Awards

Honors earned by our students, grants that fund our research, and the computing and industry support that makes it possible.

Student Awards

STAR-D Mini-Grant Yiming Liu Departmental Stimulation & Translation of Academic Research (STAR-D).

Sep 2026

SIGDIAL 2026 Student Travel Grant Yiming Liu

Aug 2026

Honors Research Apprenticeship Program (HRAP), Fall 2026 Nicholas Immenschuh, Addison Lin

May 2026

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Fellowship, Fall 2026 Brendan Richards, Cuong Huynh, Santiago Leon Garavito

May 2026

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Fellowship, Spring 2026 Cuong Huynh, Masiko Mamba

Feb 2026

Undergraduate Engineering Research Fellowship, Fall 2025 Tiffany Nguyen, Ava Batson-Perez

Aug 2025

Undergraduate Engineering Research Fellowship, Summer 2025 Masiko Mamba

May 2025

Do AI-Powered Client Simulations Improve Counselor Trainees’ Competence? A Randomized Controlled Trial Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) 2026 Small Grant PIs: Dan Li, Jie Cao, Shangqing Zhao, Samuel Cheng

May 2026

Pairing Multimedia Content Informed by Adult Learning Pedagogical Principles with Multimodal LLMs for Personalized Health Education in Rare Pediatric Lung Disease NSF ART InTRO Scoping Translational Research PIs: Ann Gettys, Jie Cao, Mohammad Shams

May 2026

ViTal Mind: Benchmarking a Deployed Dialectical AI Platform for Research-Grade Health Literacy and Evidence-Grounded Behavior Change Across Oklahoma OU Institute for Community and Society Transformation (ICAST) 2026 Seed Grant PIs: Samuel Cheng, Dan Li, Zhamak Khorgami, Shangqing Zhao, Jie Cao

May 2026

OU Alternative Textbook Grant University of Oklahoma Libraries Open course materials on recent advances in LLMs and agentic AI.

Apr 2025

Input Rewriting for Dialog Act Tagging National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot computing allocation

Sep 2026

Modal Computing Credits Modal

May 2026

Tinker Teaching Grant Thinking Machines

Nov 2025

NSF ACCESS GPU Credits NSF ACCESS Compute allocation for a proposal on small language models.

Sep 2025

NVIDIA Academic Grant NVIDIA Four Max-Q GPUs for a collaborative proposal on seismic simulation.

Sep 2025