My Research has been funded through several Research Grants and Scholarships
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2024
  1. NIST grant (USD 100,000) -  WUI READY: A Serious Game for Enhancing WUI Fire Hazard Mitigation Methodology Adoption, Mentor PI

2023
  1. Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China - Research on the Theoretical System and Frontier Technologies in Intelligent Construction, International Collaborator
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China - Investigating Crowd Evacuation Behaviors through the Lens of Multi-dimensional Social Interactions and with Crowdsourced Virtual Reality Experiments, International Collaborator
  3. NIST grant (USD 100,000) -  Enhancing Wildfire Emergency Management (WEM) Platform with Near Real-Time Sensing Data and Deep Learning, AI
  4. IFE - Singapore ($ 7,000) -  Fire Extinguishers Maintenance Training using VR​, co-PI

2022
  1. Rutherford Discovery Fellowship - Royal Society Te Apārangi ($ 800,000) - Identification and implementation of fundamental crowd behavioural rules, PI
  2. Marsden - Royal Society Te Apārangi ($ 360,000), How much do they recall? Measuring the effect of safety training on human memory, PI
  3. IITD-NZ Center Seed Fund (USD 10,000), Understanding exit choice behavior in metro stations using virtual reality, PI
  4. Natural Hazard Center (US) (USD 5,000), 2021 Boulder County Fires Evacuation Investigation, AI
  5. NIST grant (USD 100,000) Co-Developing Wildfire Emergency Management (WEM) Platform for Multi-Modal Data Integration and Real-Time Analytics, co-PI
  6. FRG microgrant ($ 2,500) Investigating Hospital Evacuation, PI
  7. BRANZ Fund ($ 300,000) Changing emergency egress behavior to meet densified housing needs for our current and future population, AI

2021
  1. NIST grant (USD 100,000), Developing AI-Based Wildfire Evacuation Behavior (AI-WEB) Model, co-PI
  2. MBIE ​Research Program ($ 13.5M), Extreme wildfire: Our new reality - are we ready?, AI

2020
  1. NIST grant (USD 100,000) Analyze Wildfire Evacuation Behavior with GPS data, co-PI
  2. FRG microgrant ($ 2,500) Investigating Pedestrian Dynamics using Kinetic, PI

2019
  1. Natural Hazards Center (USD 3,000) Modeling of Evacuation Behavior in the 2019 Kincade Fire, Sonoma County, California, Key Researcher
  2. Massey MURF Fund ($12,000) to develop a Evacuation Database for NZ, PI
  3. BRANZ Fund ($ 169,000) Are You Ready to be monitored at work? – Study of Real–time Employee Monitoring Technology Adoption in New Zealand from legal, ethical and behavioural perspectives, Key Researcher
  4. BRANZ Fund ($ 149,000) The Scheduling and Construction Game, Key Researcher
  5. Visiting Fund ($9,000) to visit NIST (US)
  6. Visiting Fund ($2,200) to visit Università Politecnica delle Marche
  7. FENZ Fund ($30,000) to investigate Napier Wildfire, co-PI
  8. Minor Equipment Bid ($ 25,000) from Massey University to purchase VR AR Equipment

2018
  1. Visiting Fund ($4,000) to visit Lund University (Sweden)
  2. Massey MURF Fund ($12,000) to develop a Fire Training Platform, PI
  3. Massey Strategic Fund ($20,000) to investigate NZ Evacuation Drills
  4. SFPE Fund (NZD 10,000) to run research on Evacuation Studies in Hospitals and Retirement Homes 
  5. Research Grant (NZD 5,000) from the He Tātai Whenua: A Te Ao Māori landscape classification project funded by NZ by the NZ Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
  6. Research Grant (AUD 180,000) from the Bushfire & Natural Hazards CRC aiming at "Testing the Application of Self-Evacuation Archetypes for Wildfire"
  7. Minor Equipment Bid (NZD 13,600) from Massey University to purchase VR Google Expedition kit

Before 2018
  1. 2017 - Research Grant ($21,000) from NIST aimed at funding the Research Project entitled “Modelling Evacuation Decision in Wildfire Evacuations” at NIST in 2017-2018
  2. 2017 - Crowd Voting Award of 5,000$ NIST Virtual Public Safety Test Environment Challenge, Project: "Augmented Reality Emergency Response System"
  3. 2016 - MIT Scholarship of 2250$ to attend the MIT Professional Education - Short Programs course Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Demand and Market Shares
  4. 2014 - Winner of 7,000€ research fund by SIPD, Politecnico di Milano Torino and Bari, Italy
  5. 2014 - Grant of 50,000SEK by C.M Lerici Foundation (Stockholm, Sweden) aimed at funding the research project entitled "Safety of Underground Infrastructure during Evacuation" which took place at at Lund University in 2014
  6. 2013 - PhD scholarship (40,914€) at Politecnico di Bari (Italy)
  7. 2012 - Winner of 8,000€ scholarship by Autostrade per l’Italia [Italian Highway Administration] (Rome, Italy). This scholarship was awarded to the three best students from Politecnico di Bari in 2011-2012
  8. 2007-2012 - Winner of 10,000€ (total) scholarship by ADISU Puglia. This scholarship was awarded to the best Bachelor and Master students from Politecnico di Bari
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