PI Block
Mirrors Google Form fields 1-7. Source of truth: _data/pi.yml - edit that file, this page renders from it.
Primary PI (form fields 2-7)
| # | Form field | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | PI Full Name | Stephen Chan |
| 3 | PI Official Email Address | schan@aus.edu |
| 4 | PI Phone Number | +971-6-515-XXXX |
| 5 | PI Position Title | Associate Professor |
| 6 | PI Institution Name | American University of Sharjah |
| 7 | PI Country | United Arab Emirates |
Notes: PI Stephen Chan in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at AUS in Sharjah. The official email schan@aus.edu is best-effort based on AUS naming conventions; verify before paste. Phone extension after +971-6-515- to be filled with the PI’s direct line. The Manchester PhD plus EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship (2011-2016) is documented in the reviewer slate’s COI flag for slot 5 Paul Johnson.
Form field 1 - Email Address (Google account capture)
schan@aus.edu
This is whoever opens the Google Form, often the same as the PI’s official email but does not have to be.
Co-PIs (do not appear in EOI form, surface in full proposal)
- Joerg Osterrieder (joerg@joergosterrieder.com) - University of Twente, Netherlands
- Co-PI #1. Chairs COST Action 19130 with 300+ researchers across 51 countries. Coordinates the EUR 3.8M MSCA-DN Industrial Doctoral Network on Digital Finance. AI advisor to ING Group. Editorial roles at Frontiers AI in Finance, Frontiers Financial Risk and Blockchain, Digital Finance Springer, Risk.net, and Journal of Investment Strategies.
- Youcheng Sun (youcheng.sun@mbzuai.ac.ae) - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), United Arab Emirates
- Co-PI #2 added 2026-05-08. Assistant Professor of Computer Science at MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi. Owns formal-verification of the rwa-suptech alert API, neural-network testing of the EVT and diffusion-counterfactual components, and verifiable federated detection drawing on his Verifi paper (IEEE TDSC 2024). Co-supervises one MBZUAI-based UAE PhD jointly with Stephen Chan. Prior faculty positions at the University of Manchester and Queen’s University Belfast plus Oxford postdoc. Google ASPIRE Research Award 2022. Associate Editor at ACM TOSEM. Manchester history is documented in the reviewer slate’s compound COI flag for slot 5 Paul Johnson. Source: https://mbzuai.ac.ae/study/faculty/youcheng-sun/
RFP eligibility recap (PDF Section V)
- Domestic (UAE) and international, public or private, non-profit or for-profit organizations are eligible.
- PI must have substantial research and management experience in the relevant field.
- A PI may receive only one award per cycle; no limit on proposals submitted by a single PI or organization.
- Proposals must not currently be awarded or under review elsewhere.
What is left to fill
Anything still showing _to_fill_ above. Edit _data/pi.yml, commit, push - Pages re-renders within ~1 minute.