The Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley, received a three-year $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funds the development of inclusive, interdisciplinary undergraduate data science curricula at the intersection of computer science and behavioral/social science. The project aims to create a cross-cutting data science...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded a $249,563 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. The grant will fund a three-year collaborative research project from July 2021 to June 2024 to develop graphical modeling techniques for multivariate functional data. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports...
This $379,990 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to implement and study evidence-based teaching practices that promote equitable collaboration in undergraduate data science courses at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and California State University, Monterey Bay. The overarching goal is to understand how small group experiences, specifically pair programming, can be designed to create...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program will provide $279,852 to The Leland Stanford Junior University to scope and develop a plan for transitioning the INVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs) software suite into a full open-source ecosystem. The project aims to accelerate innovation and the use of ecosystem services science across the public and private sectors by...
The National Science Foundation awarded New York University $800,000 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2023. The Project Grant funding will support research to improve the security of the Python software development environment and supply chain. Specifically, the university will work to secure Python's software packages and dependencies from vulnerabilities and attacks. The research is...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,868 project grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Iowa State University of Science and Technology. This 12-month grant, which began on June 15, 2024, aims to assess strategies for transitioning the open-source RevBayes phylogenetic software community into a self-sustaining and self-governing ecosystem. The project will investigate ways to improve the experiences of RevBayes users, contributors,...
The National Science Foundation awarded The Regents of the University of California $330,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to advance theory and methodology for tree-based algorithms in high dimensions from July 2022 to June 2025. The project will analyze the generalization performance of tree-based algorithms on regression models to better understand their inductive bias for different data structures. It will also study a new framework for obtaining...
The National Science Foundation awarded a 3-year, $300,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley. The grant funds the development of a software infrastructure to facilitate the use of two cutting-edge Bayesian sampling methods - Preconditioned Optimized Convex Monte Carlo (POCOMC) and Microcanonical Hamiltonian Monte Carlo - by a range of scientists across disciplines such as astronomy, physics,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,635 Project Grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) for a project titled "POSE: PHASE I: SCOPING AND PLANNING FOR AN OPEN-SOURCE ECOSYSTEM OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS THAT SELECT TEXTS FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES". This grant supports scoping and planning activities to transition an academic research artifact - machine learning software that identifies...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, received a three-year, $750,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). The grant funds the "DASS: Legally & Locally Legitimate: Designing & Evaluating Software Systems to Advance Equal Opportunity" project. The project aims to advance equal opportunity through the design and...