson, E. Milios).

1988-1990

$ 16,000/year, NSERC, Operating Grant.

1988

$ 100,000. PRECARN. Mobile Robotics Feasibility Study (participants: Ontario Hydro, AECL, York University, University of Toronto).

Research Contracts

2009/01-2011/06

$ 1,719,151, CANARIE Network Enabled Platforms Program, ``Platform for Ocean Knowledge Management'', S.R. Abidi (PI), N. Zincir-Heywood, E. Milios, and several Ocean Scientists.

2006/09-2008/08

$ 357,625, Precarn Small Company Program, ``NETPAL, Dynamic Network Administration'', E. Milios and N. Zincir-Heywood (co-PIs at Dalhousie), Palomino Inc. (Lead Applicant), Telecom Applications Research Alliance.

9/1996 - 3/1997

$ 20,000, DSS ``Intersensor association of passive narrowband signals from sonobuoys using constraint satisfaction techniques" (E. Milios-P.I., M. Jenkin).

5/1995 - 3/1997

$ 50,000, DSS ``Development of a Towed Array Shape Estimation for Real Time Sonar Systems''.

5/1995 - 3/1996

$ 20,000, DSS, ``Acoustic localization from bearing and frequency at spatially distributed sensors'' (E. Milios-P.I., M. Jenkin).

10/1994 - 3/1995

$ 20,000, DSS, ``Numeric and Symbolic Processing for Sonar Information Management, Phase II: A knowledge-based signal processing architecture'' (E. Milios-P.I., M. Jenkin).

9/1993 - 3/1994

$ 15,000, DSS, ``Numeric and Symbolic Processing for Sonar Information Management'' (E. Milios-P.I., M. Jenkin).

5/1990-10/1990

$ 60,000, OGS, ``Design and Implementation of a Map Label Placement Program'' (E. Milios-P.I., J. Tsotsos, R. Reiter).

7/1988-3/1989

$ 42,120, OGS, ``A Knowledge Representation Formalism for Geoscience'' (E. Milios-P.I., J. Tsotsos, J. Mylopoulos).

7/1988-3/1989

$ 14,950, OGS, ``Design of a Map Label Placement Program'' (E. Milios-P.I., J. Tsotsos).

3/1988

$ 8,112, OGS, ``A Feasibility Study of the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Geoscience'' (J. Tsotsos-P.I., E. Milios).

Internal Research Funding

1995-1996

$4,000, York Incentive Grant, ``Acrobat: autonomous climbing robots and associated technologies'' (with M. Jenkin).

1993

$3,000, President's NSERC, York University, ``VGR Lab Colour X terminal''.

1991

$ 4,000, President's NSERC, York University, ``Sensor-based robotics laboratory facility'' (with M. Jenkin, M. Spetsakis, J. Amanatides).

1990-1991

$ 25,000, York University, Startup Research Grant.

1988-1990

$ 10,000, Connaught Grant, University of Toronto.

Teaching grants

1994-1995

$ 5,000, SCOTL (Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning) Teaching-Learning Development Grant, ``Design of Laboratory Exercises for a Robot Building Course'', with M. Jenkin, M. Spetsakis.