The University of Texas at Austin received a $556,306 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to support the ELEMENTS: COGNITASIUM project. Funded through the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), this three-year award will enable data-driven discoveries in natural hazards engineering through the development of advanced computing infrastructure and tools. The grant will support...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $6,999,294 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Texas at Austin for the CHISHIKI.AI initiative. This 5-year project aims to build a sustainable, diverse, and integrated community of computational infrastructure (CI) professionals working at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and civil/environmental engineering (CEE). The project will foster collaboration between...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $473,913 project grant award from the National Science Foundation on June 1, 2021 to support the program "Empowering Engineering Scholar-Activists through Community-Driven Research Experiences." The funding will support this program through May 31, 2025 under the NSF Directorate for Engineering's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project aims to foster innovation and excellence in engineering research and education by enabling...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $282,698 Project Grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to investigate the impact of information uncertainty on design decision-making under competition between teams. The 3-year project aims to develop quantitative models, metrics, and experimental testbeds to study how bounded rationality and imperfect information exchange affect sequential design decisions in competitive team environments. The research...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $3 million Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the STEM Education federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) to support the NRT-AI: Convergent, Responsible, and Ethical Artificial Intelligence Training Experience for Roboticists project from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2026. The grant funds the development of an interdisciplinary training program that brings together graduate students studying robotics, computer science, and...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $285,681 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INFERRING THE IN SITU MICRO-MECHANICS OF EMBEDDED FIBER NETWORKS BY LEVERAGING LIMITED IMAGING DATA." The three-year award, issued on January 1, 2022 under the NSF Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, will fund research aimed at improving understanding of the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) project grant award of $1,000,000 is funding a collaborative effort between Prairie View A&M University, University of Texas at San Antonio, and Texas A&M University to advance research and education in implementing urban digital twins (UDTs) through developing responsible foundation AI techniques to bolster community resilience. The project unfolds through three research thrusts: 1) responsible AutoML-GPT...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $646,826 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure. The grant is part of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Under the award, UT Austin will develop a seismic computational platform called SCOPED to empower discovery in...
The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded the University of Texas at Austin a $1.2 million Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The grant funds research to develop a rigorous and reliable scientific deep learning framework for forward, inverse, and uncertainty quantification problems in computational science and engineering. Specific objectives include...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $460,698 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The award is supporting research from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024 under the NSF Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041). Specifically, the University is developing data-driven model reduction and real-time estimation and control techniques for coherent structures in turbulent flows. The NSF Engineering Program seeks to...