The University of Arkansas was awarded a $484,828 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year grant will support research titled "III:SMALL: COUNTERFACTUALLY FAIR MACHINE LEARNING THROUGH CAUSAL MODELING" from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The grant aims to advance the development of machine learning techniques that employ causal modeling to achieve counterfactual...
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 awarded a $448,000 Project Grant to The University of Texas at Arlington under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) for work on "MEDIUM: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FAIRNESS IN WEB DATABASE APPLICATIONS" from November 1, 2021 through October 31, 2024. The university will conduct investigator-initiated research with the goal of advancing the development and use of fair and unbiased techniques in web database...
The University of Arizona was awarded a $507,424 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year award will support the university's research project "SMALL: LEARNING TO CORRECT ERRORS" from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing research and education. This award will fund the University of...
The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) was awarded a $439,984 Project Grant by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) to conduct research on mitigating bias in machine learning algorithms. The goal of the 3-year project is to develop theoretical frameworks and principled algorithms to enhance fairness in both static and dynamic machine learning-based decision-making systems. The research will investigate...
This $325,925 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will enable the University of Houston System to develop new computational approaches for addressing fairness challenges in machine learning. The key research objectives are to: 1) explore data characteristics that impact fairness, 2) expand and refine prior knowledge to guide discrimination mitigation, 3) leverage interpretable and interactive...
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 University of Arkansas was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to plan and develop infrastructure for performing side-channel attacks on cryptographic algorithms. Specifically, the award will support outreach activities to solicit requirements for a remotely accessible research infrastructure called SCA-in-Cloud. An advisory committee and prototype including FPGA and embedded...
Rutgers, The State University was awarded a $499,926 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund research from October 2021 through September 2024 to enable interpretable artificial intelligence via Bayesian deep learning. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing, communications, and...
The University of Arkansas was awarded a $941,348 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop and implement innovation training and scholarships to improve student retention and graduation in STEM fields. The grant will support the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville in providing scholarships and training programs from March 2021 through February 2026 to retain and graduate more...