This $272,688 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports collaborative research to discover new mathematical connections between optimization methods and property testing algorithms. The research aims to develop faster optimization techniques and more accurate sublinear algorithms for processing large datasets. Key anticipated outcomes include enhancing curricula for advanced algorithms courses and...
This $118,760 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), will support research at The Johns Hopkins University to advance the state-of-the-art in optimization theory and algorithms for data science applications. The goal is to develop novel computational tools to analyze the complexity of heuristic optimization methods and design new parallelizable algorithms that can effectively leverage modern...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded a $274,242 Project Grant to Northeastern University on June 15, 2021 with a completion date of October 31, 2023. The grant is part of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Under this award, Northeastern University will...
Trustees of Dartmouth College, doing business as Dartmouth College, received a $100,189 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds research investigating flexibility and rigidity phenomena in dynamical systems and geometry to clarify structural aspects and make dynamical systems tools more applicable in other fields. Specifically, Dartmouth...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $148,707 project grant to President & Trustees Of Williams College under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research into new approaches for space-efficient similarity search from June 2021 through May 2023. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and communications sciences and engineering. This award will fund the development...
This $300,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences will fund research to develop new mathematical techniques for optimization in the context of big data and contemporary data science challenges. The principal investigator at Cornell University will lead this 3-year project, which aims to transform the design and analysis of optimization algorithms across diverse fields including machine learning, statistics, and control...
This Project Grant award of $255,353 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at Northeastern University focused on advancing sublinear-time graph algorithms. The research aims to develop more efficient and optimal sublinear-time algorithms for foundational graph problems, as well as to better understand the limitations of such algorithms. Additionally, the project will explore the connections...
This $122,000 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports research to develop new mathematical tools and techniques for analyzing sampling algorithms used to manipulate and understand complex, high-dimensional probability distributions. The project will focus on three foundational problems in theoretical computer science, with the goal of designing fast, efficient sampling...
This Project Grant award for $490,402 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program. The award, granted to Trustees of Dartmouth College, will develop new methods to model and simulate the interaction of light with materials that have both well-defined surfaces and volumetric properties, across different scales. This will enable accurate visualizations and simulations of complex materials in...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $531,494 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations on May 1, 2023 to complete work by April 30, 2026. Under this award, MIT will conduct research investigating low-degree methods for optimization in random structures and their potential and limitations. Specifically, MIT aims to verify if low-degree method-based algorithms can achieve state-of-the-art performance across a...