This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will fund research to translate fundamental concepts about coherent Ising machines into practical hardware designs for efficient, energy-saving computing devices. The $700,000 award to The Leland Stanford Junior University will specifically focus on developing integrated architectures for coherent Ising machine-type physical optimizers in...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $1.2 million Project Grant to the International Computer Science Institute of Berkeley, California from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025. The grant supports research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop scalable second-order methods for training, designing, and deploying machine learning models. The CFDA program aims to advance computing and...
This $390,862 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program supports a collaborative research project titled "FET: MEDIUM: FIELD PROGRAMMABLE OSCILLATOR ISING MACHINES" at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The key objective of this 4-year project is to design, fabricate, and demonstrate integrated circuit (IC) implementations of oscillator Ising machines (OIMs) to...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded a $249,563 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. The grant will fund a three-year collaborative research project from July 2021 to June 2024 to develop graphical modeling techniques for multivariate functional data. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports...
The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley was awarded a $882,373 Project Grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the CFDA Program 47.070 "Computer and Information Science and Engineering". The funding supports research exploring quantum algorithms, complexity, testing, and benchmarking, including efforts to develop primitives for benchmarking near-term quantum computers and foundational work on the...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded a $330,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research. The grant supports collaborative research to design and demonstrate persistent spin textures in ferroelectric oxide thin films from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. This award falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to promote progress in these fields and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $712,112 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "A COORDINATION CHEMISTRY APPROACH TO THE SYNTHESIS OF SINGLE- MOLECULE MAGNETS" from May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2024. The grant funding will support the University's research efforts to advance the synthesis of single-molecule magnets using coordination chemistry approaches. As the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $598,414 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Eran Rabani of the University of California, Berkeley. The funding supports the development of advanced neural network-based atomistic models to predict the electronic and optical properties of semiconductor nanocrystals with chiral ligands. This research aims to overcome significant challenges in understanding and predicting the chiroptical properties of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $120,650 from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026 to the University of California, Berkeley to develop optimized software for lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) computations on modern GPU-accelerated supercomputer systems. The project aims to advance the computational capabilities for studying the physics of hadron-hadron interactions, including...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $309,517 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of California, Berkeley. The grant supports the development of artificial intelligence (AI) methods for analyzing data from weak gravitational lensing surveys, which can provide insights into the nature of dark matter and the structure of the universe. The research aims to advance simulation-based inference techniques, including...