Awards
Funding – Honors/Awards – Conference AwardsFunding
- AI for Science Grant ($15,000 Credits)
- Duration: 2026-10-02 to 2027-10-01
- Title: Bringing 500 bioinformatics tools to the browser with Claude
- Team: Niema Moshiri (PI), Robert Aboukhalil (Principal Member), Maria Nattestad (Principal Member)
- Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC), Northeastern University ($394,850)
- Duration: 2026-08-01 to 2028-07-31
- Title: CIC Implementation Grant
- Team: Mia Minnes (PI), Joe Politz (Principal Member), Michael Coblenz (Principal Member), Christine Alvarado (Principal Member), Niema Moshiri (Principal Member), Gerald Soosai Raj (Principal Member), Trevor Bonjour (Principal Member), Ndapa Nakashole (Principal Member), Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick (Principal Member)
- Minderoo Foundation ($10,667,599)
- Duration: 2025-10-15 to 2027-09-01
- Title: eDNAID: Environmental DNA and AI as tools for Ocean Aid
- Team: Rob Knight (PI), Vineet Bafna (co-PI), Siavash Mirarab (co-PI), Chris Dupont (co-PI), Phil Hugenholtz (co-PI), Tajana Rosing (co-PI), Niema Moshiri (co-PI), Pieter Dorrestein (co-PI), David Gonzalez (co-PI), Peter Larsen (co-PI), Rose Yu (co-PI), Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick (co-PI), Kelly Goodwin (co-PI)
- UC Online, University of California Office of the President ($45,000)
- Duration: 2025-07-01 to 2026-06-30
- Title: Scalable foundational AI course: CSE 25 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Team: Trevor Bonjour (PI), Niema Moshiri (co-PI), Mia Minnes (co-PI)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ($13,331,272)
- Duration: 2024-08-01 to 2027-07-31
- Title: PREVENT: Preparedness through Respiratory Virus Epidemiology and Community Engagement
- Team: Louise Laurent (PI), Marva Seifert (co-I), Nicole Stadnick (co-I), Borsika Rabin (co-I), Rebecca Fielding-Miller (co-I), Kristian Andersen (co-I), Marni Jacobs (co-I), Jingjing Zou (co-I), Niema Moshiri (co-I), Maryann Betty (co-I), Aaron Carlin (co-I), Rob Knight (co-I), Peter DeHoff (co-I), Jeannette Aldous (Consortium PI), Paul Watson (Consortium PI), Linda Salgin (co-I), Carrie Byington (co-I), Karthik Gangavarapu (Project Scientist), Kristen Jepsen (co-I), Edgar Diaz (co-I)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Contract 75D30123C17580 ($2,243,691)
- Duration: 2023-09-11 to 2026-09-10
- Title: Operation and Maintenance (O&M), and Development, Modernization, and Enhancement (DME) Services for HIV-TRACE
- Team: Joel O. Wertheim (PI), Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond (co-I), Niema Moshiri (co-I)
- UC Online, University of California Office of the President ($46,000)
- Duration: 2023-08-01 to 2024-07-31
- Title: An Online Training Module to Provide Instructors Guidance in Developing and Offering Fully Online and Hybrid Courses
- Team: Niema Moshiri (PI), Karen Flammer (co-PI)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Research Credits Program ($5,000)
- Duration: 2023-03-31 to 2024-04-01
- Title: Scalable methods for viral molecular epidemiology
- Team: Niema Moshiri (PI)
- NIH U54 Award 1U54HG012510-01 ($2,505,728)
- Duration: 2022-07-08 to 2026-04-30
- Title: A FAIR Bridge2AI Center (FABRIC)
- Team: Lucila Ohno-Machado (Core Lead), Jessica Chapman (Project Manager), Natalie Gonzalez (Project Coordinator), Cinnamon Bloss (co-I), Tsung-Ting Kuo (co-I), Niema Moshiri (co-I), Jingbo Shang (co-I), Hua Xu (co-I), Pritham Ram (Coordinator)
- NIH RM1 Award 1RM1HG011558-01A1 ($11,704,255)
- Duration: 2021-09-22 to 2026-06-30
- Title: Genetic & Social Determinants of Health: Center for Admixture Science and Technology
- Team: Lucila Ohno-Machado (PI), Cheryl Anderson (co-I), Vineet Bafna (co-I), Cinnamon Bloss (co-I), Kelly Frazer (co-I), Melissa Gymrek (co-I), Jihoon Kim (co-I), Tsung-Ting Kuo (co-I), Lisa Madlensky (co-I), Niema Moshiri (co-I)
