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The Center for Future Work Places and Practices (CFWPP) provides financial support to its faculty affiliates and student members through a range of funding programs for research-related activities like planning and submitting proposals for external grants.

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Click on the links below to learn more about our current funding programs.

2026 Grant Recipients

Future of Work in Health Faculty Fellows

  • “Immersive Simulation of Systems Thinking and Decision-making Scenarios for Workforce Training and Assessment of Engineers in the Healthcare Industry,” $5,000 CFWPP, $5,000 SHH, Dr. Dayoung Kim.
  • “GroundCode Mini: Deployable Passive Gait Sensing for Patient-Centered Longitudinal Monitoring,” $5,000 CFWPP, $5,000 SHH, Dr. Rodrigo Sarlo.
  • “Optimizing Assessment of Pediatric Sepsis and Early Workforce Adherence to Resuscitation Guidelines Using Machine Learning-Based Medical Directives,” $5,000 CFWPP, $5,000 SHH, Dr. Melissa Fussell.

2025 Grant Recipients

Faculty Grants

  • “Examining AI Use Policy for Transportation Planners in Virginia: Perceived Usefulness and Ethical Concerns for Daily Policy-Making Tasks.” ISCE +Policy Fellow, $5,000, PI: Junghwan Kim, Co-PI: Todd Schenk.

Faculty Summer Seed Grants

  • “Safety Communication in Construction Using Network Analysis and LLMs.” $2000, PI: Ashtarout Ammar. Co-PI: Lu Zhang and Carlos Evia.
  • “Investigating the Effects of Explainable AI-Based Resume Matching on Job Seekers.” $2000, PI: Chris Brown. Co-PIs: Louis Hickman.
  • “Daily Workplace Experience among Women of Color with ADHD: Impact of Workplace Stigma on Sleep and Well-being.” $2000, PI: Arturia Melson-Silimon. Co-PI: Ashley Shew, Charles Calderwood, and Jessica Gass.

Student Summer Research Grants

  • “Empowering Voice Transformation via Music, Performance, and HCI.” $500, PI: Gala Lucia Gonzalez Barrios. Supervisor: Ico Bukvic
  • “Intelligent Augmented Reality (IAR) for Adaptive Workforce Training.” $500, PI: Shokoufeh Bozorgmehrian. Supervisor: Joseph L. Gabbard
  • “Estimating Revised NIOSH Lifting Equation Parameters using Vision-Language Models.” $500, PI: Mohammad Sadra Rajabi. Supervisor: Maury A. Nussbaum
  • “Investigating Communication Dynamics in Human–Robot–Human Teams Using Bales’ Interaction Process Analysis.” $500, PI: Utkarsha Mohan. Supervisor: Sol Lim