The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Vanderbilt University for the "Middle-Tennessee Research Administration and Innovation Network (M-TRAIN)" project. This award, under the NSF Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), will fund a series of conferences and workshops to establish a regional research collaboration network in Middle Tennessee. The goal is to connect diverse research-performing institutions, including Historically Black Colleges...
This $2.5 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the creation of a Cross-Institutional Research Engagement Network for Cyberinfrastructure Facilitators (CIREN) through 2027. Arizona State University and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville will recruit, train, and engage cyberinfrastructure facilitators in multi-disciplinary, cross-institutional research projects through CIREN. The network aims to...
Tennessee Technological University was awarded a $399,983 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support the development of a high-performance computing cluster called CC* COMPUTE to enable science research and education activities at the university through August 2023. Funding will allow Tennessee Tech to establish an HPC infrastructure that researchers and students can use...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $2,102,685 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The grant, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FRAMEWORKS: SCALABLE PERFORMANCE AND ACCURACY ANALYSIS FOR DISTRIBUTED AND EXTREME-SCALE SYSTEMS (SPADE)," aims to develop innovative software and APIs to enhance monitoring, optimization, and decision-making capabilities for extreme-scale computing...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) project grant will fund researchers at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK) to establish the Tennessee Longitudinal Survey of Ideas (TLSI). The $299,058 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2026, will enable the UTK team to survey Tennessee innovators to gather insights on the timeline of innovation and the effects of public-private investments. The TLSI will collect data from...
This $149,573 National Science Foundation project grant supports the "CONNECTING RURAL AND URBAN ENVIRONMENTS FOR EQUITABLE ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION, TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND ENERGY (CREEATTE)" program led by Vanderbilt University from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2022. The grant was awarded by NSF's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering (47.041) program, which seeks to foster innovation and excellence in engineering research....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $604,728 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, a U.S. state government institution of higher learning. The grant supports research and development of "Transparent Network Acceleration" (TNA), a novel networking architecture and design flow that can automatically build and deploy efficient hardware and software acceleration for network...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant of $113,069 to the University of Tennessee, operating as Univ Tennessee System Office, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). This grant aims to develop effective and efficient methods for reconstructing city-scale traffic dynamics using mobile data. Specifically, the project will: Estimate travel times and other macroscopic traffic states (speed, flow, density) from...
The University of Tennessee was awarded a $1,215,600 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems. The grant supports the "CPS: MEDIUM: SECURE CONSTRAINED MACHINE LEARNING FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE CPS" project taking place from February 1, 2021 to January 31, 2024. The project aims to advance research in secure constrained machine learning for critical infrastructure cyber-physical systems (CPS). It will be conducted under the...
The University of Tennessee received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Engineering Education and Centers under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The two-year award will support the development of a hybrid community of practice model to better prepare pre-service teachers to teach engineering. The Engineering program seeks to improve engineering research and education quality to foster innovation and strengthen the national economy....