The National Science Foundation awarded University of California Irvine a $499,793 Project Grant under the federal Computer and Information Science and Engineering grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support the development of brain-inspired machine learning algorithms to provide real-time feedback to sensors and intelligently control data generation rates. This is expected to reduce sensor data outputs by up to four orders of magnitude for applications in infrastructure, mobile devices,...
The University of California Irvine received a $299,999 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for work on "HYPERDIMENSIONAL NEURAL COMPUTATION FOR REAL-TIME COGNITIVE LEARNING." The grant period runs from September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2024 in Irvine, California. The NSF Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $2,000,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of California, Irvine to develop and assess the feasibility of 3D biological neural networks (3DNNs) for intelligent biomedical motor control systems. The objectives are to establish methods to fabricate robust, reliable, and reproducible 3DNNs, and to develop core principles to program them with intelligent behavior. This research aims to demonstrate...
This $249,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to transform how artificial intelligence (AI) transfers learned knowledge from simulated environments to real-world cyber-physical systems applications. The project will develop a novel neuro-symbolic framework that integrates advanced hyperdimensional mathematics, deterministic finite automata, and knowledge graphs. This approach enables efficient abstraction and communication...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to conduct research on asynchrony and limited feedback in next-generation wireless communications systems. The 3-year project aims to analyze the performance and design of multiple access techniques, such as non-orthogonal and grant-free systems, that allow for simultaneous transmission by multiple users while...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The 3-year grant, effective July 1, 2023, supports research to develop dynamic neural network architectures that can efficiently enable multimodal perception, including vision, audio, and language processing. The research aims to address...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $1,999,968 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) under the NSF Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program. This grant aims to develop scalable algorithms and hardware for human-brain-scale neuromorphic systems with practical learning capabilities. The key objectives are to create hardware-friendly local learning algorithms, a framework for continual online...
This $196,176 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support collaborative research to apply deep learning techniques to the design of new encoding and decoding methods for physical layer communication. The researchers at Princeton University aim to use deep learning tools to generate a new family of codes naturally built for finite block lengths, addressing a longstanding challenge in information theory. In parallel,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Project Grant, awarded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $250,000 in funding to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The project aims to develop novel transceiver architectures, circuit blocks, design techniques, and communication strategies to enable energy-efficient millimeter wave wireless networks. The research effort...
The University of California Irvine received a $400,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The award is part of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) and will support collaborative research on exploiting new degrees-of-freedom in wireless networks with reprogrammable intelligent metagratings. The research is being conducted from July 2021 through June 2025 in Irvine, California. The goal...