This $195,213 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund the University of Southern California's investigation of misinformation beliefs expressed and spread online from September 2021 through August 2022. A sub-award of $TBD will support related research efforts at the University of California, Los Angeles. The goal of the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program is to support basic research that contributes to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $217,000 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The grant supports a collaborative research project to enhance information integrity and combat misinformation in the digital age. The key products and services to be delivered include: Analyzing and identifying social norm emergence and tipping points in public dialogue on controversial issues. Uncovering...
This $750,000 National Science Foundation project grant under the Integrative Activities program aims to develop a disinformation training range to improve user awareness and resilience. Awarded October 1, 2021 for a one-year period, the grant supports The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York to lead the effort in partnership with the University of Illinois, Northeastern University, Clemson University, and Lehigh University. The partners will create an online platform...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), provides $750,000 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the period October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. The grant supports the development of machine learning, data mining, and network science models to aid fact-checkers in identifying and intervening on misinformation and disinformation. Subawards of $250,000 each will be provided to...
The University of Southern California will receive $174,950 under a two-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to research the creation, maintenance, and disruption of inequality in online communities. The grant is funded through the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education across computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Specifically, the...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program ($327,276) will support research from August 2022 to July 2025 on understanding information spread via social media. The University of California, Los Angeles will analyze how information propagates on platforms and shapes opinion trends. Researchers will develop new computational models and algorithms to spot emerging topics, predict polarization, and identify factors influencing...
The University of Southern California (USC) received a $302,342 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to conduct collaborative research on developing techniques for mathematically understanding deep learning models and their performance on given tasks and data. The project aims to analyze neural network behavior based on how the models convert inputs to outputs, with the goal of enabling...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $269,376 to the University of Michigan from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The grant supports research to develop computational models and algorithms that promote truth discovery and robust social learning on social media platforms. Specifically, the university researchers...
The University of Southern California was awarded a $499,548 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support the university's work to accelerate privacy preserving deep learning techniques for real-time secure applications from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance...
This $225,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to combat disinformation and racial bias targeting Asian Americans. The grantee, Arizona State University, will develop computational tools to detect and analyze the temporal dynamics of Asian-targeted disinformation and countermeasures online. Researchers will use machine learning models to automatically identify disinformation and examine...