This $303,328 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports research to develop efficient indexing and similarity search algorithms that leverage processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures. The project aims to address challenges of processing large scientific datasets, which are often memory-bound, by designing PIM-aware data structures and algorithms for range searches, similarity searches, and...
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) received a $364,985 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for a three-year period starting August 1, 2023. The project will develop scalable similarity search systems for large polygonal and trajectory datasets, focusing on methods for creating robust data signatures, quantization techniques, and...
This $248,882 federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program on June 1, 2024, supports research to address the "curse of dimensionality" in high-dimensional geometric optimization problems. The project, led by the University of Pennsylvania, aims to develop efficient algorithms and foundational principles for solving challenging geometric optimization problems that become intractable as data...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation provides $594,059 in funding to Michigan Technological University from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The award supports research into fundamental geometric data structures under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). Specifically, the Principal Investigator and their students will study problems involving orthogonal range searching, point location, nearest neighbor queries, and dynamic...
This $204,372 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research on the potential theoretic aspects of complex geometry. The principal investigator will employ methods from potential theory, infinite-dimensional geometry, and geometric analysis to investigate a cluster of interconnected questions and conjectures in complex geometry. The project aims to advance scientific knowledge in this...
This Project Grant award of $296,664 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at Northern Arizona University (NAU) to develop efficient indexing and similarity search algorithms that leverage processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures for data-intensive scientific workloads. The key objectives are to design PIM-aware data structures and algorithms for range, similarity, and nearest neighbor searches...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $174,925 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Missouri System's Missouri University of Science & Technology. The grant, awarded on August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2027, will fund the development of a novel "elastic" data transfer optimization system for high-performance networks used in scientific computing applications. The project...
This $1.2 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research into the fine-grained complexity of basic geometric problems from June 2022 through May 2025. The principal investigator at the University of Illinois will apply conditional proof techniques to establish new reductions between geometric optimization, searching, data structures, point cloud matching, and other problems. The goal is to prove conditional...
The University of Missouri System was awarded a $193,884 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research into the topics of convexity and stochastic isoperimetry from December 2021 through November 2024. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goal of strengthening the nation's scientific enterprise through advancing mathematical and...
This $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports fundamental research on understanding the geometric structure of large datasets and the distortions that occur when representing them in simpler spaces. The primary research aims to resolve open questions around determining the minimum distortion required to embed finite metric spaces, such as social networks or protein structures, into Euclidean space....