- COVID-19 High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium Award (110,000 SUs)
- Duration: 2021-09-09 to 2022-09-08
- Title: Weekly updated phylogenetic inference of San Diego SARS-CoV-2 sequences
- Team: Siavash Mirarab (PI), Rob Knight (co-PI), Niema Moshiri (co-PI)
- UCSD Course Development and Instructional Improvement Program (CDIIP) Award ($38,273)
- Duration: 2021-07-01 to 2022-06-30
- Title: (More) Free, Interactive, Open Educational Resources for Lower-Division Programming Courses
- Team: Niema Moshiri (PI), Joe Politz (co-PI), Gerald Soosai Raj (co-PI)
- Google exploreCSR Award ($15,000)
- Duration: 2020-09-27 to 2021-06-01
- Title: Computational Biology and Medicine (CBAM) Research Mentorship Program
- Team: Niema Moshiri (PI)
- NIH R25 Award 1R25HG011022-01 ($804,013)
- Duration: 2020-05-08 to 2025-02-28
- Title: Development of Online Computational Genomics Specialization
- Team: Pavel Pevzner (PI), Niema Moshiri (co-I)
- UC-HSI Doctoral Diversity Initiative (DDI) Award ($350,000)
- Duration: 2020-05-01 to 2025-04-30
- Title: Recruitment and Retention Doctoral Diversity Informatics Initiative (R2D2)
- Team: Lucila Ohno-Machado (PI), Jejo Koola (Academic Enrichment Programs Coordinator), Tsung-Ting Kuo (Graduate Studies Office Coordinator), Niema Moshiri (Asset Portal Director)
- NSF Rapid Response Research (RAPID) COVID-19 Award 2028040 ($200,000)
- Duration: 2020-05-01 to 2022-04-30
- Title: Real-time phylogenetic inference and transmission cluster analysis of COVID-19
- Team: Niema Moshiri (PI), Tajana Rosing (co-PI)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Research Credits Program ($5,000)
- Duration: 2020-03-12 to 2021-03-11
- Title: Real-time phylogenetic inference and transmission cluster analysis of COVID-19
- Team: Niema Moshiri (PI)
- UCOP Innovative Learning Technology Initiative ($71,000)
- Duration: 2019-08-01 to 2024-07-31
- Title: Online Cross-UC Introductory Python Programming Course
- Team: Niema Moshiri (PI), Leo Porter (co-PI), Beth Simon (co-PI)
— Top —Honors/Awards
- Seventh College Faculty Service Excellence Award
- Award Date: 2026-09-02
- Awarder: University of California, San Diego — Seventh College
- Outstanding Teaching Innovation Award
- Award Date: 2026-01-23
- Awarder: University of California, San Diego — Jacobs School of Engineering
- Seventh College Outstanding Teaching Award
- Award Date: 2025-06-14
- Awarder: University of California, San Diego — Seventh College
- Sixth College Outstanding Teaching Award
- Award Date: 2023-06-18
- Awarder: University of California, San Diego — Sixth College
- 30 Under 30 — Healthcare (2023)
- Award Date: 2022-11-29
- Awarder: Forbes
- Sixth College Outstanding Teaching Award
- Award Date: 2022-06-11
- Awarder: University of California, San Diego — Sixth College
- Warren College Outstanding Teaching Award
- Award Date: 2022-06-10
- Awarder: University of California, San Diego — Earl Warren College
- Integrity Award
- Faculty of the Year Award
- Award Date: 2021-06-05
- Awarder: University of California, San Diego — Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society
- Video: https://youtu.be/BcLVFKukZ1c
- Best Teacher Award — Computer Science & Engineering
- Award Date: 2021-01-26
- Awarder: University of California, San Diego — Jacobs School of Engineering
- Distinguished Teaching Award
- Award Date: 2017-04-05
- Awarder: University of California, San Diego — Academic Senate
- Distinguished Leadership and Service Award
- Award Date: 2015-06-14
- Awarder: University of California, San Diego — Department of Bioengineering
- Provost Honors
- Award Date: 2015-06-13
- Awarder: University of California, San Diego
- Honors Program
- Award Date: 2015-06-13
- Awarder: University of California, San Diego — Thurgood Marshall College
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