The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 4-year, $252,007 Project Grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to Northeastern University. The grant supports the development and testing of AI-based programming tools to assist social and natural scientists with computer programming tasks. The research team is developing large language models and associated tools to support programming languages commonly used in the sciences, such as MATLAB and R, in order to make programming easier and more accessible for scientists. Key project goals include accelerating scientific discovery, lowering the cost of research, and enabling more people to participate in scientific work through the use of AI-powered programming assistance. The research involves qualitative and quantitative studies on how scientists currently write programs, as well as building deep neural network models tailored for scientific programming paradigms like computational notebooks and data-driven program structures. The grant does not include any subawards.
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