The University of Notre Dame received a $283,438 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports research titled "EAGER: An AI-Driven Paradigm for Collective and Collaborative Community Resilience in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond" from November 1, 2021 to July 31, 2022. The grant funding will enable the University of...
The University of Notre Dame received a two-year, $120,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop next-generation, self-evolving implantable medical devices. Through the award ending April 2025, the university will research cross-layer co-design approaches allowing dynamic adjustment of detection algorithms and hardware configurations in implantable devices based on individual patient data and circumstances. The goal is to...
The University of Notre Dame received a $599,239 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to renew its Research Experience for Teachers site. Through this funding, the University will partner Notre Dame computer science students and faculty with elementary and middle school teachers from the greater South Bend, Indiana area. During a seven-week summer program, teacher participants will conduct research...
The University of Notre Dame received a $209,989 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences on September 1, 2021 to complete the project by February 28, 2025. The grant supports the "Collaborative Research: Language Documentation with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Helper" project under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant funds research to contribute to scientific understanding...
The University of Notre Dame received a $250,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation. The award is part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support the development of 5-minute protein analyses from September 1, 2021 through February 28, 2023. The grant funding will allow the University to develop new techniques for rapidly analyzing protein compositions, with the goal of improving industrial biomanufacturing processes. The...
The University of Notre Dame received a $297,356 project grant from the National Science Foundation to develop an Immersive Training Studio for Technology-Environment-Energy-Water-Society Grand Challenges. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the project will train approximately 20 graduate fellows through an 8-week experiential learning program to formulate transformative research questions addressing societal problems. Graduate fellows will engage with community partners...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems provides $190,070 to the University of Notre Dame du Lac from September 2021 through August 2024. The grant supports research to advance online STEM learning through augmenting accessibility with explanatory captions and artificial intelligence. Specifically, the University of Notre Dame du Lac will conduct collaborative research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $150,000.00 to the University of Notre Dame to develop an AI-augmented, image-based hemodynamic modeling platform. The key objectives are to automate the transformation of medical images into 3D computational models, enable fast surrogate simulations of blood flow and cardiovascular dynamics, and quantify modeling uncertainties. This...
This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research by the University of Notre Dame to explore the potential of using heart muscle cells as the basis for a recurrent (Hopfield) neural network. The project, titled "EFRI BEGIN OI: IMPLANTATION OF DENSE ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY THROUGH CARDIAC MUSCLE CELL-BASED REPROGRAMMABLE BIO-OSCILLATORY NEURAL NETWORKS," aims to investigate whether cardiac muscle...
The University of Notre Dame du Lac will receive $167,375 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to operate the FAIROS-HEP Research Coordination Network. FAIROS-HEP will foster the adoption of practices and cyberinfrastructure to enable reuse and reinterpretation of high energy physics datasets through living publications. Living publications make the...