This National Science Foundation project grant of $375,000 will fund the development of an Integrative Cyberinfrastructure for Online Abuse Research (ICOAR) from September 2022 through August 2025. The funding is provided through the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in the social sciences. The award recipient, the Research Foundation for the State University of New York, will create a scalable and customizable...
Clemson University was awarded a $399,785 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems on October 1, 2021 to complete the project by September 30, 2024. The grant supports research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to design social virtual reality technologies aimed at mitigating new forms of online harassment. Leveraging virtual reality, the researchers at Clemson University will develop...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award of $200,000, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2027, will fund research conducted by the University of Southern California (USC) to understand the evolution of hate language use in online communities. The project will analyze large social media datasets using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to identify factors influencing participation in...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to better understand and address problematic online behaviors and their impact on user well-being in social media. The $399,988 award, effective June 15, 2025 through May 31, 2029, will support research focused on three core objectives: Developing predictive models for early detection of problematic online behaviors and assessing their...
Clemson University received a $140,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2024. The grant funds collaborative research to enable high performance multi-scale simulation on big memory platforms. Specifically, the award supports investigator-initiated efforts to advance the development and use of research...
This Project Grant award of $100,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to better understand and address problematic online behaviors, such as cyberbullying, that impact users' mental health and well-being on social media platforms. The key components of the research include: 1) developing predictive models for early detection of problematic online behaviors, 2) designing new social media features...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of South Carolina. The grant, with a period of performance from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, focuses on enhancing security and mitigating harm in AI-generated vision language models. Key technical objectives include: 1) Developing a prompting framework for detecting harmful content provenance in AI-generated vision...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $150,000 to the University of Southern California from December 15, 2022 to November 30, 2023. The grant funds an interdisciplinary research project investigating the role of online communication and offline violence in non-Western social media settings. Specifically, the University will collect a...
This Project Grant award of $100,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research by Cornell University to improve personal account security. The project aims to: Better understand the experiences of individuals targeted by abusive digital attacks, support professionals, and adversaries through qualitative stakeholder investigations. Catalog existing account management tools and emerging authentication mechanisms,...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems will fund $196,892 for research into understanding online-to-offline sexual violence through data donation from online dating app users. The award, made under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development of a data donation app and longitudinal study of consent practices between online and offline sexual encounters among online...