The University of California, Davis was awarded a $600,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The grant supports the collaborative research project "SELF-SUPERVISED RECOMMENDER SYSTEM LEARNING WITH APPLICATION SPECIFIC ADAPTION" from October 15, 2021 to September 30, 2025 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). This project aims to develop self-supervised recommender system...
This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of a cloud-based research infrastructure to enable studies on news recommender systems. The project will create an experimental news recommender community that allows researchers nationwide to test different algorithms and interfaces, and study how they affect user behavior and the diversity of information presented. The...
This $600,000 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070), will support research by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to explore new approaches to conversational recommendation systems. The key objectives of this 3-year project include: 1) Collecting new datasets for training and evaluating conversational models that can provide personalized...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems to support research activities related to reinforcement learning in non-stationary environments. Specifically, the grant will fund the development of techniques for safe reinforcement learning with fast adaptation and disturbance prediction capabilities. The work advances the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $249,775 project grant to Tulane University from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports collaborative research titled "Fair Recommendation Through Social Choice" that aims to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable and accelerate discovery and innovation in all...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $405,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year award will support an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site focused on training students to build and apply open source machine learning models and tools from April 2021 through March 2024. As the place of performance, the University of Illinois will deliver programming to educate...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal project grant award (CFDA 47.049) provides $175,000 to the University of Illinois to develop new theoretical frameworks and computational tools for self-supervised representation learning, with a focus on biomedical applications. The 3-year project, starting on July 1, 2025, aims to advance the understanding of self-supervised learning on low-dimensional nonlinear models and integrate these techniques into...
This $100,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Louisville. The grant will support a planning effort to develop a competitive large-scale research proposal focused on incorporating large language models into recommendation systems, with a focus on addressing issues of fairness, robustness, and trustworthiness. The research aims to explore the use of...
This $799,368 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will support the University of Illinois in developing AI systems that can learn from and exceed the capabilities of human demonstrations. The key products and services to be delivered through this 3-year award include: Reformulating imitation learning methods for AI systems that are more capable...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $1,200,000 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) and will support the creation of knowledge through all-novel-class computer vision research from September 2021 through August 2025. As part of the grant, the University will conduct investigator-initiated research and education in computer...