Northwestern University will use $325,391 in funding from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to conduct a three-year collaborative research project titled "Using AI-Enabled Smart Objects to Understand and Support Spatial Reasoning and Learning." The objectives of the SBE Sciences program include contributing to scientific strength and welfare through promotion of basic research and education in social, behavioral and economic sciences....
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $265,830 project grant to Michigan State University on August 1, 2021 with a completion date of January 31, 2025. The grant falls under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in these fields as well as monitoring science resources. Under this award, Michigan State University will build infrastructure for collecting longitudinal speech...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award, totaling $299,392, aims to build a collaborative mechanism for academia, industry, and the public sector to co-design research and development (R&D) directions for data systems and artificial intelligence (AI) to address scientific and societal challenges. The project, led by the Regents of the University of Michigan, will bring together data science and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science award, under the CFDA 47.075 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program, provides $503,800 to the University of Michigan to research using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to improve job matching for low-skilled workers displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2-year project will use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate whether AI-assisted algorithmic matching of jobseeker skills and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $582,031 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, doing business as the University of Michigan. The grant will fund a 5-year research project focused on "Achieving Explainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) Through Human-AI Interaction." The goal of the project is to develop new scientific knowledge and design guidelines for delivering...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,188,386 project grant to Michigan State University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The grant funds collaborative research to support virtual meeting technologies that enhance well-being and equity for game developers. As the prime awardee, Michigan State University will work to develop and evaluate virtual meeting tools and practices to mitigate...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under CFDA program 47.076 (STEM Education) provides $299,160 to Michigan State University (MSU) to enable co-learning and co-development of an AI literacy roadmap that recenters diverse cultural knowledges and ways of knowing. The award period is from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026. The key products and services to be delivered through this grant include: Developing sustainable partnerships to cultivate a broad...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $174,229 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to Michigan Technological University. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, with a completion date of September 30, 2025, is focused on developing a self-learning neuromorphic robot system that can operate efficiently in resource-constrained environments. The key objectives of this research project are to: 1) create a neuromorphic robot that utilizes...
The University of Michigan was awarded a $325,001 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) for the period of May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2024. The grant funds the Michigan Summer Program in Cognition and Early Development (MSPICED), which is an undergraduate research experience program focused on research and education in social, behavioral and economic sciences. As the place of performance for...
Michigan State University was awarded a $557,879 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The university will deliver a comprehensive framework for robust learning over graphs to identify and mitigate outliers, adversarial attacks, and errors in graph structure from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. Specifically, the university will conduct...