This Project Grant award, valued at $375,000 and awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports The Ohio State University's research on safe and reliable reinforcement learning (RL) systems.
The key objectives of this 4-year project are to develop foundational technologies for safe RL-enabled systems, including policy safety, exploration safety, and environmental safety. The research will advance distributional RL to provide robust and resilient learning algorithms that can be deployed in critical applications like 6G networking, autonomous driving, digital healthcare, and smart cities. The project integrates research and education by incorporating the new theories and algorithms into graduate-level courses and enhancing the participation of women students and underrepresented groups.