This $1,700,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to tackle the urgent issue of behavioral health disorders in rural East Tennessee. The key objectives are to: Develop predictive models to assess risks, vulnerabilities, and healthcare service demands related to behavioral health disorders in rural communities. Gather and analyze social perceptions and public concerns regarding...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $162,827 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin - Madison, through the University of Wisconsin System, to develop an "Intelligent Pervasive Augmented Reality Therapy (IPAL)" system for managing opioid use disorder (OUD) and addiction. The 1-year project will integrate complementary psychotherapies like cognitive behavioral therapy and heart rate variability biofeedback with immersive...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $244,008 to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY) to develop novel analytical methods and decision support models to help county policymakers in West Virginia more effectively combat the opioid crisis. The project aims to assess the effectiveness of interventions that disrupt opioid supply chains, including both supply-side interdiction strategies and...
This project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) provides $150,000 to the University of Alabama to build a smart and connected rural community for improved healthcare access in the underserved Black Belt region of West Alabama. The key objectives are to: Develop a smart health and mobility system (SHMS) to leverage and coordinate existing transportation resources to...
This Project Grant award in the amount of $311,024 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program. The grant supports a collaborative research project led by West Virginia University Research Corporation to develop novel analytical methods and decision support models to help county policymakers in West Virginia effectively allocate resources to combat the opioid crisis. The project aims to map and compare county-level budgetary approaches to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $670,000 to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to develop a data-driven early warning system framework for detecting and responding to emerging epidemics of illicit substance use. The project aims to (1) create predictive models to identify high-risk communities and emerging threats, (2) uncover causal factors driving these substance use patterns, (3) optimize intervention...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the University of Notre Dame du Lac to develop a holistic framework for detecting online opioid trafficking activities. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), this two-year award will support the design of a heterogeneous temporal graph and graph transformer model with meta-learning capabilities. The framework aims to comprehensively model and analyze dynamic multi-modal data...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant of $113,069 to the University of Tennessee, operating as Univ Tennessee System Office, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). This grant aims to develop effective and efficient methods for reconstructing city-scale traffic dynamics using mobile data. Specifically, the project will: Estimate travel times and other macroscopic traffic states (speed, flow, density) from...
The University of Tennessee received a five-year, $537,847 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) to develop advanced air mobility infrastructure and operations. Through this award, the university will conduct research and education activities to advance knowledge in transformative infrastructure schemes and execution approaches for emerging advanced air mobility missions. Specific objectives include optimizing the location of physical air...
This $150,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund Northeastern University's development of a network-enabled system to disrupt illicit trade in counterfeit and illegal medicines. Over a four-year period from August 2022 to July 2026, the university will employ criminological, computer science and pharmacological methods to identify intervention points and coordinate stakeholder efforts against illegal medical product flows....
This $150,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the University of Tennessee's development of connected systems and intelligent technologies to advance substance use disorder treatment in rural Appalachian communities. Specifically, the University will create community perception models to inform new truck- and drone-assisted healthcare delivery frameworks. It will also establish novel community engagement models to foster informed decisions around innovative mobility systems and connected, collaborative frameworks involving patients, healthcare providers, scientists, engineers, government officials and volunteers. The goal is to improve medication access for underserved individuals with substance use disorders in Knox County, Tennessee and surrounding areas through April 2024.