Project Grant 2312932
- This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under CFDA 47.070 (Computer and Information Science and Engineering) supports collaborative research to develop responsible methods for the design and validation of algorithmic rankers. The key objectives are to: Quantify the impact of item attributes and engineering choices on ranked outcomes to guide the selection of appropriate scoring functions. Quantify the impact of data...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) provides $400,000 to New York University (NYU) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2027. The project focuses on developing methods to validate and design responsible algorithmic rankers used in critical domains like hiring, education, and lending. Key objectives include: 1) quantifying the impact of input...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $400,000 to The Leland Stanford Junior University to research methods for encoding societal values into social media ranking algorithms. The key goals are to: 1) develop techniques for translating social science constructs into algorithmic objective functions, 2) create a library of societal objective functions based on validated theory, and...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), provides $180,000.00 in funding from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. The project aims to address the core theoretical, methodological, and algorithmic challenges in ranking sub-populations and regions when limited or no directly observed data is available, as well as to develop techniques for...
- This $404,941 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) supports research by Northeastern University to develop methods for integrating societal values into social media algorithms. The key products or services to be delivered include: Introducing a novel approach to leverage social science constructs and measurements to build algorithmic objective functions, referred to as...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $593,676 project grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year award beginning September 2022 will support research to develop efficient solutions for neural document ranking with compact representations. Specifically, the university will investigate fast re-ranking schemes for dual-encoding architectures by approximating query representations with...
- This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of a cloud-based research infrastructure to enable studies on news recommender systems. The project will create an experimental news recommender community that allows researchers nationwide to test different algorithms and interfaces, and study how they affect user behavior and the diversity of information presented. The...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to investigate the identification and mitigation of shortcut features in deep learning models. The project aims to develop data-centric mechanisms to facilitate the generalization of deep neural networks, which can suffer from poor predictive performance when data distributions change or there...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) in the amount of $395,059 will support research at the University of Washington to develop techniques for encoding societal values into social media ranking algorithms. The key objectives are: Introduce a novel method using large language models to build algorithmic objective functions that represent social science constructs, referred to...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,182,881 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports the development of new methods to ensure that machine learning models assigned to decisions such as lending and hiring can be changed through individual actions, protecting the right to access these services. The project will create techniques for (1) detecting...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The four-year grant, effective from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2027, supports collaborative research on the responsible design and validation of algorithmic rankers. The project aims to develop methods to: 1) quantify the impact of item attributes and data engineering choices on ranked outcomes, 2) assess the stability of ranked results to changes in data or scoring formulas, and 3) measure and address fairness issues in the ranking of candidates from underrepresented or disadvantaged groups. The outcomes of this work are expected to impact critical domains like educational admissions, hiring, and college rankings by enabling technical interventions and identifying cases where alternative screening processes may be warranted. The project will also involve teaching, mentoring, and outreach to broaden participation in computing.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $400.0k | 8/1/23 |