This is a complete list of the Provost Digital Innovation Grant Winners across the years
2025–2026
Project Awards
- Kieren Aris, “The Prevention Evidence Hub: An Interactive Open-Access Database of What Works in P/CVE”
- Victoria Barrow, Probing the origins of CAM photosynthesis via machine learning 3D image analysis
- Bryce Barthuly, “ConservaID: An LLM Fine-tuned to support conservation professionals”
- Emmanuel Bawa, Linguistic Corpus Analysis of Greek particles εἰ and ἐάν in the New Testament
- Renato Da Silva, RiverCaptureFinder: Automated Detection and Tracking of River Capture in Numerical Landscape Evolution Models
- Aurash Khawarzad, “Microclimate Monitoring, Mapping, and Analysis”
- Illaria Porru, “Replicating Cross-Linguistic Experiments: A Case Study for English, Turkish, and German”
Travel-Training Grants
- Tuka Al-Sahlani, “Arab American Women Academics: Digital Index”
- Rosa Angela Calosso, “Black Dominicanas Online”
- Christopher Colón, “The Bushwick Archive”
- Annastecia Ebisike, “Critical Thinking with AI”
- Nour Hodeib, “The Mixtape Project: Countercultural Music Production in the Arab Levant”
- Qiyao Pan, Digital Traces of Place: A Computational Analysis of Neighborhood Narratives in New York City
- Nicole Walker, “Seeing the Difference: A Human vs. A.I. Writing Visualization Tool”
- Noah Wistman, “Developing Touch Interfaces for Tactile Feedback and Learning Research”
2024–2025
Project Awards
- Nada Ali, Multi-Qubit Quantum Circuit Visualization
- Evelyn Bautista-Miller, A Day in the Life: Supporting Latinx Newcomers
- Brittany Brathwaite, Digital Cartographies of Care: Mapping Black Feminist Placemaking in Healthcare
- Miranda Brethur, Knowing the Ghetto
- Celeste Escobar, Teko Yma Ayvu Jere – Intergenerational Digital Oral Ancestral Circles
- Thayer Hastings, Anthropologists Boycott: An Audio Mini-Series on Palestine Solidarity in the Academy
- Beatrice Mundo, Digital Accessibility of Catherine de’ Medici’s Correspondence
- Michelle Rendon, Aquí Estamos: Testimonios of Latiné Place-Making and Identity in los Suburbios
- Silvia Rivera Alfaro and Natalia Villarroel Torres, Hardening a sustainable infrastructure for the community-based Repository of Feminist Linguistics
- Maddalena Romano, Bridging the Gap between Emergency Management and Information
- Lacy Shelby, Developing a Digital Twin for Ecological Monitoring Using Open-Source Tools
- Luofan Shu, Enhancing Emotional Experience and Engagement in Feedback: An Intervention Using AI-Powered Personalized Feedback Prompts
- Jonathan Toro, Nuyorican Founders in The Digital Age: Creating The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Founders Archive Project (NPCFAP) Website
- Sumeja Tulic, Mapping the March of Peace: A Digital Exploration of Trauma, Memory, and Resilience
- Bret Windhauser, Mapping Secular Smuggling and Religious Trade in the Middle East, 1914-1932
- Hatice Huma Yardim, Mapping the Ottoman Prisons
Travel-Training Grants
- Bryce Barthuly, IACP Technology Conference
- Meha Gupta, UPenn Dream Lab (Summer School)
- Mottaqi Sadeq, Associate AI Engineer for Data Scientists (Career tracks)
2023–2024
Project Awards
- Jamie Borgan & Ian Williams, Developing a Technology Inventory for (and With) Social Work Students: A Tool For Participatory Exploration of Affordances, Constraints, and Risks
- Flora Brandl, Friend, Not Foe: ChatGPT as a Writing Resource in the Humanities
- Rosa Calosso, Black Dominicanas Online: Building Community Online and in Real Life (IRL)
- Nicole Cote, Off Grid Investigations
- Meha Gupta, Affective Landmarking: Tableau for Data Visualization
- Gregory Hartmann, ABCs — Algorithms (Basic) for Coding, an Introduction
- Patricia Hatcher, Beasts of NY
- Anna Schlenz, Mapping Coastal Accumulation, Enclosure, and the Settler-State in Southern Rhode Island
- Destry Sibley, After Mother: A Dissertation Podcast
- Shreya Sunderram, Worldbuilding Pedagogies; Youth-Driven Critical Game-Based Learning
- Bret Windhauser, Mapping Secular Smuggling and Religious Trade in the Middle East, 1914-1932
Travel Grants
2022-2023
Project Awards
- Silvia Rivera Alfaro and Natalia Villarroel Torres – Spanish Feminist Linguistics Repository
- Atilio Barreda – OER data-science focused whiteboard and visualization web app
- Filipa Calado – Queer Text Toolkit
- Yu-Jhen Chen – NYC Museums and their neighborhood: Race, Cultural Contact and Art Participation
- Rebecca Krisel – Digital Tools for Transforming a Large Text Corpus into a Database
- Theodore Manning – Project Map Lemon
- Ash Marinaccio – Documentary Photography for “Rehearsing the Revolution: Process, Politics, and Identity Formation in Nonfiction Theatre Making in Areas of War and Conflict”
- Zach Muhlbauer and Cen Liu – Common School Map: Mapping the Common School Movement In New York State
- Qiyao Pan – NYC Restaurant Closings by Neighborhood Typology”
- Britton Williams – Black MAP Project
Training Grants
- Mohammadsadeq Mottaqi
2018-2019
Implementation & Start Up Grants
- Francine Almash – A Digital History of Disability and the ‘600’ Schools in New York City
- Angelique Aristondo and Rebecca Raitses – Language Pedagogy in CUNY Classroom Website
- Arita Balaram – Reconstructing Memory, Conjuring Place: Cultivating a Women & Femme-Centered Intergenerational Oral History Project
- Carly Batist – Integrating Wildlife Conservation & Technology Through Acoustic Monitoring of Wild Ruffed Lemurs
- Andréa Becker – The Topography of Choice: A Spatial Analysis of Access
- David Giuseppe Colosanto and Julian Gonzalez De Leon Heiblum – Visualizing Epistemology
- Atasi Das and LaToya Strong – Abolition Science Radio Podcast
- Erik Forman – We Built This City: Labor’s Cooperative Housing Projects in New York City
- Alexis Larsson – BlabRyte
- Ashley Marinaccio – Stage Left: A Web Series
- Stefano Morello – East Bay Punk Digital Archive
- Theresa Ober – A Digital Pedagogical Tool to Support Writing Instruction for Undergraduate Students
- Rachel Rakov – Sarcastic Speech Research Corpus
- Nicholas Rodrigo – They Are Just Deportees podcast
Training Grants
- Carmela Muzio Dormani
- Connor French
- Yu-Hsuan Liu
- Yoshiko Oka
- Natalie O’Shea
- Sally Sharif
- Katherine Wojtkiewicz
2017-2018
Implementation & Start-Up Grants
- Atasi Das and LaToya Strong – Abolition Science: A Podcast Series
- Federico DiPasqua – Introduction to Classical Cultures: A Video Podcast Series
- Andrew Dunn – Holographic Reading
- Anthony Freeman – Refer Me NYC
- Agustin Índaco – Around the World in 270 Million Images
- Micki Kaufman – Quantifying Kissinger
- Christina Katopodis – The Walden Soundscape
- Madhuri Karak – A Virtual Museum of Kondh Resistance: 1825-Present
- Drake Logan – The Military Toxics Transparency Project
- Anna Larsson – BlabRyte
- Jessica Murray – Our Mobility: A Mixed-Methods Research Protocol for Measuring Daily Mobility
- Javier Otero Peña – Guerrilla Gallery
- Sophia Natasha Sunseri – Shyness and the Ethics of Engagement in Eighteenth-Century Literature
- Tommy Wu – Emperor of Work: Chinese Restaurants, Worker Subjectivities, and the New Regime of Flexible Labor
- Inés Vañó García – Place-based and Task-based Spanish Language Learning
Training Grants
- Martin Aagard Jensen
- Param Ajmera
- Atasi Das
- LaToya Strong
- Diane Yoong
