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    IIT CS Researchers Receive Nearly $1.4M in NSF Grants

    Three IIT computer scientists have recently been awarded major grants totaling $1,383,835 from the National Science Foundation, for work to be done in networks, simulation, and high-end computing:

    • Professor Peng-Jun Wan received $300,000 for his project "Multicommodity Flows in Multihop Wireless Networks."
    • Professor Zhiling Lan received $345,835 for her project "Toward Petascale Cosmological Simulation".
    • Professor Xian-He Sun received $738,000 for his project "A Dynamic Application-Specific I/O Architecture for High-End Computing".

    NSF grants do more than provide financial support to the researchers and their students. They also confirm IIT as a place with cutting-edge research in computer science, done by preeminent faculty. Congratulations to Professors Wan, Lan, and Sun for their achievements.

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