Since October 1, 2003, funded projects have totaled USD 987,416 with USD 871,176 from external and USD 116,249 from internal sources. Project funding that has gone directly to my research group totals USD 337,049 since promotion to Professor. Amount of funding needed by a faculty member to support a full-time graduate student on a research assistantship for one year is USD 18,000 because the faculty of engineering waives tuition. Faculty positions at AUB are on 9-month contracts. Below is a summary of the grants I was awarded:
Quantization-resilient precoding, detection, and channel estimation for massive MIMO with low- resolution data converters
Principal Investigator: Mohammad M. Mansour
Funding Source: University Research Board, AUB
Period: 2019–2020
Amount: USD 9,300
Quantization-resilient precoding, detection, and channel estimation for massive MIMO with low- resolution data converters
Principal Investigator: Mohammad M. Mansour
Funding Source: University Research Board, AUB
Period: 2018–2019
Amount: USD 11,300
Interlaced column-row message-passing decoding of LDPC Codes: algorithms and architectures
Principal Investigator: Mohammad M. Mansour
Funding Source: University Research Board, AUB
Period: 2016–2018
Amount: USD 19,700
Fetal distress using recurrence quantification analysis
Principal Investigator: Mohammad M. Mansour (joint work with another faculty member)
Funding Agency: Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research (LNCSR)
Period: 2015–2016
Amount: LBP 12m
Intelligent device-to-device communications: supporting algorithms and protocols
Principal Investigator: Mohammad M. Mansour (joint work with another faculty member)
Funding Source: TELUS Communications Company, Canada
Period: 2014–2016
Amount: USD 72,000
Reduced-complexity near-optimal soft-input soft-output detectors for 4- and 8-layer MIMO systems
Principal Investigator: Mohammad M. Mansour
Funding Source: University Research Board, AUB
Period: 2015–2016
Amount: USD 6,400
Architecture optimizations and VLSI implementation of a 4x 4 64-QAM soft-output MIMO sphere detector
Principal Investigator: Mohammad M. Mansour
Funding Source: University Research Board, AUB
Period: 2014–2015
Amount: USD 6,500
A simulation platform for power-aware workload allocation and efficient cooling mechanisms in data centers
Principal Investigators: Mohammad M. Mansour (joint work with other faculty members)
Funding Source: Intel
Period: 2013–2014
Amount: USD 100,000
Parallel algorithms for pruned 2D interleavers for high-speed communication transceivers
Principal Investigator: Mohammad M. Mansour
Funding Source: University Research Board, AUB
Period: 2012–2013
Amount: USD 7,000
Design methodologies of power aware software and hardware architectures for parallel platforms
Principal Investigators: Mohammad M. Mansour (joint work with other faculty members)
Funding Source: Intel
Period: 2012–2013
Amount: USD 230,000
A novel data retention voltage scheme for SRAM arrays
Principal Investigators: Mohammad M. Mansour
Funding Source: Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research (LNCSR)
Period: 2011–2012
Amount: USD 5,000
The design and testing of a maximum power point controller for a large PV generator under nonuniform irradiance
Principal Investigators: Mohammad M. Mansour (joint work with other faculty members)
Funding Source: Masri Institute of Energy and Natural Resources
Period: 2011–2013
Amount: USD 14,000
Design methodologies of power aware software and hardware architectures for parallel platforms
Principal Investigators: Mohammad M. Mansour (joint work with other faculty members)
Funding Source: Intel
Period: 2011–2012
Amount: USD 230,000
Parallel Pruned permuters for high-speed communication receivers
Principal Investigator: Mohammad M. Mansour
Funding Source: University Research Board, AUB
Period: 2010–2011
Amount: USD 8,700
Design methodologies of power aware software and hardware architectures for parallel platforms
Principal Investigators: Mohammad M. Mansour (joint work with other faculty members)
Funding Source: Intel
Period: 2010–2011
Amount: USD 190,000
On parallelizing sequentially-pruned interleavers
Principal Investigator: Mohammad M. Mansour
Funding Source: University Research Board, AUB
Period: 2009–2010
Amount: USD 8,549
LDPC codec design for ultra mobile broadband (UMB) standard
Principal Investigator: Mohammad M. Mansour
Funding Source: University Research Board, AUB
Period: 2008–2009
Amount: USD 5,500
Raptor Codes: hardware-oriented code construction and decoder design
Principal Investigator: Mohammad M. Mansour
Funding Source: University Research Board, AUB
Period: 2007–2008
Amount: USD 6,500
Design and implementation of a low-power voltage controlled oscillator for UWB radio systems
Principal Investigators: Mohammad M. Mansour (joint work with another faculty member)
Funding Agency: Rahmann Foundation
Period: 2006–2007
Amount: USD 10,000
Hardware-based simulation platform for sparse parity-check matrix codes
Principal Investigator: Mohammad M. Mansour
Funding Source: University Research Board, AUB
Period: 2006–2007
Amount: USD 5,800
A universal wireless data modem
Principal Investigators: Mohammad M. Mansour (joint work with another faculty member)
Funding Agency: Rahmann Foundation
Period: 2005–2006
Amount: USD 6,500
Funding Agency: National Instruments, Austin, Texas USA
Amount: USD 32,000 grant in the form of research equipment and design toolkits.
Decoding algorithms and architectures for repeat-accumulate codes
Principal Investigator: Mohammad M. Mansour
Funding Agency: University Research Board, AUB
Period: 2005–2006
Amount: USD 6,500
High-performance decoder architectures for repeat-accumulate codes
Principal Investigator: Mohammad M. Mansour
Funding Agency: Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research (LNCSR)
Period: 2004–2006
Amount: USD 4,167
Decoder architectures for repeat-accumulate codes
Principal Investigator: Mohammad M. Mansour
Funding Agency: University Research Board, AUB
Period: 2004–2005
Amount: USD 6,000
High performance decoder architectures for turbo-like codes
Principal Investigator: Mohammad M. Mansour
Funding Agency: University Research Board, AUB
Period: 2003–2004
Amount: USD 5,000