Faculty Profiles

2025

• Queiroz de Farias, Mylene Christine, Fritts, Sarah Rebecah, Tesic, Jelena. 2025 ExpandAI Catalyst Award, Texas State Center for Analytics and Data Science (TXST CADS), Texas State University, $6000. (Submitted: December 2, 2024, Funded: 2025 - Present). Grant.

2024

• Liu, Xiangping (Principal), Percent Contribution: %10, Tesic, Jelena (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %3, Balaji Bhaskar, Maruthi Sridhar (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %3, Abongwa, Pride (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %10, Jayachandran, Krishnaswamy (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %3. Comprehensive Experiential Learnings to Promote Climate Resilient Agriculture for Under-Represented Minority Students, USDA NIFA HSI, Federal, $1200000. (Submitted: February 7, 2024, Funded: October 1, 2024 - September 2028). 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.
• Gobert, Denise Valencia Newbur (Principal), Percent Contribution: %50, Hughes, Monica Jamison (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %20, Tesic, Jelena (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %20, Jackson, Keri (Supporting), Percent Contribution: %10. Hospital Readmissions for Persons with Diabetes who Receive Home Health Services: Predictive Model Analysis using Machine-Leaning, Williamson County Foundation Grant, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $10000. (Submitted: October 15, 2024, Funded: November 4, 2024 - August 31, 2026). Grant.
• McLean, Robert J C, Tesic, Jelena. Automating Microbial Biofilm Corrosion Analysis Using Semantic Segmentation for Enhanced Space Mission Safety, Texas State University, $16000. (Submitted: October 2, 2023, Funded: January 2024 - December 2024). Grant.

2022

• Faroughi, Salah Aldin (Principal), Tesic, Jelena (Co-Principal), Tiefenbacher, John P (Co-Principal). ESMs Latent Space Exploration for Uncertainty Quantification and Spatiotemporal Downscaling, DOE-BER, Federal, $150000. (Funded: August 2022 - June 2024). Grant.
• Wang, Feng (Principal), Gong, Haitao (Co-Principal), Tesic, Jelena (Co-Principal), Luo, Xiaohua (Co-Principal). Artificial Intelligence for Pavement Condition Assessment from 2D/3D Surface Images, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), State, $451875. (Submitted: March 7, 2022, Funded: September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2025). Grant.

2021

• Tesic, Jelena. Object Cueing Using Biomimetic Approaches to Visual Information Processing, NAVAIR, Federal, $199708. (Submitted: September 18, 2020, Funded: January 11, 2021 - December 17, 2022). Grant.

2018

• Tesic, Jelena. NAVAIR SBIR N14A-T008, Navy, Federal, $307005. (Submitted: October 15, 2017, Funded: March 19, 2018 - August 31, 2020). Grant.
• Metsis, Vangelis, Tesic, Jelena, Tamir, Dan. Research and Development of Image and Text Analysis Tools for Automatic Social Media Content Classification, http://socialmeteranalysis.it/, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $12000. (Submitted: January 10, 2018, Funded: September 2018 - May 31, 2019). Grant.

• Queiroz de Farias, Mylene Christine (Principal), Tesic, Jelena (Co-Principal), Fritts, Sarah Rebecah (Supporting). Advancing the Automation of Bat Monitoring for Sustainable Wind Energy Development, TXST Center for Analytics and Data Science, Texas State University, $6000. (Submitted: November 2024). Grant.