2016-2017
- John Connor – Interactive Theorem Proving In Euclidean Plane Geometry
- Karyna Pryiomka & James Christopher Head – Visualizing Conflict: Situating Narratives in Their Sociohistorical Context
- Agustín Indaco – Social Media Inequality
- Matthew Knip – The Philip C. Van Buskirk Archive
- Victoria Restler – Digital interludes: Re-representing teacher carework
- Sara Vogel – Teaching Bilinguals (Even if You’re Not One): A Video Webseries for K-12 Educators
- Christina Katopodis – The Walden Soundscape
- Tahir Butt – Research Tool for Historians
- Jessica Murray – Our Mobility, A Mixed Methods Research Protocol for Studying Daily Mobility
2015-2016
- Anders Wallace – Charm School: Dating Experts, Abject Masculinity, and the Immaterial Labors of Seduction
- Rachel R. Bogan – Good Food For Grads: Mobile Recipes and Tips for Eating ‘Well’ on a Grad School Budget
- Patrick Smyth and Hannah Aizenman- Futures Past Archive
- Henry Alexander Wermer-Colan – Calculating the Politics of Aesthetics
- Jennifer M. Pipitone and Svetlana Jović – Digital Storytelling for Change: Toward Sustainable Youth-inclusive Communities in New York City
- Karyna Pryiomka and James Christopher Head – Visualizing Conflict: Situating Narratives in Their Sociohistorical Context
- Ian Phillips – The Linguist’s Kitchen: A web-based app for learning linguistics
- Joanna Birnbaum and Michelle Johnson McSweeney – The Spanish-English Bilingual Youth Texting Corpus and Part-of-Speech Tagger: Spanish/English BYT Corpus
- Alice Lynn McMichael – Cappadocia on the Commons
- Micki Kaufman – Spatializing / Sonifying Kissinger: New Perspectives in Space and Sound
- Erin Cully – Outcompeted: Mapping the Savings and Loan Crisis
- Laura W. Kane, Andrew G. McKinney – CUNY Syllabus Project
- Hector Agredano – Torreon, Mexican boomtown: A historical geography of Porfirian Mexico
2014-2015
- Micki Kaufman – “Everything On Paper Will Be Used Against Me”: Quantifying Kissinger
- Ian Phillips – The Linguist’s Kitchen
- Eric A Knudsen – 6 Degrees of Occupation
- Manissa Maharawal – Narratives of Displacement: A Digital Storytelling Project
- Daria Vaisman – Mapping Global Trafficking
- Tayt Harlin – Digitally Annotating Paul Metcalf
- Joshua J. Hajicek – Clinical Research Tools for Rapid Assessment of Cochlear Health
- Alex Wermer-Colan – Calculating the Politics of Aesthetics
- Britany Salsbury and Christina Weyl – Networking Modern Prints in New York and Paris, 1880-1950
- Peri Ozlem Yuksel-Sokman – Lazuri Talking Child Stories Benjamin Miller and Amanda Licastro – The Writing Studies Tree: An Academic Genealogy
2013-2014
- Micki Kaufman – “Everything On Paper Will Be Used Against Me”
- Benjamin Miller and Amanda Licastro – The Writing Studies Tree
- Jared Simard – Mapping Mythology
- Jesse Merandy – Walking with Whitman
- Evan Misshula and Ligon M. Liu – Collaborative Forecasting of Secure Housing Needs
- Edwin Mayorga – Educational Policies and New York City Latinos
- Natascia Boeri – Community IT Centers and Organizing Women Workers
2012-2013
- Antonia Santangelo – The Black Sea Fish and Mollusca Project
- John Boy – Mapping the Church-Planting Movement
- Suzanne Tamang – Street Medicine Apps
- Rondi Silva – Debunking the “Dropout” Stereotype
- Kyle Ferguson – eTLP: Digitizing Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Ben Miller, Amanda Licastro, and Jill Belli – The Writing Studies Tree
- Jacob Lederman – Urban Sociology Digital Mapping and Presentation Tool
- Micki Kaufman – Data Mining Diplomacy
- Justin Gladman – Building a Virtual Museum
- Naomi Barrettara – The Open Music History Project











