The Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology received a $102,100 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The award will fund research from July 2023 through June 2026 to develop diverse fairness measures and optimization models to evaluate fairness in emerging infrastructure systems with high operational dynamics. Specific objectives include creating a novel framework using multi-level utility functions and a social...
The National Science Foundation awarded Florida Atlantic University a $195,079 project grant under the Engineering (47.041) program to conduct research on electric vehicles and driver assistance technologies. The university will analyze car following behavior of electric vehicles with adaptive cruise control through field experiments and develop new microscopic and macroscopic traffic models. It will collect empirical trajectory data from production vehicles and implement the microscopic...
The University of Florida received a $251,571 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Engineering Education and Centers under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support the CAREER: ADVOCATING FOR ENGINEERING THROUGH HIDDEN CURRICULA project from April 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021. The goal of this project is to improve engineering education and advocacy through examining hidden curricula at multiple institutions using mixed methods approaches. As the...
The University of Florida received a $333,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to develop analytics and a prototype for demand-side coordination of electricity usage. The goal is to enable actionable demand-side flexibility from multiple small consumers in electric power distribution networks through adequate representation of their constraints and interactions with the energy system and provider. The university will...
This $399,574 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to assess and mitigate spatial biases in large-scale mobile location data used for human mobility analysis. The University of Florida, the prime awardee, will undertake four key research tasks: 1) quantify spatial bias in mobile location data; 2) identify causes of spatial biases from the data generation process; 3) develop new methods...
The University of Florida will receive $397,382 over three years from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to conduct a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site. The REU Site will engage a diverse cohort of undergraduate students in hands-on research projects and training experiences related to emerging autonomous and sustainable transportation systems. Working with engineering faculty and...
This $550,000 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine). The grant supports a 5-year research program focused on "Demystifying and Mitigating Unfairness in Learning Over Graphs". The research aims to develop a systematic understanding of unfairness in graph-based machine learning models and design efficient algorithms for fair learning over graphs. Key...
The University of Florida (UF) Division of Sponsored Research was awarded a $229,988 Project Grant on June 15, 2024 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports a research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CPS: SMALL: NEURO-SYMBOLIC BRIDGE: FROM PERCEPTION TO ESTIMATION & CONTROL". The project aims to develop methods for aligning the uncertainty in neural network-based perception...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $158,000 project grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Connecticut (UConn) to explore the use of micromobility resources, such as dockless electric scooter sharing, to improve transportation access and equity in distressed neighborhoods in Hartford, Connecticut. The project aims to gather input from low-income riders, service providers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to co-design an equity-focused...
The University of Florida was awarded a $210,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities to conduct collaborative research titled "Partnering Workers with Interactive Robot Assistants to Usher Transformation in Future Construction Work." The two-year research project, running from January 2022 through December 2024, will contribute to the goals of the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA...