The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $308,919 Project Grant to Tulane University from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. The grant supports research titled "MECHANISMS AND ALGORITHMS FOR IMPROVING PEER SELECTION" under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). This program aims to advance computing and information sciences through investigator-initiated research and education, as well as...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $180,000 two-year Project Grant to Tulane University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support Tulane University's research project "EAGER: Scalable, Content-Based, Domain-Agnostic Search of Scientific Data Through Concise Topological Representations." The project aims to develop techniques for searching large scientific datasets in...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award totaling $1,299,743 provides funding to Tulane University from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027. The project aims to enhance transparency and accountability within the criminal legal system in New Orleans by developing a comprehensive, community-driven data dashboard and analysis toolkit. The university will partner with Court Watch NOLA and experts in...
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 $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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $100,000 to Tulane University to conduct collaborative research on understanding the long-term dynamics of news engagement in online media. The research aims to develop computational models to identify news engagement behaviors and progression stages, establish a framework for estimating causal relationships between engagement behaviors, and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $235,000 Project Grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: SMALL: PRIVACY AND FAIRNESS IN CRITICAL DECISION MAKING" to investigate privacy and fairness in critical decision making. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims...
The National Science Foundation awarded $739,500 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York for the project "III: TOWARDS CAUSAL FAIR DECISION-MAKING" from May 15, 2021 through April 30, 2024. The funding will support investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering to advance the development and use of...
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 National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $600,000 project grant to the University of Illinois under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for work on "MEDIUM: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SELF-SUPERVISED RECOMMENDER SYSTEM LEARNING WITH APPLICATION SPECIFIC ADAPTION" from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The grant supports collaborative research at the University of Illinois to develop...