Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a $391,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The grant is part of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) and will fund the "FAI: FAIR AI IN PUBLIC POLICY - ACHIEVING FAIR SOCIETAL OUTCOMES IN ML APPLICATIONS TO EDUCATION, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, AND HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES" project from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024. Under this...
Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a $360,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The grant is part of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Under this award, Carnegie Mellon University will conduct collaborative research on trustworthy and explainable...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded Carnegie Mellon University a $2,155,795 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will support collaborative research on volitional control of internal cognitive states from September 2021 through August 2026. As part of its mission to promote basic research in the social, behavioral and economic sciences, the funding will enable CMU researchers to...
Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a $847,832 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings. The grant is part of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Under the three-year award beginning October 1, 2021, Carnegie Mellon University will develop...
The National Science Foundation Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities awarded $150,000 to Carnegie Mellon University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support the project "COMBINING HUMAN AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE TO IMPROVE EQUITY AND FAIRNESS IN THE WORK OF MUNICIPAL, PUBLIC SECTOR DECISION MAKING" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. This Project Grant funding will support Carnegie Mellon...
Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a $193,532 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The grant is part of the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in these fields. Under the grant, Carnegie Mellon University will conduct research to improve techniques of automatic speech recognition and transfer learning using documentary linguistic corpora. The goal is...
Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a three-year, $750,205 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research titled "HEMISPHERIC AND TOPOGRAPHIC NEURAL ORGANIZATION OF HIGH-LEVEL VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS." The grant is part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to support basic research and education in social, behavioral and economic sciences. Under this award, Carnegie Mellon University researchers will investigate...
Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a $625,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund research to develop a detailed theory of how basic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) concepts are organized neurologically. Researchers will assess brain representations of STEM concepts in physics, biology, chemistry,...
Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a three-year, $636,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SHF: MEDIUM: HERMES: ON-DEVICE DISTRIBUTED MACHINE LEARNING VIA MODEL-HARDWARE CO-DESIGN." Specifically, Carnegie Mellon University will conduct investigator-initiated research and education in computing and information science...
This $299,998 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will support collaborative research at Carnegie Mellon University to develop new big data algorithms that are robust to adversarial input. The key focus areas include: 1) adversarial robustness in black-box and white-box streaming settings, and 2) adaptive data analysis with bounded space. The research team will also explore emerging attack...