This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support research to establish and analyze stochastic models of service interactions at the micro level. The $525,009 award to the University of Southern California aims to improve managerial decision-making and open new avenues of analysis for the service sector, which accounts for over 70% of the nation's GDP. The research objectives include developing interaction-level service...
The National Science Foundation awarded Southern Methodist University a $576,797 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) from January 2023 through December 2025. The university will develop faster and more scalable algorithms for solving large, complex routing problems in transportation networks and designing resilient telecommunications networks. They will leverage a new paradigm for mathematical modeling of network flow that significantly reduces variables and...
This $506,494 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) program will support research at Purdue University developing novel methods for data-driven engineering of service systems. The research aims to leverage large operational data sets and machine learning technologies to facilitate model identification for complex stochastic network models representing service industries. Methods will be extended for model calibration in random and nonstationary environments....
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) focuses on developing new frequency domain modeling techniques for analyzing high-dimensional time series data. The $177,718 award to Southern Methodist University (SMU) will fund research to create a new modeling framework that enables dimension reduction and correlation analysis of large, complex time series datasets across disciplines such as neuroscience,...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support research on the scaling limits and asymptotic behavior of large-scale queueing systems on random graphs at Iowa State University. The $185,000 award spanning September 2023 to August 2026 will fund work to understand the impacts of network structure on the performance of interacting queueing systems, which...
The National Science Foundation awarded Southern Methodist University a $204,846 project grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The grant funds the acquisition of a confocal micro-Raman spectrometer to support engineering research and education activities. The NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research and...
This National Science Foundation Engineering (CFDA 47.041) project grant award to Southern Methodist University (SMU) will contribute to the nation's economic prosperity by developing analytical methods to enhance security and risk management of supply chains, with a focus on sustainable seafood supply chain operations. The $533,718 grant, awarded from October 1, 2024 to March 31, 2028, will support the development of a new framework, analytics, and algorithms that can learn the preferences...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $360,000 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) to support fundamental research and development on incentive design mechanisms. The 3-year project, commencing on September 1, 2024, aims to advance the theory of incentive design by removing stringent assumptions that limit its practical application. The research will explore how agents can learn each other's preferences, how behavioral traits...
Southern Methodist University received a three-year, $305,948 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to model and control collective dynamics for externally driven planar microswimmers from September 2021 through August 2024. The University will analyze collective motion patterns of artificial microscale swimmers that are actuated through external fields to transport cargo. Outcomes will provide insight applicable to areas like targeted drug...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate awarded Brigham Young University a $397,875 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The three-year grant, from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026, supports the development of new techniques for modeling cyber-physical systems to address challenges with scale and complexity in modern engineering. The project aims to transform human interaction with critical infrastructure such as interconnected energy networks through a...