Project Grant 2124136
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) on December 1, 2021 to fund research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FOUNDATIONS OF DEEP LEARNING: THEORY, ROBUSTNESS, AND THE BRAIN?" through November 30, 2024. The award is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific...
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $529,462 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations on June 1, 2021 to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CIF: MEDIUM: ANALYSIS AND GEOMETRY OF NEURAL DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS." The award is part of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in...
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $108,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations to support collaboration research on probabilistic, geometric, and topological analysis of neural networks from theory to applications. The two-year award, issued on January 1, 2022 and set to conclude on December 31, 2024, will fund research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA #47.049). This...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $750,000 Project Grant to Stanford University for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NCS-FR: BEYOND THE VENTRAL STREAM: REVERSE ENGINEERING THE NEUROCOMPUTATIONAL BASIS OF PHYSICAL SCENE UNDERSTANDING IN THE PRIMATE BRAIN." The three-year grant, awarded October 1, 2021 and concluding September 30, 2024, will support research activities under the Computer and Information Science and...
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The grant will support MIT's "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NCS-FO: STUDYING LANGUAGE IN THE BRAIN IN THE MODERN MACHINE LEARNING ERA" project from September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2025. Under this award, MIT researchers will study human language processing and representation in the brain using modern machine...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $320,133 project grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: COMPCOG: ADVERSARIAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ON INTUITIVE PHYSICAL REASONING." The award period is from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The research will be conducted under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to contribute...
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations on June 1, 2022 to support research titled "AF: SMALL: AN ALGORITHMIC THEORY OF BRAIN BEHAVIOR: CONCEPT REPRESENTATION AND LEARNING IN SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS." The three-year project will investigate concept representation and learning in spiking neural networks through the lens of algorithmic theory. The award...
- This National Science Foundation project grant of $928,576 will fund research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from July 2022 to June 2025 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support investigation into the emergence and function of modular structures in biological brains and artificial learning systems. Researchers will study how modular architectures may arise through local connectivity constraints in neural networks,...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a $325,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative will develop 3D-integrated micro-photometer chips designed to advance in vivo deep-brain fluorescence imaging for neuroscience research. The...
- This $272,750 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports fundamental research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on how people make decisions and interact based on information. The key research focuses include: 1) understanding the long-term implications of people's limited or imperfect memory, which can lead to overconfidence and neglect of rare events; 2) examining how people decide...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a three-year, $2.25 million Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate under the CFDA 47.075 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program. The grant funds collaborative research titled "Beyond the Ventral Stream: Reverse Engineering the Neurocomputational Basis of Physical Scene Understanding in the Primate Brain." The research aims to advance understanding of how the primate brain comprehends and interprets visual scenes through neurocomputational modeling and analysis. Key products and services will include conducting experiments, developing computational models, and analyzing brain activity related to physical scene understanding. Findings from this research have the potential to provide insight into visual processing and scene comprehension. The grant period runs from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $2.3m | 8/12/21 |