The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). The grant, with a performance period from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028, will support the development of a new software environment and ecosystem for implementing an "always-on" Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure. The project aims to create novel computer science and...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $739,346 to the University of Michigan for research titled "A Scalable Configurable Acoustic Processor for Emerging Audio Applications." The research aims to address challenges around scale, time accuracy, latency, and synchronization for very large acoustic transducer arrays. This will enable applications like high-resolution acoustic holography, non-invasive surgery, augmented...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, provides $200,000 in funding from March 1, 2025 to February 29, 2028. The grant supports research to advance the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, known as AIoT systems. Key objectives include developing novel graph signal processing and graph learning techniques for efficient and interpretable...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $520,000 in funding to the University of Texas at Austin from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2029. The grant supports the development of compact, energy-efficient radio frequency (RF) acoustic microsystems for advanced signal processing in 5G/6G wireless communications. Key research thrusts include creating low-loss acoustic platforms using thin-film lithium niobate to enable...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the CFDA program "Computer and Information Science and Engineering" to develop fundamental technologies that advance the ability for scalable ocean sensing. The goal of this 3-year project is to design, build, and evaluate a low-power, long-range underwater backscatter communication network. The proposed research seeks to overcome the range limitations of...
This $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research at the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to develop topologically protected gigahertz acoustic circuits. Over a three-year period ending in August 2025, the grantee will implement acoustic device analogues of topological electronic states operating in the gigahertz regime through theoretical analysis, simulation, fabrication, and nanoscale visualization. This is...
This $443,079 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop electroacoustic topological insulator-based logic devices. The goal is to create new electroacoustic transistors and logic devices that leverage reconfigurable topological interface states, enabling energy-efficient, disorder-immune wave-based computing. The research aims to make fundamental contributions to the design, development, and exploration of these...
This federal Project Grant award of $200,000.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support research to develop novel techniques for analyzing complex spatial-temporal data in Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) systems. The project aims to advance graph signal processing and graph learning methods to enable more efficient and interpretable analysis of spatio-temporal...
This $304,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of a high-frequency, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) acoustic communication system for underwater applications. The key technical objectives are to enable real-time, high-data-rate wireless underwater communication while minimizing interference with marine life. The proposed system utilizes MIMO technology and turbo...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $550,000 to Northeastern University is for the development of compact, coherent hydrophone array systems for real-time, wide-area ocean acoustic monitoring. The project aims to translate the Passive Ocean Acoustic Waveguide Remote Sensing (POAWRS) technology, which uses advanced hydrophone arrays to provide continental-scale ocean sensing capabilities, into...