The University of Michigan was awarded a $291,999 Project Grant 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 three-year collaborative research project aims to advance fairness in web database applications through investigator-initiated research. Specifically, the grant will support the University of Michigan and its research partners in examining issues of...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $292,001 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to conduct collaborative research on fairness in web database applications from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2024. The grant supports investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Specifically, the University of Illinois will advance the...
The University of Texas at Dallas was awarded a $404,772 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site focused on Software Safety and Reliability from March 2021 through February 2024. The Site will provide research, practice, and innovation opportunities for undergraduate students in all areas of computing, communications, and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will support the development of fairness-aware data structures for approximate query processing. The $499,999 grant, awarded on August 15, 2024, will fund research to design data structures with theoretical guarantees that achieve group fairness across domains such as hashing, membership estimation, aggregate query estimation, and approximate...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded $182,959 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Oklahoma from June 2021 to May 2023. The award supports research into developing a bias-aware approach to modeling user interactions in information retrieval systems. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and informatics research and...
The University of Texas at Arlington received a $149,415 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The award funds the development and testing of an online, weeklong bootcamp and mentoring program for undergraduate researchers in the water and energy sectors to develop competencies in fair data practices and introductory machine learning....
The National Science Foundation awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year award will support the development of program synthesis techniques to help software developers manage schema changes to databases. The project aims to simplify the schema modification process through automated techniques for migrating data between formats and updating code to reflect schema...
The University of Texas at Arlington received a $174,978 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports research titled "Sustaining Cognitive Flow in Physical Making" from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2023. The project aims to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable and accelerate discovery and innovation in computing, communications, and...
The National Science Foundation awarded $175,000 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to The University of Texas at San Antonio for a project grant titled "Towards Understanding and Defending Against New Waves of Online Hate." The 24-month project will advance knowledge and capabilities to address online hate through novel computational approaches. Key deliverables include discovering and cataloging factors that characterize new...
The University of North Texas received a three-year, $398,684 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support an Research Experience for Undergraduates Site focused on interdisciplinary research exploring accelerated deep learning approaches through hardware-software collaboration. The project aims to advance development and use of computing infrastructure to enable and accelerate...