Project Grant 2205289

Award Date 9/15/22
Completion Date 8/31/26
Dollars Obligated $350K
Federal Grant Program
47.070
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems provides $350,000 in funding to the University of Illinois from September 2022 through August 2026. The award supports research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070).

Specifically, the University of Illinois will develop a machine learning framework for training models across hospitals to support precision population health and clinical decision-making tasks, while incorporating techniques to promote fairness in distributed machine learning. Researchers will embed these algorithmic innovations to evaluate their applicability to addressing screening and treatment disparities in breast cancer. The project aims to conclude with collaborative model deployment across multiple academic and medical institutions. It will also include curriculum development on fairness in machine learning and involve graduate students from underrepresented groups. The funding supports advancement of representation learning approaches for electronic health record data to represent clinical concepts and patient information in embedding vectors for downstream applications like breast cancer risk scoring.

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