Grants, Awards and Recognitions

Laboratory of Intelligent and Parallel Systems (LIPS)         (Holmes 493)

Contact: D. Y. Y. Yun at http://ee.hawaii.edu/~dyun, email: dyun@hawaii.edu: phone: 956-7627

 

Grants

·         Title: Positron Emission Tomography Guided Prostate Biopsy, $205,000, SBIR/STTR grant, in collaboration with Queens Medical Center, Start date: 9/1/04; End date: 6/30/06; sponsoring agency: National Institute of Health, National Cancer Institute.

·         $50,000 extension of Electric and Hybrid Vehicle (EHV) National Data Center (NDC), to 12/03.

·         $100,000 extension of Simulation and Validation in Bio-Photonics, to 6/02.

·         Title: Enhancements to Web System Support for Remote Monitoring and Diabetes Self-Management, Dollar amount: $126,000 Start date: 9/1/00; End date: 8/31/01; No cost extension to 8/31/02; Sponsoring agency: HMSA Foundation

·         Title: Telemedicine on the Internet – Remote Monitoring and Screening or the Ohana Health Project; Dollar amount: $202,500, Start date: 9/1/99; End date: 8/31/00; Sponsoring agency: Department of Defense via Georgetown University Medical Center;

·         Title: Dollar amount: $1,746,725, Start date: 5/1/95; End date: 12/31/00; Sponsoring agency: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) via Hawaii’s High Technology Development Corp.;

·         Title: Simulation and Validation in Bio-Photonics; Dollar amount: $570,000, Start date: 4/1/97; End date: 12/31/00; Sponsoring agency: Hamamatsu Photonics K. K. of Japan;

·         Title: Center for East-West Medicine Projects, international support for research, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, ROC, July 1996-2000, $237,000.

·         Title: ACTS and Supercomputing in Remote, Cooperative Medical Triage Support and Radiation Treatment Planning, also known as Project MISSION, $2,800,000, Start date: 9/1/94; End date: 12/31/99; Sponsoring agency: DARPA Networks Program.

 

Awards and Recognitions

·         “Distinguished Scientist Award”, Knowledge Engineering & Discovery Research Institute, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, November 2003.

·         Highlighted in the State of Hawaii Technology Innovation Report, 2001 Millennium Edition.

·         For its achievements in healthcare technology, Dr. Yun, the Director of LIPS, was featured by the Honolulu Advertiser (3/01) and Wired News (11/99) as “Mr. Telemedicine”.

·         “Outstanding Academic Achievement and Service to the Profession” Award, Computing Information Resources Association, June 1999.

·         Project MISSION was Vice-President Gore’s Global Information Infrastructure (GII) health award semifinalist, also achieved world's first to perform satellite remote control of 3D rendering, 1998