Auburn University Water Resources Center (AUWRC) 2026 Statewide Grants Program (funding from USGS) ~ Impacts of data cen-ters on water in Alabama and beyond (Principle Investigator: An, Co-PI: Sanjiv Kumar), 2027-2028, Advisory board: Conghe Song, Latif Kalin, and Xiao Huang. Total budget: $ 40,000.

Multi-institutional joint project ~ The socioecological footprint of data centers on the planet and its health implications (2026; PI: Dr. Li An, Co-PIs: Latif Kalin, Sanjiv Kumar, Zutao Yang, Zongliang Yue, Conghe Song, Jiaqi Gong, Xinyue Ye, Jianguo Liu, Joseph P. Messina, et al.). Jointly funded by Auburn University, University of Alabama, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Michigan State University.

The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ~ STARP: A machine learning framework for spatio-temporal risk prediction of lung cancer (PI: Zongliang Yue; Mentor: Li An) under 2025 Early-Career Research Fellowship: Human Health & Community Resilience Track (SCON-10001538), 2025-2027. Total budget: $76,000.

NSF Project about PES Interaction ~ CNH-L: People, Place, and Payments in Complex Human-Environment Systems (Principle Investigator: An), 2018-2023. Total budget: $1,450,000 (Here the NSF website for this award).

NASA NESSF Project ~ Mapping and Modeling the Invasion of Mikania Micrantha in the Chitwan Community Forests, Nepal: A Coupled Human and Natural Systems Approach (Principle Investigator: Dai; Advisor: An), 2017-2019. Total budget: $84,612.

NIH R01 Project in New York ~ Assessment of policies/programs through prediction of long-term effects on cardiovascular disease using simulation (APPLE CDS) (2018-2022; PI: Dr. Yan Li; Consultant: Dr. Li An). Total budget: $3,150,000.

NSF Project about ABM ~ ABM’17: The Usefulness, Uselessness, and Impending Tasks of Agent-Based Models in Social, Human-Environment, and Life Sciences (Principle Investigator: An), 2016-2018. Total budget: $94,996 (Here the NSF website for this award).

NSF CNH Project in China ~ Impacts of Ecosystem Service Payments in Coupled Natural and Human Systems (Principle Investigator: An), 2012-2016 (extended to 2017). Total budget: $1,299,917.

NSF CNH Project in Nepal ~ Feedbacks between Human Community Dynamics and Socioecological Vulnerability in a Biodiversity Hotspot (Principle Investigator: Yabiku; Co-Principal Investigator: An, et al.), 2012-2016 (extended to 2017). Total budget: $1,449,521.

NASA LULCC Project ~ The Urban Transition in Ghana and Its Relation to Land Cover and Land Use Change Through Analysis of Multi-scale and Multi-temporal Satellite Image Data (Principle Investigator: Stow; Co-Investigator: An), 2012-2015 (extended to 2016). Total budget: $992,960.

NSF CDI Project ~ Mapping Cyberspace to Realspace: Visualizing and Understanding the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Global Diffusion of Ideas through the Semantic Web (Principle Investigator: Tsou; Senior Personnel: An), 2010-2014 (extended to 2015). Total budget: $1,300,000.

NIH Project ~ Health, Poverty, and Place: Modeling Inequalities in Accra Using RS and GIS (Principle Investigator: Weeks; Collaborator: An), 2007-2012. Total budget: $3,057,586.

SDSU UGP Project ~ Where Are the Golden Monkeys? A Predictive Habitat Analysis (PI: An), 2009-2010.

SDSU UGP Project ~ Sampling at What Scales? A Computational Simulation Approach (PI: An), 2008-2009.

SDSU UGP Project ~ How Does Complexity Science Help? Preference, Place, and Promise in Disaster Alleviation (PI: An), 2005-2006.

NSF PIRE Project ~ Collaborative Research and Training in Social Context, Population Processes, and Environmental Change (Principle Investigator: Axinn; Co-Principle Investigator: An), 2007-2012. Total budget secured: $2,500,000.