This $189,745 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports research at West Virginia State University (WVSU) to develop machine learning methods for information integration and association pattern discovery across complex, heterogeneous datasets in precision agriculture and phenomics applications. The key products and services to be delivered include: (1) new methods for association pattern discovery in...
The National Science Foundation awarded West Virginia University Research Corporation a $1,180,874 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. The grant will fund the SECURE AND UPGRADE COMPUTER SCIENCE IN CLASSROOMS THROUGH AN ECOSYSTEM WITH SCALABILITY & SUSTAINABILITY project from June 2021 through May 2024. This project aims to upgrade computer science classrooms and deliver a scalable and sustainable ecosystem through investigator-initiated research...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award for $1,279,407 under the Integrative Activities (CFDA# 47.083) program will fund research at West Virginia State University (WVSU) to study the molecular mechanisms controlling lipid droplet abundance in plants. The project aims to use genetics, molecular biology, and biochemistry to understand the role of specific proteins in storing nutritious fatty acids in the seeds of food crop plants. This research will help enhance crops to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $382,000 Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program grant (CFDA 47.070) to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) to expand AI research, education, and workforce development capabilities at the institution. The 2-year project, running from October 2024 to September 2026, aims to: Develop robust, explainable, fair, and privacy-preserving AI models for COVID-19 detection and analysis of biomedical...
This $600,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations will fund the development of an innovative aerial imaging system that incorporates state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) for real-time data processing and analysis. The project, titled "CISE-MSI:DP:REAL-TIME AERIAL IMAGING WITH EDGE AI," is a collaboration between students and faculty at Norfolk State University (NSU), a minority-serving institution...
The University of Washington received a $1,535,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070). The grant, awarded in December 2023, aims to advance the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and smart technologies into Black diasporic urban farming practices. The project will: (1) study sociotechnical ecosystems involving AI to support diasporic urban farming; (2) collaboratively...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $304,786 project grant to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a cyber-physical system for securely sharing agricultural data and lessons learned via edge computing. The three-year award beginning October 1, 2022 will support intersecting expertise in plant science, secure networked systems, software engineering, and geospatial science to mitigate challenges...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $174,965 Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) project grant to the University of West Georgia to develop an evidence-aided symbolic reasoning framework for trustworthy interdependent multi-modal and multi-agent machine learning tasks. The research aims to address critical trust issues in artificial intelligence (AI) outcomes by establishing foundational principles and metrics for securing AI systems across domains like...
The University of the District of Columbia received a two-year, $299,892 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems to support research and development activities related to data science and engineering for agriculture automation. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), this award will allow UDC to advance the development and use of data-driven approaches and cyberinfrastructure to enable...
The West Virginia State University Research and Development Corporation (WVSU R&D) will receive $599,831 under a Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to perform genetic analysis of traits involving nutraceutical, taste and flavor from crosses of habanero peppers. The award, made under the 1890 Institution Capacity Building Grants program (CFDA #10.216), aims to expose students to genomic tools combined with breeding...