This $2,228,505 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of a cloud-based, open, and collaborative cyberinfrastructure to enable data-driven exploration and modeling of urban data. The project aims to address two critical obstacles in urban computing: the lack of robust, well-engineered tools and open computing platforms, and the dispersed community of cross-disciplinary...
This $1,750,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Illinois to build cyberinfrastructure to catalyze and sustain the urban computing community. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year grant include: Developing an open, cloud-based collaborative environment and integrated software tools to enable scalable, reusable, and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $3,498,053 to Purdue University to develop a cloud-based cyberinfrastructure (CI) for national urban tree inventory estimation. The effort aims to address data gaps in urban tree density, species, location, and changes over time, which hinders urban research, planning, and environmental equity. The CI will utilize spatio-temporal generative AI to...
The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of North Texas Research and Innovation Division, doing business as Vice President Research Services. This EAGER grant, awarded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), will fund a project to advance open science by: a) documenting the usage and impact data supply chain for article, data, and book research outputs; and b)...
This $999,668 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) supports a collaboration between the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) to create a "cybercollaboratory" that will integrate cyber infrastructure (CI) expertise with environmental science research. The key...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $499,907 to New York University to develop a fast, scalable, distributed cyberinfrastructure across multiple university buildings. The cyberinfrastructure aims to meet the specialized data storage and processing demands of media researchers through (1) large-scale storage, (2) fast, low-latency...
This $200,000 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, supports the development of an AI-guided framework named AIMCI (Artificial Intelligence for Managing Cyberinfrastructure). The key research thrusts include: (1) developing new AI models for predictive analysis of resource usage patterns and user behavior, (2) applying reinforcement learning methods to optimize resource management in a...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $2,841,159 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). The grant, titled "Collaborative Research: SCIPE: Enhancing the Transdisciplinary Research Ecosystem for Earth and Environmental Science with Dedicated Cyber Infrastructure Professionals," aims to develop a...
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York received a three-year, $599,998 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to develop open-source cyberinfrastructure as a decision engine for socioeconomic disaster risk assessment and modeling. The grant falls under the Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education across...
This Project Grant award, totaling $125,020, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to Northern Arizona University (NAU). The funding supports the development of a novel Citizen Science Cyberinfrastructure (CSCI) to enable more efficient extraction of insights from large, complex data sets across disciplines such as biodiversity, geoscience, and astronomy. Key objectives include: (1) integrating...