Project Grant 2320952

The National Science Foundation awarded a $2.496 million project grant to Case Western Reserve University's Office of Research Administration Division for a five-year collaborative research project under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The University will create and sustain a cohort of Cyberinfrastructure Professionals to support researchers in leveraging modern artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques across diverse fields of science and engineering. Through personalized training, mentoring, and hands-on experience embedded within large research projects, the initial four Cyberinfrastructure Research Machine Learning Engineers and Facilitators will gain skills to excel in their roles and support interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. The University aims to develop long-term career paths for these professionals and establish a mechanism to charge new grants for their employment to expand capacity. It will produce impactful research, technical papers, and training materials contributing to broader artificial intelligence and cyberinfrastructure communities while fostering diversity and inclusiveness across institution types. Training materials will be openly available to promote interdisciplinary research use of cyberinfrastructure resources nationally.