Lalitha Sankar

Current active grants: 6 NSF grants including several from the CISE/CIF directorate, an NSF Directorate of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)+Simons Foundations grant on Deep Learning, and a Google AI for Social Good grant.

1. O. Kosut (PI, ASU ECEE), L. Sankar (co-PI), and F. Calmon (co-PI, Harvard), “Collaborative Research: CIF: Medium: Fundamental Limits of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies,” National Science Foundation CIF-2312666, $764, 000, Oct. 2023 - Sep. 2027. 
2. L. Sankar (PI), O. Kosut (co-PI, ASU ECEE), and R. Anguluri (SP, ASU ECEE), “Exploiting Physical and Dynamical Structures for Real-time Inference in Electric Power Systems,” National Science Foundation EPCN-2246658, $360, 000, Jul. 2023 - Jun. 2026. 
3. S. Koyejo (PI, Stanford), L. Sankar (co-PI), and J. Sun (co-PI, UIUC), “Collaborative Research: SCH: Fair Federated Representation Learning for Breast Cancer Risk Scoring,” National Science Foundation SCH-2205080, $1, 100, 000, Oct. 2022 - Sep. 2025. 
4. L. Sankar (PI), A. Nedich (co-PI, ASU ECEE), G. Pedrielli (co-PI, ASU SCAI), and S. Lan (co-PI, ASU SoMMS), “Unifying Information and Optimization-theoretic Approaches for Modeling and Train- ing Generative Adversarial Networks,” National Science Foundation DMS-2134256, $1, 100, 000, Oct. 2021 - Sep. 2024. 
5. Y. Weng (PI), L. Lai, L. Sankar (member of the three faculty ASU team), “Comprehensive Cybersecu- rity Technology for Critical Power Infrastructure: AI-Based Centralized Defense and Edge Resilience,” Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation (BIRD), (this is a consortium of three universities, two in the USA and one in Israel, and nearly 20 industry partners) $900,000, Nov. 2021.
6. L. Sankar (PI), “Applying Federated Analytics to COVID-19 Contact Tracing, with an On-campus Pilot,” Google University Grant, $150, 000, Oct. 2020. 
7. L. Sankar (PI) and G. Dasarathy (co-PI, ASU), “Alpha Loss: A New Framework for Understanding and Trading Off Computation, Accuracy, and Robustness in Machine Learning,” National Science Foundation CIF-2007688, $499, 999, Oct. 2020 - Sep. 2023. 
8. L. Sankar (PI) and G. Dasarathy (co-PI, ASU), Research Experience in Undergraduate Education Supplement for: “Alpha Loss: A New Framework for Understanding and Trading Off Computation, Accuracy, and Robustness in Machine Learning,” National Science Foundation CIF- 2007688, $16, 000, Oct. 2021 - Sep. 2023.