The University of Illinois was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The five-year award will support research titled "CAREER: STRUCTURE-EXPLOITING OPTIMIZATION FOR POWER SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS TO LARGE-SCALE NETWORKS" from February 2021 through January 2026. The research focuses on developing optimization techniques to improve the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded $510,000 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to the University of Illinois from August 2022 to July 2025. The award will support research into developing dynamic plasma/metal/dielectric crystals as millimeter-wave to terahertz communications and sensing devices. Specifically, the University will focus on fundamental behavior of these tunable plasma photonic crystals and their...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $500,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems. The grant is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and education. The five-year project grant, awarded March 1, 2021, will support research at the University of Illinois exploring the interplay between control theory and machine learning. The university...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $420,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to develop electromagnetic physically-unclonable functions generated by graphene radio-frequency circuits. This three-year award, made on June 15, 2023 under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support research to exploit imperfections in wireless device circuitry to generate encryption keys for authentication. The university...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $299,998 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems. The grant falls under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) and will support research titled "EAGER: A ROADMAP FOR RESEARCH TOWARDS VERIFICATION OF NEXTG TECHNOLOGIES" from October 1, 2021 to March 31, 2023. The grant aims to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable and...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $310,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems. The grant supports the development of ENERGY-HARVESTING LIGHT SOURCE ARRAYS FROM COLLOIDAL DOUBLE-HETEROJUNCTION NANORODS under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). This three-year award beginning September 1, 2021 will fund research to improve the quality and efficiency of energy harvesting technologies through the creation of...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems. The grant falls under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) and will fund the CAREER project "Risk-Sensitive Market Design for Power Systems: Scalable Learning and Pricing" from February 2021 through January 2026. The project aims to develop scalable algorithms for learning and pricing in power systems to account for risk factors...
The National Science Foundation awarded Associated Universities Inc. a $249,995 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) from July 15, 2021 to December 31, 2022. The grant funds novel designs and manufacturing processes for high performance reflectionless radio frequency filters at 40 GHz and above. The NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation, creativity, and excellence in engineering research...
This $149,994 National Science Foundation project grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) funds the "Convergent Innovations in Regional Circular Economies (CIRCULAR)" project being conducted by the University of Illinois from December 2021 through November 2022. The grant aims to improve regional circular economies through convergent innovations in engineering research. As the NSF Engineering directorate seeks to foster innovation and excellence in...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $199,902 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support the development of an adaptive incremental deep learning architecture to infer radio frequency signals in dynamic spectrum sharing environments in real time. The proposed research aims to advance self-learning of spectrum sensing, signal classification, and radio frequency parameter characterization through an online...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for the project "CAREER: COMMUTATED-LC CIRCUITS FOR NEXT-GENERATION RF-DOMAIN SIGNAL PROCESSING" from February 15, 2021 through January 31, 2026. The grant will support the development of commutated-LC circuits to advance radio frequency domain signal processing capabilities, in line with the program's goal of fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research. The University of Illinois, located in Urbana, Illinois, will serve as the primary awardee and deliver the technical work under the award.