Northeastern University was awarded a $299,987 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will support research from September 2021 through August 2024 related to "Sparse Sensing, Actuation, and Communication in Complex Networks." As the NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through innovative engineering...
Northeastern University was awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CONSENSUS AND DISTRIBUTED OPTIMIZATION IN NON-CONVEX ENVIRONMENTS WITH APPLICATIONS TO NETWORKED MACHINE LEARNING." Under the grant, Northeastern University will conduct research and education activities to advance the fundamental understanding of distributed non-convex optimization...
Northeastern University was awarded a $379,482 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems. The grant is part of the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support innovation and excellence in engineering research and education. Under the three-year award beginning September 2021, Northeastern University will conduct research and development activities focused on monitoring active distribution systems. The university aims to...
The National Science Foundation awarded Northeastern University a $233,204 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of February 15, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The grant funds collaborative research to control information processing and learning in neuronal networks through light-mediated programming of genomic networks. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded a $274,242 Project Grant to Northeastern University on June 15, 2021 with a completion date of October 31, 2023. The grant is part of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Under this award, Northeastern University will...
Northeastern University was awarded a $278,415 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund the COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FET: SMALL: MASSIVE SCALE COMPUTING AND OPTIMIZATION THROUGH ON-CHIP PARAMETRIC ISING MACHINES (OPTIMA) project from July 15, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The project aims to advance the development and...
The National Science Foundation awarded Northeastern University a $445,245 project grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to support the "Collaborative Online Optimization for Efficient Model-Based Learning" effort. This grant aims to improve engineering research and education through fostering innovation in model-based learning approaches. Specifically, Northeastern and sub-awardee Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station will collaborate on optimizing online...
This three-year $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program, funds research at New York University to advance the mathematical foundations and develop new tools for real-time distributed optimization-based control of large-scale nonlinear uncertain systems. Specifically, the award supports three research tasks: 1) synthesizing distributed optimization algorithms robust...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) grant award to Northeastern University for $515,000 supports a 5-year research project titled "CAREER: Foundations of Scalable, Fast, and Online Decentralized Manifold Optimization in Multi-Agent Networks". The project aims to advance the state-of-the-art in decentralized manifold optimization, which is critical for applications in control, robotics, and machine learning. Key research thrusts include developing...
Northeastern University was awarded a $765,688 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research. The grant is part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: RHEOSTRUCTURALLY-INFORMED NEURAL NETWORKS FOR GEOPOLYMER MATERIAL DESIGN. Through this funding, Northeastern University will deliver research from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025 to develop rheostructurally-informed neural networks for geopolymer material...