The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) was awarded a $549,700 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The five-year grant will support research harnessing interpersonal common sense for social grounding in natural language processing. As described in the NSF program, the goal is to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable and accelerate...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will use a $500,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems to support research titled "From a Machine Detector to a Machine Detective: Decisions and Queries with Uncertain and Incomplete Information." The three-year grant, awarded October 1, 2021 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), will advance the development of techniques for...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) received a three-year $548,722 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (formerly the Education and Human Resources program, CFDA 47.076) to develop and validate a model of self-regulated learning (SRL) in computer science education. Through this award, UNC-Chapel Hill will collect fine-grained digital trace data from students' interactions with programming tools in authentic...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will provide research and education services under a $161,232 National Science Foundation Project Grant for the "Engineering" federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). Specifically, the University will operate an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site award titled "Collaborative Research: Nanoscale Detectives -- Elucidating the Structure and Dynamics of Hybrid Perovskite Systems." Over a three-year period from September 2021...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) was awarded a $366,654 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (47.049) federal grant program. The grant will fund research in three key areas of applied mathematics: properties of model operators in condensed matter and topological physics; performance of numerical algorithms for studying wave propagation; and studying how the geometry of a domain or graph impacts...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will conduct collaborative research on combined waves and currents over multi-scale topography from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024 through a $313,734 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. Under the grant, UNC-Chapel Hill will investigate boundary layer dynamics and parameterization to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system, as outlined in the objectives of the NSF's Geosciences program...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $800,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on May 1, 2021 to fund research exploring the interaction of cholinergic and dopaminergic modulation underlying associative learning. The research is being conducted under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which supports basic scientific research to advance understanding of major problems and strengthen the nation's biological research enterprise....
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $299,858 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to support the EAGER: COMPUTER-ASSISTED REDACTION AND ANONYMIZATION OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS AND PRODUCTS (CARASCAP) project. The grant was awarded on July 15, 2021 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA #47.070) federal grant program to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure and...
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte received a $114,096 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science on October 1, 2021 for collaborative research under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program. The grant supports the project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-SUPPORTED DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURE ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERS," which will contribute to scientific understanding of using artificial...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $174,200 Project Grant under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to develop new resource allocation policies for optimizing the scheduling of parallelizable machine learning (ML) training workloads on shared hardware clusters. The goal is to enable the rapid and efficient training of highly accurate ML models using limited computing resources. This...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will use a $240,530 project grant from the National Science Foundation to support the "ATHENA: Learning-Oriented Search with Personalized Learning Flows" collaborative research effort from October 2021 through September 2024.
The grant is funded through NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, which supports investigator-initiated research and education across computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Specifically, the grant will allow UNC-Chapel Hill researchers to advance the development of personalized learning flows for improving search capabilities, in line with the program's goals of enabling discovery and innovation through computational research infrastructure. The place of performance is listed as Chapel Hill, North Carolina.