The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $842,431 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems. The grant is part of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070) and will support collaborative research using multi-stage learning to prioritize mental health from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2025. The research aims to advance the development and use of cyberinfrastructure to accelerate discovery...
The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $383,487 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences on August 15, 2021 to complete work by July 31, 2024. The grant supports the "Quantitative Understanding of Heritable Epigenetic Changes" project under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The Biological Sciences program aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific...
The University of Maryland, College Park will use $125,902 from a Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop a mathematical foundation for novel artificial intelligence learning algorithms with applications in biology and engineering. Specifically, the university researchers will establish a theoretical framework for minimizing and maximizing a machine learning...
The University of Maryland, College Park received a $748,910 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences on January 1, 2022 to support research titled "TRANSITIONS: MECHANICAL REGULATION OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DYNAMICS, CHROMATIN ACCESSIBILITY AND GENE EXPRESSION." The research is being conducted under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to increase scientific knowledge and understanding of major...
This $225,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research on "Spatiotemporal Learning in 3D Neuronal Organoids". The key objectives are to: Establish a 3D network of neurons as a brain analog, using organoid cultures as the network nodes. Develop biocomputing theory, organoid culture techniques, and hardware interfaces to maintain and...
The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $480,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to conduct molecular simulations of biological active matter from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024. The award is being used to support research under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. Specifically, the university will leverage...
The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $359,983 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund a collaborative research project titled "Microbiome Mediation of Multi-trophic Interactions in a Tree Diversity Experiment" from June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2025. The research aims to advance understanding of major problems confronting the nation by...
This three-year, $600,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance understanding of convolutional neural networks. Specifically, the University of Maryland, College Park will investigate how multiscale representations and shift invariance affect the dynamics of neural network training. Researchers will analyze kernel properties of overparameterized networks to illuminate relationships between architecture and...
This $550,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). The grant supports research to investigate the mechanisms responsible for mediating and coordinating plasticity between different synaptic inputs in the brain's reward circuits. The research aims to determine how information is integrated within individual neurons to regulate motivated behaviors. The project...
This $741,002 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program supports the development of a novel machine learning framework for analyzing large-scale, multi-modal single-cell biological data. The project aims to construct advanced computational tools and user-friendly software to enable more effective extraction of insights and knowledge from complex single-cell datasets spanning genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, and proteomics. The...