The University of Notre Dame received a $209,989 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences on September 1, 2021 to complete the project by February 28, 2025. The grant supports the "Collaborative Research: Language Documentation with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Helper" project under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant funds research to contribute to scientific understanding...
The University of Notre Dame received a $283,438 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports research titled "EAGER: An AI-Driven Paradigm for Collective and Collaborative Community Resilience in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond" from November 1, 2021 to July 31, 2022. The grant funding will enable the University of...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $142,000 to Trustees of Dartmouth College to build an artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure to support research on reducing poverty and informing social policy. The project will: 1) integrate and curate diverse policy-related data sets; 2) develop and facilitate access to novel AI models that can learn from existing policies; and 3)...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $103,500 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Notre Dame for a collaborative research project titled "ACED: PLANET-SCALE AI FOR ACCELERATING ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE - INVASIVE SPECIES AND BEYOND". The goal of this 18-month project is to develop and validate an AI framework that can use a broad array of image data from different sensing modalities (e.g.,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program to the University of Notre Dame. The 4-year grant, which commenced on October 1, 2024, will support the development of an AI-driven paradigm to promote community resilience and prevent opioid misuse and addiction among teenagers and young adults (TYAs). Specifically, the project will leverage large-scale social media data and...
This $599,573 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the University of Notre Dame's research to develop a new machine learning paradigm for effective yet efficient foundation graph learning models (FGLMs). The project aims to create techniques, methods, and models for FGLMs that can be widely applied in areas like scientific research, social network analysis, anomaly detection, drug...
This $111,984 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support a collaborative research project focused on mapping the state of AI ethics education across diverse higher education institutions in the United States. The project aims to: (a) comprehensively survey current and planned AI ethics education interventions, (b) develop a framework to understand how faculty perceive and conceptualize AI ethics...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), will support the development of a specialized artificial intelligence (AI) model that can be applied to planning and task-chaining problems. The $150,000 award, which runs from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2027, will fund research to create a compact foundation model optimized for planning-like tasks, as an alternative to current large language models that exhibit...
This $299,977 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop AI-powered approaches to address challenging societal problems in the areas of drought resilience, emissions reduction, and infectious disease response. The overarching goal is to establish theoretical and algorithmic foundations for responsible and equitable AI-powered sequential, collective decision-making. The...
This $174,995 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports research to understand and optimize the role of human intelligence in data integration and discovery pipelines, especially in the context of emerging large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. The project will investigate fundamental questions about human involvement in these data processes, uncover relevant human biases, and...