This is a $100,000.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) on June 1, 2021. The goal of this contract is to apply artificial intelligence paradigms to develop a knowledge base of drivers of harmful algal blooms from multispectral and hyperspectral images, and train a bidirectional encoder representation of these drivers. The contract has a period of performance through May 31,...
This is a $1,000,000.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) to develop research infrastructure under the NASA EPSCoR (Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) program. The award has a period of performance through December 31, 2026 and does not have a set-aside designation. UPR, a Hispanic-Serving Institution and 1890 Land Grant College, has a long history of supporting NASA's research and exploration initiatives...
This is a $100,000.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Puerto Rico. The goal of the project is to use novel graph-based network analysis methods to identify and characterize the molecular pathways and mechanisms underlying physiological changes in the Arabidopsis thaliana plant grown on the International Space Station. This research aims to improve understanding of plant gene expression in...
This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC23M0156, is a $100,000.00 Cooperative Agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the University of Puerto Rico. The contract, which has no set-aside designation, aims to fund "Improvements on Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) Codes and High-Performance Neuromorphic Engineering for Communication Systems" under NASA's EPSCOR RAPID RESPONSE RESEARCH program. The University of Puerto Rico, as the prime...
This is a $100,000.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Puerto Rico (UPR). The contract, which has no set-aside designation, is for research and education on Tethered Lifting Systems (TLEs) using artificial intelligence and machine learning for identification and categorization. As a major public university system and Hispanic-Serving Institution, UPR frequently partners with NASA on research...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $60,000 grant to the University of Puerto Rico Research and Development Center Division, doing business as Chancellor Mayaguez Campus, to support research titled "Automating Character Extraction for Taxonomic Species Descriptions Using Neural Network, Transformer, and Computer Vision Signal Processing Architectures." The award has a completion date of January 14, 2026 and was issued on January 15, 2024 without a...
This is a $3,410,000.00 cooperative agreement award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), a Hispanic-Serving Institution and 1890 Land Grant College. The award supports NASA's Strategic Goal 4 to enhance capabilities and operations to catalyze current and future mission success, with a focus on STEM engagement programs designed to build a future STEM workforce. The contract has no set-aside designation and is awarded directly to...
This federal contract award, valued at $100,000.00, was granted to the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), a major public university system and research institution in Puerto Rico. The award, identified as 80NSSC21M0156, is a Cooperative Agreement with no set-aside designation. The goal of this contract is to apply Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) paradigms to quantify uncertainty in citizen science image data, and to train a Bayesian Deep Neural Network (BDNN) with few-shot...
This is a $444,735.64 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) to implement the Puerto Rico NASA Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (PR NASA EPSCOR). The PR NASA EPSCOR program aims to enhance Puerto Rico's research competitiveness, science and technology capabilities, and higher education in areas of importance to NASA's mission. The agreement supports the initiation of new research projects in collaboration with...
This is a $100,000.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Puerto Rico, Office of the Vice President Division, doing business as Universidad De Puerto Rico. The contract supports research on the strength and dynamics of near-Earth asteroids, which are known to be composed of granular "rubble pile" material. The University of Puerto Rico, a Hispanic Serving Institution and Land Grant...