Current Research Funding
[NSF25BRLow] Co-PI Gorlatova, NSF ITE-2453803, "Breaking Low: End-to-End Delivery Technology for Interactive Multi-person XR Rehabilitation Activities." Joint with PI Jiasi Chen (University of Michigan) and Co-PIs Ethan Katz-Bassett (Columbia University) and Nakjung Choi (Nokia). 2025 – 2027. [Award information]
[DARPAYFA23] PI Gorlatova, DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) HR0011-24-1-0001, “Runtime Identification of Detrimental Augmented Reality (AR) Experiences through AR-specific Quality of Experience (QoE) Modeling and Monitoring.” 2023 - 2026. 2025 DARPA Director's Fellowship Award.
[NSF23HCC] PI Gorlatova, NSF IIS-2231975, “HCC: Small: Robust Object Detection for Mobile Augmented Reality in the Wild.” 2023 – 2026. [Award information]
[NSF23CSR] PI Gorlatova, NSF CNS-2312760, “CSR: Medium: Adaptive Environmental Awareness for Collaborative Augmented Reality.” 2023 – 2027. Joint with Co-PIs Carlee Joe-Wong (Carnegie Mellon University) and Jiasi Chen (University of Michigan). [Award information]
[NSF23ExpandAI] Senior Investigator Gorlatova, NSF IIS-2332744, “PARTNER: Neuro-Inspired AI for the Edge at UTSA (NAIAD).” PI Dhireesha Kudithipudi (UTSA). 2023 – 2027.
[Army23COE] Co-PI Gorlatova, “DoD Center of Excellence in Advanced Computing and Software (CiARE),” DoD Center of Excellence led by PI Anu G Bourgeois (Georgia State University). 2023 – 2028.
[NSF21CAREER] PI Gorlatova, NSF IIS-2046072, “CAREER: Foundations of IoT-Supported Mobile Augmented Reality.” 2021 – 2026. [Award information]
[NSF21AI] Senior Investigator Gorlatova, NSF CNS-2112562, “AI Institute: Athena: AI-Driven Next-generation Networks at the Edge.” Duke University-led center (PI Yiran Chen). 2021 – 2026.
[VRSF-Eom] PhD Student Sarah Eom, VitreoRetinal Surgery Foundation Research Award, VRSF Foundation, 2025
Faculty Awards
[Cisco23] PI Gorlatova, Cisco Research Center Award, “Enabling Multi-user Markerless Augmented Reality via Reinforcement Learning on Mobile Devices and the Edge,” Joint with Co-PI Carlee Joe Wong (Carnegie Mellon University). 2023.
[Facebook21] PI Gorlatova, Facebook Faculty Award, “Provably Robust 3D Point Cloud Classification for Mobile Augmented Reality.” Joint with Co-PI Neil Gong (Duke University). 2021.
[IBM20202023] PI Gorlatova, IBM Faculty Award, “Robust Collaborative Inference in Multi-Tier Device-to-Cloud Internet of Things Architectures.” 2020, 2023.
Past Research Funding
[NASA22STTR] Co-PI Gorlatova, NASA STTR “Demonstration of Space-Qualified Environmental Evaluation Drones with Wireless Intelligent Networked Data Processing (SPEEDWINDs),” collaboration between Nanohmics (PI John Sarik) and Duke University (Co-PI Maria Gorlatova), 2022 - 2023.
[LordEducInnov22] PI Gorlatova, Thomas Lord Educational Innovation Grant Program, “User Context-Aware Augmented Reality (AR) for Medical and Human-Robot Collaboration Applications,” 2022 - 2023.
[NSF19CNS] PI Gorlatova, NSF CNS-1908051, “Small: Collaborative Research: Towards Intelligent Multi-User Augmented Reality with Edge Computing.” A collaborative Carnegie Mellon University (PI Carlee Joe-Wong) and Duke University (PI Maria Gorlatova) project, 2019 – 2023.
[EyeC-Eom] PhD Student Sarah Eom, Research to Prevent Blindness Grant, Duke Eye Center, 2023.
[NSF19CC*] Co-PI Gorlatova, NSF CC*-1925550, “Integration: Archipelago: Linking Researchers On-Campuses and in the Cloud through SDN-Enabled Microsegmentation,” Duke University submission jointly with Tracy Futhey (PI), Richard Biever (Co-PI), and William Brockelsby (Co-PI), 2019 – 2022.
[NSF18CSR] Co-PI Gorlatova, NSF CSR-1903136, “Small: Collaborative Research: Multi-tier Service Architecture in IoT-Edge-Cloud-Paradigms.” A collaborative Yale University (PI Wenjun Hu) and Duke University (PI Maria Gorlatova) prohect, 2018 – 2021.
[LordFoundation19] Principal Investigator, “Towards Pervasive Multi-User Augmented Reality: Undergraduate Research and Course Development.” 2019 – 2020. `
[NCWIT19] PI Gorlatova, National Center for Women, and Information Technology (NCWIT) Academic Alliance Seed Fund Award, Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Track, “Towards Engaging Women in Systems and Networking Research with Code+R&D project across ECE, CS, and OIT departments”. Co-PIs Tracy Futhey, John Board. 2019 – 2020.
[DARPA18BAE] Senior Personnel Gorlatova, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Dispersed Computing (DCOMP) Network Back-haul Layered Architecture (NEBULA) program. A subcontract under the NEBULA program led by BAE Systems. 2018 – 2019.
[AWS18] PI Gorlatova, Amazon Web Services Cloud Credits for Research, “Optimizing Fog-based IoT Systems”. Co-PI Liang Zhang, 2018 – 2019.