This $318,590 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) supports research and development at the Georgia Tech Research Corporation aimed at advancing computational models and algorithms for distributed constrained optimization in complex multi-agent networks. The key objectives are to: (i) develop an enhanced mathematical modeling framework utilizing variational inequality theory; (ii) design and analyze new iteratively regularized...
This $228,693 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research at Michigan State University to develop theoretical tools and efficient numerical methods for solving the optimal transport problem. The research aims to establish existence and characterize long-term behavior of solutions for a class of degenerate-parabolic fully nonlinear partial...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $315,519 supports research at the University of California, Los Angeles from July 2022 to June 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The award funds research investigating challenging problems in optimal transport theory and its applications in fields including partial differential equations, geometry, probability, and machine learning. Key areas of focus include developing the theory to analyze games with large...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $229,021 awarded on August 1, 2022 will support research at the University of Texas at Austin to develop mathematical frameworks in optimal transport applications to probability, machine learning, and kinetic theory through July 31, 2025. Under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the investigator will advance understanding of stochastic modeling, artificial intelligence algorithms, and kinetic theory by exploiting...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $540,000 provides funding from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025 to address new challenges in statistical inference with regularized optimal transport. The award is made under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Cornell University to explore modern regularization techniques for optimal transport distances and develop a comprehensive statistical theory to facilitate principled inference in high dimensions....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports a 3-year research project focused on developing rigorous statistical methods for Optimal Transport, a mathematical technique used to combine data from different scientific domains and mitigate unintended biases in algorithms. The project has three main thrusts: 1)...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Georgia Tech) from August 15, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The grant will support the development of a "Novel Distributed, Multi-Channel, Topology-Aware Online Monitoring Framework of Massive Spatiotemporal Data" called A-DMIT. This framework aims to advance online threat detection...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $184,593 project grant to Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. The grant, under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund collaborative research to develop theoretical tools and efficient numerical methods for solving the optimal transport problem. This mathematical problem seeks to minimize the total cost of transporting mass from one location to another, with applications...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will provide $160,000 to Cornell University from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027 to advance statistical optimal transport theory and its applications. The research project aims to develop new computational and statistical methods for optimal transport, and apply them to various data analysis tasks like clustering, generative modeling, and dimension reduction for...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) provides $113,834 to North Carolina State University to advance the theoretical foundations and develop efficient algorithms for optimal transport computations in geometric settings. The project aims to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of optimal transport algorithms, with a focus on designing scalable combinatorial algorithms that perform well on...