Project Grant 2151077
- 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...
- 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) 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...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a $300,000 Exploratory and Emerging Frontiers (EAGER) Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded August 15, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2027. The grant supports development of multimodal artificial intelligence tools to elucidate genome structure-function relationships in human brain cells. The primary...
- 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 $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 $143,624 Project Grant to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The award will support a collaborative research project between multidisciplinary investigators to leverage advances in neuroscience data and develop brain-inspired artificial intelligence. Specifically, the researchers will analyze...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The 3-year grant, effective July 1, 2023, supports research to develop dynamic neural network architectures that can efficiently enable multimodal perception, including vision, audio, and language processing. The research aims to address...
- 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...
- This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a new hardware system designed to meet the increasing computational demands for sophisticated multi-scale brain models. The project aims to bridge the timescales between cognitive phenomena and the underlying neuronal processes, enabling more detailed computer simulations to advance fundamental neuroscience research and the translation of biological...
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, the utility of modularity for robustness and rapid learning, and methods for importing biologically-inspired modularization principles into artificial neural networks to improve machine intelligence capabilities. The work is expected to enhance understanding of brain function and provide insights to strengthen the dialogue between neuroscience and AI, with the goal of developing artificial systems that can rapidly modularize to efficiently solve complex real-world problems.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $464.3k | 6/21/22 |