The University of Southern California was awarded a $523,720 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund research from May 2021 through April 2025 to develop computational strategies for balancing trade-offs between risk and effort during walking. As part of its mission to promote basic research in social and behavioral sciences, the NSF grant will support the awardee's work analyzing...
The University of Southern California will receive $200,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct collaborative research on flexible network inference from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The goal of this three-year project grant award is to advance the scientific understanding of major problems in network analysis through flexible modeling approaches. As part of the work, the University will leverage its...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $221,000 project grant to the University of Chicago under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year grant will support collaborative research examining heterogeneity, risk premia, and macroeconomic fluctuations. The funding will enable researchers to investigate how differences across economic agents impact asset prices and aggregate outcomes. Relevant contextual details include the program's goal of...
This $152,997 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research at the University of Southern California (USC) on computer-intensive statistical inference methods for high-dimensional and massive datasets. The project aims to develop efficient, scalable, and statistically robust inferential procedures for two classical problems - change point detection/identification and computationally-aware statistical...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to the University of Southern California under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The grant funds the development of new exploratory data analysis and inference methods for complex data that lack fundamental vector space properties. The university will create a practical toolkit of theoretically sound, user-friendly tools to enable common data analysis tasks like...
The University of Southern California was awarded a $120,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support collaborative research to develop new classification theory and methods for addressing challenges related to objective asymmetry, small sample sizes, labeling ambiguity, and determining feature importance. The research aims to advance scientific...
The University of Southern California was awarded a $175,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The two-year grant will support the university's research project titled "CRII: III: KNOWLEDGE GRAPH COMPLETION WITH TRANSFERABLE REPRESENTATION LEARNING" from October 2021 through September 2023. The project aims to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable and...
The University of Southern California was awarded a $499,694 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year grant will support the development of efficient bi- and multi-objective search algorithms. The work will advance discovery and innovation in computing, communications, and information science and engineering—as intended under the NSF's CFDA 47.070 program. The grant period...
The University of California Irvine received a $115,999 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research titled "The Macroeconomy, Labor Markets, and Economic Mobility from the Civil War to Today: New High Frequency Data on Local Economic Shocks" from March 1, 2021 through February 29, 2024. The research will contribute new high frequency data on local economic shocks to...
The University of Southern California was awarded a $452,988 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences. The grant is part of NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) and will fund the "Aquifers, Science, and Spatial Imaginaries" project from October 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The project aims to contribute to understanding how groundwater resources are conceptualized and studied. It will examine the...