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Portrait of Dr. Tahir Ekin

Dr. Tahir Ekin

  • Professor - Endowed Chair at Dept of Information Systems & Analytics, McCoy College of Business
  • Program Staff at Center for Analytics & Data Science

Grants

2024

  • Qasem, Apan Muhammad (Principal), Royal, Cindy L (Co-Principal), Hewitt, Barbara A (Co-Principal), Dolezel, Diane M (Supporting), Omana Sudhakaran, Pratheesh O (Supporting), Lollar, Jonathan Ernest (Supporting), Booth, Chad (Co-Principal), Roundtree, Aimee Kendall (Supporting), Ekin, Tahir (Supporting), Cordero, Rafael A (Supporting), Lopez, Omar S (Supporting), Ashford-Hanserd, Shetay Nicole (Co-Principal), Sriraman, Vedaraman (Co-Principal), Forsythe, Michelle Elizabeth (Co-Principal), Mendez, Francis A (Supporting). STEM-CLEAR: Creating Contextualized Learning Pathways across Academic and Cultural Boundaries, National Science Foundation, Federal, $2646529. (Submitted: August 8, 2023, Funded: June 1, 2024 - June 2029). Grant.
  • Ekin, Tahir (Principal), Tesic, Jelena (Co-Principal), Qasem, Apan Muhammad (Co-Principal), Valles Molina, Damian (Co-Principal), Summers, Lucia (Co-Principal), Hewitt, Barbara A (Supporting), Liu, Xiangping (Supporting), Chang, Carolyn T (Supporting), Mendez, Francis A (Supporting), Irvin, Jennifer A (Supporting), Resendiz, Maria D (Supporting). Expanding AI Curriculum and Infrastructure at Texas State University to Advance Interdisciplinary Research and Grow a Diverse AI Workforce, National Science Foundation, Federal, $400000. (Submitted: June 2023, Funded: January 2024 - December 2025). Grant.
  • Konur, Dincer, Ekin, Tahir, Dong, Wenquan. University Lecturer Series, Texas State University Faculty Senate, Texas State University, $2000. (Submitted: February 2024, Funded: September 2024 - May 2025). Grant.
  • Ekin, Tahir, Percent Contribution: %50, Lakomski, Gregory Randell, Percent Contribution: %50. Context Driven Adversarial Data Twin, TXST FIAP, Texas State University, $1000. (Funded: March 2024 - December 2024). Grant.

2022

  • Ekin, Tahir, De Nadai, Alessandro Stevens. University Lecturer Series: Big Data and Society, AI for Social Good, Texas State University Faculty Senate, Texas State University, $2000. (Submitted: February 2022, Funded: September 2022 - May 2023). Grant.

2021

  • Ekin, Tahir (Principal), Caballero, William Nick (Co-Principal), Rios Insua, David (Co-Principal). Hardening JADC2 to Adversarial Data: Theory, Algorithms and Applications, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Federal, $207548. (Submitted: April 2021, Funded: September 2021 - August 2024). Grant.
  • Ekin, Tahir (Co-Principal), Rios Insua, David (Principal), Caballero, William (Co-Principal). Robust Command and Control under Adversarially Perturbed Data (RC2APD), Air Force Research Laboratory European Office of Aerospace Research and Development, Federal, $59730. (Submitted: October 2020, Funded: September 2021 - August 2024). Grant.
  • Ekin, Tahir (Principal), Lakomski, Gregory Randell (Co-Principal). I-Corps: Probabilistic AI-based software for proactive data quality assessment, National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps), Federal, $50000. (Submitted: March 2021, Funded: May 2021 - October 2023). Grant.

2020

  • Ekin, Tahir. Adversarial Machine Learning for Disinformation Detection, Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $8000. (Submitted: October 2020, Funded: December 2020 - May 2022). Grant.
  • Rios Insua, David (Principal), Ekin, Tahir (Supporting), Percent Contribution: %5. Adversarial Machine Learning: Methods, Computations and Applications to Malware, Fake News and Autonomous Vehicles, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $110000. (Submitted: October 2019, Funded: March 2020 - March 2022). Grant.
  • Ekin, Tahir (Principal), Percent Contribution: %33, Lakomski, Gregory Randell, Percent Contribution: %33. DataTwin: Proactive Data Quality Assessment, National Science Foundation I-Corps Program, Federal, $3000. (Submitted: October 2020, Funded: November 2020 - August 2021). Grant.

2019

  • Ekin, Tahir. McCoy Faculty Development Fund Travel Award, Texas State University, $2000. (Submitted: September 2019, Funded: October 2019 - July 2020). Grant.
  • Ekin, Tahir (Supporting), Kocadagli, Ozan (Principal). TUBITAK Visiting Scientists Sabbatical Grant 2221, TUBITAK Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, TUBITAK Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, $4500. (Submitted: March 2019, Funded: September 2019 - December 2019). Grant.

2018

  • Ekin, Tahir (Principal). Structural Topic Model based Prescription Fraud and Abuse Detection, Texas State University, $8000. (Submitted: October 2017, Funded: January 2018 - May 2019). Grant.

2016

  • Ekin, Tahir. McCoy Faculty Development Fund, McCoy College, Texas State University, $2185. (Submitted: September 2016, Funded: December 2016 - September 2017). Grant.

2015

  • Ekin, Tahir. Stochastic Call Center Staffing with Uncertain Arrival, Service and Abandonment Rates, Texas State University Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $8000. (Submitted: October 2015, Funded: December 2015 - May 2017). Grant.
  • Ekin, Tahir (Principal), Bhardwaj, Vertica (Co-Principal). Understanding Hispanic Purchase Behavior toward Counterfeit Branded Merchandise, McCoy College of Business, Texas State University, $2500. (Submitted: March 2015, Funded: April 2015 - April 2016). Grant.

2014

  • Feng, Li (Supporting), Chen, Xiao (Principal), Ekin, Tahir (Supporting), Musal, Rasim (Supporting). Enabling and Improving Data-Driven Research at Texas State University, National Science Foundation, Federal, $499896.00. (Funded: October 1, 2014 - September 30, 2017). Grant.
  • Ekin, Tahir, Musal, Rasim (Co-Principal). Overpayment Models for Medical Audits: Multiple Scenarios, McCoy College of Business, Texas State University, $2500. (Submitted: February 2014, Funded: September 2014 - May 2015). Grant.

2013

  • Ekin, Tahir. New Faculty Summer Support, Texas State University McCoy College, $10000. (Funded: June 2013 - August 2013). Grant.
  • Ekin, Tahir (Principal). Bayesian co-clustering: A New Approach for Healthcare Fraud Detection, Texas State University Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $8000. (Submitted: October 2012, Funded: January 2013 - December 2013). Grant.

2012

  • Ekin, Tahir (Principal). New Faculty Startup Fund, Texas State University Library, Texas State University, $700. (Submitted: September 20, 2012, Funded: October 2012). Grant.