The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,913 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to Rutgers, The State University in New Brunswick, NJ. This 2-year EAGER award titled "NAIRR PILOT: IMPRESS: INTEGRATED MACHINE-LEARNING FOR PROTEIN STRUCTURES AT SCALE" aims to harness artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) to revolutionize the design and validation of tailored proteins. The project will...
Rutgers, The State University was awarded a $1,265,946 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The grant funds collaborative research titled "Machine Learning and Robotics for the Data-Driven Design of Protein-Polymer Hybrid Materials." The research appears aimed at advancing the use of machine learning and robotics...
Rutgers, The State University has been awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct research titled "UNRAVEL MACHINE LEARNING BLACKBOXES -- A GENERAL, EFFECTIVE AND PERFORMANCE-GUARANTEED STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR COMPLEX AND IRREGULAR INFERENCE PROBLEMS IN DATA SCIENCE." Over a three-year period from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026, Rutgers will develop novel statistical and computational...
Rutgers, The State University was awarded a $749,708 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund the "FMITF: TRACK I: SYNTHESIS AND VERIFICATION FOR PROGRAMMATIC REINFORCEMENT LEARNING" project from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The project aims to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable and accelerate discovery and innovation in...
Rutgers, The State University received a three-year, $360,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation to develop an electronic-sensing and magnetic-modulation biosensor for phagocytosis quantification. The grant is funded through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which supports innovation and excellence in engineering research. Specifically, Rutgers will utilize the funding to create an electronic device capable of quantifying the process of phagocytosis, which...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Division of Chemistry's "Chemistry of Life Processes Program," awarded a $469,645 Project Grant to Dr. Colin Kinz-Thompson at Rutgers University-Newark. The grant, with a performance period from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2030, will fund research to investigate the mechanistic roles of receptor oligomerization in molecular signaling processes. The project aims to determine how bacteria accurately sense their surroundings and develop...
Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey was awarded a $225,347 project grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences' Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The grant funds the "LEAPS-MPS: ACCURACY AND THE REGULATORY REPROGRAMMING OF BACTERIAL CHEMOSENSING" project being conducted by Rutgers, Newark to promote progress in the mathematical and physical...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,490,276 project grant to Rutgers, The State University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports research from February 1, 2022 to January 31, 2026 to develop robust and efficient physics-based learning and reasoning capabilities for degraded environments. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and informatics research, education, and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) Project Grant of $579,734 awarded to Rutgers, The State University, aims to accelerate the design and development of synthetic enzymes through a combination of artificial intelligence, polymer science, and robotics. The project will implement an iterative design-build-test-learn process to reveal the underlying structure-function relationships that can produce enzyme mimetic...
The National Science Foundation awarded Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey a $559,288 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to acquire a high-performance computing cluster for research and teaching at Rutgers University-Newark. The grant period is from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. Funding will support the purchase of computing infrastructure to enable and accelerate discovery and innovation in areas of...